System restore will mostly fail if you have Norton Security or Antivirus products installed on your computer because of one of it’s settings. Open up your settings in Norton and disable “Auto Protect” or “Product Tamper Protection” before restoring your system. Remember to switch it back on once your computer is restored.

I use LiveZilla chat client for my live online support. There are a lot of people wondering how to put there online/offline picture into their email signature so that it changes live as you go online or offline. I was determined to work out a way to put my buttons into my email, and it [...]

Add a Wireless Repeater/Access Point to extend the range of your wireless network. Of course, extending the wireless network without wires is “desirable” but this effectively cuts your bandwidth in half – whenever possible use a cable, which is dramatically faster and more secure!NOTE: The Repeater/Access Point should be the same manufacturer as your Router. [...]

Disable Changing Wallpaper is probably activated. This system policy, having also the range of Current User, prohibits from Desktop wallpaper changing. Like previous policy, it is related to the policies for “Active Desktop” management and works in Windows 98, ME, 200 and XP. “Disable Changing Wallpaper” can be applied in Windows 95 and NT, when [...]

This is caused by a problem in your registry that identifies your default web browser. FOR VISTA: Go to start>run type regedit click ok Now you need to navigate to the following key from left pane HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxURL\shell\open\ddeexec Double click on the Default REG_SZ registry value from right hand side, which should have a value of [...]

It is common with Vista when you check your event viewer that your “Offline File” service start’s and then crashes when you first start your computer. To fix this do the following:- Use your system regedit and create a DWORD registry value with a value of 1 and restart the system HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters\FormatDatabase If the key [...]

Net Framework can cause all sorts of problems in Vista. If you are having problems try the below instructions. Don’t use the Windows clean up tool. First we will run Vista’s built in System File Checker. We need to use what is called an “Elevated Command Prompt”. To open an elevated command prompt click on [...]

Installing intel driver updates can be a bit of a pain in the ar$%. Follow these instructions and you shouldn’t have much problem. Download the Intel chipset driver, and save it in your “C:” drive, not under any folder, just “C:” Click on the “Start” button in Windows, then click on “Run…” Type this into [...]

To completely remove Norton do the following:- Uninstall the program Go to the system registry and remove H Key local machine/software/symantec and delete the symantec folder. In the same registry delete SYM NRT folder. Then on C Drive, program files, common files delete the symantec shared folder. Reboot your system and run a registry cleaner [...]

If you are anything like me you are often forgetting to attach the actual attachment to outlook that you are sending to someone. To have MS Outlook remind you if you forgot to add an attachment is actually very simple. This works with version of outlook that have a macro option. This script works by [...]