Daniel Tharp

Bling writes that for some reason, he can no longer create new folders on his Windows 98 installation. The shortcut simply isn’t there anymore. I don’t know what would cause such a thing, but I do know how to fix it.
This time instead of going step-by-step, we’ll use a software-based solution. I [...]

Summary: Explorer crashes can be caused by malformed thumbnails, and prevented by disabling Data Execution Prevention for Explorer.exe.
WTL writes that quite frequently, while browsing files on his computer in Explorer, an error message pops up reading “Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.” Having [...]

Alice writes that on Windows Vista, she was typing a message in Windows Mail and inadvertently turned on…something. She writes that “Since I did this, when I type a word I have a click sound when typing each letter. If I make a mistake and backspace it won’t backspace. I have to hit the [...]

joeitalo writes that after reinstalling Windows Vista, the system’s performance of the video game Crysis became significantly worse. After checking that it wasn’t a DirectX issue (always checkable by hitting Win+R and typing in “dxdiag”) he realized that he was running an antivirus, and temporarily turning it off restored the performance of the machine.
That’s [...]