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When I run HitmanPro, it says that mpchc64.exe is a trojan. A virustotal analysis seems to show malicious flags triggered by several vendors. What is going on? Why does a file by Media Player Classic team contain a trojan? Solution: That is not the version of Media Player Classic installed on your computer, and indeed […]

It seems that Windows Search is having trouble when I specify a question mark character as the content that I’m searching for within my files. I’ve tried: content:? content:”?” content:”?” content:? content:%3f content:”%3f” content:3f content:”3f” content:0003F but each of these yield no results when I do indeed have files that contain ? within the scope

What are some steps that you usually take? Are there any good ways of finding out what they mean etc.? For example I have gotten these ones where it pretty much only says “IRQ less or equal to” (or something like that) which I must say, doesn’t really tell me much! Another one I got

I’ve been running a asus gforce 8800 gts 320mb on my desktop, and apparently there was a sudden failure. I’m getting no output from it, but the system seems to have booted up – since i can hear sound from it. Monitor seems fine, but i have no other DVI-D devices to test if its

How can I fix an inkjet printer where one of the colors isn’t printing well anymore? My Canon PIXMA iP3000 has served me well for a few years, and I print color and B&W material on a regular basis. A few days ago, the cyan has developed a defect — the printout is striped, so

My computer powered off the other day on its own, and now when I push the power button, nothing happens. My assumption would naturally be that the power supply is done (possibly well done) but is there any good way to test this before I buy a new one? Solution: Unplug the power supply from

You know the drill – you’ve been asked to check why your cousin’s computer is running slow. I was right there yesterday. Being a Mac user since 2007 I haven’t really dug deep in Windows internals in the past five years. Googling for answers reveals many, many different answers: broken registry, spyware, antivirus program, fragmented

Is there a way to turn off the file extension rename dialog in Windows 7? The one that prompts you   Rename: If you change a filename extension, the file might become unusable. Are you sure you want to change it? Solution: It’s possible with an AutoHotkey script: While, 1{ WinWait, Rename ahk_class #32770 WinActivate,

The problem is, when I open applications I need to always right click, select run as admin. When I don’t do it getting unexpected application errors. BTW, I turned off UAC. It’s annoying. Is there any way to change behavior of double left-click to act as “Run as administrator” action? I mean to make “Run

Since I can’t find any alternative to Linux’ sudo elevation command, I have the following question: How to define a PowerShell function which requires elevation? I mean UAC prompt. Say, such function follows: function system-check {    SFC /ScanNow} System: Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit PowerShell: Major  Minor  Build  Revision—–  —–  —–  ——–5      0      10586  117 EDIT1: