If you encountered a problem accessing a network drive (through mapping in Windows) after an upgrade of firmware is performed on the router, the following could be one of the reasons that may have caused the headache.

In this case, the router is ASUS RT-AC68U. The network drive is a USB disk attached to the router. The drive is shared using Network Place (Samba) Share. After an upgrade of firmware, the “Device Name” was reset to a default value causing the accessing/mapping problem. Just update it to the custom name that was set before and the problem should be resolved.

If you experience a video problem, e.g. intense flickering, after some system updates to a guest OS in VMware Workstation, try disabling the “Accelerate 3D graphics” option under Virtual Machine Settings –> Hardware –> Display –> 3D graphics. This may resolve the problem. If you use Media Player Classic (Home-Cinema) in VMware and cannot play videos, disabling this setting may also help too.

WhatsApp is one the most widely used messaging software that becomes part of a core set of apps for many people. Migrating existing chat messages and multimedia to a new phone is normally not much of a problem unless they are on different platforms. For example, there is no easy and free way to migrate WhatsApp data from an iPhone to Android, and vice versa. A number of third-party apps will come in handy which are not difficult to be uncovered through a Google search. iTransor for WhatsApp from iMyFone is one of these software that will do the job with a simple interface. The solution has been tested and proved to work.

Convenient file sharing on the web, without registration. Simply upload files and share the URL. The files will expire automatically 1 week from now.

1. Click Upload files, or drag and drop the files into the browser window.
2. Wait until the file uploads complete.
3. Distribute the URL to share access to the files.

There is another solution to the problem described in the previous post, i.e. a mouse click registers as a double-click if though you only click once, using AutoHotKey which is an all-purpose utility that runs scripts to achieve whatever objectives they may be. The following script will disable double click if it is detected within 100ms.

LButton::
If (A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 100) ;hyperclick
Return
sendinput {LButton down}
KeyWait, LButton
sendinput {LButton up}
Return

The mouse is one of the most touched and used parts of any computer and you can attest to this fact and because of this it is very easy for it to get damaged very quickly. Most times on a mouse, the left side usually develops a fault before any other part after a few months of use and this is a common hardware problem but it can be resolved and made better with this handy tool for the left mouse button.

The left mouse button fix app is an application that is designed to help you fix the hardware problem of always double clicking when you actually clicked only once, it is designed in a way that makes it very easy to tamper or to interact with the hardware components of your mouse and to restore its normal functionalities. You no longer have to always consider buying a new mouse first when your mouse develops this fault, all you need to do is download this app and you are good to go. Problem solved!

Left Mouse Button Fix is licensed as freeware for PC or laptop with Windows 32 bit and 64 bit operating system. Click here to download.

Windows PowerShell is a very powerful tool for many tasks. The following are two examples using it for batch renaming of files in a folder.

1) Removing the first character from the existing filename, and

2) Replacing a special character with another character in the filename. Adjust the parameter value for your specific requirements.

get-childitem *.txt | rename-item -newname { string.substring(1) }

Dir | Rename-Item –NewName { $_.name –replace “+”,” ” }

When you don’t need certain a program and try to uninstall it, sometimes a problem may occur preventing it from cleanly installed. In other cases, some programs may even refuse to be uninstalled perhaps because of compatibility when Windows had been upgraded. The following free program may do the trick in a very respectable way. Give this a try.

You probably have heard of Windows 8 to Go, which allows you install a portable version of Windows 8 on a Microsoft certified USB flash drive. If you are addicted to the old operating system (OS) Windows 7, you may wonder is there a way to install Windows 7 on USB removable storage device?

With Windows 7 on a USB flash drive or external hard drive, you can take it with you wherever you go and run Windows7 on any PC.

Windows Setup can detect USB hard drive, but when you select the external drive as the target location to install Windows 10/8/7, you will get the error “Windows cannot be installed to this disk”. Luckily, there is a workaround for this, and it is quite simple. Even those who does not know how to install Windows from a USB drive can follow this guide to get it done. (read the whole story)