Trouble:
One of our readers reported that the hard disk space on his computer keeps on reducing automatically. For this we have earlier provided a solution to free up some of this space.
But is there any point in keeping "system restore service" on for all the partitions?
If you ask me, I would say No, because [...]
Save Disk-Space By Selectively Disabling System Restore
Posted by Abhishek in windows TAGS in windows10
Sep
3 Ways To Recover Accidentally Deleted Windows Application File
Posted by Abhishek in windows TAGS in windows29
Aug
Trouble:
If you have deleted some useful windows executable file by mistake or by accident, don’t loose heart, because there is an easy way of getting it back.
One of our readers BalaSubramaniam wrote:
I have deleted my calc.exe file by mistake.Can you help me how to reinstall it?
Well, this is not only about calc.exe (Windows Calculator Application [...]
18
Aug
Trouble:
You download lots and lots of windows update files from Microsoft. One fine day if your Windows gets ill and need a re-install, you will have to again download all those Windows Updates after a fresh install on windows. It is such a waste of time.
Another case is when you have a computer which is [...]
Top 3 free Un-installer Tools To Remove Un-wanted Programs
Posted by Abhishek in windows TAGS in windows16
Aug
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 [...]
Hard Disk Free Space Reduces Automatically in Windows Vista and XP
Posted by Abhishek in windows TAGS in windows31
Jul
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 [...]
Analyze hard disk usage with Free WinDirStat Tool for Windows
Posted by Abhishek in windows TAGS in windows29
Jul
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 [...]
Explorer hangs on right click on the drive or Slow right click menu
Posted by Abhishek in windows TAGS in windows23
Jul
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 [...]
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