Trouble:

One of our readers Senthil wrote

“When I switch on the computer the following error will displayed : <windowsroot>\system32\hal.dll is missing or corrupt please reinstall the copy of above file”

What is hal.dll ?

Short for Hardware Abstraction Layer, HAL is an operating system programming layer that enables the operating system to operate with a hardware device. hal.dll is the dynamic link library file that implements the functionality of HAL.

When “hal.dll missing or corrupt” message appears, it can be because of damaged or missing hal.dll file. It can also be because of some wrong entries in boot.ini file in case you are using two operating systems on your computer. Also it can be because of improper BIOS entries of the disk drives etc.

Lets have a look on how this can be fixed.

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Trouble:

On our our readers Sandeep wrote “I don’t know what is the sound driver in my PC. Is it possible to know PC sound driver name?“

Surely its possible to know what sound driver is installed on your PC.

Not only this, you can see the device drivers for all the devices which are connected to PC and are monitored by Windows Device Manager software.

Lets see the procedure to check it.

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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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Trouble:

Today we receive a mail from our reader Malhar who says: “how to remove the desktop.ini,
which is created in every folder?“

What is Desktop.ini?

It is a Windows XP operating system file which stores information about customized folders view and settings. If you have customized the display of a folder in any way, such as changing its icon or manner of display this will store all the information.

What is thumb.db?

Thumbs.db is again Windows XP operating system file that stores a cache for Windows Explorer’s thumbnail view.

Let see how can you hide desktop.ini

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Trouble:

Few days back, we received a mail from one of our readers, Ian from Jenak Industries Inc reporting problem with windows screen-saver.

He reported that “I cannot get my computer to activate the screen-saver all I get when I got to
the change scree-saver in control panel and activate a program it accepts it but when the  display turns off and it is supposed to bring up the screen-saver I get a black screen”

On analyzing the reported problem, I could make out that before activation of screen saver, the screen goes blank. This usually happens due to power settings.

The problem may appear like a big blunder but it actually is a very simple to fix, lets see the fix.

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