Change The Storage Location Of 'My Documents'

Normally windows saves the "My Documents" folder on your C-drive. 

But when you right-click on it and go to properties, you can change the location where you want windows to save your Documents folder.
 

I have a partition set up with just windows on it, and all my things i want to keep are on different partitions/disks. 

So now I put My Documents on another partition than where I have windows installed. 

If windows screws up and you have to format your C-drive again, your documents will be spared at least...

Manual virus removal from 'System Volume information'

In Windows,  System Volume Information is a system folder, to keep track of the changes took placed on a partition in a fix time period. This folder exists in every partition on your HDD. By default this folder is hidden, but you can see it by showing the hidden and system files and folders.The information stored in these folders helps Windows to revert to an earlier state, when you use the System Restore tool.

But sometimes, some malware files get in the System Volume Information folder. This can happens by any of following reasons:

1.  the malware wants to get there so that user doesn't have access to delete it and from where it can restore itself, 
2. or some malware file gets deleted and Windows decides that the file was important and it automatically stores it there, in case you ever want it back.

Well, you can easily clean malware infection from this folder by using the following simple steps:

• Right click on My Computer, then go to Properties
• Now in Windows XP:  Go to System Restore tab, enable the option Disable System Restore on all drives and click Apply. This should erase all System Restore Points, including the infected file(s).
• In Windows 7: Go to System Protection > then under protection settings choose hard drive that have malware and click Configure > Turn off system Protection > ok
• After this, again enable the system Restore option and press Apply again, so that you'll re-enable System Restore.

How to remove Autorun.inf Virus

There is a very simple process to remove autorun.inf virus file. Follow the method below...

1. open up a command prompt (i.e. cmd.exe) ; to load it go to Run, type cmd, enter.

2. Now see the Four code lines highlighted below... you have to use them all one by one.

e.g. for f: drive...

F: \

F: \attrib

F: \attrib -s -h -r autorun.inf

F: \del autorun.inf

• First for entering into any drive
• Second, for checking virus's attributes.After pressing enter, you will see all files of that drive. Check for autorun.inf  file in them. 

You should see something like:

    SHR    Autotun.inf        C:\Autorun.inf

• third, for changing file's  to attributes.  Usually this virus has attributes SHR(checked by second line) where S stands for system, H for hide,  R for read-only. So To clear an attribute we use  -  (the minus sign) with attrib. 
• fourth, for deleting virus file.

3. Repeat Second step for all drives of ur system.

Set up could not detect hard disk drive

Have you ever encountered installing or Downgrading to a Fresh Windows Xp to your Laptop Hard Drive but it always turns to a Blue Screen of Death after booting up to you Xp installer.

Today a costumer came to our shop and with his Extensa 4230 and the problem is he always ends to a "Blue Screen of Death" or "set up could not detect hard disk drive".

This steps will gonna make it easier to understand.

Before Starting again to boot from your Xp installer,

Step 1: Enter the BIOS Setup

Step: Locate the Sata Mode.

Step 3: from SATA or AHCI Mode Change it to IDE Mode

Step 4: Save and Exit.

ANY Windows setup that you do where you want to install Windows to ANY mass storage controller that is not legacy IDE-compatible will require the F6 procedure and a manufacturer-specific driver. This includes AHCI, RAID, SCSI, Fibre Channel, some SATA, and most proprietary controllers. 

Common problems switching to AHCI under Windows

* Enabling AHCI in a system BIOS will cause a 0x7B Blue Screen of Death STOP error on installations of Windows XP where AHCI/RAID drivers for that system's chipset are not installed. Switching to AHCI mode requires installing new drivers before changing the BIOS settings.

* When attempting to install Microsoft Windows XP or a previous version on an AHCI-enabled system will cause the setup to fail with the error message 

"set up could not detect hard disk drive...". This problem can only be corrected by using a floppy disk with the appropriate drivers or by slipstreaming 

* Enabling AHCI in a system BIOS on installations of Windows XP or Windows Vista, will cause SATA Optical drives to disappear. A Hotfix for Windows Vista is available. SATA optical drives are not available after you start a Windows Vista-based computer.

Vista fixes this by natively supporting AHCI. In other words you can smoothly install a Vista on the Hard drive without worrying anything.

Have Fun on installing Xp!!