When you install a certain software or game it normally installs them to the default location of installed programs which is C:\Program Files. Most application installer gives you the option to change the location where you will place the software, but some applications don’t give you the luxury to do that. You may want to [...]

MyMP3.vbs is a worm that spreads itself through USB devices. This worm usually infects Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003 machines. So I guess Vista machines are safe from this infection. This virus creates a folder icon named MyMP3.vbs. This worm sets itself to your autorun files so that it can spread easily. [...]

One of my regular blog reader ask for some advice on how can he remove huelar virus. He said that the only way he knows to remove that pesky virus is to reformat the PC. He ask  if there is any possible and alternative way on removing this virus without the need to reformat the [...]

One of the inconveniences that XP brings is it sometimes takes a lifetime before it fully shuts down. You may be wondering why I still post topics on XP, it is because there are still a lot of people that are still using XP on their computers, and I guess some of them are experiencing [...]

A friend of mine brought his computer to my repair shop. His problem was his computer was continuously rebooting after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3. The computer will start to reboot then give a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death)  Stop Error for a second and reboot again. Booting normally  is impossible unless you do [...]

Are you the type of person that don’t use the applications located on the system tray? Some people never use the applications hanging on their system tray but most people like me use it a lot. I don’t want applications to clutter my taskbar so I let them resides on my system tray. But if [...]

One of my reader just emailed me and he wants to remove the virus from his computer manually but his problem was he cannot open his registry editor it say’s that “Registry Editing Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator”. This type of problem usually also happens to me when I am working on a virus, [...]

This Internet trojan spreads via email as an attachment (NAVIDAD.EXE). This worm also displays a message box upon execution and maps the opening of Windows executables so that it is executed instead of the executable that is called. This causes most Windows programs to not work. Ways to remove the Navidad Trojan The easiest way [...]

Do you always use your mouse to launch a favorite program or accessing other programs functions? are you tired of doing it all the time? With the help of your keyboard, you can reduce a series of mouse clicks to a single keyboard shortcut, and – if you own a Microsoft keyboard – you’ll also [...]

Last night when I was about to format a client’s PC I came across a situation wherein I needed to access the PC to recover valuable data, but the problem is I don’t have the administrator password to access the hard drive and my client also forgot his password. Another problem is I will not be able to change his password because his PC has only one administrator account so I have to rely on other methods. The options that I’ve think of is to put my client hard drive to another PC as a slave or install a second copy of the operating system. But hey there must be a much more easy and faster way to regain access.