Showing posts with label Windows Tricks. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 1, 2014

How to Fix USB Device Not Recognized in Windows

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Are you getting a “USB device not recognized” error whenever you plug in a USB mouse, keyboard, or other USB device? I love USB and have 5 ports on my computer so that I can connect my mouse, keyboard, camera, phone, and printer to it all at once!
However, last weekend, my computer stopped recognizing my USB devices! The strange thing about it was that the USB ports were not bad because all of my devices were still getting power to them. I could still charge my cell phone without a problem!
usb device not recognized
So I started with the normal fixing methods, including uninstalling the drivers for my devices and reinstalling them. That didn’t work! Next I tried System Restore thinking that maybe I had installed something and it caused a conflict with the USB system drivers. That didn’t work!
I read online that in order to fix this problem I should go to Device Manager and uninstall all of the devices under USB Controllers. Restarted the computer, reinstalled the USB drivers, but the problem STILL did not go away!
You may also see in Device Manager that the device shows up as an “Unknown Device”.
unknown usb device
So how did I finally fix the problem? Well, apparently it’s a super simple solution! No need to edit the registry, uninstall drivers, or anything of that sort.
Simply UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER FROM THE POWER SUPPLY. Yes that’s it! Note that this does not mean just turning off your computer because modern computers don’t really turn off when you press the power button as the motherboard still gets power.
First to explain, the motherboard is where all of hardware of the computer is connected to, including the USB ports. Sometimes the motherboard needs to be “rebooted” also because something can go wrong, i.e. all your USB ports suddenly stop working. The small microprocessor on the motherboard will reload the drivers and your USB ports should be back to recognizing all devices!
So first turn off your computer using Shut Down or pressing the power button and then UNPLUG it from the wall outlet. Let it sit for about a minute and then plug it back in.
Hope this helps someone fix that pesky “USB device not recognized” Windows error!




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Friday, January 31, 2014

Free software to protect personal folders without Deleting and Reading

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Protected Folder

The Most Advanced and Easiest Folder Protection Tool


  • No Worries of Data Theft by Malicious Behavior
  • No Worries of Privacy Leaks on Shared Computer
  • Multiple Protection Levels for Different Needs
  • Super Easy to lock folder

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What does
Protected Folder do?
Protected Folder is a folder / file locker which protects user's privacy and important data from theft, loss or leaks. To lock folder and file, just drag and drop them into Protected Folder's safety box and you can hide and protect them from being viewed or modified. Protected Folder is an ideal folder locker if you are concerned with the security of you private or important data.


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AutoGK (Auto Gordian Knot) 2.55 - DVD to AVI/DivX/XVid Ripper in very easy-to-use interface

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AutoGK includes everything you need to rip DVD to AVI/DivX/XVid in very easy-to-use interface. It also supports other MPEG2 sources, such as HDTV, DVB captures and transport streams.


AutoGK contains following codecs and tools

- VirtualDubMod 
- AviSynth & AviSynth Filters
- DGMPGDec
- VobSub
- XviD
- and Auto Gordian Knot (of course)


Features of AutoGK (Auto Gordian Knot):

- DVD, Mpeg2, transport streams (including multi-program ones) input sources
- XviD or DivX output formats
- AC3, DTS, PCM, MPA input audio tracks
- AC3, DTS, CBR MP3 or VBR MP3 output audio tracks
- two audio tracks in AVI
- external (vobsub) or internal (burnt-in) subtitles (with support of forced subs)
- HDTV input/output resolutions(upto 1920x***) and frame rates (50/60fps)
- automatic crop and resize based on compressibility of the source to achieve best results
- automatic detection of input source: PAL, NTSC, FILM, HYBRID
- automatic deinterlacer and IVTC
- automatic split into CD-sized chunks for main video and external subs


Changes in AutoGK 2.55 :

- Finally we're at a point when a stable version is ready!
- XviD bundled was still 1.3.0 somehow, which is updated to 1.2.1
- ColorMatrix filter updated


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FortiClient - New antivirus software with a variety of facilities

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FortiClient Features - Windows
















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Winternals ERD Commander ( DaRT ) or Windows Password Key for Recovering PC Administrator Password

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Do you have this annoyance, forgot administrator password for Windows 7/Vista/XP computer and now you are worried that you have to reinstall system in order to regain access to your computer? It does happen to most of us or you are helping people get out of this. There are many ways for Administrator password recovery, reinstall system isn’t a wise choice as it will lose your data.

Using E.R.D. Commander to recover administrator password

You can recover your forgotten password using Lock Smith utility which is part of ERD Commander tool by win internals.

The Locksmith Wizard of Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset ( DaRT ) 7.0 allows you to change the password of any account in the local operating system Windows 7, you can get it from Microsoft website of somewhere you know.This is very helpful if you don’t have a password reset disk. Try to follow these steps

1. Download and Install DaRT 7.0 , then Creating a Recovery CD/DVD with it.

2. Start your computer and enter into Bios Setup by Pressing F2. Change your boot preferences to boot from CD /DVD.

3. Insert the CD / DVD DaRT 7.0 drive in the locked computer.

4. The computer starts from this disk, when you see the dialog box System Recovery Options, select Microsoft @Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset,
Next, choose Locksmith

5. In the Locksmith Wizard, click next to continue.
Then select the account you want to change the password, entering the new password and confirm. Click Finish to close the wizard.

