Troubleshoot Windows 8 System Crash with Windows 8 Log Collector

System crashes are hard to prevent especially when it’s Windows Operating system. Worst it is even more difficult to fix them without log files. Hence most IT admins often rely on log files to detect and fix system crashes or conflicting hardware, however it becomes very cumbersome task when you got hundreds of computers on network and manually collection all log files.
What if you can have tool which can automatically collect all the log files on Windows OS, do you think will be help for you?? If you answer is yes then here is freeware tool Windows 8 Log Collector.

As the name suggests, this tool is for Microsoft’s next major operating system, i.e Windows 8. Windows 8 Log Collector is the standalone executable which lets you to collect the log files for Mini Dump , MSINFO32, host file , event logs, and Internet Explorer crash logs with just clicks.
The Windows 8 Log Collector has simple user interface with easy to understand options. Each button is named with kind of logs it will collect. You can collect individual logs or grab all logs with on click which will be placed on your desktop under folder name W8. However you must run Windows 8 Log Collector as administrator or with right click context menu option “Run as administrator”.

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How to Reset Windows 8 Setting to Factory Default

With Windows 8, its now far more easy to get your computer to previous state. You now no longer need to reinstall windows from the beginning to get the settings to factory default.  Reset Your PC option in windows 8 will help you restore the settings to the default. Caveat: You will lose all your documents and files stored in the drive you’ve installed windows 8.

• Insert the Windows 8 DVD into the drive / a bootable windows 8 USB Drive.
• Open up “ Control Panel ” from the main Mero Window.
•  Click on ” General ” and you could see the ” Reset Your PC & Start Over ” option on the right panel.
• After Clicking on the ” Get started ” button you will see the following screen.
• Click on ” Next ” and windows will bring up another screen asking whether you want to remove all the files from all the drives or you just want to remove the files in the drive windows 8 is installed. Clicking on the ” Show me the list of driver that will be affected ” option will show you the drives that would be affected during windows reset process (Applicable only when you choose  ” all drives ” option).
• Clicking on ” Only the drive where Windows is installed ” is preferable if you are concerned with the files stored in other drives.
• Now click ” Reset ” option in the window displayed. The Windows 8 reset process would start off and reboot your PC.
• The process would take a while and once this process is finished, you’ll be asked to enter the Windows 8 product key. If you are using the developer version of windows 8, you can progress by clicking the ” Skip ” button.
• Now Accept the Windows 8 License Agreement and Windows will ask you to enter the Computer Name.
• Thats it. Your Windows 8 PC will be back to new again.

If you don’t want your files to be removed and only need to have a fresh copy of windows 8 installed its better not reset windows 8. Instead go for the Refresh your PC option which will preserve all your documents while doing a reinstall of the operating system

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Optimize & Speedup Windows 7 with EnhanceMySe7en Freeware Utility

I am sure all those users who have used Windows 7 Beta or Windows 7 RC will accept the fact that performance of Windows 7 is superior to Windows Vista or XP. However a big issue with all windows operating system is performance degradation over period of time.
Here is handy freeware utility EnhanceMySe7en with which you can tweak, optimize & control many aspects of the windows 7 with maximum convenience. It has all necessary features for maintaining Windows 7 in a perfect condition.
EnhaceMySe7en has tools that take care of the registry, disk space and its defragmentation, installed software, HDD temperature and all sorts of things related to system’s health. Also there are lots of other options helping to boost your system’s performance.

Features of EnhaceMySe7en for Windows 7

1. Process Identification – Identify unrecognized software
2. Start-Up Management – Disable unnecessary software increasing performance
3. Registry Cleaner – Can easily checks your registry and repair incorrectly linked registry entries, automatically remove invalid entries
4. Disk Cleaner – Find out which files or folders engross your disk space and shown with chart
5. Registry Defragmenter – Rebuilds and re-indexs your registry to reduce application response time and registry access time
6. Disk Defragmenter – Reduces the amount of fragmentation in file systems
7. Hard Drive Monitor – Gives the current values of various hard disk parameters such as Temperature, Head Flying Height, Spin-Up Time etc.
8. System Tools, File, network and Security Tools
9. Security – EnhanceMySe7en has easy to configure security settings for managing the new security features of Windows Vista
10. Optimization – Optimize settings for maximum speed and stability
11. Customization – customize system desktop, menus, toolbar and notifications settings
12. Network – Optimize your Internet connection speed

Screenshot of EnhanceMySe7en

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View Programs & Files Loaded After Windows Boot with After Boot File Viewer

We are sure you would have noticed that machine with freshly Installed Windows boots faster than the one which has Windows running for past six months to year. The reason for this is as you start installing programs and applications many of the files are added to Windows boot process to load at startu and this is what causes the slowdown in Windows boot process.
If you can control & remove those unnecessary files and programs added to Windows startup then you can reduce the windows boot time significantly but unfortunately Windows doesn’t provide any way to let us know which programs are loaded in startup. To solve this problem here is free utility After Boot File viewer.

