Trouble:

Recently we received a problem from one of the readers on system run a chkdsk disk scan again and again at every time on booting windows.

Let’s see how we can solve the problem of disk scan running every time of boot on windows.

Fix:

Disc scan is one of the protective feature of windows which runs to clean any cross-links or bad sectors that may be generated because of the improper shutdown of windows due to some reason. So, when ever you shutdown your system in some improper way ,the next time you boot your windows you will see scan disk running which you can stop by pressing an key on time.

But in some cases as experienced by some of the windows users, disk scan runs every time they reboot, this happens because of the following reasons:

continue reading "How to avoid chkdsk disk scan at every time booting windows"

Trouble:

It happens many time when we try to delete a file on the hard disk, and file does not get deleted. It gives the error message saying “Cannot delete, file is being used by some other program” when we are actually not using the same file.

This problem occurs because windows does not release the handle to the file. Let us see the way to delete such files.

continue reading "Not able to delete a file in Windows XP? delete it with un-locker"

Trouble:

Are you among those who are not able to access or see your folder options under File Menu>>Tools in Windows Explorer on your Windows XP ? This problem of hidden or disabled folder options occur normally due to malicious virus (w32.rontokbro@mm) activity.

The virus creates an entry in registry to disable “Folder Options” in Windows explorer.

Let us see how we can fix it.

continue reading "Folder options disabled by Virus / Trojan"

Problem:

How many times it happens that you start you windows xp computer and you see the warining as below on your task-bar?

I guess the answer is almost every time !

What does it mean?

It is simply a warning from windows security center service when you are using a third party anti-virus or firewall software and not using windows default services.

continue reading "Stop the security warning-Your computer might be at risk"

Problem:

One of our readers "The dark knight" reported a problem that he has recently installed a game which he wants to play offline, but it tries to connect to the Internet every now and then. There are some times when some applications like games ,software’s installed on your system try to connect to Internet for various reasons.This becomes very annoying specially when you don’t know how to block it.Don’t worry here is the way you can fix it.

continue reading "Block applications trying to connect to Internet"