Are you’re receiving the following error message or similar when playing a audio or video file in your Groove app, Windows Media Player or the Movies & TV app in Windows 10? Can’t play. Another app is controlling your sound at the moment. To listen here, close that app and try again. Error 0xc101009b (0xc00d4e85)
When you attempt to create a new Restore Point, the error 0x80042308 may pop up and the restore point isn’t created: The restore point could not be created for the following reason: The specified object could not be found. (0x80042308) Please try again. Also, the same error code appears when you create a backup using … Read more
Managing startup entries was possible using the System Configuration Utility (msconfig.exe), in Windows 7 and earlier. This functionality is now provided by the Task Manager in Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows 11, which features a new “Startup” tab that lists all auto-start entries in the system.
When you log in to your computer, the following error or a similar one may appear every time.
In any version of Windows, the PrintScreen key captures the screen to the clipboard, which can then be pasted in Paint or any image editor and saved to a file. However, Windows 8 and Windows 10 save you that additional step, making it very easy to capture your screen and saving to a file in … Read more
When you log in to your computer, an error message window with RunDll in the title may appear, mentioning a DLL file name such as the following:
FileTypeDiag is a useful tool that exports the complete file association information of a specified file type to a log file. Check out FileTypeDiag from pretentiousname.com, the same site which released a popular fix for the Adobe PDF thumbnails issue.
When you run a Windows script using wscript.exe or cscript.exe, error Windows Script Host access is disabled on this machine may pop-up. However, in systems affected by malware, the error appears at regular intervals, without any script invocation by the user. So the key questions are:
Does Explorer crash and restart when you open a folder window or right-click a file or folder? This post tells you how to troubleshoot Explorer crashes which sometimes seriously affect our workflow.
When a scheduled task gets corrupt, errors such as The selected task <taskname> no longer exists or The selected task “{0}” no longer exists may show up every time the Task Scheduler is launched. Here is the full error message verbatim.
