Recent Posts By Aseem
Fix “There was a problem sending a command to the program” Error
November 7th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: How-To
Windows is full of strange error messages that I’ve written many posts on previously, so in this post I will cover another odd one. I recently ran into this message: There was a problem sending a command to the program I ran into this error while trying to open web links from my email program. [...]
Troubleshoot Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Installation
October 24th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Windows 7
The latest service pack for Windows 7 is SP1, which was released a while back. Service Pack 2 will be coming sometime next year, but in the meantime, you might run into some issues installing SP1 on your system. Personally, the first time I updated my Windows 7 machine to SP1, it worked just fine. [...]
How to Exit a Metro-Style App in Windows 8
October 23rd, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Windows 8
I just installed Windows 8 in a virtual machine to try it out and I have to say that I don’t like it very much. At least not when you have to click and when it’s running in a virtual machine. Windows 8 seems totally designed for a touch screen tablet interface, which is strange [...]
How to Export Favorites in IE 9
October 22nd, 2011 by Aseem | File in: How-To
Recently, every version of IE looks fairly different than the previous version! Personally, I have found that it’s gotten better since it’s less clutter, kind of like Google Chrome. That’s one of the main reasons I had switched from IE to Chrome because I felt like the browser wasn’t even there sometimes, it was just [...]
How to Add a Program to Startup in Windows XP
October 21st, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Windows XP Tips
Want a specific program to run every time Windows starts? Maybe you created your own program or downloaded something off the Internet. Either way, it’s relatively simple to add a program to the startup in Windows XP. There are mainly two ways to go about doing this. One is to add a shortcut to the [...]
When is ReadyBoost Worth Using?
October 20th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Windows 7
With the introduction of Windows 7 came a cool sounding new feature called ReadyBoost. It was the talk for a while about how you could instantly speed up your computer by just plugging in a USB drive and BAM, you have additional RAM to work with! Not quite. Firstly, ReadyBoost is no replacement for actually [...]
Windows Does Not Recognize your CD/DVD Drive?
October 19th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Help Desk
I recently ran into a problem where my DVD drive on Windows 7 was missing from the list of devices in My Computer. It was there earlier, but simply disappeared! After doing some research, I found a couple of solutions that worked. Unfortunately, the solutions are different depending on which OS you are running: XP, [...]
Optimize Windows 7 Startup and Boot Time
October 18th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Windows 7
I have found that Windows 7 runs fairly faster than Windows XP and Windows Vista right out of the box. The footprint has definitely been lessened and it doesn’t feel as bloated as Vista did. However, as with any operating system, you can tweak or change the software and hardware to truly maximize performance. With [...]
Tweak, Customize and Optimize Windows 7 with EnhanceMySe7en
October 17th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Reviews, Tools Review
Windows 7 has a lot of great built-in tools, but they are not always very easy to use. For example, you can optimize system for better security and faster performance via the registry, but who is going to ever do that manually? That’s where nice liked tweaker/optimizer programs come in handy. They give you easy [...]
Fix Internet Explorer 9 Issues
October 16th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Help Desk
With every new edition of Internet Explorer, there are always a new set of problems that one must contend with! IE 9 is a good step forward in that it supports many standards and will make designing web pages much easier, but it does have a few technical problems. Sometimes it’s slow, sometimes flash crashes, [...]
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