Windows 7 is Microsoft’s most stable and reliable version of their desktop operating system yet, but it’s still such a complex piece of software that when something does go wrong it can be extremely difficult to diagnose and repair the problem. As the author of “Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out” from Microsoft Press one of [...]

Categories: Tutorials Advanced

For a while now I received an error message whenever I tried to run the file deletion software Eraser. Eraser, which I reviewed in 2005 for the first time here on Ghacks (see Securely Delete Files), can delete files so that they are not recoverable anymore on the system. When you delete files regularly in [...]

Categories: troubleshooting, Windows

I just wanted to test the Light Explorer plugin for the notepad replacement Notepad++ on Windows. The plugin itself adds a folder browser sidebar to the Notepad++ interface which can speed up the opening of documents in the program significantly. I previously was using Windows Explorer to open new text documents in Notepad++ because if [...]

Categories: troubleshooting

For the last days I have been receiving lags and issues both in the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client. With Thunderbird I’m experiencing lags where the window is not responding for some time. I just have to wait and the window becomes accessible again. With Firefox it is another issue. The browser [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox, Windows

I’m really delighted to be able to announce that this morning five of my Windows 7 troubleshooting tutorial videos went live on the official Microsoft support website at support.microsoft.com.  The videos, which are about three minutes each cover the subjects Using the Automated Troubleshooters, Repairing Corrupt Boot Files, Using the System File Checker, Using the [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Tutorials Basic

One of the quality producers of Windows software is Nir Sofer, who has produced more than one hundred different portable applications for the Windows operating system. Generally speaking, all Nirsoft applications are high quality programs that are highly popular and used by many Windows users. Their portable nature makes them excellent for putting them on [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A issue has been confirmed recently by Microsoft that is impacting users of the Windows 7 client operating system and users of the Windows Server 2008 R2 server operating systems even with the latest service pack releases installed. Some customers running those operating system versions have reported that their systems stop responding randomly. Microsoft has [...]

Categories: troubleshooting, Windows

Microsoft has just released a fix for a networking issue that Windows 7 users may experience. Windows 7 users, under specific circumstances, may be unable to click on the location associated with their network connection. The link that is usually clickable is not functional in this case. The issue is caused selecting the checkbox to [...]

Categories: troubleshooting, Windows

I’m delighted to be able to announce that I’ve got some more free webcasts coming up, with the first one this Thursday, 4th August, on Securing your files and data in Windows. The webcasts are all on the theme “Windows 7 Troubleshooting” and will include Securing Windows 7 and Internet Explorer, Troubleshooting Windows Update and [...]

Categories: Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic