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Entries for January, 2009

Solution to ipconfig and ping Commands Not Working Problem

It may happen that when you try to run diagnostic commands like ipconfig or ping, an error pops up saying “ping is not recognized as an internal or external command”. While this command runs on other computers absolutely fine, you may have hard time to run the commands.
Ipconfig and ping commands are important to see [...]

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Copy History, Cookies and other files to another Browser

Want to copy Browser History, Cookies and other things like favorites (bookmarks), URL cache (history, cookies and cache information) to another browser? Wondering how to do it? Now this can be done easily.
All you need is Historian which is a free portable software program that can process the browsing history of several popular web browsers [...]

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Steps to Remove C:\resycled\ntldr.com is not a valid Win32 Application Error

Reported by one of our readers, this was the problem that whenever he double clicked on the drive, the following message showed up “C:\resycled\ntldr.com is not a valid Win32 Application”. Needless to mention C:\resycled\ntldr.com is a virus and more accurately a worm.
The worm creates an autorun.inf file on each drive of the computer when an [...]

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Solution to the Problem of “The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed”

This is the problem that occurs to several people using Windows, as was faced by one of our readers. This problem occurs when trying to install, uninstall or remove any program from the Windows. When performing these actions the setup stops stop at the following error message preventing us to either install or remove an [...]

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Steps to Restore the Missing Accessories from Start Menu

The Accessories folder in the Start Menu of our computer is a very important folder/shortcut that contains various important tools like System Restore, Disk Defragmenter, Paint, Calculator and many others. But what if there is no Accessories folder in your PC?

The Accessories folder in the All Programs menu is an important folder as it provides [...]

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Information on Windows Registry

Almost all of us have come across this term “Windows Registry” and many of us have even done some changes in it but without knowing what it is and what it does. Also many posts of mine include registry editing but none tells you what actually a registry is.
Windows Registry
The Windows Registry is the most [...]

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Steps to Remove I Love You Virus

Gosh! There are so many virus and of different names that the virus creators seems to run short of the names. “I Love You virus” is a strange name used by its creator. Requested by one of our viewers, here are the steps to remove the virus.
But before discussing the solution, let’s see the details [...]

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Important Tools Required to Fix a Virus Infected Computer

Got a virus in your system? Or has that done some modifications in your PC? No problem you can easily repair your PC back to the original state.
The biggest enemy of the Windows is the Virus. There are so many of those and are increasing day by day, thus increasing the probability of infecting our [...]

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Solution to No Invisible Option in Gmail Chat

Gtalk has been missing several features that have been discussed many times till now but to cope up for these the Google team introduced the Invisible option in the Gmail chat which is still missing from the Gtalk client.

Though Gmail has introduced the Invisible feature in the Gmail chat but you can still find it [...]

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Solution to ‘You may be a victim of software counterfeiting’ Problem

Microsoft has started bugging the users of non genuine copies of Windows. If you are also running a non genuine or pirated copy of Windows then there is a full chance of you getting this notification one day or the other.

The problem was reported by one of our viewers that when she updated her copy [...]

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Not Able to Transfer Files with Gtalk

Gtalk is a great IM from Google used by almost every one of us today. But since it is quite popular, it is also packed with several problems. One such is of file transfer.
It must be known to you that to use file transfer capability of Gtalk completely and successfully, both the IM clients need [...]

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Steps to Remove Yellow Color from Form Fields

It happened to me one day that there was no yellow color in the form field where we are required to enter some information in a web page while the next day there was a yellow color in the field. Where did this color come from?

I was wondering why some computers show a yellow color [...]

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