On a customer’s computer, the following error appeared when the user tried to open links in email messages using Outlook 2007: “This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator”. The user was already the administrator of his computer and the above error occurred after the installation of […]
SmartScreen filter in Internet Explorer 8 and above versions is a security feature that helps you stay protected from malicious sites and software that can harm your PC. In fact, SmartScreen filter checks the websites you visit or the software you download on your computer for malicious code.
Windows 8 (or 8.1) SmartScreen is a Windows feature that helps you stay protected from malicious sites and software that can harm your PC. SmartScreen checks the web content you access or the software you try to to install on your computer and if it finds it unsafe,
System Restore is a Windows feature that helps you restore your system files and settings to a previous working state. This feature is useful because it can help Windows users to resolve Windows problems after a corrupted program installation or after a malware program.
If you 're preparing to reinstall Windows, then you need the Windows product key for installation and activation. In Windows 7, Vista or XP computers the Windows product key is commonly found on computer's case but in Windows Windows 10 and Windows 8 systems the Windows product key is embedded in BIOS.
Nowadays many manufacturers don’t include a copy of Windows 8 or Windows 8.1. OS installation DVD with their systems, so it’s impossible to perform a clean install or troubleshoot your computer if you want to. Microsoft on the other hand doesn’t offer a download of Windows 8 in an ISO file,
Nowadays many computer manufacturers don’t include an optical media (disk) reader on their products (especially on Laptops) so if you want to perform a clean installation of Windows 8 or to troubleshoot your computer problems, you must have in hands a Windows 8 (or 8.1) USB bootable disk.
In some cases, you want to take backups of your optical disks in your local drive in order to access and use them as accessing and using your physical CD/DVD drive. In this tutorial you can find simple instructions on how to store your DVD, CD, DVD, HD-DVD or Blu-ray contents to an ISO image archive for backup, […]
In some cases, the user profile becomes corrupted for several reasons like a hardware problem (e.g. bad memory or Hard drive), malware infection, a force shutdown, etc. In that case, Windows cannot load your user profile and you receive the following message during Windows log on “The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile […]
Last week, one of our customers brought to our service an old IBM ThinkPad T41 laptop, that won’t start (turn on). As the customer said, the above problem occurred with no obvious reason (e.g. after drop, liquid throw, etc.). In such cases, the problem usually is a power supply issue