6. In the window Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset click the Close dialog box and the System Recovery Options then click Restart .

7. Remove the CD/DVD and then wait for Windows to load and log on with administrator account using the new password set.

The following lists some other problems that can be solved using the utilities and wizards that are provided in the Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset.
  • Edit the Registry
  • Regain access to a system
  • Diagnose a system failure
  • Salvage and repair partitions or volumes
  • Recover deleted files
  • Erase disks or volumes
  • Search for particular files
  • Browse drives
  • Perform administrative tasks to manage the computer
  • Configure TCP/IP
  • Uninstall Windows hotfixes and service packs
  • Check and repair system files
  • Use an anti-malware tool


DaRT Version Information

  • DaRT 8.1 supports Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.
  • DaRT 8.0 supports Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
  • DaRT 7.0 supports Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
  • DaRT 6.5 supports Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
  • DaRT 6.0 supports Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
  • DaRT 5.0 supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.


Although, E.R.D Commander is useful, it is not an easy job for us to remove the password.  If you have difficulty in getting E.R.D Commander, there is another wise choice for you, Use Windows Password Key to recover Administrator password in minutes with easy steps.
1. Log in any available computer that you can access to and allows you download. Download and install Windows Password Key in that computer.
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2. Burn a password reset disk with the program

3. Insert the created disk to your locked computer, change the bios setup by pressing F2 to make sure your computer can boot from this disk.

4. Choose the account which you want to remove its password.

This program works efficiently, with 100% recovery rate, for those computer newbie to recover administrator password, it is no doubt a wise choice.

 

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Unlock & Unhide Windows 7 Hidden Themes

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Windows 7 ThemesWindows 7 Themes and wallpapers are amazing as compared to Windows vista. Microsoft windows 7 has default 5 theme but Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 onwards has several hidden & locked themes provided for regional countries such as Australia, Canada, Great Britain, United States and South Africa.

Since these hidden themes are installed along with your Windows 7 installation you can unlock/unhide these hidden Windows 7 Themes for regional countries. Below are three different methods to get Windows 7 hidden themes.

Screenshot of Default Windows 7 Themes

Windows 7 Default Themes

Method 1: Steps to Unlock & Unhide Windows 7 hidden locked Themes

1. Unhide the Windows 7 System and Protected Operating System files from Windows explorer -> Organize -> Folder and Search Options -> view tab
2. Navigate to C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT.
3. Open a MCT-(AU, CA, GB, US, or ZA) folder for the regional theme that you want.
NOTE: AU, CA and ZA regions all have the same themes though.
4. Open the Theme folder in the selected region folder.
5. Select the .theme file to use it.
NOTE: Once you select a .theme file, Windows 7 will save it so that you will be able to change or select this theme again from within the normal Personalization window location.
6. Hide the Windows 7 System and Protected Operating System files.
7. Enjoy your new regional themes!!

Method 2: Using windows 7 Search (Simplest Method)

1. Go to \Windows\winsxs Directory
2. Search for *.theme.
Winsxs Themes
3. Double click themes with name in the format of XX to apply and save the theme.

Method 3: Registry Entry

1. Open notepad and copy past the following lines
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\InstalledThemes\MCT]
“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-AU\\Theme\\AU.theme”=””
“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-CA\\Theme\\CA.theme”=””
“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-GB\\Theme\\GB.theme”=””
“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-US\\Theme\\US.theme”=””
“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-ZA\\Theme\\ZA.theme”=””
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Wallpapers\KnownFolders\Windows Wallpapers\MergeFolders]
“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-AU\\Wallpaper”=””
“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-CA\\Wallpaper”=””
“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-GB\\Wallpaper”=””
“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-US\\Wallpaper”=””
“%windir%\\Globalization\\MCT\\MCT-ZA\\Wallpaper”=””
2. Save file as allregional.reg on desktop.
3. Double click on allregional.reg to add above registry entry.
4. Now you can access all Windows 7 Hidden & Locked Themes via right clicking on desktop and personalize settings.
We have created allregional.reg file for you, Download allregional.reg and run it on your machine and access hidden Windows 7 Themes instantly.

Screenshot of Unlocked – Unhide Windows 7 Hidden Themes

Unlock & Unhide Windows 7 Hidden & Locked Regional Themes





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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

AOMEI Partition Assistant - Professional and complete disk partition solution for Windows OS

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  • Partition Management: Resize/Move, Merge/Split/Align, Create/Delete/Format Partitions, Copy Disk and Partition etc.
  • Partition Wizards: Extend Partition Wizard, Migrate OS to SSD Wizard, Windows To Go Creator, and etc.
  • Others: Recover Partitions, Create Bootable CD, Wipe Hard Disk Drive, etc.










