Greg sent me an email earlier today - “Why is my computer so slow even though it’s brand new?”. A couple of email exchanges between us fixed his problem. If you are curious to know what problem his computer faced, it’s mentioned at the end of this post.
By the way, if you are reading this [...]
Do you have a situation where you can no longer uninstall a software due to either a problem with the Windows registry or corrupt software installation? Also, you might come across a situation when you want to reinstall or upgrade your existing software to the latest version but since the older version is not behaving [...]
Did you recently uninstall any program that you thought was a spyware and lost your system’s network settings? Is your registry corrupt and you can no longer connect to any network resources? Are you able to connect to the network but find it timing out and sometimes ridiculously slow for no apparent reason? WinSock XP [...]
Have you lost Microsoft Office product key or the keys of other Microsoft products such as Windows XP, Exchange server and SQL server? Or, did you just buy a new system without an OS and trying to use the product key of your existing Windows OS but you don’t remember where did you store the [...]
This small utility will be of a special help to those of us whose ISPs have locked their Internet connection to the MAC address of the network adapter of their primary computer. This prevents them from using the same Internet connection on their laptops or other systems. Occasionally, when your friend arrive at home with [...]
Tired of looking at those annoying Notification Area Balloon Tips all the time? To disable those notifications, follow the simple registry change and you will not see those ever again.
[Before you make any changes to your registry, take a backup]
1. Click Start->Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2. Navigate to the following subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3. [...]
Regmon is a Registry monitoring utility that monitors the registry in real-time. It shows you the applications that are accessing your Registry, the registry values and keys being modified.
Using Regmon
There is no installation required to run this tool. [Download] and copy all the files in a directory and run the Regmon.exe file. Using the [...]