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A guest downloaded a rom/game and he is finding it difficult it to run at Windows 7 even he has tried to run it under compatibility mode (Windows XP). D3dx9_42.dll errors appear when a game or other software program is started.

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Recently my laptop touchpad stopped working. Windows had to just restart unexpectedly and after the restart I saw an icon with touchpad and cross over it and i noticed that laptop touchpad was not working at all. I use a USB mouse with laptop which I unplugged to see the changes but got same problem. [...]

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A user pointed me out that he could not start fba emulator to play a game and encountered an error of ‘D3dx9_42.dll Not Found’. fba.exe does not work, gives error ‘Unable to Locate Component. This application has failed to start because d3dx9_42.dll was not found.‘ Now it looks like that d3dx9_42.dll is missing, but its [...]

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Ever encountered a problem in which you can’t open Group Policy Editor even using administrator account. When you try the command gpedit.msc or other commands with msc extensions like services.msc, devmgmt.msc, compmgmt.msc etc. simply an error message shows up which says: Access is denied. Try opening the editor by double clicking the gpedit.msc inside the [...]

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Someone asked about the following problem: I read your article at: Disguise Any Folder to Recycle Bin. I have sort of a reverse problem. While right clicking on a folder to change the icon from default manila folder type, to a tree icon, I accidentally clicked on the recycle bin icon next to the tree [...]

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This is a problem where you can not right click at in Windows, at desktop or in Windows explorer. If you are having trouble with the context menu (right click menu) or right clicking on the desktop does not do anything then most probably you have your group policy is set to not displaying the [...]

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McAfee detection center calls it pws-yahmali trojen and Symantec calls it infostealer.yahmali. It’s risk level is very low. And it’s only a password stealer. It attempts to steal the password of the yahoo messenger (whenever user logs in) and may send to ilam-mind-makers [dot] com.

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Ever encountered this problem while searching through Google that search result pages redirect to some sort of other advertisement pages? If somebody wants to search something in Google, an advertisement would open up instead of the search results. This is a virus that would redirect all the Google queries to advertisements. sometimes it would open [...]

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Its common to encounter error messages while using Microsoft products for any IT professional. Error messages arise due to the virus attacks, system malfunction, malware or adware attacks, files overwrite problem and through many other resources. Well good news is this, you do not have to go and search for every error message that you [...]

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Bibek Bhurtel asked the following question: When I open computer, one error message comes with only close message to click which is about explorer, and when i click on it it disappears and my computer doesn’t work. Nothing opens, just a desktop background, nothing works, plz give me help, I can’t format because I have [...]

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