Run Executable in Windows 7

Hi Friends!

One of my friend pinged me on facebook that he is unable to run any executable in his system. So, in today's post, we will try to solve this issue.

Running any executable in your system is basically a registry value's entry. Most viruses change this value to something else, and as a result, explorer.exe behaves abnormally while handling executables.

So, let's get started:

Step 1: Press Windows+r (run)

Step 2: Type regedit. Press OK

Step 3: You will see a window as shown below:

Click on the + HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT


Step 4: Hover down to exefile\shell\open\command

Follow steps as shown in figure

Step 5: Change the (Default)  to "%1" %* [note the double quotes, they are present, just copy-paste this value].

Similarly change the value for IsolatedCommand to "%1" %* 


Step 6: Now navigate to .exe in the same hierarchy.

Step 7: Change (Default) to exefile


And we are done!

Now you would be able to run all executable in your system.

Feel free to express your views.

List of Anti Virus Software for Windows

Hi Friends!

Today we are gonna look into list of anti virus vendors that Microsoft has partnered to provide security to your system.

Microsoft recommends that you install anti virus( or security) software to keep your system safe from potential threats. Also you need to keep that software up to date.

So, to begin with, navigate to security software link. (You can click on different tabs depending upon your OS).

Once there, you will find list of various anti virus software that Microsoft has partnered.

Click on any one of them, install Trail or Full version depending upon your budget.

And you are done! So you have anti virus installed and your system is protected.

Feel free to give your recommendations or suggestions in the comment section. 

Manually Update Windows XP

Hi Friends!

So after a long time I am back to provide you more insights into our dear(est) Windows.

In this blog, we will be focusing on how to manually download updates for your Windows. So let me introduce to you http://www.windowsupdatesdownloader.com/ .

'Windows Updates Downloader' is a third party utility and is free. The advantage with this utility is that this utility downloads the necessary updates from Microsoft update servers and stores it in your local machine. So you just have to run this utility and then rest assured that your system is getting updated!!

You can also distribute these updates to other machines.

Note: This utility is useful for Win XP, Vista, 2000 Pro, 2003 Server, Office 2003 and Exchange 2003.

My friends using Win 7, the steps are shown in figure.

It's pretty straight forward. Now you will be directed to:

Some of my friends are still stuck up with XP, so this was to help them!

I found it useful, clean and easy to use.

Feel free to leave a comment.