Welcome to Winhelponline.com
This site contains troubleshooting advice, fixes, scripts, and freeware utilities to resolve problems in Windows XP and Vista Operating Systems.
I hope that the resources available in this site should help you learn, diagnose and troubleshoot the common problems you face in Windows.
Regards,
Ramesh Srinivasan
Microsoft MVP, Windows Desktop Experience
Recent Blogs
Repair Disk Available for Windows 7 PCs Affected by Updates KB2823324 and KB2782476
If your system doesn’t load after applying updates from Microsoft (notably KB2823324 and/or KB2782476) and seeing some BSOD Stop errors when yo...
Fix ?Windows Backup Has Not Been Set Up? Incorrect Reporting in Windows 7
The Backup and Restore window may report "Windows Backup has not been set up" even though the manual and scheduled backup operations work cor...
How to Export WMP Media Library in Windows 7/Vista Using Media Info Exporter
The WMP9 Series Winter Fun Pack 2003 contains a useful tool called Media Info Exporter. This tool can easily export WMP media library to Excel, Word,...
Fix View and Print Detailed Performance and System Information Link Does Not Work in Windows 7
When you open Performance Information and Tools – Windows Experience Index page and click the View and print detailed performance and system in...
Fix Windows Defender Service Does Not Start in Windows 8
When you open Windows Defender, it may inform you that Windows Defender protection is not enabled in the computer. And, when trying to start the Wind...
Fix File Association Error When Clicking the Weather Gadget Hyperlink in Windows 7/Vista
When you click on your city displayed in the Weather gadget, it is supposed to launch the MSN weather website that shows detailed weather information...
Windows 8 Services Configuration Default Startup Type
Windows 8 Services configuration defaults are listed here. Has your services configuration changes gone awry and not sure about the default settings?...
Fix Compressed (Zipped) Folder Access Denied Error ?Unable to Complete the Operation?
When you try to create a Compressed (zipped) folder in Windows 7/Vista, the error "Unable to complete the operation. Access is denied" may oc...
A Quicker Way to Refresh the Icon Cache in Windows 7
You’re aware of the various ways to clear and refresh the icon cache in Windows, such as clearing the iconcache.db, using TweakUI (in Windows X...
How to Show or Hide the User Profile Folder in Explorer Navigation Pane in Windows 7
The navigation pane in Explorer can be configured to show all folders, using a GUI option which is overlooked by some users. The option "Show all...
Recent Articles
Customize the drive letter display in Windows Vista
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- February 18, 2008
- Customize
Using the utility discussed in this page, you can change how the drive-letters are shown in Computer.
Utility to clear recently used email addresses in Windows Mail
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- February 15, 2008
- Windows Mail
In article 245 we saw how to manually delete the email auto-complete entries in Windows Mail. Here is an utility to automate the same.
How to uninstall a Visualization from Windows Media Player
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- February 11, 2008
- General
This article explains how to uninstall a Windows Media Player Visualization manually, in case the standard removal procedures do not work.
Configure Internet Explorer to open linked Office files in their respective applications
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- February 5, 2008
- Internet Explorer 7 , Customize , General
Windows XP had an option to configure Internet Explorer to open Office documents in the appropriate Office program instead of in Internet Explorer. As the option (File Types tab) is missing in Windows Vista, can anyone aid in a solution other than saving the file upon download?
How to rename the Recycle Bin in Windows XP
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- December 13, 2007
- Customize
This article tells you how to rename the Recycle Bin in Windows XP.
Fix Recycle Bin Icon Does Not Refresh Automatically in Windows 7 and Windows Vista
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- December 12, 2007
- Windows 7 , Windows Vista
The Recycle Bin icon in Windows 7/Vista may not change to show whether or not it is full or empty. It may be either stuck on the empty icon or the full icon, but the Recycle Bin icon updates correctly when you press the F5 button on the keyboard to refresh the Desktop manually.
"Error 2" when starting the Windows Firewall service
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- December 6, 2007
- Error messages
When you try to start the Windows Firewall service in a Windows XP Service Pack 2 computer, the following error may occur:
Adding and removing ShellNew entries in Windows Vista
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- November 22, 2007
- Windows Vista
The Templates section of TweakUI PowerToy for Windows XP helps you create or delete document templates (shown under the New menu.) This article tells you how to manage document templates using TweakUI PowerToy for Windows XP, under Windows Vista.
Copy command-line output directly to the Clipboard using Clip.exe
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- November 21, 2007
- Windows Vista
This article explains how to redirect the output of command line tools to the Windows Vista Clipboard.
How to disable QuickTime MIME support for mp3 file type?
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- November 13, 2007
- General
In Windows Explorer .mp3 associates with Windows Media Player. In Media Player it shows that it will handle .mp3 files. QuickTime Player shows that it does not handle mp3 files. But when I click a link to an .mp3 file in Internet Explorer it plays the file using QuickTime, instead of launching Windows Media Player. What can I do to fix this?
