One of the first things I normally do when I set up a computer with Windows XP, right after I install anti-virus and anti-spyware programs, is to configure Internet Explorer (IE) and System Restore ...

While IE is the not the root of the problem per se, its incredible popularity is. Malware authors -- who are performing criminal acts by their practices -- target IE exclusively, because they know ...

I was helping a friend with a dead XP Home SP2 machine today. The machine would get to the end of the initial XP logo screen, but die with a blue-screen complaining about a corrupted SOFTWARE registry ...

If you’ve ever had a bad Windows update or a system corruption, you’ll know it can be paralyzing for your OS, or operating system and render it useless. That’s why you need to create a restore point ...

If System Restore has failed to extract a file and you see an unexpected error 0x80070301 in Windows 11/10, follow these suggestions to fix the problem. Disable ...

Hit Recover Console and read the support.microsoft.com article on how to manually copy registry hives from the System Restore folders into the Config folder.<BR><BR>It's massively easier to have ...