Bindars Windows General Help Desk

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All you need to know About.......
Dll files Stack faults
System resources The Recycle bin
Windows Registry Fragmented files and folders

 

Slow Computer?
The leading cause Startup items
Office Fast Find indexer When opening folders
Seeking a floppy drive When you defrag your drives

 

 

Specific Problems and Issues
Can't Access Display Properties Windows Explorer left pane is missing
Scandisk runs each time that Windows starts RPC Stub Errors
Wrong symbols on the title bar SendToDesktop shortcut is missing
Icons are missing or incorrect Windows Update issues
Windows Setup errors USB Device not recognized after returning from standby
CD and CDRW drives do not appear Problems with fast processors

 

Windows Crashes  (You must be kidding)
About the Blue screen of death (BSOD) BSOD when opening a folder

 

How To......
Clean Boot Windows (and why you should) Prevent the Logon Dialog from appearing
Defragment your hard drives Create a boot disk from DOS
Restore "My Documents" folder to the desktop Automatically configure IP addressing
Add the Windows 2000 color scheme to Win 9x Recover your Windows Product Key
Run Windows components using command line switches Clean up that start menu mess
Prevent users from bypassing the logon dialog Change the Name or Organization

 

 

Invalid Page Faults
For an explanation of Invalid Page Faults see this description.

In module

Occurs when
   
   

 

General Protection Faults
What are they?
In general, there are four types of errors that will cause this type of fault to be reported.

In some versions of  Windows each of these errors is reported as a "general protection fault". In other versions, the errors may be reported by other names such as "Unrecoverable Application Error" (Windows 3.x), "Illegal operation" (Windows 9x) and "This application needs to close" (Windows XP).
   

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