As the name suggest this utility lets you to view the programs that load after PC boots.  This utility can also become handy in case when you are suspicious about virus or malware infection. The utility can be run any time once your Windows is booted.

After Boot Files Viewer

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View Windows 7 Startup Program List with Startup Discoverer

Windows 7 has several ways to start applications & programs automatically commonly referred as startup locations. A tight control over startup programs can save you from viruses & malicious programs. Manually keeping check of windows 7 startup locations could be cumbersome task and many don’t know all Windows 7 startup locations.

Here is nifty app Startup Discoverer which can retrieve list of programs added into startup locations of Windows 7. You can view program list based on startup category like machine runs, user runs etc.

Startup Discoverer

The main interface has 19 categories that you can click on to get the auto start programs list for each category. Blue category label means that there are auto programs in this category, black label means empty category.
Click on Show All Runs to view full list of Startup Programs.

It is also possible to save a list as a text file and to print the a list to the default printer.
Download Startup Discoverer to get Windows 7 Startup List.

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Speedup Windows 7 Startup with My Startup Delayer

Windows exhibits typical characteristics of system slow down, slow startup and frequent crashes as the time passes after fresh installation of Windows operating system. Though Microsoft has significantly improved the booting time from Vista to Windows 7 but there is no control over the applications which adds entry to startup process list in order to auto start with every Windows boot.
This could be very frustrating, especially when you want to quickly go online for some reason and patiently waiting for your System to startup. Not any more, My Startup Delayer is here to rescue you. As the name suggests, this is small application designed to help in removing or delaying the applications which auto starts with Windows there by increasing overall Windows boot time.
My Startup Delayer has simple user interface and multiple options to adjust delay of application launch on startup as per your need. It also offers option to either delay or completely disable selected application from Windows Startup.
My Startup Delayer is portable app, so it doesn’t need any installation. Simply download and run My Startup Delayer. You will notice that when you run this app, it provides you the list of all the application currently added into Windows Startup process list.


Right clicking on any entry and you will be provided with an option to Delay, Disabled or set Normal. You can also check the current status of any exe present in startup.

The executable set as delayed will be highlighted in yellow bar.

You can also define the delay options such as seconds to wait before launching delayed executable or seconds to wait before launching every executable etc. This will help you to prevent system becoming unresponsive during startup.

Please note that if you plan to remove My Start Delayer then you must revert back all the delayed executable to normal.
You may like to check out below articles,
View Windows 7 Startup Program List
View Programs loaded after Windows Boot
Optimize and Speed Windows 7
Download My Startup Delayer
Download My Startup Delayer.

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Ultimate Windows Customizer, a must utility for Windows 7 Users

If you are the one who loves to tweak Windows, taking it from default Windows to highest customize and personalized level then the utility which we will be discussing today is must for you. Ultimate Windows Customizer, as the name suggest is the tool with which you customize most visual & hidden settings of Windows 7.
The utility comes from TheWindowsClub member Lee Whittington. You might have come across many small portable utilities which lets you to customize one or two features but Ultimate Windows Customize is way too ahead and includes tons of options for customization. For reference following are broader categories under which many tweaks and customization are provided by UWC,
Windows Explorer, Context Menu, Libraries, Logon Screen, Start Orb, Taskbar, Settings & Extras, Windows Media Player & Miscellaneous.


