Trouble:

We have received lot many problems from our readers complaining that their computer restarts abruptly. It seems like that the computer restarts without any reason, but it is not so, every-time your computer restarts abruptly, there must be some or other reason that you might not have noticed.

In this post we will look into those reasons and the possible solutions to fix computer restart problem. So lets have a look at the possible reasons:

• Computer restart due to overheating
• Computer restart due to faulty RAM
• Computer restart due to faulty Hard-disk
• Computer restart due to overheating up of hard-disk
• Computer restart on attaching some external USB device
• Computer restart due to other hardware problem
• Some software causing operating system crash causes computer restart

There may be some rare typical reasons also, but let us focus on these common reasons and lets have a look on how to fix computer restart problem because of above reasons.

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Trouble:

We have observed this problem at may places that you need some data on your pen drive but the USB drive or pen drive does not work. Windows gives a notification

“Found new hardware, USB Mass Storage Device, please install drivers for it.”

Windows will now show a New Hardware Wizard to install the drivers. Lets see in details how we can fix this problem.

Fix:

There are more than one ways in which the USB drives are disabled by Administrators at offices or colleges or schools. These methods are:

1. By Disabling USB Ports from Device Manager.

2. By Tweaking Registry values for USB Mass Storage Devices.

3. By Un-installing the USB Mass Storage Drivers.

We will see how to fix all these situations one by one. But before you begin, you must have administrator rights on that computer to fix the issue. If you don’t have the rights, see this post on getting admin rights on windows computer.

Lets go one by one for the solution now.

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Some times Microsoft office excel files get damaged. MS Excel stops responding while opening damaged excel files.

But don’t lose hope as you can try some methods given below to recover your data from your excel.

Method 1:

Open the recovered copy of the excel file.

1. Open Start >> All programs >> Microsoft Office >> Microsoft Office Tools and click “Microsoft Office Application Recovery”

2. In application list click Microsoft Excel , click recover application.

Note: Don’t click End Application, otherwise recent changes to your workbook will be lost.

3. Open Microsoft Excel , the excel workbook you want to recover will be listed Document Recovery task pane.

4. To open or save your workbook, click the arrow on the right of the workbook in the task pane.

Method 2:

Use “Open and Repair” command

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Trouble:

For a change today I am going to share one of the problem which I have been facing for last 2-3 days. This issue started appearing after installing just released as Firefox 3.0 RC 1. I have been facing firefox navigation buttons problem.

Whenever I start Firefox both backward and forward button are not visible

( as shown in the image below )

Let see how can we fix this firefox trouble.

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Trouble:

We have received this problem from our readers that in his windows  Start Menu, he can not find the Run button. Look at the image below.

This usually happens because of the start menu items settings. These settings may be altered by some virus or malicious script.

Let us see how this can be fixed in a few simple steps.

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