Trouble:

Its very embarrassing and troublesome when some not-so-decent and unwanted ads pop-up from no where when you are connected to Internet. It is a very common problem in many computers.

Let us see Why this happens.

It happens generally because some adware programs gets installed on your system while surfing internet.

What is an Adware?

Adware or advertising-supported software is any software package that automatically shows, plays, or downloads advertising material to computer after the software is installed on it or while the software is being used.

Lets see how an adware can be removed.

Fix:

How to detect and remove adware?

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Trouble:

One of our readers reported a problem with windows Internet Explorer, according to him suddenly at any time Internet Explorer closes abruptly with a message box which says

“Iexplore.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience”

If you click the Click here link at the bottom of the message box, error signature information that is similar to the following error signature information may appear:

App name: Iexplore.exe
App version: 6.0.2800.1106
Module name: Mo030414s.dll
Module version: 1.0.0.0
Offset: 000294cc

The signature may also list one of the following files instead of the mo030414s.dll file:

M030106shop.dll, M030206pohs.dll, Mdefshop.dll, Moaa030425s.dll, Moz030715s.dll

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Trouble:

Sometimes it happens that when you insert a recorded data DVD or CD into your CD or DVD reader but rather then displaying the data it displays the disc as blank.

Note: It’s not your CD or DVD reader fault at all when it reports the recorded media as blank.

This problem may occur when you use certain third-party Image Mastering API (IMAPI) CD-burning software to record data to a recordable CD or DVD. Lets see how this trouble can be fixed.

Fix:

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Trouble:

Do you get “Access denied” error message when you try to access some file or folder on a shared folder on a home or office network ?

This is one very commonly faced problems with computers using NTFS file system which most of the windows Xp computers used.

In such a case, when a person shares some folder on a network, then there is usually a read permission for all others. That means all other people, other than the owner of that shared folder can only read its contents and not modify them.

Why Access denied ?

Sometimes it happens that other computers on the network don’t have even the permission to read anything from shared folder (which is on other computer) specially when the person shared the file in my documents , or some file shared on his desktop but these files which lies in my documents or on desktop are private by default when you use windows XP with ntfs file system. This is why Access Denied error message is shown.
How to fix it ?

This problem can be fixed by providing read or read-write permission on the folder from the computer which actually contains the folder.

Fix:

Let us see the steps to fix the problem :

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Trouble:

One of our readers got a problem when she tried to create or run new asp.net applications in visual studio after a fresh install of visual studio 2005. She got the error message saying “Visual Studio .Net has detected that the specified web server is not running ASP .NET version 1.1″ and it stops.

This problem mainly occurs when asp.net 1.0 overwrites asp.net 1.1 version framework on your system. Don’t worry as you can easily fix this trouble with some sets of commands.

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