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SHAREit for Windows PC How to transfer files between mobile phone and PC SHAREit is a popular application that allows you to easily transfer photos, videos & files between iPhone, Android & Windows Phone and a Windows PC or Mac, without the use of an Internet connection. Pre-requisites: Both the devices, that is your phone and PC has to be connected to a common WiFi hotspot.The SHAREit app has been installed on your phone and PC....

While in Windows Vista, the Sidebar starts multiple instances of the sidebar.exe process, in Windows 7, only one instance of the sidebar.exe process starts. Moreover, this single instance does not start until a gadget is added to the desktop, the Gadget Picker starts, or a new user session starts with existing gadgets on the desktop. If the Gadget Picker is closed with no gadgets added to the desktop, or the last gadget is deleted from the desktop, the sidebar....

Turn On BitLocker for Windows 11/10 System Drives without TPM Allowing BitLocker without a TPM will require unlocking the operating system drive at startup with either a password or startup key on a USB flash drive. This option is used when you don’t want to use or have a TPM chip on your PC. 1] Open the Local Group Policy Editor and navigate to this setting- On the right pane of Operating System Drives double-click Require additional authentication at startup policy to edit it....

Turn On or Off Pinch to Zoom on Touchpad in Windows 11/10 To turn on or off Pinch to Zoom on Touchpad, try any of the following methods. Let us talk about them in detail. 1] From Windows Settings We should first see how you configure the Touchpad Zoom option via Windows Settings. It is obviously the easiest method as Settings is meant to simplify configuring the system. If you want to enable pinch to zoom, try the following steps....

Unable to purchase apps from Microsoft Store TIf you are unable to purchase apps from the Microsoft Store, follow these suggestions: Let’s check out these steps in detail to learn more. 1] Verify or add a payment method For obvious reasons, you have to add your credit/debit card to your Microsoft account to purchase an app or app subscription from the Microsoft Store. If you have an expired card in your account, you cannot complete the purchase, and the Microsoft Store may show different error messages at times....

The entire error message says: Although the solutions are already mentioned in the error message, you might not be able to fix them at times. Therefore, you may need to follow all the subsequent steps one after one. Ensure that Virtual Machine Platform is enabled in optional Windows feature. Entire that your device has virtualization enabled in the bios. If you’re running Windows Subsystem for Android in a VM ensure that you have enabled nested virtualization for the VM on the host....

Universal Viewer File Viewer for Windows PC Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer with a wide range of formats supported. Use it on your Windows PC if you want to view files for which you have no other software installed. It supports the following file formats: It is integrated into Windows Explorer’s context menu; simply right-click a file and select the “Universal Viewer” item. Additional features: Built-in functions of popular plugins: images, multimedia, webpages view...

First introduced to Office Premium users including Home, and Personal subscribers, Files Restore is now available to your personal OneDrive account starting with Windows 10 v1803. It offers the ability to recover files from malicious attacks like ransomware and new tools to help keep your information secure and private. How OneDrive File Restore works The first step you need to take is to start saving your files on OneDrive. If not everything, make sure to keep most important files on OneDrive....

Microsoft Planner is a to-do app that comes only with Office 365. In these days of self-quarantine let’s learn how to use the application to make ourselves more productive. While being at home can make us lazy, prioritizing tasks is what we need to do. Use Microsoft Planner to keep track of tasks The application works with “Plans” tied to Office 365 Groups. This means that all the tasks or plans work according to the group to which they belong....

Find & insert content using Tap for Outlook To insert and re-use content using Tap in Outlook, open the Outlook app. Click the Home tab and from the ‘New group’, select ‘New Email’ option. Instantly, a new message window will be displayed. Compose your email. Now if you would like to insert any content that you or your team had earlier used in your email, choose Insert tab, select Document Item....

How to use Windows 10 Update Assistant Visit Microsoft.com and click on the Update now button as shown below. If you click on the Download tool now button, it will download the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. You may also visit the Updates History Page and click on the Get the Update now button. The choice is yours. Anyway, clicking on the Update now button will download a Windows10Upgrade exe file to your computer....

Microsoft had the plans for Windows Ink under wraps for quite some time now. When Windows 10 was released to the general masses last year, we saw the new browser Edge embracing this new feature, where you could take web notes and interact freely with the web itself. Windows Ink can be called as an enhanced system-level tool using which you can use to do several things with your digital pen....

Securely log in to Windows using USB Drive While you can always use the built-in SysKey Utility to lock a Windows computer using a USB stick, VSUsbLogon is a freeware tool that will convert your USB into a ‘key’ that you can use to access your Windows computer. Your system is still password-protected, but you no longer need to remember it. Once you have downloaded and installed VSUsbLogon, connect your USB Flash Drive to your PC....

What Are EMV Credit Cards While the rest of the world has been using EMV cards for a long time now, the US has been late to adopt the cards – due to costs involved in changing the terminals that can read EMV cards. The information in cards with magnetic cards can easily be stolen by fraudsters who later use the information for their own benefit by shopping or selling off the information on the darknet....

What are Advanced Format Disks The coming years will see the data storage industry move towards using this physical format of hard disk drives from 512-byte sectors to 4,096-byte sectors, also known as 4K or 4KB sectors. Why? Changing this sector format convention to larger physical sectors allows more efficient use of the storage surface area especially for larger It also allows for enhanced data protection and correction algorithms, increased data reliability, and greater format efficiencies resulting in better user experiences....

While there are a lot of advantages to cloud technology, it also has its share of security challenges and risks. It is equally popular amongst hackers and attackers as it is amongst genuine users and businesses. The lack of proper security measures and mechanisms exposes cloud services to multiple threats that can cause damage to one’s business. In this article, I am going to discuss the security threats and issues that need to be addressed and taken care of while incorporating cloud computing in your business....

The personal computing segment has seen a lot of experimentation when it comes to hardware, as well. It has come in many form factors: the traditional Desktop, notebooks, tablets with a stylus, PDA’s and handhelds, new generation tabs, and phones capable of advanced computing. With all the changes recently hitting the industry and all the innovations going around, it’s time that we take a look at what’s relevant and what’s not in the PC segment....

What is Cloud? Cloud is just a metaphor for the internet when we say cloud, we are just referring to the internet only and simply the services we use using the internet – through our web browsers. Now when I say Cloud Computing, then there is no standard industry definition which talks about cloud computing, given the fact that this is in a nascent stage and the only handful of companies are investing in cloud computing & virtualization which are often cited as the FUTURE TRENDS....

What is Mac HAL Driver? Boot Camp is a utility that comes preinstalled in macOS. It helps you to install and use Windows on Macbook. Named as Machaldriver.sys, its a driver that allows Windows to talk to Apple hardware, and run the operating system as it would have run any hardware. Fix Machaldriver.sys errors Several errors had been spotted related with Machaldriver.sys. They usually occur when there is an incompatibility between the Apple Driver and Windows Driver....

SYSTEM.SAV folder in Windows 11/10 When researching the forums, some comments point that it is related to the System Recovery Manager from HP, and this folder is used to install software of the box i.e., applications that come preinstalled or when you recover PC using the recovery manager. That said when searching over the HP forums, I was clearly able to find posts which talk about recovery manager failures, and System....