Proceedings of the 8th National Student’s Convention -2015
National Students’ Convention, 14h March, 2015
Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi
Common Windows Errors And Their Solutions
Rudhra Koul1 Gurwinder Pal Singh2 Girish Shankar3
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Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Application and Management
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rudhr_2012@yahoo.co.in, 2its_gurwinder@yahoo.com, 3girishshankar39@gmail.com
ABSTRACT Desktop.ini is a system generated configuration file which
This paper titled, “Common Windows Errors and Their contain the values of icon, source of background image etc. It is
Solutions” is a suggestive paper, comprising of the solutions to a hidden system file and it's possible to view it by performing
the common occurring problems in windows, during our day to the following series of steps:
day interaction with the software. (a) Open any drive and click on the “Organize” tab.
(b) From the Menu, select “Folder and Search” option.
KEYWORDS (c) Click on the “View” tab.
Window, Errors, Problems, Solution, Drive, Path, File. (d) Click on the radio button, “Show hidden files, folders and
drives” under the “Hidden files and folders” option.
INTRODUCTION (e) Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files” option.
In this tech era, Computers are an indispensable part of our lives, In case, this file is accidently damaged or absent, there is nothing
with its involvement in each and every routine activity. This to worry about it as the system automatically creates a new one.
brilliant computing machine however is not perfect and therefore restart the system.
gives us troubles from time to time. In this paper, we have To set an image as the background in a folder follow the steps
worked on troubleshooting the common windows problems, given below:
whose solutions are rarely available on the internet. Users usually Creating a desktop.ini file:
encounter such software issues, for which formatting may not be 1. Go to the folder whose background image you want to change
the apt, but troublesome and laborious solution. Herein, we have and create a new text file in it.
shed light on 15 most commonly found errors and the ways to 2. Copy the following lines and paste them into the text file you
easily and systematically troubleshoot the same. just created
[AveFolder]
SOME COMMON WINDOWS ISSUES: IconArea_Image = " Path to image \image.jpg "
Enumerated below are some of the commonly found windows 3. replace the path to image with the path to the folder where
errors :- you have the image you want to be placed as background is
stored.
Problem1: Changing Window’s 7 logon screen wallpaper. 4. Save the file and rename it to desktop.ini and restart your PC.
Solution:
Step 1: Press Windows + R to open Runr and type regedit and
press enter. Problem 3: Reloading album art cache in Windows media
Step 2: Goto Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFT- center:
WARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\ Solution:
LogonUI It happens sometime that when we changed the album art of
Step 3: click OEMBackground, and change its value to 1. some files the changes are not reflected in windows media center
that is a software to organize and play media files both audio and
Step 4: Press Windows + R to open Runr and paste :
video.This happens because Media Center uses an album art
%windir%\system32\oobe to go to the oobe folder and create a
cache that is created once and never checked for consistency.
folder named info, and open it.
This causes media center to ignore the changes that we vmake to
Step 5: Create a folder in info named backgrounds.
the file,s properties.We can resolve this by making media center
Step 6:Change the name of the image that you want as
to reload the album art cache as follows-:
background as Default.jpg and copy it in the folder backgrounds
Step 1:
(Maximum size of image is 245KB).
1.1 Open any drive and click on the “Organize” tab.
Restart your pc. You will notice the change logon screen
1.2 From the Menu, select “Folder and Search” option.
wallpaper has been applied.
1.3 Click on the “View” tab.
Problem 2: Changing Window’s 7/vista/xp folder
1.4 Click on the radio button, “Show hidden files, folders and
background without software.
drives” under the “Hidden files and folders” option.
Solution:
Step 2: Go to C:\Users folder and open your user folder which
We can change the background of a folder in Windows7 as
has the same name as your username. Open the folder
follows:
AppData\local\Microsoft\ehome.
This can be done by editing the desktop.ini file.
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Step 3: you will see a a folder named Art Cache. Delete this in the phone. It will be needed to perform the series of steps that
folder. follow.
Step4: restart the pc, this will force album art cache to be Step 3: Tap the remote manager feature in ES explorer and turn
reloaded by the windows media center and the changes in the it on.
album art will be visible.
Problem 4: Printing a file using one note
Solution:
Ever thought of printing without a printer? Yes, it can be done by
saving it to a file for printing. This option is usually helpful when
you fill an online form and it just gives an option to print not
save.
To do this, follow the steps viz-a-viz:
1. Click on print button or press ctrl + p.
2. Select send to one note from the list of available printers and
click ok.
3. The file will open in one note.
4. Open file menu n select save as pdf to save as pdf or any other
format available.
Problem 5: Missing one note printer in devices and printers.
Solution:
“Send To OneNote 2007 printer” is missing in the Printer list.
To resolve this issue, use the following steps:
1. We need to install a generic printer driver in Windows7 by
following the steps given below:
a) From start menu open devices and printers.
b)Click add a printer option from the menu at the top.
c) An Add Printer dialog box will open, click Add a local printer. Fig. 1
d) Select the “Use an existing port” option, select any port except Step 4. Turning it on will give an ip address.
if it is a port related to any physical printer, and then click Step 5. Enter the address in internet explorer or any other web
“Next”. For example, you can select LPT1. browser and the phone will open in the browser.
e) Select Generic from Manufacturer and in printer select Step 6.Click on view menu and select open ftp site in windows
Generic / Text only and then click next. explorer to open site in explorer.
f) Click next, and then click finish.
