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Fix Error Loading: C:\Windows\System32\Shell32.dll Access Is Denied Problem

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Recently, my computer started behaving weird. Some tasks never started and launching any Control Panel applet brought this weird error dialog that displayed: “Error Loading: C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll Access is Denied”.
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Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 25th, 2009 at 1:33 pm

How To Trace A Mobile Phone Number In India?

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Tracing a mobile phone number to its location in India is difficult. There are quite a number of hurdles and there aren’t really functional services in India that actually let you pin point and trace a mobile phone number in India.

Reverse lookup services weren’t very accurate when I tried to trace the location of a mobile phone number in India, but they could just help you in finding at least the state where these mobile phones are operating from.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

April 15th, 2009 at 10:19 am

Disable ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ Balloon Popup Notification in Windows

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If you’re frequently interrupted by warnings and notifications coming from the system tray on Windows XP when you insert a new USB disk drive, you can easily disable it.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

April 12th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

How to restore missing USBscan.sys in Windows XP?

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Recently, I was trying to install drivers for my new digital camera, but I had a few problems. The installer requested the Windows XP SP 2 CD because a driver file, usbscan.sys was missing. I had actually lost the XP SP2 CD. The installer requested the XP SP 2 CD repeatedly that I had to do something, else the installation would fail.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

March 28th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

Is the ‘Send To’ Menu opening up too slow in Windows?

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Everytime you right click and select the ‘Send To’ menu it takes ages to load. If the Send To menu is opening up slow when you right click on icons or files, it’s time you fix things right.

Here’s how you can make a slow-loading Send To menu load fast in Windows.
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Written by Shankar Ganesh

January 21st, 2008 at 7:50 am

Best Software Tools for the Family Tech Support Guy

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Most of you reading this have encountered people asking you solve problems on their computers – more than once. You’re an expert in their eyes, and they want you to solve the problems they’re facing with their PCs. They might be your family members, your colleagues or whatever.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

January 12th, 2008 at 7:33 am

How to update the firmware of your Nokia mobile phone?

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Got a Nokia mobile phone? It’s important that you update the mobile phone’s firmware once in a while. Firmware is actually the software that keeps things on your Nokia mobile phone running.

There are a lot of benefits of upgrading your phone’s firmware. You may get functional enhancements, bug fixes etc. Some issues that you might be having with your phone can be solved with a firmware upgrade.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

January 5th, 2008 at 7:45 am

iTunes doesn’t open after installing FlyakiteOSX?

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FlyakiteOSX is one of the best transformation packs available for Windows XP. I installed FlyakiteOSX a few days ago on my PC. The installation went smooth, and there weren’t any errors reported.

iTunes didn’t open the next day. When I launched it, I happened to get this error:

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

December 31st, 2007 at 11:55 pm