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Steps to Delete Files Used by another Program

Unable to delete a file and annoyed by Windows giving this message “Cannot Delete Folder: It is being used by another person or program”? Don’t know which process to kill?

It happens many times that we want to delete a file or a folder but can’t do so and get an error message that the file [...]

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Solution to Start the Printer Spooler Services

One of our readers was facing this problem that he was unable to start the printer spooler services and an error pops up saying: “Spooler subsystem app has encountered a problem and needs to close”.

First let’s see what is Print Spooling?
In Print Spooling documents gets loaded into a buffer that is usually an area on [...]

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Fix the problem of USB Pen Drive not getting detected

Some of our viewers wanted to know how they can solve the problem of USB Drives like Pen Drives not getting detected in the computer. This is a common problem nowadays and is a nuisance in case of need.

This problem can be of two types as listed below, so just figure it out and apply [...]

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Login to the XP Administrator account through Safe Mode

If you have forgotten your Administrator account password then there is no need to worry as there are several ways to login into the account.

Here are the two ways that you can use successfully:
1.    Change the password ( read http://techsalsa.com/break-or-reset-administrator-password-in-xp/ post of mine)
2.    Reveal the forgotten password ( read http://techsalsa.com/reveal-or-recover-xp-administrator-password-using-ophcrack/ post of mine)
But some of [...]

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Fix the problem of Show hidden files and folders getting reset

This is a common problem these days that the option of “Show hidden files and folders” always gets reset each time when we set it to show the hidden files. This is sure a case of infected system either with Trojan or virus.

Possibly the system is infected by a virus named “amvo.exe”. So let’s remove [...]

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Steps to avoid chkdsk disk scan during booting

This is a common problem that happens every time that when we boot our system the Windows start a chkdsk disk scan. In reality disc scan is a protective feature of Windows that run to check any cross links and to clean the bad sectors though this mostly happens due to the improper shutdown of [...]

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Description of Svchost.exe

Wondering what is Svchost.exe and what role does it play in running our system? There are whole lots of svchost.exe processes running in background and we even can’t kill them.

What is svchost.exe?
Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. [...]

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Steps to Block Websites

There are various reasons why you may need to block certain websites. One could be that you are a parent and want to block sites that you do not want your child to visit or may be that you want to block some spamming sites or it is just that you wish to block certain [...]

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Remove Newfolder.exe Virus easily

Now that we know the difference between virus, worm and Trojan lets get on the work to detect and remove some common viruses. This tutorial will help you remove the Newfolder.exe virus from your computer and let it breath free.

Removal through Tool:
Run the following tool in safe mode and the virus cleaned in seconds, yes [...]

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Remove and Clean Brontok Virus

Our dear systems are much prone to the virus attacks and the most common virus that has infected the most PCs is the worm Win32.Brontok.A@mm. Brontok virus can be most destructive and of course disables our Folder Option, Task Manager and Registry Editor.

If you want to know “How to enable Folder Option, Task Manager and [...]

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Speed Up your Slow PC

Are you tired up of your old and slow computer and wish to make your system turn into a new one? Working on a new system is fun. We all wish to turn our system into something that we purchased few years back.

The new PC is quite fast and efficient to work with but with [...]

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7 Features that you didn’t know about Windows XP –Part 2

We are back with some features of Windows XP that are least known to us. This is second part of the topic “7 Features that you didn’t know about Windows XP –Part 1”. Here are the other 7 features:
1.    Windows already has IP version 6 support which is the next generation IP and even the [...]

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