Considering the risk of messing up system file and registry, UWC has been designed to make system restore point and backup all the settings at the first time when you install on your system.
Also, every time you make changes or tweak settings, Ultimate Windows Customizer will create system restore points, which may come handy in event of system crash. UWC has been designed with auto update option which will notify you as soon as new updates are available.
At the moment when we tested UWC, it was throwing many errors, which means the utility still needs bit of work and not to forget the beta tag. The author of app plans to add more features & Support for Windows 8 in the next update , make sure you report bugs, if any you found over here.
Ultimate Windows Customizer supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7.
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Download Windows 7/Direct3D 11 (DirectX 11)

Microsoft has been continuously evolving DirectX to implemen latest graphics technologi features and to support wide varieties of games, Display devices. After making DirectX 10 available for windows Vista here is next version DirectX 11 with Direct3D 11 which is available for download as technical preview.
Windows 7/Direct3D 11 Technical Preview is part of DirectX SDK and contains Technical Preview of Direct2D, DirectWrite, DXGI 1.1. Good news is, it is not only available as Technical Preview but also as DirectX End-User Runtimes.
Windows 7/Direct3D 11 (DirectX 11) is supported on Windows 7 and Windows Vista only. Windows XP users cannot install DirectX 11.

Download Windows 7/Direct3D 11 (DirectX 11)

Download Windows 7/Direct3D 11 (DirectX 11) (SDK)
Download Windows 7/Direct3D 11 (DirectX 11) (Web Installer)

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Troubleshoot Windows 8 System Crash with Windows 8 Log Collector

Sistem crashes are hard to prevent especially when it’s Windows Operating system. Worst it is even more difficult to fix them without log files. Hence most IT admins often rely on log files to detect and fix system crashes or conflicting hardware, however it becomes very cumbersome task when you got hundreds of computers on network and manually collection all log files.
What if you can have tool which can automatically collect all the log files on Windows OS, do you think will be help for you?? If you answer is yes then here is freeware tool Windows 8 Log Collector.

As the name suggests, this tool is for Microsoft’s next major operating system, i.e Windows 8. Windows 8 Log Collector is the standalone executable which lets you to collect the log files for Mini Dump , MSINFO32, host file , event logs, and Internet Explorer crash logs with just clicks The windows Log Collector has simple user interface with easy to understand options. Each button is named with kind of logs it will collect. You can collect individual logs or grab all logs with on click which will be placed on your desktop under folder name W8. However you must run Windows 8 Log Collector as administrator or with right click context menu option “Run as administrator”.

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How To Remove Windows Genuine Notification

I recently again came up with the situation that Windows Genuine Notification popped up because Windows Update again installed it via Automatic Updates. It pops up while a user logs in to windows, displays a message near the system tray and keeps on reminding you in between work that the copy of windows is not genuine. It has been reported since its first release that even genuine users are getting this prompt, so Microsoft has them self release instructions for its removal. When I searched on Google about this issue, I landed up on pages which were providing many methods of its removal including those patching up existing files with their cracked versions which I would highly recommend avoiding them as they might contain malicious code and can be used to get you into more trouble.
I found out this method of removal of Windows Genuine Notification :

1. Launch Windows Task Manager.
2. End wgatray.exe process in Task Manager.
3. Restart / Reset Windows XP in Safe Mode.
4. Delete WgaTray.exe from C:\Windows\System32.
5. Delete WgaTray.exe from C:\Windows\System32\dllcache.
6. Launch RegEdit.
7. Browse to the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify
8. Delete the folder WgaLogon and all its contents
9. Reboot Windows XP.

But the latest version of the WGN tool is a little tricky to handle. It will pop up again as soon as you end it from the task manager and while it is running in the memory, you can’t delete it too.
Here is how I did it :

• Ignore Step #2 of ending wgatray.exe before restarting to Safe Mode as it serves no purpose.
• At Step #4, wait on the deletion confirmation dialog box and then open task manager to end wgatray.exe
• When you are again prompted for a confirmation for terminating the process, align that confirmation box over the delete confirmation box.
• Press Yes on the Task Manager prompt and then quickly press Yes on the deletion confirmation. (You need to repeat this if you miss it)
• If you did it quickly then you will be able to delete the file.
• Step #5 can be missed. I was able to do it without the Step #5.
• Complete Step 6 to 9 as instructed.

After you have followed all the above instructions, then

• Go to Control Panel > Security Center > Automatic Update Settings.
• Select the third option “Notify me but don’t automatically download or install them“.
• Click Ok.
• Now when Windows Updates icon will appear in the system tray (it will take some time), click on the icon and it will display a list of available updates.
• This time unselect the checkbox of Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool, and click on Download.
  
• Select “Don’t notify my about these updates again” so it will ignored every time updates are downloaded.
• From the next time, make sure to check the list of download so that you might not install any new version of this tool.

