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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Trouble:
One of our readers Jasjit reported a problem "When I shutdown my computer a message appears that WMS Idle does not closed properly"
 
This is a very common problem faced by many computer users. When they shutdown the computer, following error appears:
"End program – WMS idle"

 
What is WMS Idle ?
 
 
WMS is media related service by [...]

Trouble:
We have just received a problem in which reader says: “There is no ‘Send To’ option on the right click menu of any file!”.
 
This is a very common problem occurs in most of the system which got infected with some viruses in the pen drive which corrupt the right click menu of windows explorer.
 
Let’s see [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 tothe change scree-saver in control panel and activate a program it accepts it but when the  [...]

Trouble:
One of our readers reported that when he starts his computer, he gets a message like “Verifying DMI pool, Booting from CD and then there is an error like Non-System Disk or Disk error Replace and press any key when ready”

One of the messages shown in this type of problem is given in the image [...]