Program exe or COM Surrogate has stopped working in Windows 10

On your Windows 10/8/7 operating system, if you ever receive an error message: Program exe or COM Surrogate has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a […]

How to take full Ownership of Files & Folders in Windows 10

This post shows how you can take full ownership of files and folders in Windows 10/8/7. After introducing the User Account Control in Windows Vista, Microsoft increased the security of its core system files by hardening its Effective Permissions. Most of […]

MailBird: Windows mail client to manage multiple IMAP and POP email accounts

MailBird is an elegant looking and fast email client for Windows 10/8/7 that is designed to work with multiple email accounts, including Gmail & Google Apps. It can manage your mail for multiple IMAP and POP email accounts. MailBird review One […]

Create Password Reset Disk using USB Flash drive on Windows 10/8/7

Passwords are one thing we forget, and the reason is that we tend to create complex and secure passwords which are hard to remember. In this article, I’ll tell you how to create a Password Reset Disk on USB Flash […]

Peerio: Free secure messaging and file sharing service

Today, we are forced to store digital data and secure it using the most sophisticated technology, to prevent out accounts from getting hacked and consequently, our data compromised. Unlike old time, when we used to store all important information like […]

Checklist for smooth installation of Windows 10

It’s an exciting time for Windows enthusiasts all world the world, with the release of Windows 10 Technical Preview having happened, and I’m sure most of them are getting ready to take it for test drive. So in this post I’ll suggest […]

Dual Boot Repair Tool: Repair Boot Configuration Data for Windows

The source of most of the unbootable situations on Windows 10/8/7, is caused by misconfiguration or even corrupted Boot Configuration Data files, otherwise known as BCD. BCD contains boot configuration parameters on how to start your Windows operating system. In […]

Q-Dir: Quad Explorer replacement freeware for Windows

Are you one of those people who keep multiple Windows explorer open to move files around to organize you files and folders in a better way then Q-Dir is for you. Q-Dir is a Quad Explorer, based on Windows Explorer […]

Five Best System Rescue Disks for Windows

A System Rescue Disk is designed to recover your data or rescue your computer from crashes, like an operating system failure, accidental damage, etc. It maybe due hardware failure, OS failure, software problems or due to malware infection. It mainly provides a means to connect the […]

SSuite Picsel Security lets you encrypt messages in images

In this Internet age, nothing is really secure and one of the primary concern of most of the users is data security. We are always trying to find new ways to secure out data, whether it’s just passwords or a specific […]

There was a problem starting C:\Windows\System32\LogiLDA.dll error

Whenever there is a major update on Windows, some users tend to run into a lot of issues. Not that the update is bad, it’s mostly because of software conflicts, environmental issues, etc, that these issues arise.  We discussed different errors […]

Move, Copy, Sync files between cloud services and devices with Jumptuit

Jumptuit is a one stop place for most your cloud storage services like OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox etc. I always find it different to manage my cloud storages, since they are all located in different places and it’s not easy to sync them. Jumptuit […]

SX Antivirus Kit: All in one Security Software Suite for Windows

SX Antivirus Kit is an all-in-one security software kit with a variety of anti-virus and anti-spyware related tools for Windows. SX Antivirus Kit is from SecurityXploded – the community division of XenArmor, a popular Infosec Research & Development organization, offering […]

Run System File Checker in Safe Mode, Boot Time or Offline on Windows 10/8/7

In this post we will see how to run System File Checker in Safe Mode, Offline or at Boot Time in Windows 10/8.1. This is useful if SFC will not run or start. One of the useful tool Microsoft introduced on […]

USB Device Tree Viewer, a Microsoft USBView based program

USB Device Tree Viewer is a free tool that allows you to to browse your USB Controllers and connected USB devices on your Windows computer. It is based on Microsoft USBView. Microsoft USBView is an application that comes with Windows […]

Configuration system failed to initialize 0x84B10001 when installing SQL Server on Windows

This week we will discuss one of the most common error messages we get while we install SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows systems. This is the fifth article of SQL Troubleshooting series we started few weeks ago. In the […]

The installer has encountered an unexpected error code 2203, while Installing SQL Server

This week we will discuss one of the most common error messages we get while we install SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows systems. This is the fourth article of SQL Troubleshooting series we started four weeks ago. Last couple of […]

Troubleshoot Assembly Errors When Installing SQL 2008 R2 on Windows

This week we will discuss how to troubleshoot different assembly errors that we get while troubleshooting install for SQL Server. I’ll focus this article more on SQL Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 system. Before I start, I’ll explain what […]

MsiGetProductInfo failed to retrieve ProductVersion while installalling SQL 2008R2

This week we will discuss one of the most common error messages we get while we install SQL 2008 /R2 version of Windows. This is the third article of SQL Troubleshooting series we started two weeks ago. Last week we […]

Performance counter registry hive consistency check when installing SQL Server on Windows

Like I mentioned last week, I’ll be covering different SQL Server installation related problems and different troubleshooting tips to resolve the problem. Last week we discussed how to manage SQL Server stopped working error and went through different steps to […]