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Remove Sysdate.exe Virus

Recently my computer was infected with this virus called Sysdate.exe that was inside the Recycler folder in the C: drive. I knew that it was a virus since my PC didn’t have the Recycler folder earlier. Thus the location of the virus was C:\RECYCLER\S-1-5-21-8324555943-4443154761-431384085-6428\sysdate.exe
Symptoms of this virus:
•    In the Recycler folder there was another folder [...]

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Solve Explorer.exe Consuming 100% CPU Resources

This is a very common problem faced by many of us using Windows that many times, and unknowingly why, our CPU usage shoots up to 100% and a process named Explorer.exe starts consuming a lot of resources and memory.

This makes our system very slow to respond and takes lot of time to execute an application.
The [...]

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[Solved] Windows cannot find regsvr.exe

This is a common error message that comes at the computer startup and is caused by the none other than regsvr.exe virus.

The problem was reported by one of our readers and the solution to fix this problem is very easy.
Steps to solve the problem:
1.    We have already discussed how to remove regsvr.exe virus in the [...]

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Process Information: What is Explorer.exe?

There are so many processes running in the computer that they can confuse anyone. People have always wondered that why there are so many processes running in the system? To remove this confusion and to provide extra information on these processes, I am starting with this new thread that will tell the people “what process [...]

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Solution to Svchost.exe not found Problem

This is a problem that happened to one of our viewers. His system got infected with a virus but his Anti Virus cleaned it successfully. But what was strange is that during the next startup his system showed an error message “C:\recycled\SVCHOST.exe not found”.
I came to know that this problem is mostly caused when scanned [...]

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