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Free Virtual Keyboard for Touch Screen PC

If you are bored of the uncomfortable keyboard on your laptop or the desktop then try out this multilingual and finger friendly virtual on-screen keyboard.

Free Virtual Keyboard works on any Windows based UMPC (Ultra-mobile PC, Tablet PC and Panel PC ) with a passive touch screen. Working on this virtual and on screen keyboard is [...]

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Free USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows

It had happened several times to me that my USB Pen Drive gets a different volume name every time I connect it to the computer. Though it do not create any problems while operating but it would have been better if the drive gets a unique and same name each time it gets connected.
The USB [...]

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Disable Autorun.inf Creation in USB Pen Drives

Autorun.inf is the popular file created by the viruses in the USB Flash drives which is used by them to spread across different storage media.
It is the first file that gets created in the pen drives as soon as the drive is inserted in the system having viruses. Thus it is for sure that if [...]

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Encrypt and Password Protect Pen Drive using USB Flash Security

USB Drives are the easiest way to carry data from one location to another but their security is something that concerns most users today. Though few variants come with the default feature of password security but for others there are many tools available.
I did write about TrueCrypt but it is somewhat difficult to use for [...]

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Unlock Files Used by Other Processes using LockHunter

You must have come across a situation when you try to delete a file but the error message comes up saying “the file is in use by some other process”. If you haven’t see this then you must have came across the error message “Device currently in use” while ejecting the USB Pen Drive.

The processes [...]

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View Installed and Connected USB Drives on the Computer

Whenever you connect your USB Drive in your computer for the first time it takes bit of time to install the driver and then detects it. But whenever you connect it at later time it does not get installed.
If you wish, you can view all the USB drives that you have connected to your system [...]

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Steps to Safely Remove USB Drive when Icon is missing

I came across many computers in which after connecting the pen drive I found that there was no safely remove icon and thus I came across no option to safely remove my drive.

Although the USB drive does not require safely removal but it is always better to use this option. So if it is also [...]

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Tip of the Week: Clean Computer Table

So when was the last time you cleaned up your computer table? It is the case of most of the people who do not clean their computer table tends to mess up all their important stuffs and thus lose out on it.
The common things that mess up your computer table are unorganized books, CDs, USB drives [...]

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Disable Auto Execution of Autorun.inf

If you have come across pen drive viruses then you must have seen this file called Autorun.inf. This is a file that stores the instructions to be carried when you double click your USB drive which in turn leads to the execution of the virus stored there.

However you can prevent the most of the computer [...]

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Delete Virus from USB Pen Drive automatically with iKill

USB Drives are the primary cause of spread of viruses. There are so many viruses that use Pen Drive as a media to infect other computers.
It is also very difficult to safeguard our self from each of them as the chances of getting infected by a virus is always there; no matter you know how [...]

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Eject USB Drive Automatically with EjectUSB

So what you have been till now to remove the USB Pen Drive from your computer? Either safely remove it or just unplug it from the system. But this does not work always and especially when you have some program from the drive running in your system.

Say, you have opened an image from the USB [...]

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Detect and Protect Against Autorun.inf Virus in USB Drive

Almost all of us have come across this Autorun.inf virus file that infects our system from the USB drive. Autorun.inf is a file that contains instructions or commands of how the virus should be executed to infect Windows.

Thus protection against Autorun.inf is as important as it is against any virus. But it is quite difficult [...]

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