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How to Install Windows 8 from Bootable USB Flash Drive without Windows 8 DVD

Back in Windows 7 days we had cover how to install Windows 7 from USB Drive and it turned out quite popular guide amongst early Windows 7 adopters. The main reason of making bootable Windows 7USB drive is either you got laptop & PC machine without DVD drive.
Now that Windows 8 is in development and first Windows 8 build 7850 is already leaked we are back with similar guide for Windows 8. You might argue why not mount Windows 8 ISO and straight way start Windows 8 installer, well it is not possible for Windows XP Users, since direct upgarde to Windows 8 from XP is not supported.

So here is how to install Windows 8 from USB flash Drive or USB Pen drive.
Requirement

1. Windows 8 ISO
2. USB Pen drive (4 GB or above)
3. MBRWiz (Diskpart Utility only command line version is freeware)
4. MagicDisc or similar ISO mounting utility for Windows
5. Antivirus 2012 (Optional)

How to Install Windows 8 from USB Pen / Flash Drive

1. Connect USB flash drive to your PC and format.
2. In order to format go to my computer and under Devices & Removable Storage right click on USB drive and select Format option from content menu.

3. Now open command prompt from Start Menu -> Run -> cmd (or hit Win+r key for shortcut)and type following command

convert j: /fs:ntfs (Where “j” is your USB drive latter)

4. Mount Windows 8 ISO as drive with MagicDisc

5. Now Open Command prompt (Start->Run->type ”cmd”).
Use “dir” command to go to directory where you have extracted MBRWiz command line utility.
Run following commands

Mbrwiz /list (please note the disk number of USB flash drive)
Mbrwiz /disk=X /Active (X is disc number of your USB flash drive)
Exit

6. Now open another command window and type following command

K: (Drive Letter of Windows 8 ISO mounted with magicdisc)
CD boot
bootsect /nt60 Y: /mbr (Y is drive latter of your USB drive )

7. Now copy all the files from Windows 8 ISO drive to USB drive
8. Now reboot your system and press Del key to enter into BIOS screen and select USB drive as your first boot drive
9. If you have followed all of above steps properly then your Windows 8 Installation should start from Your USB drive.
That’s it complete the installation & enjoy Windows 8.

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How To Reset Windows 7 To Original Factory Settings [Complete Guide]

We all know that the next version of Microsoft Windows OS – Windows 8 will have an immensely handy option to reset Windows to original state, also referred to as, restore system to original factory settings. Many Windows 7 users feel that it’d be better if there is any tool or system recovery utility which can effortlessly revert the system running Windows 7 back to its original state (provided you have not made a recovery disk). As far as Windows 7 is concerned, there are lot of methods available online, claiming to bring back the original settings of Windows 7 with default set of pre-installed programs, application compilers, and software packages, but sadly, all the contrived methods seem tiring and require a lot of effort, leaving user with no other option than to manually reset Windows to original settings.

In this post, we will look at to what extent a Windows 7 user can bring the original settings back to achieve super fast processing speed and best system performance. The process of resetting Windows 7 back to factory settings will ensure that Windows doesn’t contain any invalid Windows registry entries, superfluous Windows shell components and right-click context menu options, files and folders which were created by Windows for processing different kind of operations, bloated Temp folders, empty folders filled with junk files, application cache files, and other libraries which got registered in Windows System32 folder.

To start off with resetting Windows 7, first, make sure that you’ve backed up all the important data and portable applications with saved user preferences to external storage drive or to any other system.

Remove Third-party Applications and Programs

Obviously, the first step is to head over to Windows Control Panel for removing all the applications which you’ve installed since first run of Windows 7. To quickly open add/remove programs window, type Add or remove programs in Windows Start search and hit enter. Once the applications get listed, start removing all the applications, desktop utilities and software suite packages except those which come pre-installed with Windows 7. The fastest way to quickly remove all programs is to select them by Publisher name.
For example, the best way to quickly list down the all the items from Microsoft is to select Microsoft Corporation from Publisher column drop-down menu to view all the applications, utilities, compilers, library packs, codecs, etc from Microsoft. It doesn’t necessarily mean that all the applications from Microsoft come pre-installed in Windows 7, so remove only those applications which you’ve installed from Microsoft, like, MS Office, Silverlight, SQL Server, etc., along with all other third-party utilities.

