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This was a long and tiring day.I learned a lot about clonezilla and windows xp. I first tried to clone partitions and whole disks in different ways. In clonezilla terms these are device to image file or device to device. I couldnt much succeded in device to device option. May be due to lack of reading howto and wiki. Clonezilla first asks the device or place where  the image is going to be stored or read from. That comes to me weird at the beginning to me but later I got used to it. I cloned partitions or disks to images which are located in usb disks,local disks or even on an ssh server.This was fun. Then when it comes to restore the problems begin :) .OK. Yes there are some problems which are behind the doors and waiting you after or while restoring images. Firstly Clonezilla cant restore to a smaller hard drive or partition. To make it restore to a smaller drive in FAQ it is stated that one must use gparted or else to shrink the original partition before making the image. So thi...

On a computer when right clicked on the desktop one was getting the alert saying that "Windows Explorer stopped working.Trying to find solutions.." etc. I first tried to do "sfc /scannow" on a root command prompt which gave that everything is OK. Then I started investigating the cause of Windows Explorer's crash by navigating through Event Viewer. And I found entries which clued that explorer.exe's crash is due to shell extensions dll file. Then I realised that there is a good shell extensions viewer provided free by Nirsoft at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html. Thanks to these guys I used the program and found the third party extension which I guess infected by a malicious program. First disabled it and checked that if it causes the crash, then removed the Registry keys of it. Voila now the explorer.exe is working just fine.