Trouble:

Most of the problems which we receive through Trouble Fixers readers are created due to some kind of virus attacks. Although there is a cure for most of such problems, but as a wise man has said:

“Prevention is better than cure”

So in this post we will tell you some key points to save your computer from virus attacks.

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Trouble:

We have been receiving many mails from our readers these days with a problem that when ever they start up windows they see the error messages like as follows:

• Windows cannot find ‘C:\windows\svchost.exe.’
• Could not load or run ‘C:\windows\svchost.exe.’ specified in the registry
• Windows cannot find ‘C:\Windows\System32\amvo.exe’
• “Windows cannot find ‘copy.exe’

These type of messages appear at windows startup, when windows tries to load the virus files like amvo.exe, copy.exe etc. These error messages appear, because these files were removed by your anti-virus programs but still the registry entries for them exist.

Different types of viruses create some files which got executed at the windows startup so that they can come in action as windows load itself. In order to run the primary virus files required, they create run entries in windows registry.

Let’s see how can you remove these entries.

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Trouble:

One of our readers, Mehraj, sent us a problem saying whenever he powers on his computer, the computer does not boot. It show error message like “Unmountable Boot Volume or STOP 0×000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME” message.

It can really trouble someone a lot if the computer refuses to boot at all. In such cases the computer even does not start even in safe mode.

The main reasons behind such problem are:

• Incompatible BIOS settings
• Faulty or incorrect bus-cable
• Boot sector virus attack
• Corrupt boot sector

Lets us see the ways to sort these problems:

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Trouble:

One of readers, Raj Kumar, reported a problem which I have heard from some of my friends as well. He Says: “I have problem viewing icons on desktop, unable to see icons on desktop” The desktop background appears blank with no icons on it (as shown in the image below).

The problem is related to disappearing of desktop icons and task bar on windows startup. In some cases even when the user tries to open windows explorer by new task-option in task-manager the explorer flashes for a second but doesn’t start properly.

Let’s see how can we solve this problem.

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Trouble:

This time, for a change, I want to share a problem I am myself facing for last couple of days. Firefox starts to hang whenever I open Gmail Inbox. It is really a pain when I am so addicted to Gmail and Firefox both. The strange thing is that Microsoft Internet Explorer is working comparatively better with Gmail.

See the Snapshot below, whenever I click on Inbox, the CPU usage shoots to 100 % and Memory usage is already higher than normal.

Lets see the work-around to save ourselves from such hangs.

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