Remove Application Cache, MRU List, And Clean & Fix Invalid Windows Registry Entries

After you’ve uninstalled all the applications and utilities from Add/Remove list. It is advisable to reboot the system in order to completely remove applications cache files, registry entries, folders, and other temp files. To make sure that all the unnecessary application files / folders, cache are removed without leaving an invalid / unassociated registry key, you need to run a system cleaner. Piriform’s CCleaner is a widely known utility to unclutter the system in numerous situations and has various options to clean the junk off the system. It can clean MRU (Most Recently Used) lists, saved information in installed / previously installed applications, clear application cache, antivirus generated files, saved passwords and history, and so on. After analyzing the data which is to be removed, click Run Cleaner to perform the cleaning operation.

CCleaner, despite being efficient in cleaning various kinds of application data and info, also claims to be useful in analyzing the Windows Registry integrity and then cleaning invalid paths, application keys, Type libraries, MUI cache, un-bridged library keys, etc. To begin, Click Registry from left sidebar and select all the underlying options to thoroughly check Windows Registry integrity. Once it is finished with scanning registry issues, select all the items in main window, and click Fix selected issues to fix invalid registry entries.





Glary Utilities is another popular all-in-one app to fix a slew of system issues. After cleaning the applications junk and scanning and fixing registry issues, use the free Glary Utilities to clean file traces, fix broken shortcuts, and find those incorrect and invalid Windows registry entries which slipped through CCleaner cracks.

After the scanning process is completed, click Repair Problems to fix all the issues it found during the scan process. You can also click Show Details prior to fixing the broken links and registry entries to review all the problems it discovered. The Modules tab refers to other complementary tools which ensures optimum system performance, including, memory optimizer, context menu manager, system file checker, and registry defragmenter.

Clean Unused Windows Shell Components And Right-Click Context Menu Options

Even though CCleaner removes all the registry keys which are associated with unused or missing applications, there might be a case that after cleaning the system with CCleaner and uninstalling applications manually, you have a  bloated Windows right-click context menu.
Cleaning useless right-click context menu options and other Windows shell components takes a lot of effort and time. I am aware of all the utilities out there to remove unused right-click context menu options and have tested all of them with varying results. Therefore, I can’t vouch for one utility on which you can rely on. To remove context menu options, try methods and applications in following articles.

• Manual Guide to Remove Useless Items from Windows right-click context menu from Windows Registry.
• Context Menu Editor: Edit items from Windows 7 right-click menu.
• ShellMenuNew: Remove items from ‘New’ Menu of Windows 7 right-click menu.

If there are some extra useless options present in Send to menu, you can follow this guide to quickly remove them and keep those which come by default.

Clean Unused Windows Startup Items

There are countless system cleaning utilities available to manage Windows startup items. If you don’t rely on third-party cleaning applications, you can always use Windows native System Configuration utility to view all startup items and disable them promptly. However, the main purpose of using startup manager is to identify those applications which surreptitiously add process(es) into Windows Startup items list. To begin, type msconfig in Start Search, and hit enter to open Windows 7 System Configuration utility. Now move to Startup tab to select and hover mouse pointer over an item which you want to delete from Windows Startup items list.
The best method would be to launch the application and manually disable the Startup item entry, however, the quick way is to un-check the item from System Configuration window followed by opening the path of application in question in Windows Explorer to uninstall or remove the application manually.

Remove Empty Folders, Stop Sharing Folders & Drives, And Delete Log Files

Even though using the Windows Add/Remove utility to uninstall the application is the recommended way for removing application files, linked libraries, and registry entries, there are times when applications folders don’t get removed automatically even after following the proper application removal steps. Therefore, to clean all the empty folders and other associated log files, you need to use a dedicated application for this purpose, such as, previously featured RED.
Launch the application and scan all the drives to find and delete all the empty folders. It offers some intuitive set of options to detect the empty folders according to user-defined rules, so you can create a rule to include those folders, which are, apparently not empty, but contain nothing but useless junk, such as, desktop.ini and image thumbnail cache files.

Deleting folders which are being shared over the network is rather difficult, as you need to have administrative privileges to proceed with deletion and, even, if you’re logged in as system admin, you will get to pass through the shared file deletion prompt that states ‘This folder is shared with other people. If you delete this folder, it will no longer be shared.’

