Archive for February, 2008
Serious Disk Cleanup problem caused by broken registration
Q: I have a 160GB Western Digital Hard Drive partitioned into a 40GB Operating System partition and the other 120GB for my files. However, when I run Disk Cleanup utility from within Vista Ultimate, it shows multiple 131GB options for me to clean up. After I clicked OK to cleanup the selected entries, it erased everything [...]
29Feb2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 18 comments | ContinuedHow to remove Nokia Phone Browser icon from My Computer
Q: I have the latest version of Nokia PC Suite installed, and have been trying to remove the Nokia Phone Browser icon from My Computer. So far have been unsuccessful. Do you know how to remove the icon? I’m using Windows XP SP2.
27Feb2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 0 comments | ContinuedSearching multiple file types in Windows Vista
Q: In Windows 2000 and Windows XP you could fill *.doc and *.cpp separated by a semi-colon (;) into the search field and both file types would be found. This does not seem to work in Windows Vista. It simply does not find anything when both types are applied. How do I search for multiple file [...]
27Feb2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 0 comments | ContinuedHow to convert audio files to another format
Q: How can I convert .wma or .wav files into .mp3 format?
A: Converting audio file formats is not possible natively in Windows, but there are some good third-party tools to do the task. One such software is Switch, a sound file converter for Windows or Mac. It can convert audio files from many different file formats [...]
How to remove an unwanted service
Have you come across a situation where uninstalling a software leaves back its Service or Driver references in the registry, and Windows tries to load them at every boot and fails? Here is how to remove an orphaned or unwanted service or driver from your system.
22Feb2008 | Ramesh Srinivasan | 0 comments | ContinuedPrint search results in Windows Vista
Although Windows Vista search is excellent, there is one option missing in the GUI, which is to export the search results to a file. In Windows XP, we used the SysExporter tool to grab the search results and transfer it a file.
No worries though…
Automation error when starting the OpenWithAdd utility
It appears that some users were experiencing 8007007e when opening the OpenWithAdd utility. Here are the error details:
Run-time error ‘-2147024770 (8007007e)’
Automation error
The specified module could not be found.
OpenWithAdd uses scripting runtimes, and the error 8007007e occurs if the runtimes are not registered in your system. Use the following steps to register the scripting libraries in your [...]
