In the process of using Windows, we may have encountered such situations: the system restarts, shuts down or becomes blue screen, black screen without any warning or notice. Then you can no longer log on to the system, or get into an endless loop of blue/black screen + reboot. This case, you may first think that this is probably caused by hardware failures. However, that is almost always caused by conflicts between hardware drivers or errors of system kernel modules. The former is usually shown as a blue screen (+ restart), while the latter is usually shown as an automatic restart by default.

The DriverStore folder (C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore) is used to store the third-party drivers for hardware by Windows. When you manually install a hardware driver, the corresponding driver files will be copied to this folder. When you uninstall this driver, the files should be removed too. However, if you just update a driver, then Windows will keep the old versions of this driver in case you encounter a problem and roll it back in the future. But the problem is that we almost never need to use those old drives.

When Microsoft Office's activation fails or it runs into unsolvable problems, we often need a clean and complete uninstall to get everything ready to start from scratch. While to completely uninstall Office, neither of the official approaches (Uninstall Office from a PC, Manually uninstall Office) offered by Microsoft is worth wasting time to try. Instead, in addition to those universal software uninstalling tools like Total Uninstall and Uninstall Tool, you can also choose to use the more specialized Office Uninstall instead.

The startup of programs (including viruses) includes at least three layers: 1) the Startup items floating on the top surface (as bare as our skin); 2) starts by disguising itself as a system service (like our muscles); 3) disguises as a drive file to run itself (like our bones). Here the thing to be considered is - let any program start with system boot as a Windows service.

SIW (short for System Information for Windows) is a very powerful and advanced computer detailed information analyzing and viewing tool, developed by Topala Software Solutions from Canada. This compact program enables user to easily browse quite extensive information about hardware and software along with their configuration of your computer. Besides, various network information can also be viewed here.