After installing Microsoft Office on Windows XP, you might see a language icon in the task bar. One of our readers sent us a email asking how to remove this language bar from the Windows Taskbar.

This language bar help is because of the Windows Language settings. In this article I will share you how to remove this help bar from Windows task bar.

Fix:

To remove the language bar help from the Windows Taskbar, follow the below steps :

1. Open Control Panel and open the Regional and Language Options

2. Click the Language Tab and click Details. This will open the detailed window called Text Services and Input Languages

3. Click the Advanced Tab on Text Services and Input Languages

4. On Advanced Tab, under system configuration, click the checkbox saying “Turn off advanced text services”, and press OK.

5. That is it, after this you see that the language bar option disappears from the task bar.

Hope you find this fix easy to follow.

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One of our readers Sarfaraj sent us following Windows Network Problem

I have some problem time to time. I get this error sometimes which says

“Computer Not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource.Contact the administrator of this server to find out If you have access permission to this server. No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because there are already as many connections as this computer can accept.”

This problem occurs only form time to time. I solved this problem by re-starting the computer. After re-start this problem is solved. Please tell me why this problem occurs.

Here is the screenshot of the same problem sent by him:

In this article we will share the reason for this problem and solution to it.

Fix:

The Windows XP computer has limit of remote connections it can accept as a server to other computer. In simpler words, there is a limit to how many computers can connect to one Windows XP computer at one time.

For Winnows XP professional edition, this limit is of 10 connections per computer. For windows XP Home edition, there can be 5 connections. Each printer share or file share is counted as one connection.

Once a connections is established, it will not be closed for 15 minutes after it is not used. So even if a computer has no active connections, it still might be waiting for the idle or unused connections to terminate after a 15 minutes time out. This created a problem that in some time, all the available connections get exhausted.

To solve this problem, this timeout time of 15 minutes can be reduced so that the idle connections are terminated soon so that other connection can be established with it. Follow the below steps to change the default timeout time to 1 minute instead of 15 minutes:

1. Go to Start > Run

2. Type “net config server /autodisconnect:1” without quotes and press Ok.

This will change the default timeout time to 1 minute. This means that if any connections is not in use for more than 1 minute, it will be closed so that other connections to that computer can be established for file sharing.

If there are more than 10 connections needed for your work, you have two choices:

1. Upgrade to server license of windows which will allow more connections but will cost you some money.
2. You can use some other server softwares for sharing like Samba server or some other file sharing servers like FTP server.

Please share your views and comments below.

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We received a mail from one of our readers Jay telling :

My computer restarts when a USB device is inserted. Its works when i plug in my keyboard and mouse (both USB) but when i try plugging in my external hard-drive, printer or external dvd drive the computer restarts as soon as i plug them in. Tried to update drivers for my pc but with no results.

We have written about a problem : Computer Restarts On Inserting Pen Drive , but this article talks of software problem and not the one which Jay has reported. The problem reported by Jay is a hardware related problem, so has different solution. In this article we will discuss the reason and solution to this problem.

Fix:

If your computer is re-starting on inserting a USB pen drive (not USB hard disk) , see our tutorial – Computer Restarts On Inserting Pen Drive

If your computer re-starts on inserting USB external hard disk, or USB DVD writer or USB printer or any other USB device which extracts power from USB port, then it might be either BIOS or Motherboard problem or it can be a problem with the Power Supply Unit of your computer.

Try the USB hard disk or printer on some other computer to ensure that the device you are connecting to your computer is healthy. After that try plugging a pen drive to the USB port and see if that works ? If the pen drive works fine on the port, then it means that the USB port is able to run small devices which extract very little power from USB (like a small pen drive), while the same USB port is not capable to supply enough power to the USB devices which need more power than a small drive like en external hard disk or external DVD writer.

The solution to this this problem would be to upgrade your desktop computer’s Main power supply unit (also called SMPS unit) and replace it with one which had a good load capacity. But if the problem lies on the Motherboard circuitry or BIOS settings, it might not solve the problem even by replacing the Power supply unit. So before changing the power supply unit, we recommend you to do a BIOS upgrade and check in your BIOS that all power related settings are set to default values.

If you have a solution to share, please share through the comments below.

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Today I observed that my HP DV4 1131 TX laptop was making too much noise. The noise increased too much when I connected my laptop to AC power adaptor for charging the laptop battery. This noise becomes too high when I am using the laptop for a couple of hours.

On observing closely I realized that the fan was running too fast and making too much noise. The temperature of the laptop was high, but not very high, so the fans looked like running at speeds higher than needed. In this article I will share the solution how I fixed this fan noise.

