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Entries Tagged ‘regedit’

Steps to Restore Missing Tabs in Display Properties

Wondering where your tabs in the display properties of the computer, gone? Similar was the problem faced by one of our readers. There can be many reasons for this problem like virus infection or some corrupt software that made some changes in your registry editor.

Many people are facing this problem and are shocked to see [...]

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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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Steps to Remove regsvr.exe Virus

There are so many types of computer viruses in this world that removing them and finding a specific solution for each of them is a big ask. One such virus that screwed me is regsvr.exe classified as a W32.Imaut worm.
It has become a daily routine that when I plug my pen drive in my college [...]

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Steps to Write Protect your USB Pen Drive

It was yesterday when I got some data transferred in my pen drive at my College that made me think that I need to Write Protect my pen drive. I just put the drive in a system for about 10 seconds and there were about 7 different types of viruses in my Pen Drive (really [...]

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Fix the problem of System32 Folder Opening Automatically on Startup

Some of our readers were experiencing this problem that when they boot their PC, the System32 Folder opens automatically in a new window on the startup. This is a common problem nowadays and is very irritating.

What is system32 folder?
System32 folder is an important folder that comes when the Windows is installed and is situated in [...]

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Steps to Backup Registry using regedit

We all like installing new software and applications without knowing what harm it can do to the registry in our system. A registry is a central storage for all computer configuration data.

Why should we backup our registry?
Microsoft Windows stores its configuration information in a database called the registry. It’s where programs get information from. In [...]

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Double click on drive opens in new window

Are you screwed by the problem that when you Double click on some drive it opens in a new window? Then do not worry you can fix this problem manually in seconds.
First of all check if by mistake you haven’t ticked the option under General tab in Folder Options. If not it means that the [...]

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Clear History from Start Menu’s Run Command

We often use Run command to either run a process or launch an application but what Run command does is that it saves the command last used by us. When we use the Run command next time either by clicking Run from Start Menu or by pressing Windows key + R, we see the last [...]

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