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By James Ricketts | April 2009
A recent survey by a computer magazine found out that 56% of computer owners are using their computers daily to store critical information regarding their business and personal life. This signifies that computer users are relying on their computers more than ever before.
This is the reason why any problem in your computer may lead to loss of both information and productivity. There may also be financial implications involved in case you require the services of a computer maintenance expert. Also, due to this increase in dependency on computers, computer errors are fast becoming a major cause of frustration.
Computer and software manufacturers are also not doing much when it comes to educating computer owners in dealing with errors. In this article, we are going to throw light on one particular type of computer error, known as EXE errors.
EXE errors are associated with the program executable files that have the filename extension .exe. The purpose of these files is to either run an entire application or perform a particular task or action for an application. Exe errors occur when the exe files of one or more programs on your computer are corrupt, missing, or conflicting with some other program running on your computer.
Some of the common causes of exe errors are outdated files, incorrect updates, malware infections and registry problems. For example, you may encounter high CPU usage on your computer by ccsvchst.exe if your Norton 2007 product is not updated, and by pcscnsrv.exe if you have updated to PC-Cillin 2007. Also, aolload.exe corrupt file issue may occur if there is some problem with the AOL software on your computer.
The following are some of the methods that you can use to prevent and fix exe errors:
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You must scan your computer for viruses and spyware on a regular basis. To do this, you need to use efficient antivirus and antispyware programs. To ensure that you use these tools to the fullest, keep them updated with the latest definitions and schedule regular automatic full system scans.
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Remember to update your operating system, applications and device drivers periodically. Failure to do so may result in several computer problems such as computer slow down due to high usage of system resources by exe services running on your computer and occurrence of frequent exe and other errors.
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You must maintain an error-free and compact registry. This is essential because the Windows registry, which stores all configuration data of your Windows computer, can bloat up to a very large size because over time, it gets filled up with large amount of unwanted entries. A bloated Windows registry can corrupt and fragment easily. As a result the system slows down and starts generating errors. To prevent registry errors and to speed up data access time, you need to regularly clean up and compress the registry. A good registry tool enables you to both clean up and defrag the registry which reduces the registry size. The best thing about a registry tool is that these maintenance tasks can be done easily in just a few mouse clicks.
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