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Hi All, it has been a long time since I have posted last blog. I was away for a while during Christmas time. Today, I am going to share information about how to get virtual USB port in drop down list while installing local printer (USB) on Windows 7, if it’s not available by default. I followed below steps to add virtual USB port to add USB printer to Windows 7 PC.           Click on Start . Go to Devices and Printers .           Click on Add Printer .           Select Add a local Printer           In Choose a printer port box, select Create a new port option.           From the drop down list, choose Local port and click on Next button.           Port Name dialog box will appear. Type port name USB001 , click on OK           In the step, choose appropriate printer driver from list or provide a driver disk to complete printer driver installation process. I hope you may find this very useful. Disclaimer: www.TechieTalks.co.uk does not conceal the possibility of

Day by days, users are using various form of services like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Viber, etc… to communicate with others and send/receive messages. Some of these services allow users to type only limited number of characters in single message. Hence, if you would like to a link which has long URL, you will need to shorten your URL in such a way that it still directs users to correct page on Internet.  You can achieve this by a method call URL shortening, it is a unique way to convert your long URL in to shorter length and still directs user to correct page. For an example, http://goo.gl/1uSLM0 is shorted URL for our blogs’ main page: http://blog.techietalks.co.uk . You can create a separate short link for each of your webpages or blogs. The main advantage of a short link is that it can be easily communicated and typed without any error. Users don’t need to change their current configuration or possess in-depth technical knowledge. There are various sites who off

One of my colleagues recently changed his password. Since then, his domain account keeps locking out frequently even though he enters correct password. He asked me to investigate why does this happen? There are multiple reasons, why domain account locks out frequently. First of all, I suggest you to find out when user’s account got locked and on what Domain Controller (DC). If user logs on to more than 1 PC, it may be possible that one of the PC is still using expired password. You can use Lockout status tool offered by Microsoft. It’s free tool, CLICK HERE to download it. Using this tool, you can find out that account is locked on any particular DC. Once you’ve identified correct DC, check the event log of that DC to locate the PC name. If user doesn’t log on to any other PC, log in to his/her PC locally or remotely. Try to locate any services or schedule task running using user’s credential. You will have to restart services or schedule task using their current login detai

Hi friends, recently I upgraded my Windows 7 OS to Windows 10 on my laptop. Everything was working fine until I plugged my HTC One M8 (Android) phone to laptop using USB cable. A message box appeared stating that it could not detect the USB device. I never had any problem when I was using Windows 7. I used to plug my phone to PC using USB cable and access phone storage as USB drive. I typed my query in google and most of the articles suggested that I should installed HTC Sync Manager and then connect my phone. Well, I installed the required application but it did not resolve the issue. Hence, I removed it. This is my 3 rd HTC phone and I started to find out how I can enable USB debugging mode on my phone. This option is hidden by default. To enable this option, follow these steps:  Go to Settings \ About Select Software Information Click on More  option Now, tap on Build number  option six times in a row. A message will be shown saying “ You are now a developer! ” Go

This is my very first blog on Apple products: iPhone and iPad. One of my friends recently bought a new iPhone. Now, she has two iPhones. She asked me how she can apply same settings and apps to her new iPhone. Well, this is very easy to achieve if you have PC, iTunes software and your iPhone / iPad. First of all, we will have to take a backup of our current iPhone or iPad. To do this follows these steps: Launch iTunes application on your PC. Connect your device using USB cable. To save content that you have downloaded from iTunes store or App store, click on File \ Devices \ Transfer Purchases . Please wait till it finishes. Go to iTunes preferences \ Devices to check if back up finished successfully. You will find a name of your device with date and time of backup created. Once you have backed up your device successfully, you can restore it on same device or a new device. To restore backup on a device using iTunes, follow these steps: Connect your device to the

Today, I am publishing my very first blog on Android OS. I have been asked to provide a solution to revert Android OS from Lollipop version to Kitkat. I am using Lenovo A6000 smart phone to explain the process. Steps may vary for other make and model of your smart phone. Let’s begin by going through check list before we actually start downgrade process. Take a backup of your personal data like pictures, videos, etc… Make sure that phone’s battery is charged enough. I suggest 50 % charged battery. You will need to install TWRP Recovery. Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP) helps to flash customer ROMs or stock ROMs. It helps user to revert back to Android KitKat OS. Download Official Stock ROM Lenovo A6000 – Kitkat Free space on your SD card of the phone After you have completed check list, let’s start the process: First of all, copy stock ROM on your SD card Boot your phone in to recovery mode Make a full system wipe of cache, data, etc using Format button . Go to

Today, I would like to share my knowledge on how to make bootable USB drive without any third party applications. To begin with, you will need a USB flash drive, any version of Windows OS ISO or DVD and Windows running PC. As part of the process, USB disk will be erased fully. Please make sure that you have copied or removed your important data from USB disk. I will use DiskPart command to make bootable USB disk. Let’s start with the process: Run Command prompt as an administrator. Type DiskPart and press Enter. You will see that command prompt is changed to DISKPART> now. Type List Disk Command. It will show you all available disks in PC. DISKPART> List Disk Next step is to select the correct Disk that reflects your USB disk. To find this out, type below command: DISKPART> Select Disk n ( n should be the number of your disk from previous command) You should see a message: “Disk 3 is now the selected disk.” Now, clean the USB disk using Clean command