Trouble:

Many a times, some web-sites install certain malicious scripts or software components on your computer which are a threat to your personal data like Credit card details or contact details or passwords. Some of these components are though not that harmful, but will annoy you with ads and pop-ups.

Computer becomes really slow and vulnerable when there are many applications installed which you don’t use or you don’t need. Its always best to remove such applications by going to

Control Panel > Add Remove Programs and then un-installing the un-used programs.

What to do when you are not able to un-install a software?

Sometimes due to a virus or spyware, you may not be able to remove a certain software which is causing problems. Sometimes you will not even find it in Add Remove program list, as it will hide itself to protect itself. But don’t worry, the solution is simple and easy. In this post we will tell you about Top 3 Free un-installer tools that will remove such troublesome softwares.

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Trouble:

Many of our readers write to us complaining that the free disk space on their Windows Vista or XP computer is reducing automatically.

One of our readers Ananya says

My hard disk free space reduces automatically almost daily. I have tried restoring memory by deleting backup files, but the next day memory reduces again.

The free disk space reduces automatically on computers in case of most of windows XP and Windows Vista computers. This is quite a common problem and there are two simple reasons behind it.

Lets see the problem and the fix in detail.

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Trouble:

I came across a very useful tool called WinDirStat that graphically shows you what files are consuming what amount of disk space on a particular drive. Its a Free tool, easy to use and very effective.

My problem was that I have a desktop which is few years old, running Windows Xp, the primary partition having Windows installed is about 10 GB and after years of usage its almost full. I keep getting Low disk space warnings !

All the data on the disk is useful and I did not what to delete, so I searched for a tool to help me decide what to do?

Lets see how to free your disk space with help of this effective tool.

continue reading "Analyze hard disk usage with Free WinDirStat Tool for Windows"

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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