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PC Irritants: What To Do About Them

by: KayBrenner
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From a design standpoint, Microsoft developed Windows to be easy and intuitive; most computing tasks can be accomplished with relative ease within the cozy Windows environment, and, most of the time, Windows will get out of your way and let you do your thing. But every version of Windows has a dark side that gets a little illumination from time to time: lurking in the cyber shadows are annoying security alerts, long unplugged USB device notifications, and pointless balloon messages that announce the obvious and lame, just to name several Windows annoyances that can be quickly disabled at your whim if you've got the inclination and information.

Here is how you should deal with these PC irritants.

Irritant: Writing Failure on Disconnecting USB Drives

Windows really has an issue with your USB drives when you disconnect them. If you did not take care to let Windows know that the USB drive had been disconnected, then you will have to deal with some really annoying errors resulting in the process. What happens is that Windows will still try to write on the USB drive, even after it has been unplugged. Here is the easiest solution to these PC irritant: search your system tray for the "Safely Remove Hardware" utility and use it; this will announce whenever an USB device is disconnected, and it will ensure that Windows will not try anymore to write data on thin air. This is only one tool, but you can always find other free software to master your USB drives, on the Internet.

Irritant: Perpetual Security Alert Messages

Because you like to have your computer protected against evil threats, you have installed on it the latest versions of antiviruses. And still, Windows is trying to remind you that you are not good enough at this. Of course, this is not the case, but the dumb security alerts you get from Windows do not cease so easily. The reason for this happening is that Windows knows when you play with the antivirus settings and interprets it as a breach in security. Get rid of this irritant, by entering the Virus Protection Panel and choosing the option that allows you to monitor, through the antivirus, you own computer, instead of Windows.

Printer Messages Are A Hassle

Trying to send files to a network printer can prove to be hassle with Windows on your footsteps. Anytime you try to do that, a message will appear, just in case you do not know what you are doing. Do not let the system insult your intelligence and disable the annoying messages from Control Panel. There you will find, in Printers and Faxes, on File, the Server Properties. An the Advanced Tab, there is a box saying "Notify me when remote documents are printed"; this is the one that must be unchecked. All done!

Irritant: Whimsical E-mail Clients

You'll most likely experience this when default settings are not reset when you uninstall a web browser. For example, say you install Firefox, but you decide you'd like to go back to surfing the web with Internet Explorer instead. URLs that you receive in an email client, like Thunderbird or Outlook, may no longer open when you uninstall Firefox, as you need to give the default rights back to Internet Explorer to make the URLs open correctly in IE. Navigate to the Control Panel and select Internet Options; next, choose Programs, and select "Internet Explorer as the default browser". A simple fix for a very annoying problem.

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Kay Brenner is a PC utilities consultant who specializes in restoring your slow PC, saving you time and money wrestling with a sick computer. To learn how to avoid computer problems, download a free PC Optimizer

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