Computer will not go to the proper print place on the printer, instead it goes to fax. How do I change the pro?

Go to the control panel and click on printers, there check how many printers are installed. If you are right that displayed printers are installed by you. One more thing that you might need to check the latest drivers installed for the printer.

After check whether which one you want to be the default printer. Right click on it and set as a default printer. After setting print a test page once, by going to properties of the printer and check in the tabs then given a test print.

After open the document which you want to be print, go to file and click on print or press ctrl + p. Choose the printers from the drop down menu from which printer you want to get the print. After choosing check the print from which printer it was came.

If you drivers are correct and your selection of printer is perfect you will get the printer from the exact printer. If the printer is in network place, check with the administrator for the rights. If not in a network place might be problem in your PC.

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Viruses infiltrated my laptop. How to fix this?!?

Couple of days ago, I inserted a flash drive on my laptop which turned out to contain viruses. By viruses I mean it has this "files" named Porn, Secret, Passwords, and Sexy. They have the same icons.

I'm assuming they're viruses because every time I insert a removable drive on my laptop they ALL contain the same "files". So I guess my laptop became a virus spreader? Lol.

Along with these files is another one named "autorun.inf" that can't be deleted. The files and folders on every removable drive I install become applications or shortcuts which has the same icon as the viruses.

My antivirus seems to not help at all. It's ESET antivirus.

ESET antivirus which I used so many times, tried full versions also, but nothing satisfied me in the detection or cleaning of threats. The virus is dangerous it's automatically creates the shortcut and hides the original files and displays the duplicate files in the form exe files. But beware that don't double click on the icons or shortcut. If you format the pendrive or delete them it's automatically copied again to the pen drive.

Better do one thing that download the Avast free edition latest version, update the virus definition and register the antivirus by connecting to Internet. You will get the one year license for free. scan the whole computer I assure that it will clean the virus. If the problem persists download the Norton Internet Security Trial version from Symantec website, It will clean the whole system.

After doing all these things don't insert the USB drive into your PC. Insert by holding Ctrl+Alt+Shft and Insert the USB drive. To avoid autoplay you need to do this. Just format the USB drive, That's it it will be cleaned.

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Recover invisible data from pen drive (Not hidden)?

I have some data(pics, videos & docs) in my pen drive that is not hidden. When i see the properties it shows that 4.25 Gb space has been used by the data in it but when i open the pen drive it doesn't show anything in the drive but when i tried checking the same in DOS, it is showing all the files that i know i copied in pendrive few days back. I even tried to copy all the content of pendrive into some other drive on my machine but that doesn't work either. Please help me to recover the data as I'm in a dire need to save all such content. 

Your pendrive might be infected with virus or after scanning there might be threats are still there in pendrive. You might need to know first whether the threats are there in pendrive or not. Scan with a different antivirus. If found it will be cleaned. you might don't know that some viruses changes the attribute to the hidden or invisible or locked. there are so many ways to get the files back.

One way is quick format your pen drive, don't do this steps in your PC, connect your pen drive to other PC. After formatting disconnect it. download the recover my files software's  It is one for the best software's which I used every time for data recovery. When I loss the 500 GB of data which in mistake I deleted partition while installing OS. So I got full version of Recover My Files and installed it, this software recovered all the data. One more thing is that if you lost data or formatted a pendrive long back (about 1 month) ago it is not possible to recover the data. If in case it is not used from the formatted time your data will be recovered.

So many software's are available on the Internet to recover data, which I decided this is the best one. If you are trying from DOS, try to copy the data using DOS commands. Might be your PC is infected the Virus check or scan the whole PC with Norton Internet Security, Symantec provides the Trial version of software's for 30 days. You can try it or if You can afford buy full version.

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Why does my Flash drive contents turns into shortcut?

I tried the full system scan after scanning the flash drive yet there is no threat found but every time I insert any flash drive into my laptop its contents turns into a shortcut....I wonder what could be the problem? I format my flash drive as well but it is still the same....

There is a virus either in you system or in flash drive, once check after formatting the flash drive again virus infecting the pen drive. This means after scanning you antivirus programmes is not cleaning or disinfecting the virus.

