Trouble:

Have you ever seen “NTLDR is missing, Press any key to restart” during boot up ? One of our reader got this problem suddenly at the time of booting windows. Due to this, the windows does not boot.

What is NTLDR ?

NTLDR (NT Loader) is the boot loader for all releases of Microsoft’s Windows NT operating system up to and including Windows XP.

This message NTLDR is missing indicates that the boot loader is either corrupted or missing due to some reason.

Let’s see how we can fix it.

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Trouble:

One of our readers, Jamie wrote

“My PC monitor used to have 32-bit color quality at 1024×768 pixels. Then one time, the screen appeared to be bleeding. Large red globs rained down on the screen. After that, the best I could get was 800×600 resolution and 16-bit color.”

This is not unusual to get such type of problem. I also faced such a problem when I installed a new game on my desktop. After I launched the game, the display resolution was degraded and remained like that.

Why display resolution gets affected ?

The most common reason for display resolution reduction / degradation is corruption of display driver files by some application or game. Sometimes drivers may get corrupt due to a corruption of drive area which stores the drivers.

Lets see how to fix it.

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Trouble:

Recently one of our frequent readers and my colleague Saurabh reported a problem, whenever he does right-click to create a new folder, his computer stops responding for a while. Everything freezes and he has to end explorer.exe task to recover from it.

Why computer hangs on clicking new?

This happened every-time he does a right-click and New option. This kind of problem occurs when one or more of the entries on the New option gets corrupted or the link is not actually available for some item. In such case, explorer will try hard to locate the missing item and will hang.

Lets see how to fix it.

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Trouble:

One of our reader mailed us the following problem:

Windows XP logs me into the administrator every time instead of the account I created with administrative rights. I do not want to log into the Administrator account.

But why windows XP logins to default Administrator account?

It happens due to the auto-login has been enabled for the default administrator account in windows, because of which windows XP logs into the administrator account every time.

Simply we can say the auto admin logon feature is enabled.

Let’s see how can we fix it.

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Trouble:

We got a problem from one of our reader that was not able to boot into his windows vista, as the boot loader of vista got corrupted due to some reason.

What happens when he try to boot his windows vista ?

At the time of starting Windows Vista, he receive the following error message:

File: \Boot\BCD
Status: 0xc0000034
Info: The Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information

Why windows vista boot loader gets corrupted?

Boot loader of windows vista is very sensitive, it contains a large number of files which gets altered due to installation of older versions of windows over windows vista. It may also get infected due to virus action also.

Let’s how we can fix the corrupted windows vista boot-loader

Fix:

There are two method to fix the corrupt windows vista boot loader. Lets discuss both one by one.

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