Trouble:
We just got a mail from one of our reader asking the following question,
Hey troublefixers, you guys has been doing a great job – I want to lock my computer automatically in my office after some time of inactivity – I want to do this on my office PC so that no one other [...]

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We received a problem from one of our reader who wants to restrict logon hours in windows xp, on his son user account as his son keeps playing games on the computer all the time.
 
Playing games is always fun for children but this could be a great problem if it impacts their studies too much. [...]

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One of our reader asked us this simple question in his mail to troublefixers
what is the fastest way to take file or folder ownership in vista ?

 
What is file/folder ownership?
 
 
The answer is simple, when you have the ownership of a file or folder in Windows, you can open, modify, add or delete contents from [...]

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We received a mail from one of our readers asking:
How can I disable change of Date and Time on Windows Xp computer? I own an Internet Cafe and I don’t want my users to change the date and time on my Computers.

There can be more than one ways of disabling the editing of Date and [...]

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We got a mail from one of our reader named Rafiq saying that he cannot rename any folder in Windows Vista, although he has not mentioned which version of Windows Vista he is using. But it does not matter much as this is a common problem which occurs in all the versions of vista.
 
This trouble [...]

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One of our reader named Graham Parkinson sent us this problem regarding the magnifier getting started in the vista automatically at system startup. Windows vista magnifier is quite better as compared to the previously designed magnifier in windows but it really becomes very annoying when it got started automatically at system startup.
 
This is the small [...]

Trouble:
Is Hibernate options missing from your Windows Vista Start Menu?

Windows Vista Power Options are different from Windows XP wherein you could simply enable and disable Hibernate options from Windows Control Panel > Power Options > Hibernate settings
 
There is no such simple setting windows in Power options of Windows Vista. In this article we share [...]

Trouble:
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is one the most important update for Windows XP, but it may happen that after installing Windows XP service pack 3 some of the hardware devices may not work properly. In that case you would need to uninstall Windows XP SP3 from your computer.
 
We had already got some [...]

Trouble:
Did you ever run into the trouble of Windows XP computer was not booting up because of corrupted boot loader? Well how to fix it up, it can be fixed with the help of Windows Recovery Console which comes in Windows XP bootable CD. It is quite common problem that you don’t have the windows [...]

Trouble:
One of our reader submitted a problem saying that the windows Search Option is not visible in his Windows Start Menu. This kind of problem can be because of windows settings of because of some malicious scripts or viruses or trojans.

In this post we will tell you how can you simply restore Windows Search [...]

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One of the major windows problem for any windows user is locating, downloading and installing the device drivers on a windows reinstall after formatting the hard drive. One of the reader named Rahul mailed us regarding the same issue in a mail written in quotes below.
How can I back up all the device device drivers [...]

Trouble:
It happens many times when you install a new device on your computer and the devices drivers on the CD comes with it may not work due to different operating system like vista, as the device drivers were made for Windows XP and you are using Windows vista. It could also be a case when [...]

Trouble:
We recently received a mail from one of reader who want to get the windows vista password of computer in his college which is a local computer not connected to LAN network.
I want to reveal the password of a vista computer in my college, but I don’t want to reset the password.

 
Resetting Windows Vista Password [...]

Trouble:
Due to virus attacks and worms, Windows Task Managers gets disabled. We have already posted the solution to the problem Task Manager is Disabled, but in some cases the virus attack is too severe to solve the problem in simple steps. In such case there are alternative methods to kill processes. In this post we [...]