Trouble 1 :

Whenever I am trying to format my Pen-drive it keeps showing that windows was
unable to complete the format. – Amal

Fix:

There are several possible reason for which this problem appears. We have already covered it in our article : Problem in formatting pen drive

Trouble 2 :

I get this error with windows media player – Windows Media Player cannot play the file because there is a problem with your sound  device. There may not be a sound device installed on your computer, it may be in use by another program, or it may not be functioning properly. – Noker

Fix:

This problem usually occurs due to sound driver issues or some missing audio/video codecs.

For Codecs related problem, see our article: Cannot Play Video Files In Media player

For Sound Driver realted issues, see this article: Audio not working or Problem with sound in Windows

Trouble 3 :

I downloaded firmware for my Netgear router. It was a .chk file which the router would not accept.  – Tim

Fix:

There is a known bug in some of the Netgear routers (including the one I am using) that it will not accept the .chk file using Mozilla Firefox. You can use the same file to upgrade the firmware using Microsoft Internet Explorer. It worked for my router.

Trouble 4 :

I ran the software to remove the WGA notification,it said it was not on my system however, it keeps appearing just as windows opens.How do I get rid of it?  – Tim

Fix:

You can suppress the WGA notification, but this won’t solve the problem. Get the copy of Windows Registered properly to get rid of this warning. Here is a tool for suppressing the warning : How To Remove Windows Is Not Genuine Notification

Trouble 5 :

I cant access any Antivirus Website & Microsoft website. Page Can not be displayed error indicates. – Rajoo

Fix:

Not being able to open antivirus websites is a symptopm of virus which is preventing access to search engines and anti-virus update sites so that the virus can protect itself. We have written the solution to the same in our article : Remove Virus Which Redirects to go.google.com | go.google.com Redirect Virus Removal tool for Windows.

Hope you find these solutions useful. You can submit your problems to us at Our Submit Problem Page.

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We have received certain problems from the users reporting that the audio is not working after they have installed / uninstalled certain devices.

For example: one of our readers installed wireless modem and after that the sound of the computer is not working.

Why sound stops working?

Most common reasons for this trouble are:

• Such kind of troubles arise after some device / software is installed which tries to gain control as default sound device.
• Also while un-installation of certain softwares, some shared files are removed. At times some important shared file can be deleted which causes troubles with working of sound drivers.
• While installing certain games, it tries to gain control of sound or video drivers and may accidentally harm these driver softwares.

Lets see the ways to fix such troubles.

Fix:

Step1 : First of all check what is your default audio device setting. For this, open Control Panel > Sounds and audio devices, open Audio tab as shown in picture below.

See that the Device selected is your sound-card or on-board audio device. It should not be blank or some modem device. Set the Default sound playback and sound recording device correctly from the drop down menu. If your device is not there in this list see the step 2.

Step2: If the step 1 is not successful, it means that your sound device driver software has become either corrupt or has been accidentally un-installed. In such case, install the sound driver from the sound-card/mother-board driver CD. You can also download the latest driver if you don’t have the driver CD. After you install the driver, restart your computer, and then check the settings as in step 1 again.

Trouble Fixed!

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