Sunday, 6 January 2013

Secure certificate problem and media players problem solved at a single step

My laptop got repaired and was kept aside for almost one and a half month. I had my mother board and processor changed. When I turned on my laptop after such a longtime, the catalyst center stopped working.
Not even a single browser opened in secure mode. so couldn't open gmail or facebook or any other secure sites.
All the media players stopped working.

The solution I came across for catalyst center is the making the 'appdata' folder in C:\users\admin(if you have given a name it would be the name of subdirectory instead of admin) visible.
Malware will make the appdata folder hidden and so catalyst center can't access it. I've changed the properties.

The issue regarding the browsers, it showed a error message that secure certificate will not work until ______(some date).
I have just changed my system date to the date beyond the warning date and every issue was set.
The browsers started working fine.

And surprisingly my media players also starting working. I couldn't know how.  If you ever face this problem, try this as one of your troubleshooting methods.