To make shared folders deletion easier, right-click Computer and click Manage to open Computer Management utility. From left sidebar, expand Shared Folder to view all the shares. Now select all folders and drives (while holding Ctrl on keyboard) which you want to stop sharing, right-click on any shared item and click Stop Sharing to immediately quit sharing all the selected items. Once all the selected items disappear from the list, you can easily remove all the shared folders.

Out of all the cleaning utilities that we’ve tried so far to remove log files, we found Del log command to be the most efficient. When run in Windows Command Line environment with all the parameters – a, s, q, and f, it ensures that all the log files will get removed. The screenshot below exhibits removing all the log files from Windows directory, nevertheless, you can run this command in root path of any application folder which contains a complex hierarchy of sub-folders with lots of log files.

Activate Administrator Account And Delete All User Profiles

Windows 7 User Profile folders, usually, take more than a 3-4 GB of your system, and even in some cases, they use more than 10 GB of your hard drive, Just like Windows Vista, Windows 7 saves all the application preferences, user folders, documents, music, pictures, application cache, etc in Windows User Profile folders. If your system is used by more than 2 users, it becomes indispensible to clean the junk off these folders on regular basis to save precious disk space. Since our focus is to reset Windows 7 to original settings, lets take a look at the best way of removing User profile folders. If Administrator account is not active on your system, it is advisable to activate administrator account to start afresh.
To begin, run CMD from Windows Search with administrative privileges. Now enter following command to activate the administrator account.

net user administrator /active:yes

Once activated, log off from Windows and log into Administrator account. Now type Advanced System Settings in Start Search and hit Enter. Under User Profiles section, click Settings to view all the User Profiles. Delete all user profiles except one which is currently being used.

Conclusion

Hopefully, after following above steps, you would be able to reset Windows 7 to the original clean state. Don’t forget to defragment your hard disk volumes in the end. We’ve tried to touch the most prominent aspects to retain Windows 7 default settings and may have missed out on many. If you have any other important tool, method, or a script in mind which can assist user in resetting Windows 7 to factory settings, drop it off in comments section below.
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How To Install Windows Visual Style File For Win XP / 7: Android Theme

Android Theme can used for the OS Windows XP and windows 7, android theme A please choose one of them to install on your desktop or laptop. But before you use it first saw the screenshot Android Theme for windows xp below

Android Windows X Theme

For the screenshot Android Theme for windows 7 is 

 

 How To Install Windows Visual Style File For Win XP

1. Download UXTheme Multi-Patcher 7.1 and then install to complete.
2. Download Android Theme for windows xp
3. Now extract the theme that you have downloaded and then copy and paste the theme folder into the directory C: WINDOWS>> Resources>> Themes
4. Then you can run this theme and click 2x on the Android (Windows Visual Style File).

 

  How To Install Windows Visual Style File For Win 7

1. Download Universal Theme Patcher (v1.5, Build 20090409) then install to complete.
2. Download Android Theme for windows 7
3. Now extract the theme that you have downloadkemudian copy and paste the theme folder into the directory C: WINDOWS>> Resources>> Themes
4. Then you can run this theme and click 2x on Android.

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10 Reasons why Application didn’t open on Windows and their Solution

Two mouse clicks and the program you just installed does not open. Or another opens, but displays an error a few seconds and then closes or disappears suddenly. And you stare at the wallpaper, which is nice, yes, but not it’s any consolation.

The reasons why an application quits unexpectedly, sometimes taking others with them, are many, but can be grouped into a few categories. You know put it on the track of the error and its solution.

1. Essential Dependency / DLL, Plugin Missing

Many Software are programmed on a platform that they require some base dependency to start. These can be .NET Framework, Java Runtime Environment, Adobe AIR, Flash or Microsoft DirectX. It’s not about just 1 or 2 application but install all those mentioned as many application often requires their support in backend.

If there is an error of Missing DLL or Component then probably, the file is corrupt or installer didn’t had permission to write that file on installation directory. So, Re-installation is only solution in this case.

2. Incompatible with Operating System or Processor

Probably, you are trying to run a 64 Bit Program on you 32 Bit (x86) Windows Installation.

If you see an error message related to the Windows version, do not despair: you can still CONFIGURE on the Compatibility tab of the executable and Windows will pretend to be an older version to run that executable file.

3. Insufficient Memroy

This error is rarely seen these days with powerful processors and big storage space Computers but some application demands more power.

Fortunately Windows can itself such problems. As a last resort, if you receive a notice of insufficient memory, without 3D acceleration graphics card or insufficient space on the hard disk, try the following:
Clean up Disk Space and Use Game Booster like programs.

