Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

Werfault.exe Takes Up 99% CPU Capacity

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

You can opt to turn the feature on or off here depending on your preference. If you want to use the feature, you can customize it according to your requirements.

  1. Go to Windows Error Reporting, open Control Panel.
  2. Click System and Maintenance, and then click Problem Reports and Solutions.
  3. Click Change Settings located in the left panel of the Problem Reports and Solutions window.
  4. Select an option to configure how you want Windows to look for a solution to your problems. You may allow Windows to do it automatically or ask you every time to check if problem occurs.
  5. Next, click the Advanced settings link.
  6. Select On or Off to configure whether you want to use Error Reporting or not.
  7. Click Change settings and choose the appropriate option to configure how you want problem reporting to be set for all users and programs.
  8. If you choose to use Error Reporting, then click the second Change settingbutton to configure how error reporting is set for all users. Here, you can choose from the following consent levels:
    • Ask each time a problem occurs – Windows Error Reporting will ask for permission before sending an error report
    • Automatically check for solutions – Minimal data is sent to find a possible fix. After consent is given, more data may be sent if requested by Microsoft.
    • Automatically check for solutions and send additional information if needed – Minimal data along with data that the application developer has indicated as a requirement is sent. This sent data does not contain any personally identifiable information. After consent is given, more data may be supplied if requested by Microsoft.
    • Send all data - All data is sent, no prompt required. This setting is configurable only in Group Policy.
  9. If you do not want certain executable files or programs to send error reports, you may create a block list. To do this, click Add in the Block list section.
  10. Browse through your programs and add them to the list.
  11. Click OK to save your settings.

Link: answers.microsoft.com

Five Best Desktop Personal Finance Tools

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

There’s an entire cottage industry of apps and services designed to make it easier for you to manage your money. Some of them connect directly with your bank to make tracking spending easy, others focus on giving you a budget to follow and leaving you alone. Here’s a look at the top five.

Link: LifeHacker

Five Best Hard Drive Space Analyzers

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

The dreaded moment has come and you can’t download a movie you want to watch, or install some games you want to play because your hard drive is full. What’s worse, you have no idea what to delete to make some room. Thankfully there are several apps you can turn to that will give you a good idea what’s using all of your drive space. Here are the top five, based on your nominations.

Link: LifeHacker

Maintain Your Movie Database With MovieDB

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

If you have the passion to collect movies by downloading titles online, then MovieDB is a nice tool to manage them. MovieDB is a freeware tool for Windows which allows you to manage your movie collection by downloading movie information, poster and wallpapers related to the movies. You can also keep track of all the movies you have watched using this tool. You can also take a backup of your movie database.

You can sort movies into different categories like action, drama, romance, horror etc.

Features:

  • Automatic data download (info / cast / images) from themoviedb.org
  • Multi-language movies info (up to 184 languages)
  • Hi quality poster and wallpaper galleries (automatically downloaded!)
  • Keep track of the movies you have watched
  • Proxy support
  • Automatic database backup

Link: NirmalTV