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  • New Folder.exe Virus Removal Tool

    Virus Infections This virus affects your system by Disabling Task Manager Disabling Registry Editor Creates a startup entry to start upon system start and Creates its own exe files in Shared Documents folder which appear like ordinary folders. Disables Folder Options Uses your 50% or more processor

  • Move The Temp Folder For Windows Performance Enhancement

    GHacks has quite a cool tip for speeding up Windows. Windows stores the temp folder in the same drive where it is installed by default. You can change the temp folder location to improve the performance of Windows. To change the location of temp folder, create a new folder in any other drive except for…

  • Microsoft Security Updates for July 2007

    Microsoft has released their security updates for July 2007. Critical: • MS07-036 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel (KB 936542) • MS07-039 – addresses a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows (KB 926122) • MS07-040 – addresses a vulnerability in the .NET Framework (KB 931212) Important: • MS07-037 – addresses a vulnerability in

  • How to change Internet Explorer DNS Cache , KeepAlive and Server Info Timeouts

    David Kingsland asks here about changing the Internet Explorer default DNS Cache. Changing the DNS Cache Timeout The default DNS Cache timeout can be changed through the following method: 1. Start Registry Editor. 2. Locate and click the following key in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings 3. On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then

  • How to fix Unmountable Boot Volume in Windows XP

    Problem Most of the times when the system gets halted improperly due to power outage or due to some other reason, the file system gets corrupted and Windows is unable to mount the boot drive properly. There are other factors that also result in unmountable boot volume. These include faster UDMA modes configured in BIOS…

  • VLC Player – Is it better than Windows Media Player?

    VLC player is a media player like Windows Media Player. It is highly portable, cross platform and streaming server. It is available for more than a dozen operating systems including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, BSD etc. It supports a huge amount of audio and video formats including MPEG, DivX, mp3, ogg, DVD, VCD, FLV etc.…

  • Remove the Brontok worm

    Brontok is a computer worm which spreads through emails and USB drives. There are so many variants of brontok but they basically work similarly. How do I know if my system is infected? You can’t start Regedit.exe When trying to start any other registry editor, the system restarts The system also restarts when

  • Forget Your Start Menu — Use LaunchOnFly

    I use some programs so frequently that it seems to be a lot of time wastage to go to the start menu and find the program I need and then start it. Apart from my previous Run Command tweak to run every program from the Run menu, LaunchOnFly is a handy software which is an…

  • Registry Editing Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator

    Today a friend of mine asked that his registry editor had been disabled accidentally and now how should he enable it back again. Here are three ways to enable the registry editing in Windows.If Windows Registry Editor has been disabled, it shows the following error message: “Registry Editing Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator” 1-…

  • How I got my corrupt usb drive working again

     And it just stopped working. It got detected by Windows and the driver got installed smoothly but when I tried to open it, it said that I should insert a disc into the drive. The message looked similar to this one: I have been thinking that usb drives are a reliable source of data storage. But…