Welcome to Winhelponline.com
This site contains troubleshooting advice, fixes, scripts, and freeware utilities to resolve problems in Windows XP and Vista Operating Systems.
I hope that the resources available in this site should help you learn, diagnose and troubleshoot the common problems you face in Windows.
Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan
Microsoft MVP, Windows Desktop Experience
Recent Blogs
How to Grab the Title and URL of All Open Tabs in Internet Explorer?
My previous post explained how to use the Internet Options dialog to copy the web addresses of current tabs in Internet Explorer. Wouldn’t it b...
How to Copy the Web Addresses (URL) of All Open Tabs in Internet Explorer?
When researching about a topic in the internet, one might easily end up opening a couple a dozen of web sites in separate tabs. What would you do if ...
How to Increase Windows 7 Desktop Slideshow Transition Animation Duration
The Desktop Slideshow options lets you configure the picture position, picture change interval and turn on or off the shuffle option. Here is another...
Windows Live Photo Gallery Error 0×80010108 Preventing Photo From Being Displayed
When trying to view an image file via the link in Start menu Recent Items list or from the Jump List, Windows Live Photo Gallery displayed the error ...
Fix Services MMC Error ?One or More ActiveX Controls Could Not Be Displayed?
When you open the Services MMC (services.msc), the following errors appear, and the list of services may or may not display after dismissing the erro...
Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Offline Virus Scanner
Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper, a tool which was only available as part of Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (MSDaRT) is now available ...
How to Fix Broken .ISO and .IMG File Associations in Windows 7
If your .ISO and .IMG files are showing up as unknown files, you can reset their file type associations using Default Programs. Windows 7 includes th...
How to Find Which Application Is Making Sounds in the Background?
Every now and then my PC located in the bedroom emanated a sound at random intervals, probably caused by an application playing a short media file. A...
How to Open Pinned Site Shortcuts Using Your Default Browser (Registry Hacks)
With the Pinned Sites feature introduced in Internet Explorer 9, you can add your favorite websites to the Taskbar and/or the Start menu. We’ve...
Fix Windows 7 Backup and Restore Not Launching After Uninstalling Acronis True Image
Recently one of our readers faced a problem with Windows 7 Backup and Restore after installing and then uninstalling Acronis True Image. When the use...
Recent Articles
Customize the drive letter display in Windows Vista
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- February 18, 2008
- Customize
Using the utility discussed in this page, you can change how the drive-letters are shown in Computer.
Utility to clear recently used email addresses in Windows Mail
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- February 15, 2008
- Windows Mail
In article 245 we saw how to manually delete the email auto-complete entries in Windows Mail. Here is an utility to automate the same.
How to uninstall a Visualization from Windows Media Player
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- February 11, 2008
- General
This article explains how to uninstall a Windows Media Player Visualization manually, in case the standard removal procedures do not work.
Configure Internet Explorer to open linked Office files in their respective applications
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- February 5, 2008
- Internet Explorer 7 , Customize , General
Windows XP had an option to configure Internet Explorer to open Office documents in the appropriate Office program instead of in Internet Explorer. As the option (File Types tab) is missing in Windows Vista, can anyone aid in a solution other than saving the file upon download?
How to rename the Recycle Bin in Windows XP
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- December 13, 2007
- Customize
This article tells you how to rename the Recycle Bin in Windows XP.
Fix Recycle Bin Icon Does Not Refresh Automatically in Windows 7 and Windows Vista
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- December 12, 2007
- Windows 7 , Windows Vista
The Recycle Bin icon in Windows 7/Vista may not change to show whether or not it is full or empty. It may be either stuck on the empty icon or the full icon, but the Recycle Bin icon updates correctly when you press the F5 button on the keyboard to refresh the Desktop manually.
"Error 2" when starting the Windows Firewall service
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- December 6, 2007
- Error messages
When you try to start the Windows Firewall service in a Windows XP Service Pack 2 computer, the following error may occur:
Adding and removing ShellNew entries in Windows Vista
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- November 22, 2007
- Windows Vista
The Templates section of TweakUI PowerToy for Windows XP helps you create or delete document templates (shown under the New menu.) This article tells you how to manage document templates using TweakUI PowerToy for Windows XP, under Windows Vista.
Copy command-line output directly to the Clipboard using Clip.exe
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- November 21, 2007
- Windows Vista
This article explains how to redirect the output of command line tools to the Windows Vista Clipboard.
How to disable QuickTime MIME support for mp3 file type?
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- November 13, 2007
- General
In Windows Explorer .mp3 associates with Windows Media Player. In Media Player it shows that it will handle .mp3 files. QuickTime Player shows that it does not handle mp3 files. But when I click a link to an .mp3 file in Internet Explorer it plays the file using QuickTime, instead of launching Windows Media Player. What can I do to fix this?