Fix:

There are few things you must do to fix the fan noise :

Upgrade Laptop BIOS

One of the most common reasons for high Noise is fans running too fast. This fan speed is usually controlled by BIOS Software. For HP laptop, you can download your BIOS upgrade for HP4 Laptops from HP Support page.

After you download and run the BIOS update, it will check your present BIOS version and the latest version. It will upgrade the BIOS and restart the laptop with the latest BIOS version.

Check Temperature Of CPU And Graphics Card

HW Monitor is an excellent software utility to test the temperature levels of the various hardware components of laptop. You can download and install HWmonitor here.

Install and run the utility to check the hardware temperature.

If the temperature is too high, turn off the laptop and clean the air-vents of the laptop with a blower of the vacuum cleaner. Also see if there is any dust or something blocking the cooling of laptop. Use the laptop in such a way that the vents of air are not blocked while laptop is running.

Change Power And Graphics Settings

Open the control panel and change the power options to use low power. Also open the graphics settings and turn the settings to medium quality so that the graphics card does not create too much heat and the fan speed remains slow.

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Ask Toolbar is one of the major adware annoyance experienced by large numbers of computer users, ask toolbar gets installed through many softwares like nero and other software which have ask toolbar integrated in the software installer, when you install these software the default settings installs the ask toolbar on your computer.

When ask toolbar gets installed it will change the default home page in firefox, internet explorer and other browsers installed on your computer, which is very annoying and disturbing if you have customised home page. It will also change the default search engine to be used when you search through the search box.

Lets discuss how to remove ask toolbar and its components from your computer.

Fix:

There are different methods to uninstall and remove ask toolbar from your computer depending  

Remove Ask Toolbar of Internet Explorer Via Add/remove programs

1. Go to Start, click Run.
2. Type in appwiz.cpl in run prompt, and then click OK. [ This will open add remove programs in xp and program and features in vista ]
3. Under the list of installed programs, locate and click Ask Toolbar and select to remove it.

Note: Make sure that internet explorer is not running while you uninstall ask toolbar or restart Internet Explorer for the change to take effect.

Remove Ask Toolbar of Firefox Browser

1. Click Tools on the top of Mozilla Firefox window.
2. click the Add-ons to open the toolbar list.

3. Select the ask toolbar here and click Disable or Uninstall button to disable or remove it completely.

If the above methods does not work for you for any reason then you should use the free application called Toolbar Uninstaller. It allows you to remove a large list of annoying toolbars off from your pc, it can remove many crappy adware toolbars like ask toolbar from your computer.

Download Toolbar Uninstaller

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Windows is prone to a lot of virus infections. It is important to keep windows updated and keep your anti-virus updated to prevent virus infections. Read this tutorial for general tips to keep your computer safe from virus infections.

One such annoying Infection is rundll32.exe application error. This kind of problem occurs due to infected or corrupted rundll32.exe file or some infected dll files. Below is the screenshot shared by one of our readers Naralagiri:

When such error appears, it will display a dialogue box saying :

rundll32.exe – Application Error. The instruction at “0x———-” referenced memory at “0x———“. The memory could not be “read”. Click OK to terminate the program.

After this, the application you were trying to launch will ether not be launched or will get terminated during its launch.

In this article we are going to share some of the methods that can fix this problem.

Fix:

The rundll32.exe Application error is not a straight forward error. The possible reasons for this error are:

Problem 1. Corrupt rundll32.exe file – Which will cause such errors with many windows application. The solution to this problem should be replacement of rundll32.exe file. The solution is listed below in the article.

Solution 1:

To replace the file you need to put the Windows Installation disk in the CD ROM drive.
Click Start, and then click Run. Type the following without quotes and press enter

“expand X:\i386\rundll32.ex_ c:\windows\system32\rundll32.exe”

Restart the computer. This will replace the corrupt rundll32.exe with a fresh copy from windows installation CD/DVD.

Problem 2. Corrupt DLL file for some application – Which will cause problem with that specific application or a few application which depend on that dll file. The solution to this problem is bit tricky. See the rest of the article for solutions.

Solution 2:

For this you need to narrow down on which application is causing the crash, and identify the DLL. You can replace an Individual DLL if you suspect some DLL through the error message. Else in that case, I recommend to run a Repair Setup of Windows after taking your data backup.

Problem 3. Corrupt Registry values – There maybe some registry values which might be corrupted which are creating problems with the normal functioning of certain application. The solution to this problem is comparatively simple with use of certain registry cleaning tools.

