Category Archives: Vista

Conficker Visual Test

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 9, 2009
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Visual Test to Check Conficker Infection

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: April 8, 2009
The April Fools Day Special Conficker worm and its variants have been dreaded by computer users across the world for some time now.
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Fix ‘COM surrogate has stopped working’ error in Windows Vista

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 12, 2008
A recent and annoying ‘bug’ in Windows Vista (both 32- and 64-bit versions) is the ‘COM surrogate has stopped working’ error. This happens almost whenever you browse a folder containing media files like mp3, avi, wav etc. A lot of people have attributed this to the presence of non Vista-compatible codecs installed on the computer. [...]
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Double-click to shut down

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: January 4, 2008
Here is another batch file that you will find useful,
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AVG Anti-Virus Pro free for a year

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: December 27, 2007
Computer Active is giving away AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 Professional for a year. The reason AVG is letting them do that is probably to get more people to try the Pro version and hope they will pay at the end of a year. Here is a link to the download which is valid till Jan 17th [...]
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Vista Service Pack 1

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: December 9, 2007
If you are using Windows Vista, then watch out for the Service Pack 1 release this week. Don’t forget to upgrade….
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Spyware and Malware problems?

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: December 5, 2007
Here are some useful tools to use if you are having spyware or malware problems. ‘How do I know if I have something on my computer’? Well, there is no real sure shot way of knowing that but your computer normally shows some kind of symptoms when it is infected. Your computer might slow down, [...]
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Use Windows Vista legally without Activation for a year

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: March 24, 2007
Brian Livingston, a Windows expert has revealed to users of windows that it is possible to use Windows Vista legally without Activation for a year. Though, Microsoft has labeled this a ‘hack’ to signify that it is illegal, it stated just a month ago that this process would not be a violation of the End [...]
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