Overview




AOMEI Partition Assistant contains more than 30 valuable functions, which can manage your hard disks and 
partitions in all dimensions. These features can fix the problem about "low disk space", address the problem of  irrational disk partition, and help you easily realize to repartition a hard drive without loss of data. If you need to migrate system to SSD or copy one hard drive to another new and so on, the program can also achieve your purpose flexibly.



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Sunday, January 12, 2014

How to Hide or Unhide Hard Disk Partition in Windows 7/Vista/XP

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Hiding a partition or volume from my computer or explorer is preventing that partition from displaying, but it doesn't mean erasing any data or deleting the volume. Windows OS Disk management system allows hiding drives except the System drive where the OS is installed and the System reserved volume. So, anyone who has administrative privilege or the administrator of the Windows machine can do this task. And the basic trick is, without any drive letter (Ex: C:, D:, E: etc.) Windows OS doesn't recognize any drive or partition and here we are going to remove that letter temporally.


How to hide a drive: 
     1. Click right mouse on the computer and select Manage. Select the disk management under storage from the left pane. Or, you can also get the Disk management typing diskmgmt.msc in the run and pressing enter.
Disk Management

     2. From there click right-mouse on which drive you want to hide and select Change Drive Letters and Paths.
Change Drive Letter or Path

     3. Now select remove. Don’t worry! This action just removes the drive letter.
Remove drive

     4. Pressing on the Remove a warning message will be shown and accept it by clicking on yes. It’s just telling you that all programs installed on that drive won’t work or this drive is opened by another program. 
Warning Message 

It’s done! Your selected drive is hidden now. 

The hidden drive won’t be appearing to the administrator of the OS unless it is unhidden. 



How to unhide the drive: 
    1. Open the Disk Management as shown above.

    2. Right mouse click on the drive which is hidden/removed. Tips: the hidden drive doesn’t contain any drive letter. 

    3. Choose the Change Drive Letters and Paths and select Add to add drive letter or path to the hidden drive.
Add hidden drive

Assign drive letter

     4. At last choose a drive letter to assign the drive/partition and press on OK. Wow! The hidden partition is displayed in an explorer or my computer.

That's it! No data is lost or damage. Even the installed files are working again without any errors. From now you shouldn't need any extra software to hide or unhide your PC's drives. And if it helps you, why don't you share this?






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Friday, January 10, 2014

How to Get Back the Start button in Windows 8

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Have you used Windows xp or Windows 7 and now you are Using Windows 8? if yes then very first thing you will miss in windows 8 is the Start button. for some good reason may be microsoft Decided to drop the idea of Start button in windows 8 like we had in earlier version. Many people kind of didn’t liked this change because they were addicted to the habbit of start button,
Get Back the Start button in Windows 8
Meanwhile there was a Recent upgrade to windows 8, ie windows 8.1 and the Start button is back. this article is  for windows 8 users who have not upgraded or can’t upgrade and wish to Get Back the Start button in Windows 8. So I have Come up with interesting Solution which I wish to share with you all which will help you to Get Back the Start button in Windows 8.

Steps to Get Back the Start button in Windows 8


I will Show you two Easy methods to Get Back the Start button in Windows 8.

1.Have a Windows Start Menu Toolbar:

Yes , you can have or create a start Menu on the toolbar, and this can be done by following below mentioned easy steps.
  • Firstly enable the Show hidden files option.
  • Now Create a New Folder, Now Copy and paste all Files, Docs, Setups or Programs that you Use Daily and Wish to have it within seconds in this new Folder.
  • Now  a right click on the Task bar , Hover your mouse on Toolbar then select a new Toolbar from the Toolbar option.
And finally browse to the New Folder you Created and click select folder. With these above mentioned steps you will see a new start menu folder on the Right hand side of the task bar. this is not your start button like we had in windows 7 and xp but this is very close to it.

 2. Get Back the Start button in Windows 8 Using Softwares.

You can also have few more softwares or options by which start button or start menu can be installed with more features to be enjoyed, and without any defects/problems that you can face after the installation.
1. Classic shell : This is an outstanding free software that you can have to add up a start menu button to the Task bar, and not only this but you are lucky enough to get a few more features that come with it.
2. ViStart 8 : This is another outstanding software which I personally recommend as I have personally tried it out in my Windows 8 PC and got a positive result from this with an amazing Start button on my task bar which made it easy for me, and along with this I also got additional features which are cool like the ability to change the skin and much more.
3. Pokki : Up to now we have seen Couple softwares to Get Back the Start button in Windows 8 and trust me the best by far is Pokki, I can say that because many of my Friends are Using Pokki, they Never had any problem with it.
With this it Concludes my list of Softwares to Get Back the Start button in Windows 8, If you Know any other good quality Software then feel free to share with us in Comments.





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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Subway Surfer for PC - Playable With Keyboard

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Installation and Instruction


Download Subway Surfer Full PC Game Below
Install Subway Surfer
Download Keyboard Settings and Extract to any Folder
Install AutoHotkey_By-TUAHA
Now Open TUAHA (with Logo H)
Open Subway Surfer and Play Game With Keyboard
Press Up to Jump
Press Down to Roll
Press Left to Turn Left
Press Right to Turn Right




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