Solution 3:

To solve registry problems, you can download free registry scanner like CC cleaner which is free and effective in cleaning registry errors. Scan and fix the registry errors and restart your computer.

Problem 4. Fake CSRSS file or CSRSS Virus -  This is because of an executable file with file name similar to the system file CSRSS.exe . The fake file will run and create rundll32 errors.

Solution4 :

Go to Start > Search and search for file named CSRSS. If you find more than one files by this name in some folders like “Prefetch” or other locations, these files might be the corrupt file or malicious file if they do not have .exe extension. Delete any suspicious file and restart your computer.

These four problems and solution will fix problem in most cases. There can be more than these reasons, if you have any other solution or reasons, please share through comments below.

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Recently we got a mail form one of our reader who has recently purchased a dell laptop and every time he starts his computer dell media player called dell media direct runs automatically.

Some of the other dell laptop users a has a similar but quite a different problem with dell media redirect button on their dell laptop as many times they accidently press this dell media direct button and dell media direct starts running.

Some of the users may want to configure the dell media direct physical button to open WMP or Media Center rather than the slow dell media direct which has such a bad interface to play media. It could also happen when you may insert a CD/DVD and dell media player runs automatically

Let’s discuss how can you disable dell media direct in windows startup or change the function of dell media direct button on your dell laptop.

Fix:

Stop Dell Media Direct Autorun With CD/DVD and Disable To Load Dell Media Direct In Startup

In order to disable dell media direct this way, you will need to remove dell media direct from windows start up so that it should load when you start windows.

You can remove dell media direct from system startup either with msconfig or with autoruns utility, find dell media direct entries and uncheck them.

Change The Function Of Dell Media Direct Button

In case you want to open windows media player or media center follow the procedure given below. You just need to add the standalone exe MCHK.exe to your system startup and then when you press Dell Media Direct button it will open media center [ Make sure that dell quick set is not running ] Add this executable to startup so that each time media center loads when you click dell media direct button on dell laptop.

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With Google Chrome getting faster and more stable with newer versions, many of my friends are moving to Google Chrome from Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

This article is helpful to all those people who want to move to Google Chrome but they have all their favorites and saved passwords in Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. In this article I am going to share a convenient way to import all your Browsing History, Saved Passwords, Favorites and Search Engine settings to Google Chrome.

I recommend you to read this article also : How To Switch Your Default Browser

Fix:

Open the Google Chrome and Click on the Import Bookmarks & Settings option.

This will open a Import Data Window like the one below:

Select the Browser, that is, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Make sure that the Firefox or IE is not running at that moment. Press the Import button. That is it, now you have all your Favorites and Passwords imported to Google Chrome.

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You might face this problem when you try to uninstall norton anitivirus or any other norton product installed on your computer, it does not get uninstalled but throws out some error which is difficult to install.

This could happen due to corrupted registry or files related to the antivirus on your computer because of some virus or trojans infection. In that case neither add remove programs or programs and features in vista works.

Here is how you can solve this issue with Norton Removal Tool which is recently updated and supports norton 2010 products also.

Fix:

Norton Official Removal Too allows you to clean uninstall and delete norton products for windows force fully, now it supports the latest version of all the norton products following is the list of applications which can be uninstalled with this tool .

Norton Removal Tool can uninstall following norton products listed below

1. Norton AntiSpam 2004/2005

2. Norton AntiVirus 2003 through 2007.2

3. Ghost 2003, Ghost Version 9.0 and 10.0

4. Norton GoBack 3.1 through 4.2

5. Norton Internet Security 2003 through 2007.2

6. Norton Password Manager

7. Norton Personal Firewall 2003 through 2006

8. Norton SystemWorks 2003 through 2007

9. Norton Confidential Online 2007

10. Norton Internet Security Add-on Pack

11. Norton Save and Restore 1.0

12. Norton 360

Download Official Norton Removal Tool Version 2010.0.0.92

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It happens to almost all the windows users sometimes when you suddenly found your computer gets infected with viruses and Trojans which disables registry, task manager, command prompt, run prompt, greyed folder options and blocked system restore etc.

A user named tangomouse at raymond.cc forums created a simple free utility which re enables the disabled registry, task manager, command prompt, run prompt and all other restrictions applied by virus or spyware infection.

Here is how you can use this utility to fix everything which is disabled.

Fix:

Re enable is a free to use program which will restore all the restrictions imposed due to virus, malware or trojan infection on your computer

You just need to click Enable and with this single click you will enable all the disabled components of windows

Download Re-Enable

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