4. Conflict with other programs / access the same resource

Some programs may conflict with others already in progress. The most common cause is access to a system resource already in use as a webcam or a reserved memory space. The virus, for example, rarely can coexist because they tend to “sit” in the same “seat” of memory.
The solutions to reinstate the old and the new program, update both (conflict resolution) or at least throw them separately (not together). To deal with conflicts when they occur, lay hold of the Task Manager or one of its alternatives.

5. A virus has infected the program

An event that can never be ruled out in case of unexpected crashes, blue screens , crashes and errors when opening programs is the viral infection. The rugged design of many viruses usually affect the system in unpredictable ways, and programs can not function normally.
You should probably get a good Antivirus program to sort out the infection. If you don’t like it, then refer guide to survive without Antivirus on Windows.

6. False Virus Detection

I know Viruses are aggressive so even Antivirus Programs have to be tightly configured to deal with. Sometimes, Antivirus detects a completely safe program as Threat and doesn’t allow it’s execution.

In such case, even you cannot take risk to run being unsure about the safety. Running the program in Sandbox will be a good idea to avoid taking risk. Antivirus program like Avast, Comodo and Panda have inbuilt support for this feature.

7. Not Enough Permissions

There are user permissions and then administrator permissions. The first allows you to do almost everything except install programs or run for the first time on some computers. Only with the latter, the Admin, you can do everything else.
If Windows will refuse access to a program or not you can install or do something with it, change the type of your user account to Administrator. If you are already Admin, and still facing error, Right click on Executable file and “Run as Administrator”.

8. The system is corrupt (files are damaged!)

When Windows has suffered irreparable damage, for example, after cleaning too aggressive or power cuts, programs that depend on it may stop working. In that case …

1. Try Restoring Windows to Previous Working state
2. Run SFC / scannow from the command to restore the basic files
3. Use Comodo Time Machine to restore your computer to a previous state

9. Association problem EXE or LNK

One of the peculiar problems associated with implementation is that has to do with the file association. The open with Paint BMP, TXT open with Notepad, what about the EXE? If a virus or other program touching the association of EXE or LNK (shortcut), you can no longer open programs!

In such case, you need to fix File associations and if EXE association itself is damaged then run registry key mentioned on Seven Forums.

10. Another Instance of program is already running.

There are programs that can only be opened once, or if you have hung prevent re-open as normal. An example is Firefox, you can not open another browser window if the main is blocked and lost somewhere in memory.

o fix this, nothing better to open the Task Manager and close the process fault. Another thing you can do is take a look at the taskbar to see if the program run is still there.
Did you ever happened to any of these problems? How did you fix it?

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Get Windows 8 Explorer with Ribbon Interface and Toolbar in Windows 7

In the last article we covered how to get Windows 8 Visual Elements on Windows 7. Today we’ll be moving towards an aspect that isn’t just visual but quite handy for amateur users. I think all of you must have heard about the amazing Windows 8 Explorer toolbars (Also known as the infamous Ribbon Explorer)

Windows 8 Explorer and Toolbar has been designed considering productive user experience which gives you the ability to copy or move to with just a click to the icons in the toolbar, not only that you can even open folders or drives in tabs, can view properties of file or folders, paste, rename, clone tab, and close tab.

You can all the above mentioned features in Windows through BExplorer (Better Explorer) file browser. Please note that this software doesn’t change your actual Windows Explorer, you have to open BExplorer separately to open the Windows Explorer having the above mentioned features.
BExplorer has two sections namely Home and View. The Home tab consists of verbose copy, cut, paste, close tab, rename, and rename tab options.

On the other hand View tab provides you with the option to sort items by date, size, time, format, etc.
it gives the option to view files and folders in large, medium, details, small icons, and in more viewing options.

 

Another good feature of BExplorer is the ability to open new tabs for different folders or drives, just like you open different webpages in different tabs in your web-browser. So you don’t have to open different Explorer Windows while working on two different folders or drives.

 

Unlike the actual Ribbon Explorer (Though you can do it with it manually from the control panel) BExplorer gives you the option to minimize it by pressing “Ctrl+F1” or by pressing the arrow at the right top of the Explorer Window.

Note: Currently BExplorer is still in its alpha phase, so as the developing team says there are lots and lots of features that will be added in its next release.
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