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Quick Fixes For Common Windows Errors

regerror Computer errors may occur on Windows computers due to many different reasons. For example, error 0x80072ee2 occurs when your system faces problems while performing Windows update and spoolsv.exe error occurs due to problems encountered during printing. At times, problems such as svchost.exe Vista process showing high CPU may not generate an error message, but will still affect you by dramatically slowing down the system.

All these errors and problems occur due to different reasons and prevent you from working normally. This is the reason why it is essential that you take the proper measures to perform preventive PC maintenance and fix several computer errors.

Update your Software

Many Windows errors occur if your operating system and other software is not updated. Many security threats are built around vulnerabilities in various software products that may be installed on your computer. So, if you fail to update your software, you open up your PC to these threats. What’s more, you may miss out on many enhancements that manufacturers may include in these updates to improve the performance of their product. Therefore, make it a practice to update your software on a regular basis.

Detect and Remove Malware

If you are suddenly bombarded with errors, it may indicate a virus infection. In this case, it is recommended that you update your antivirus tool and then perform a thorough full system scan to detect and remove the infection. If an error message is displayed, you may search for a solution on the Internet. If you are lucky, you may be able to locate a tool to help you remove the specific virus with which your computer is infected.

If your desktop is bombarded with unwanted pop up ads, you Internet Explorer pages are hijacked, and your system suddenly deteriorates in performance, it may indicate a spyware infection. To remove a spyware, you need an antispyware tool. Update the tool and perform a full system scan to get rid of all spyware.

Clean your Registry

The Windows registry is a centralized, hierarchal database in which all system configuration and system settings related information is stored. So, whenever you work on your computer the registry is continually referred and updated. Because it is constantly working, the registry becomes quite prone to several problems pertaining to outdated, redundant, invalid, and malicious entries that may accumulate in it overtime. This unwanted data, causes the registry to grow to a very large size and become unstable. A large, unstable registry database can easily get damaged and generate errors. To prevent this problem, you must regularly scan and clean your registry. To do this, you may use a good, third-party registry cleaner tool. In addition to cleaning your registry, a good registry tool will also help you:

  • Get rid of unwanted entries to prevent registry from bloating up.
  • Compress your registry by defragging and reindexing files and thus improve the data access speed.
  • Remove malware entries to ensure complete removal of virus and spyware.
  • Fix specific computer errors, such as DLL errors, ActiveX errors, and COM/DCOM errors.
  • Backup the registry database that you can use in case of system crashes to restore the registry.

Software : Freeware Backup / Folder Sync Tool

Working on project and worrying about what backup software to use? As a developer I often worry about my backup source other than SVN, how accurate is my daily backup, is it done hourly, daily etc?

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For me, I would prefer a folder sync software to a remote destination. Much like the rsync command of the linux/unix platform. Basically a sync does is that it compares the target and destination folders – analysing the files modified and the copy over if needed be.

DownloadsSync is much a lighter process when compared to a routine full backup plus compression. Normally, if you are developer like me – project source codes don’t take much of a space so, syncing folders a indeed useful. A good software to get for this matter will be SyncBack Freeware Edition.

This freeware works like charm and dandy in all windows platform managing folder sync routine.

What we need next is also to set up a NAS (network accessed storage) is the best and affordable solution for a small IT setup or some can manage it at home with a simple network setup.

We just need to sync folders with the NAS with a followings settings

  1. Source and destination folder
  2. Start time per daily basis – I set it to 7.00 am every morning
  3. Run Background Profile every 1 minute – every minute it checks two folders and perform sync only when there’s changes.

That’s it a free and simple settings to backup and your backup copies can be as accurate as 1 minute interval. Good Stuff :)

Software : Tools for ISO and Image Mounting

virtualclonedrive Presenting "Virtual Clone Drive". Yet another post on handy Vista, XP friendly software which allows you to mount an ISO file to a virtual drive excluding malware, rootkit stuff and adwares. Yup, just plain simple freeware that does that.

This tool will be useful for those that like to create images of the DVD/CD and stored them as ISO files (backup purposes). These ISO files are made by software like imgburn / nero burning rom and etc. Originally, ISO files are made to be used as source disk reference for DVD/CD burning software.

With Virtual Clone Drive installed all your ISO files will be somewhat executable, simply double click on em, and the software will then mount a virtual drive that emulate exactly like the original DVD. Quite useful for those whom prefer simple drive mounting to checkout contents in ISO files.

Virtual Clone drive is available free for download here.

Flash ActionScript IDE : Dark Themed

Over the weekend, I was trying to redesign my Flash Actionscript IDE to look dark…looks like I’m addicted with Dark Themes now, my eye pupils are more relaxed on the new colors settings.  For those whom are using big CRT can consider this; what I heard was using darker themes tend to save energy and produce lesser heat. Anyway, take a look at my cool actionscript IDE now.

Here are my settings but, it does that few hours for your eyes to get accustomed with the sudden switch of light to dark theme. Is just like driving in heavy rain using sun glasses. Then again, you can always revert to default settings if you don’t like it.

Settings

Font Used (Windows) : Consolas
Font Size : 11 
Foreground : #FFFFFF
Background : #333333
Identifiers : #0066CC
Keywords : #FF3399
Comments : #808080
Strings : #99CC00

Surviving Microsoft Windows Vista SP1

Yeah, a biggy and vague topic. Those of you who wondered into my site probably read a lot of forums and technical blogs each stating their own style of installing Microsoft Windows Vista.

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About a few months ago, I was trying to upgrade my Pentium 4 to Windows Vista SP1, but encounter tonnes of blue screen problem to system hangs on boot up. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE!

Then, I reformatted and stopped the SP1 from auto updating until I resolved this issue. Later, this month – I decided to get a new set with better hardware and hopefully having less trouble in installing to Vista. Prior to that I’ve done some research here and there.

I listed out some of the important pointers one should take before considering about installing Vista on your test machine.

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