When you install a program in Windows, the program’s .msi setup package gets copied to the Installer folder. The Installer folder is a protected folder, with System & Hidden attributes, and is found under your Windows folder.
The Installer directory is meant to be a cache location for installer data files for various applications installed on the computer.Read more
When you right-click on a file, select “Open with”, click “choose another app” and select a program using the Browse dialog, the program may fail to appear in the “Open With” dialog.
It may appear as if nothing happened after you selected the program in the browse dialog — i.e., the Open with dialog simply ignores your selection. This is a bug that exists since the Windows XP era (at least) and remains in Windows 10 as well. This article shows how to fix the Open with problem.Read more
When you try to upload a video on Twitter, error “Your media file could not be processed” may be displayed during the processing stage. Twitter lists out the specifications for media files on their support site. If your media file doesn’t fit into their technical specifications, the error appears.
This post tells you how to resolve the problem.Read more
In Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, some users see the message “Managed by your organization” when they click the “More” menu.
The message indicates that the browser (Microsoft Edge or Chrome) is being managed. If a user clicks on the “Managed by your organization” link, they are directed to chrome://management/ which contains details about Chrome Browser management on Chrome browser, or the edge://management page on Microsoft Edge.
This message is also seen on the Chrome/Microsoft Edge (chromium) Settings page.
Clicking on the “Managed by your organization” link opens the edge://management page, which displays the following message:
Microsoft Edge is managed by your organization If you use Microsoft Edge at school or work, it might be managed, or set up and maintained, by your organization. Your organization can set up or restrict certain features, install and block extensions, monitor activity, and control how you use it. If Microsoft Edge is managed, you can view the policies that are set by your organization on the edge://policy page.
This post tells you how to remove the Managed by your organization notice and also explains how to remove the Microsoft Edge or Chrome policies that cause the notice to be shown.Read more
Chrome 69 includes some new features and enhancements, including the Material Design Refresh user interface. It sports a rounded UI (rounded tabs with a blue background). If you’re not fond of the new rounded design, here is how to restore the appearance of Google Chrome to “Normal” user interface.Read more
Sometimes, the Taskbar volume control icon in Windows may not respond to the mouse click. The slider doesn’t appear when you click on the speaker icon, and nothing happens when you right-click on it. The audio may still work in all applications, but only the controls don’t open. Due to this, users have to open sndvol.exe from the Run dialog to open the Volume Mixer and control the sounds.
This post explains how to fix the volume control (speaker) icon in Windows 10 and Windows 11.Read more
When you use the Media Creation Tool to create a bootable USB Windows 10 setup disk, error 0x80004005 – 0xA001A occurs during the process. Precisely, the error happens after the ISO download is complete, and during the ‘creating media’ stage when it nears 50%. Here is the full error message: There was a problem running this … Read more
Many users of Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail (part of Windows Live Essentials) used to backup individual emails and save them as .EML files. Since Windows Live Mail has been discontinued, users are forced to use third-party mailers or even buy Microsoft’s own produce, Microsoft Outlook. However, the preview pane in File Explorer shows “No preview available” when a .EML file is selected.
This article tells you how to preview .EML files in File Explorer Preview pane, in Windows 7 through Windows 10.Read more
Every once in a while you may have definitely encountered a problem where one particular application uses 100% disk usage (or CPU, or memory usage). Many users reported “high disk usage” problem on their systems when Google Chrome is launched. Chrome may totally stall your system showing the status “waiting for cache”.
This post tells you how to fix the Google Chrome 100% disk usage problem in Windows.Read more
Malwarebytes Premium (3.3.1) users are reporting a problem where the program uses an enormous amount of memory and usage goes on increasing even up to 20GB or more. I believe the Malwarebytes support/development team is looking into the memory leak issue and here is a huge thread on the Malwarebytes forums (RAM usage – what is going on?) where many users have posted their concerns.Read more
