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 not connected to Internet, what will you do in that case? So the question is:

Can I save the Windows update files for re-use?

Fortunately the answer is Yes! Saving the windows update files on a disk will help you install these files on a fresh installation of windows or to install these updates on a computer which is not directly connected to Internet. For this we can use some tools. Lets see the details of what these tools do and how they work.

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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 there are many applications installed which you don’t use or you don’t need. Its always best to remove such applications by going to

Control Panel > Add Remove Programs and then un-installing the un-used programs.

What to do when you are not able to un-install a software?

Sometimes due to a virus or spyware, you may not be able to remove a certain software which is causing problems. Sometimes you will not even find it in Add Remove program list, as it will hide itself to protect itself. But don’t worry, the solution is simple and easy. In this post we will tell you about Top 3 Free un-installer tools that will remove such troublesome softwares.

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Trouble:

There are lots of bad viruses worms and Trojan’s traveling around with you in your USB pen Drive many times. The USB Pen Drive viruses cause all sorts of problems to your computer. We have recently written an article about top 10 USB pen drive problems and solutions.  But there are more than that.

One of our readers reported

Whenever I Insert my USB Pen Drive in My Computer, it restarts the computer in one minute.

Now that is a really annoying situation. As is said that prevention is better than cure, read these tips for avoiding such situation. And read on the fix for cure to this problem.

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Trouble:

We received many troubles from the readers when they report they are not able to open their hard drive partitions or pen drives on mouse double click.

Some other similar problems include the following computer troubles

• Double clicking on drive opens search
• Drive opens in new window

All these problems are caused due different types of viruses which creates malicious autorun.inf files in the root directory of pen drives and hard drive partitions.

So, when you run anti-virus scan and remove the virus files from your pen drive and hard drive partitions these malicious autorun,inf files created by viruses remains which cause your pen drive or had drive partitions not open on mouse double click.

Let’s see how to remove these malicious autorun.inf files

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Trouble:

Some viruses corrupt the Norton Anti-virus itself sometimes, so much so that the anti-virus stops working, and you can not uninstall Norton Anti-virus.

If you try to Install any other anti-virus program, it will not install and ask you to first un-install the existing norton anti-virus. We have seen this problem ourselves as well as received a mail from one of our readers Susheel saying:

whenever I try to uninstall Norton Anti-virus from the add remove program screen I get a warning pop up that says “fatal error during installation”. It reverses what work it has done and the program is still there. The major annoyance with this program is that whenever I right click on a file or icon, I get a loading task of symantec antivirus saying “please wait while windows configures symantec antivirus” and it begins looking for the source directory, which as I said no longer exists…so I hit cancel and I get an error message reading “error 1706: no valid source could be found for product symatec antivirus.”

Don’t scratch your hair, there is a fix to every trouble , so there is a simple fix for this problem as well, read on.

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