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By James Ricketts | January 2008
With so many software programs installed on your Windows computer,
the occurrence of software errors is not uncommon. Many software errors are
circumstantial and usually disappear when you restart your PC. However, there
are a few errors that are caused due to missing or corrupt files and other
issues on the system that you may need to resolve.
For instance, the application
error 126
given below may occur when the client side ODBC driver for SQL Server is not
installed, or is corrupt or missing from your PC.
“Specified driver
could not be loaded due to system error 126 (SQL Server)”
You can easily resolve this issue by downloading and installing
the latest Microsoft Data Access Components from the Microsoft Support Website.
Application errors such
as error 126 are common on computers that:
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Are not updated regularly.
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Are not well-protected against malware programs.
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Have a large, fragmented, and corrupt
Windows registry.
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Cluttered, fragmented and slow hard disk.
Let us see how you can take care of these problems and prevent
these troublesome software errors.
Software manufacturers such as Microsoft, Hewlitt Packard, and
Symantec release regular updates for their software programs and device drivers.
Many of these products also come with built-in, automatic update features that
you must enable to ensure that your computer is up-to-date with these releases.
Installing these updates not only helps you prevent software errors that may
occur due to obsolete files, but also helps you make your computer more secure,
and maintains a high performance level.
If software errors start appearing suddenly and your PC also slows
down, it usually indicates that your system is infected by some type of malware
infection such as virus, Trojan, spyware or adware infection. This is the reason
why, in order to fix and prevent software errors, you must perform regular full
system scans using reliable, efficient, and updated antivirus and antispyware
tools. It is recommended that you use tools that come with a real-time
protection feature. Enabling this feature helps you ensure that your system is
protected against viruses at all times.
Registry problems occur due to the accumulation of a large amount
of unwanted, invalid, and obsolete data in the registry that causes registry
bloating and eventually corrupts and fragments its files. Some of the common
causes of registry bloating are:
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Frequent installation of software programs,especially freeware
tools, games and programs on the system.
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Incorrect or incomplete removal of programs.
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System crashes.
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Malware infections
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Software updates that fail to remove old registry entries.
In order to prevent registry bloating and prevent software errors,
it is recommended that you use a reliable and efficient registry cleaner tool to
perform the following registry maintenance activities:
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Automatically perform a deep and thorough scan of the registry
to detect and remove all unwanted information from it.
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Perform customized registry scans to repair specific software
errors, such as DLL errors and driver errors.
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Defrag the registry to compress and reindex its files
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Backup the registry regularly to ensure that you can restore it
if an irreversible error occurs.
In the end, use the Disk Cleanup tool to remove unwanted junk
files from the hard disk. For instance, you can use this tool to remove unwanted
Internet Explorer and Program setup files, empty the Recycle Bin, uninstall
unwanted programs and Windows components, and remove outdated system restore
points. After cleaning the disk, run the Disk Defragmenter tool to analyze and
consolidate the fragmented data stored on the disk. This not only helps you
speed up your computer, but also helps you prevent several software errors.
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