Which antivirus programme your are using? If you are using an antivirus free edition software's they might not detect the threats because they don't have full features enabled, They got so many limitations. These free edition programmes are provided by the company with limited features, it spreads as viral marketing. About 50% of users buys the full versions.

You need to check with your antivirus programme, because till now I am using the free edition software's  till now the best is AVAST Free Edition 2013. A good antivirus with all features (not the full version features

Once check with your antivirus programme, update the virus definitions scan the whole computer first. After cleaning your system clean the flash drive. If the antivirus which you are using free edition you need to uninstall it and reinstall, update the virus definitions or Install Avast free edition 2013 it's better detects threats clean them maximum possible.

If you can afford buy the full version of software's or try to scan the whole computer with Avast, If the problem persists you need to format the whole system, after installing OS install the Avast, but don't insert the flash drive after formatting. You need to have a USB tools like they remove some autorun virus or when you double click on the flash drive it executes the virus if there is a virus in flash drive.

If you are connected to Internet, Better install a Internet Security software....

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How to Disable or prevent access to USB Ports?

TOP 3 WAYS TO DISABLE USB PORTS IN WINDOWS XP, 7

There are many ways to prevent access or Disable USB ports. So many third party softwares available on Market available like free wares, sharewares and premium services.

Simple way is Right Click on My Computer and Go to Mange, point to device manager and find the "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" and expand it by clicking on '+' and disable the USB Root Hub's and just finished. USB ports disabled, but this way is known by so many and any one can do in this way.

Other way is to disable USB ports is using BIOS, After powering on the PC, Go to BIOS by hitting 'Del' or 'F2' or appropriate key as assigned to the your motherboard, you may find on first screen or refer Motherboard manual.find the system information tab (this type of feature may vary with different motherboards) then check for USB ports option, if not found go to advanced tabs, here you will find the USB ports option and one more is USB speed, change the USB ports option to disable(by default this is enabled) and press F10 and select 'yes' to save the changes to BIOS. When desktop appears, try inserting the USB drive, it won't works. This is the way any one do follows, who is some moderate at computers or by following Mother Manual or Researching for this on Internet.

And this is other method but be careful while with Registry Editor or take a back up before making any changes to Registry and follow these steps (follow below steps at your own risk)

1. Click Start, and then click Run.

2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.

3. Locate, and then click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\

Services\UsbStor

4. In the right pane, double-click Start.

5. In the Value data box, type 4, click Hexadecimal

(if it is not already selected), and then click OK.

6. Quit Registry Editor.


To re-enable a disabled port:

1. Click Start, and then click Run.

2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.

3. Locate, and then click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\

Services\UsbStor

4. In the right pane, double-click Start.

5. In the Value data box, type 3, click Hexadecimal

(if it is not already selected), and then click OK.

6. Quit Registry Editor.

After doing steps for re enabling, if usb drive not detected you need to restart PC and try again.

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Connected to internet but with limited access?

this morning I tried to go on the internet but it wouldn't let me because it said I'm connected with limited access. the internet works on the other laptops in my house. I never deleted or installed anything to cause this. can someone please tell me how to fix this? if it helps I have windows 7 and restarting my computer doesn't help and I'm not typing our WiFi password wrong either. please help.

You are connecting to Internet through WiFi, so once check whether the password you are typing is correct or not? Caps may be on. If the problem persists, chk with the router settings, enter the IP addres of the router in address bar of the browser and check the password, if it says again the limited access Router cannot assign the IP address to the PC because of settings configured, check whether the settings configured or you might have given the manual IP address if you have given change them to assign automatic IP address, in this case if you have configured router to give certain IP address range and DNS you need to enter manual IP address.

Many routers assign automatic IP address only, after changing the settings to automatic IP address, if you face same limited access problem, once check with the WiFi drivers whether they have installed correctly or not. Once remove the WiFi device from the device manager and restart your computer. Now insert the motherboard drivers CD and Install the WiFi drivers, problem should be solved now.

If all the above things done, if the router cannot assign the IP address you need to check with the Router settings. If you know thorough about the router settings that's well and Good or follow the router manual. You can simply hard reset the router with a PIN. So here Router restores all the settings...etc to factory settings.

Now just enter the Router IP address in address bar of the browser, username - admin, leave password blank and after change the router's Login password. Don't remember to set a password to WiFi also. After done with all these things you are able to connect to Internet.

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I want to do a System Restore?

I think I got a virus from downloading a program off the internet. The virus was created on March 6th. It is March 10th right now. I cannot delete the virus. It will not let me. Plus, there are also registry stuff it did. I have no idea what to do. IF I got the virus from the file I downloaded on March 6th, and if I restore my PC to March 5th (a day before), will that get rid of the virus? What exactly will the system restore. Will it delete some of my downloaded files (which I want it to do). Therefore, will the virus be gone?

By the way, the virus IS a .exe file, and I clicked it. I deleted it, but it already activated. There are Trojans in my registry.

If you do a System Restore it can't deletes the virus, but it makes changes to the system according to that Restore point. Virus may not be deleted or cleaned, you need check with the performance of pc after restoring system. System restore just restore the files and folders according to the selected restore point and already your system is infected with virus or Trojans  they can't let the system to restore to a certain point. Mainly go to safe mode once, while booting press f8 choose safe mode  Restore the system from safe mode if it, good, or scan whole computer with the antivirus.

My opinion is don't do a system restore, Just install a trial version of Norton Internet Security and update virus definitions scan the whole system. I assure you that it will clean the entire PC. If you can afford buy a full version of Norton Internet Security.

I already did this type of procedure, like I don't have any antivirus in my PC at that time my PC is infected with virus same like .exe virus. Restored system to a previous state, but that was not successful  and again used system restore from safe mode, same problem, just downloaded the Norton Internet Security Trial version it worked well.

And I bought the Norton Internet Security Full Version, this virus protection software is awesome.

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I used Driver Scanner to update 7 of my drivers and computer is running slow. Should I go back to restore?

I had a used the paid version of Driver Scanner 2013. It updated 7 of my drivers. It is made by uniblue.com. I am not sure if this have anything to do with it, but when I changed my windows password the next day, the password did not work. I had to have Staple's reset the windows password. I use Advanced System Care Ultimate 6 and ran all the programs to keep my computer fast and virus free. Please let me know if I should go back to the restore point? Will that mess anything up? Please help.

I checked with a windows tuner and it said my computer is running at 94%.

My Suggestion is don't use any 3rd party software's to update your system drivers, in my view it download the drivers from other websites or any third party websites, for example say that your mother board is ASUS so in this case it downloads drivers from other third party sites, not from official site (ASUS). If you do the same there might problem with registry entries or signature files, if they mismatch with your system drivers wont work correctly.

Advanced system care ultimate, this is the software a new word to me, I didn't hear about this. As I dont know whether it is good one or bad one, may take some time to review it. Best use the popular internet security softwares or all in one softwares. 

If you have mentioned model of your motherboard, I can give you the link. Any way you can down the latest motherboard drivers from the manufacturer's website. dont forget to defragment your hard drive once or twice in a month, If you done with this, you will find the difference in performance of your PC

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Any causes that will have a virus in your computer?

There are many causes that you have threats in computer, like inserting external USB drives pen drives, external hard disk, connecting mobile to PC using Bluetooth, connecting to unprotected wireless networks.

Make sure the you have a security software is installed in your PC and maintain a good Firewall also it helps to block the threats. Millions of websites are there in world wide web, some ad ware sites if you click on download button or any ad some sort of plugins, toolbars and software's automatically downloaded form that ad ware website's these leads to changing the browser homepage and malfunction of Internet browser...etc.

If you copy files or software's mainly exe files from other infected PC, when the same copied to your PC, what happens here just you will open that drive by double click where in case double click in windows performs appropriate action or executes the programmes. As you copied the files from infected system when you double click on the drive it system executes virus and you PC will be infected. If you have any security software or USB security software's it blocks those threats.

Some sort of attachments in emails, mainly in Fake mails or some advertisements mails. They send the virus or infected in zip format we will download them and extract them this is one of the cause for Infection. As the technology improved alot these mails or attachments cannot be viewed, the Email service provider nowadays has maintaing good security with limited features. If you buy the subscription or using premium services you can avail good advantage of these security things

Better install a good Internet Security or All in One Security software's to avoid infections or threats.

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