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Process Explorer – A Must have Utility for Advanced Windows Troubleshooting

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The Task Manager built into Windows is the utility many of us use to find and eliminate active applications on our PCs, especially when things go wrong and we need to close a program. But there are a number of instances where Task Manager just doesn’t provide you with the information you need to find [...]

How to Fix Activation Error 0xC004F074 in Windows 8?

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After the release of Windows 8, more users are switching to the new OS. One of the early reported problems is the issues related to activation error 0xC004F074. After installing, you are supposed to activate windows. But some users have reported an error code 0xC004F074 during the time of activation. This error code appears only [...]

How to Use Task Manager to Find the Source Slowing Down a Computer?

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If you own a computer or have been using it for some time, you might have gone through this at some point. Computer seems to be working slow, atleast not performing to the extent that it used to do before. There are number of reasons why a computer might slow down. To name a few [...]

Recover Webpage – How to Fix Internet Explorer Freezing up?

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Internet explorer is not my favorite browser and it will never ever be in the near future, unless Microsoft does something to improve its performance compared to Chrome and Firefox. However, being a webmaster of this site I need to constantly check my website in different browsers to make sure it is optimized for readers [...]

How to edit host file in XP/Vista/Windows 7?

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Host file is a file inside windows operating system which is used for mapping host names to ipaddress. Editing host file is done rarely, unless you have an issue with the host file. Malware programs often attack host file to make the web browsers redirect to malicious websites or ipaddress. In such cases, it becomes [...]

How to Fix Any Problems Related to Login to Secure Website?

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At least some of you might have faced problems with not able to login to a secure website. What I mean by secure websites is those websites which require you to enter a username and password. Usually when this happens, you will be able to browse any website without problem except when it comes to [...]

Explorer.exe process keeps crashing without warning

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Recently I noticed that my explorer.exe keeps crashing down as soon as I open a specific folder inside my external drive. A google search revealed that there are lot of similar issues reported by many on the internet. For some users, explorer.exe crashes when they try to open a certain drive, folder or file, and [...]

DNS Server Not Responding Error – How to Fix it

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I was just about to post an article on a different topic, but then I noticed that for some reasons, some websites were not opening up. There were no error messages and the web page comes with an option to click on diagnostic tools to find the cause. I confirmed that my internet connection is [...]

Reset password using Password Reset Disk

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What is windows password reset disk? It’s a simple tool which allows you to reset the password of your administrator user account.There are lot of scenarios where in the password reset disk will come in handy.At my work place, all the trainer’s share a common computer for taking presentations. Having a password reset disk is [...]
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