Troubleshooting

How to Turn On or Turn Off Windows Firewall

How to Turn On or Turn Off Windows Firewall

Windows Firewall is a built-in protection tool that safeguards inbound and outbound traffic on a network. Depending on computer’s configuration, Windows Firewall may block or let pass any information. Firewall is very essential to prevent malicious software, Trojans and viruses from gaining access to your system whether the request originates from local network or the Internet. Preventing hacker’s attack from stealing sensitive data from your computer is also feasible with the proper implementation of Windows Firewall. It stops the system from sending confidential data and other sensitive information to a remote computer. More

Internet Access Blocked By Virus – Fix

Internet Access Blocked By Virus – Fix

Viruses, so as malware intentionally blocks infected computer’s Internet access. The main reason is to avoid downloads of any security programs needed to disinfect the system. Blocking Internet access also prevents updating of installed security software. Outdated antivirus programs may overlook new malware threats. Thus, updating database gives security product new signature files to identify recent threats. More

Restore Windows XP to an Earlier Date

Restore Windows XP to an Earlier Date

A built-in Windows tool called System Restore can bring back computer to its previous state. If the system is not functioning correctly or some files were infected, it can be replaced with the undamaged one provided that Windows XP System Restore is enabled and a restore point was created. Please take note that System Restore will not be able to bring back personal files like documents, images, photos and videos. This tool is intended for Windows system files and configuration only. More

Solving “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site” Error

Solving “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site” Error

You may encounter an error “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site  - Operation aborted” when trying to open a website that is running a Google API script or a Java Script. This may occur on lower versions of Internet Explorer and to the newly updated ones. This may be a server side or client side issue. So we are attaching here various solutions to solve “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site.”

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How to Remove Programs or Virus from Windows Start-up

Windows start-up is a primary target of Trojan, virus, spyware and malware to load themselves during boot-up. So it is important for us to know how to remove unwanted executable and programs from Windows start-up. There are various possible ways to load a program and run them automatically and here are some of them: More

Oops! This link appears to be broken. Google Chrome Fix

Oops! This link appears to be broken. Google Chrome Fix

Oops! This link appears to be broken.” is a Google Chrome DNS Error problem page. This error is cause by DNS pre-fetching features of Google Chrome. This feature was added in order to improve browsing performance and page load speed. However, it may experience an error when there is a difficulty for Google Chrome to fetch DNS records of requested web sites. More

Windows 7 System Recovery Options Usage

Windows 7 System Recovery Options Usage

Windows 7 System Recovery is a small program that allows you to execute different tasks. This program is a valuable piece of tool necessary in fixing Windows problems caused by virus infection, software malfunction or damaged driver files. Other non-troubleshooting task includes resizing of hard drive partitions, disc scanning and maintenance. With the graphical user interface on load, you can run programs such as notepad, registry editor and portable antivirus applications. More