Trouble: 

Sometime back we received a problem in which a reader reported the following problem  

“Windows Explorer hangs when I right click on the drive in my computer”

This problem occurs could occur when when some new program gets added which could not instantiate itself. This problem could also arise due to bad context menu handler.

Following are some other problems that could be caused due to the poorly coded or bad context menu handler.

• There may be a huge delay when you right click on a folder or drive
• Right click item show slowly
• When you select properties in right click nothing happens

Let’s see how can you fix all these issues related with the right click menu

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Trouble:

Is your fixed SATA drive or C drive shown in tray in the list of Safely remove USB Mass storage device in Windows ? For many of our readers using Nvidia motherboard the answer is yes !

We have received many mails from our readers regarding this problem. This kind of problem is seen after a windows updated few weeks back which had updated for optional Nvidia drivers. After this driver update many users have seen the fixed SATA drive as removable drive.

Why is my SATA drive in list of removable drives?

Nvidia motherboards / chip-sets  driver software has been enhanced to support some enhanced RAID technologies. Thus as a feature of it, the drives interprets all the SATA drives as hot-swappable drive. That is why you see fixed SATA drive in removable media list.

Lets see how you can fix this issue.

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Trouble:

Many a times when the windows boot, the tray icons like volume control icon, network status icon, safely remove hardware icon etc. which should be visible in the tray are not visible properly.

In such a case, many a times you will find volume control missing, or you will find Safely remove hardware icon missing, or any other useful tray icon which you frequently use.

Why are tray icons not loaded properly?

At the time when windows is booting, there are many processes which are simultaneously being launched. All these are running in parallel waiting for the CPU turn. Some times when the CPU is busy with some processes, windows misses to properly load the icons.

Lets see how to fix this issue.

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Trouble:

These type of error messages comes when Windows XP system that does not start because of corruption in windows registry.

Most of the windows users who face this type of problems could not start windows, see the error messages like some mentioned below:

Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SOFTWARE

Let’s see how can we fix this computer trouble

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Trouble:

This is one of the most common problems experienced by people, as many readers reported this problem in a different way.

• Notepad opens at windows startup
• My documents opens at windows startup
• My computer startup at windows

Some of the readers also reported that it happens after installing some applications, some of them says that this windows activity started occurring after some virus infection

Let see how this computer trouble actually occurs and how can you fix it

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