Problem 7: Expanding a drive size without formatting the
2. Now we need to configure the generic printer for OneNote. To
pc. Solution: 1. Right click on my computer and go to manage.
do this, follow the steps given below:
2. Select disk management.
(a) Again open devices and printers. and right-click the printer
3. Right click on the drive from which you want to take out
that you just added, and click Properties.
space to add to another drive and click shrink volume.
(b)From the Ports tab, and select the “Send To Microsoft
4. Select the amount of space to be removed and click shrink.
OneNote” Port check box.
(c) From the Advanced Tab, select Send to Microsoft OneNote
Driver in the Driver list.
(d) Click Print Processor from Print processor, select
OneNotePrint2007, and select RAW from Default data type and
then click OK
Problem 6: Data sharing between pc and android without
data cable
Solution:
Use the following steps:
Step 1: Connect pc and laptop to same wireless network. It can
be any wifi network, even wifi hotspot running on the same
phone.
Step 2: A software namely the ES File Explorer must be installed Fig. 2
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5. The shrinked space will be available as unallocated space and
will be shown in black.
6. Right click on the drive that you want to expand and click
extend volume.
7. Click next and finish.
Problem 8: Manually updating the virus definitions for an
anti-virus.
Solution:
These instructions are for avira internet security but can be
applied to almost all antiviruses with minor changes.
Proceed as follows to update your Avira Software manually:
1. Download the most recent Avira Fusebundle Generator
straightforward from the Avira site on an alternate PC with
Internet access.
2.Use winrar to extract the downloaded zip file
3. Run fusebundle.exe.This will open a avira decompressor tool
that will generate the vdf-virus definition file
6.In a folder called Install created by fusebundle generator you’ll
find the file vdf_fusebundle.zip. Fig. 4
7. Copy the file vdf_fusebundle.zip to portable storage device Step 3. The drive will open in unlocker and it will show which
such as a pen drive for copying it to the PC without internet processes are restricting the drive.
connection. Step 4. We can either unblock the drive by using unblock if this
8. Plug the storage device into the PC whose antivirus you want fails we also have an option to kill the processes.
to update. Step 5. Try again to remove safely the drive will be safely
9. Open Avira Control Center by right clicking it from its tray removed.
icon.
10.From update menu select Manual update. Problem 10: Solution to missing DVD drive in my computer.
11. select the file vdf_fusebundle.zip and click finish . Solution:
Sometimes the dvd/cd drive icon does not appear in my
Problem 9: Not being able to dismount drive safely. computer or device manager this can be fixed by following
Solution: To do this, we need to utilize the utility called steps:
unlocker.
Step 1: If we have a drive that we can’t remove safely as it shows
an error like drive in use.
Fig. 3
Step 2. Right click on the drive and click unlocker (unlocker
option will be available only after installing unlocker)
Fig. 5
Step 1: Press Windows + R to open Runr and type regedit and
press enter.
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Step 2 : Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\ Click on balance and turn the balance of the speaker that you
CurrentControlSet\ Control\Class \ {4D36E965-E325-11CE- want to disable to zero.
BFC1-08002BE10318}.
Step 3 : You will find keys named upper filter and lower filter
delete them.
Step 4 : Restart your computer the drive will start appearing in
my computer.
Problem 11: Disabling a damaged speaker in laptop.
Solution:
To do this open sounds in control panel.
Fig. 6
Click on the speakers that has a green tick and click on properties Fig. 8
select the levels tab.
Click ok and done.
Problem 12: Downloading YouTube playlist using IDM at
once.
Solution:
1. To do this we can use add on in firefox called
“bytubed”.
2. Install the add on bytubed in firefox.
3. Open the playlist that you want to download right click
and select bytubed.
4. Dialogue box will open select the files that you want to
download and in what to do drop down list select
”generate links” click start.
5. Links will be generated in a html file right click on it
and select download all links with idm to download the
playlist using internet download manger.
6. The files will be added n downloaded using idm.
Fig. 7
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Fig. 9
Fig. 11
To open
1. Press ctrl+alt+esc to open task manager.
2. Go to applications tab select new task and write explorer.exe
and click ok.
Fig. 10
Problem 13: Closing or opening windows explorer without
logging off.
Solution: This can be used when you need to close windows
explorer to install some software or to open it when some
software accidentally closes it.
To close
1. Press ctrl+alt+esc to open task manager.
2. Go to processes tab select explorer.exe and click end process.
3. The explorer will be closed and the desktop will look
something like this without icons.
Fig. 12
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Problem 14: Installing and running software’s built for old
operating systems.
Solution:
1. Right click on the exe and select properties.
2. Click compatibility tab and select run this program in
compatibility mode check box.
3. Select the operating system that you want to select from the
drop down list.
Fig. 14
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CONCLUSION
We must remember that the computer was the vision and
creation of a Human and no invention is bigger than the
inventor. Instead of letting it turn into a behemoth due to lack of
knowledge on your part, interact and know your computer better.
Fig. 13
REFERENCES
Problem 15: -Manually removing software components that
remain after uninstalling. Website References
Solution:
To do this press ctrl+r to open run wizard. [1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952216
[2] http://www.avira.com/en/support-vdf-update-info
[3] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
Type regedit.exe.
[4] http://msram.github.io/bytubed/ie.html
Registry will open.
Press ctrl+f search box will open type the name of [5] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows/make-
older-programs-run
software whose remnants you want to remove.
It will search for keys related to this software delete
them manually.
Search for next key by pressing f3. \
