Repair Windows XP Online Using Microsoft ATS

Posted January 29, 2010 – 9:38 pm in: Vista Troubleshooting

Good news for Windows XP and Vista users! You can now fix most of XP/Vista errors online without the help of third-party tools. Unlike Windows 7, XP and Vista operating systems don’t come with Windows troubleshooting tools by default. Windows 7 comes with over 20 troubleshooting tools that help you fix most of Windows errors [...]

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Fix Windows Update Error Automatically With Fix It Tool

Posted June 8, 2009 – 7:07 pm in: Vista Troubleshooting

Want to fix Windows update error instantly? Yes, you can do it. Fixing Windows Update error is a piece of cake now! We come across various Windows Update errors that eat up our precious computing time. Microsoft Fixit team has been doing a great job by creating several tiny error fixing tools for Windows. Here [...]

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How To Solve Wide Context Menu Problem In Vista & 7?

Posted December 2, 2008 – 4:50 pm in: Vista Troubleshooting, Vista Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows 7 Guides, XP Tweaks

[ad#ad-1] One more post on WinRAR context menu problem. Last week, I blogged about “Add Missing WinRAR Entry In The Right-Click Context Menu” upon request from a reader. In this post, once again, I will be focusing on the WinRAR context menu problem. The problem can be seen in the below image where the context [...]

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How To Take Ownership Of A File In Vista?

Posted November 28, 2008 – 10:46 am in: Vista Troubleshooting, Vista Tweaks

[ad#ad-1] As many of you know, we need to take the ownership of system file that you want to alter by any means. You need to have the ownership to do even simple operations like Renaming and Replacing in vista. First download “Take Ownership” file from here. Double click on the file to add the [...]

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Add Missing WinRAR Entry In The Right-Click Context Menu

Posted November 20, 2008 – 7:37 am in: Vista Troubleshooting, Vista Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows 7 Guides, XP Tweaks

[ad#ad-1] Once again, I am writing this post upon request from one of readers. Sometimes WinRAR entry in the right-click context menu disappears even if you have installed WinRAR without any problem. This is really annoying as you need to open WinRAR program from Start menu entry to extract any RAR file. The solution is [...]

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How To Enable/Disable Animation In Vista/Windows 7 Dialog Boxes?

Posted November 19, 2008 – 6:50 am in: Vista Troubleshooting, Vista Tweaks, Windows 7, Windows 7 Guides

[ad#ad-1] I’m writing this guide upon request from one of our readers. Reader was not getting the animations in the copy and move dialog boxes of Vista. If you are not aware, this feature was introduced with Vista and continued in Windows 7 as well. Windows shows animation when the data is being copied/moved/deleted. Though [...]

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How To Speedup Windows XP & Vista Boot

Posted August 26, 2008 – 7:00 am in: Vista Troubleshooting, Vista Tweaks, XP Tweaks

This is a must read guide for all Windows XP and Vista users. Though there are thousands of articles available on speeding up Vista and XP boot time, what sets this guide apart from the crowd is that this is specially written by IntoWindows! This guide will show you how to lower the Windows boot [...]

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Enable/Disable Search Option In Start Menu Of Vista SP1

Posted August 18, 2008 – 2:59 pm in: Registry tweaks, Vista Troubleshooting, Vista Tweaks

As you know, there is no “Search” Option in the Start Menu of Windows Vista SP1. If you want to restore this search option, follow these easy steps.To Enable Search:1.Open Windows Registry Editor by “regedit”(without quotes) in Start Menu Search box.2.Click “Continue” button for the UAC prompt.3.Navigate to the following key in the Windows Registry [...]

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Disable or Enable Details & Navigation Panes In Vista

Posted August 16, 2008 – 11:18 am in: Vista Troubleshooting, Vista Tweaks

This isn’t a big tweak or guide, just a simple must know thing for Vista users.Things look tough when you don’t know how to. Sometimes, you might love to remove the “Details Pane” from the bottom of the explorer for any reason. So, if you want to play with this details pane continue reading this [...]