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FileZilla Drag And Drop To Windows Desktop Not Working

I’m on a WinVista PC. I was able previously able to drag-and-drop files between FZ and windows explorer. FZ did it’s usual update/check/install tonight and now I’m not able to drag-and-drop files anymore. Can’t drag and drop files between FileZilla and Windows Desktop? If you’re having problem dragging files to your desktop or any folder [...]

Increase Maximum Transfer Size Of USB From 64KB To 2MB In Windows 7 And Windows Server 2008 R2

Do you find your USB transfer rate on Windows 7 too slow? How to increase the transfer speed of your USB drive, especially when you’re backing up a huge amount of files which takes hours. Good news, Microsoft has release a new hotfix to fix the slow transfer speed of USB flash drives and hard [...]

How To Create A ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ Desktop Shortcut

For some unknown reason if your ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ alert icon doesn’t appear on the system tray, you might want to create your own shortcut to eject the removable USB drive from Windows system. Step 1 – Right click on the desktop, select ‘New’. Step 2 – Choose ‘Shortcut’ Step 3 – Copy and paste [...]

How To Know If Someone Hacked Into Your Gmail Account

How to check if your gmail email account has been hacked and if someone is reading your email? If you suspect that someone might have got hold of your password, you might want to verify with gmail with the ‘Last Account Activity’ Step 1 – Login to your gmail account and scroll all the way [...]

How To Uninstall Microsoft Office 2010

Usually this can be done via control panel from your Windows computer, however, there are times when this is not possible due to some unknown error. This could be your previous attempt in cleaning up your windows registry or optimizing it, thus some data has been deleted. How to uninstall office 2007 or 2010? Apparently [...]

How To Password Protect Zip Files With WinRAR

Apart from having better compression ratio compared to WinZip and better acceptance to 7-zip, what makes WinRAR slightly better is the ‘set password’ feature where one can securely password protect a compressed rar file. Step 1 – Launch WinRAR, browse for the file, select and click the ‘Add’ button. Step 2 – A window will [...]

Can You Have Two Or Multiple Antivirus Software?

How many antivirus programs should I have? The answer is one antivirus per computer, the reason being that by having two antivirus, both antivirus will try to out-scan each other, causing the system to lag. Can you have two antivirus programs? Running two antivirus programs is not an issue if it is coded in such [...]

Find Out If My Neighbour Is Stealing My Wifi

Suspecting someone stealing your wireless internet? Could it be your neighbour using your wifi without your knowledge and how do you go about stopping this? First of all, make sure your wifi is password protected with WPA or WEP security key, do it if it is not. If your wifi is password protected and you [...]