Trouble:
One of our readers sent me this query asking :
There i an icon of a floppy drive under My Computer. But i do not have a floppy drive. Please help me remove the icon.

 
This problem is because of default BIOS settings of some of the motherboards which assume that there will be a floppy drive [...]

MBR or Master Boot Record contains the data which is needed to boot your computer. The MBR is usually modified during installation of an Operating system.
 
For example when you Install Ubuntu Inside Windows or you Install some other version of Windows over your existing Windows. For example installing Windows Vista in dual boot with [...]

Trouble:
When you manually upload or download files which are other than text files to a Web-Server or When you manually download a file from a web-server using FTP commands or FTP clients like Filezilla or similar clients, the files may or may not work correctly.

Files uploaded or downloaded using FTP get bad mainly because [...]

The way we see emails in our Inbox is a very graphical and presentation oriented way of looking at emails. There is a large amount of Information which is usually hidden from the us when we actually see an email in out inbox.

The information include the:

Detailed header information
Email encoding standard being [...]

Trouble:
Many times we connect devices to out computer which we never attach again. Once you attach these devices to computer, there is an entry created in your Windows Devices list and it remain there.
For example once I attached a gaming joystick to my computer which I borrowed from a friend. Sometimes we attach mouse / [...]

Trouble:
We have got some mails from the readers who reported some problems they had with the on screen keyboard in vista, as many of them see this on screen keyboard on the login screen every time they boot up their machine.
 
Some of the users are so much annoyed by on screen keyboard in [...]

Trouble:
Trojan.Ramvicrype also known as Ransom-N trojan is a Trojan which encrypts the files on the infected system. This Trojan Horse Trojan was first detected around end of October 2009.

Symantec has released a virus removal tool to remove Trojan.Ramvicrype / Ransom-N trojan . In this article I will share with you how can you use [...]

Trouble:
Windows 7 start menu search has some problems with displaying search results properly in some cases. It displays the the search category and does not display the search items properly under those categories.

The above picture shows the correct way of results, but in case your copy of Windows 7 has this problem, then you will [...]

Trouble:
Sometimes you may encounter problems in uninstalling old version of live messenger when you might want to upgrade it to the newer version or you just want to get rid off your computer. But when you try to remove it with the usual Configuration – Add/Remove software steps, it might not even appear in the [...]

7 Quick Fix is a free to use tool which allows you to fix 21 common issues which may occur in your windows 7 installed on your computer, so if they occur you can easily fix them. Sometime back we reviewed a similar tool called FixWin – which again lets you fix many other issues [...]

Trouble:
It may happen some time when you are not able to see the windows drive letter in the burning applications like Nero etc when you try to burn files to disc, or you may not see the CD DVD drive under My Computer.
 

In such a case there is free program which lets you [...]

It could be a situation when you want to backup a large number of files to a CD or DVD and you don’t want to miss a single file. In such a case there is a free program called Capacity which allows to backup up to CD or DVD much easier.

This small free to [...]

Trouble:
Recently when Wordpress 2.9 was released, we upgraded all our blogs to this version but after some time on some of the blogs we noticed that the articles which we have scheduled are not getting published.

After sometime we realized that it is a Wordpress 2.9 bug which has some problem in the code related [...]

Trouble:
Yesterday I installed FeedDemon on my Windows 7 computer and when I tried to Synchronize Feed Daemon I got error message saying:
FeedDemon was unable to make a secure connection to your Google account. If you have an active internet connection, verify that your firewall permits FeedDemon to connect.

 
On analyzing it closely I realized that this [...]