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Most of the times virus or trojan attacks disable task manager, registry editor, run dialog box or send to context menu. Any user who has been running Windows for quite a while can give a list of such Windows registry related errors. There are over 32 such problems (errors) that we come across again and again.

XP Quick Fix

XP Quick Fix is a portable, small and fast utility which solves 25 most common Windows XP problems (with a small extra, a command line utility to fix 5 common problems directly from command line) thus a must have on every computer!


Using XP Quick Fix is very simple, just run it, and click on the button with the relevant fix.
Clicking a fix button is safe and will not harm even a proper configured computer !

Following is the list of common fixes that are present in XP Quick Fix tool:

* Enable Task Manager

* Enable Registry Editor

* Stop My Documents open at startup

* Enable Folder Options

* Restore missing Run dialog box

* Enable Command Prompt

* Restore My Computer (Computer) properties

* Restore Device Manager

* Fix delay in opening Explorer

* Restore grayed Explorer and Taskbar toolbars

* Restore My Documents properties

* Remove OEM splash and wallpaper

* Restore My Network Places to Desktop

* Enable Recovery Console

* Restore grayed file associations

* Fix right-click error

* Fix slow network file/shared/remote

* Restore Network icon to system tray

* Fix slow hotkeys

* Fix CD/DVD drive is missing or not recognized

* Fix CD autoplay

* Restore "Send To" context menu item

* Restore the native ZIP file integration

* Fix error 1606 couldn’t access network location

* Error when trying to access Add or Remove/ Program and Features program

Note that some of the fixes may work on Windows 7 and Vista. But this program works great on Windows XP. If you haven’t tried this portable utility yet, we recommend it.

Download XP Quick Fix

[via Geekissimo]