How to disable a device in Windows Device Manager?

If you’re facing some problems due to enabling device and if disabled it, Windows will no longer assign system resources to the device and no software on your PC can operate the device. Here are some tips to follow to remove a device in Windows Device Manager.

1. Go to Windows Device Manager – Power User Menu is the simple method in the updated versions of Windows and Control Panel is suitable to find Device Manager in Older Versions.
2. Locate and highlight the device – After the Device Manager window is selected, see the device you want to disable by locating it within the category.

For instance, to disable your network adapter, you have to look within your “Network adapters” or in the “Bluetooth” category to disable a Bluetooth adapter. Additional devices might be slightly harder to find, but be comfortable to look in as many sections as you want.

–     If you use Windows 10/8/7, tap the > icon to the left of the computer to access the category sections. The + icon has to be used in older versions of Windows.

1. Once you locate the device you wish to disable right-click or tap and hold and select Properties from the menu.
2. Tap the Driver tab from the Properties window

For Windows XP Users – Stick to the General tab and select the Device usage: see a menu in the lower part and select “Do not use this device(disable) and you have to skip down to step 7.

–    In case you don’t find the Driver tab or that option in the general tab, ensure that you pressed the properties of the device itself and not the properties of the category it is in

Come back to step 2 and ensure that you use the expand buttons to go to the category, and then follow step 3 once you have chosen the device you’re disabling.

1. Select the Disable Device button only if you use Windows 10, or the Disable button if you use an older version of Windows.
2. Press on Yes when you see this message “Disabling this device will prompt it to stop functioning. Do you really want to disable it?”
3. Press OK on the properties window to get back to Device Manager.

8. Now when you’re done with the disabling, you will notice a black arrow or red x shown on the upper part of the icon for the device.

Emma Justine is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Emma has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.

Source:http://en-us-office.com/blog/how-to-disable-a-device-in-windows-device-manager/

How to Delete a Bookmark in Mozilla Firefox

When you mostly worked on a browser for a very long period, you find that your list of bookmarks are unnecessarily added in the browser you use, and now it’s becoming too difficult to manage then it’s high time you should do your editing. You can either remove a single bookmark from the Firefox window or many additional pages from the Bookmarks List.

When you Delete a single Bookmark

1. Visit the Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. Choose the “Bookmarks” button from file bar – Now go to that page you want to delete.
3. Press the star icon – This icon you find in the top right corner of the browser to the right of the search bar. A menu called “Edit your Bookmarks” shall be present on the display.
4. Press on the box named “Remove Bookmark” – To figure out if the bookmark has deleted, you have to reopen the browser and see under the “Bookmarks” icon in the toolbar.

When you Delete Many Bookmarks

1. Visit the Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. Press on the Bookmarks buttons from the toolbar – Now a drop down menu will be shown where you can choose “Show All Bookmarks.”It will launch the library window.
3. Press the folder you want to edit – Choose this folder from the left-hand side, and its contents will appear in the right-hand window.
4. Choose the bookmarks you wish to remove – Press on the file you wish to remove and hold down the Command Key with you scroll over to the other bookmarks you want to delete.
5. Choose the cog icon – You can find this icon in the top left-hand corner, and a drop-down menu will appear. Click “Delete.”

Hope this article helped you delete the unrequited bookmarks on your browser.

Emma Justine is a self-professed security expert; she has been making the people aware of the security threats. Her passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. She writes for Norton security products at norton.com/setup.

Source: http://my-nortonsetup.com/blog/how-to-delete-a-bookmark-in-mozilla-firefox/

How to Quickly Format a Drive and Disk in Windows 10?

Whenever you brought a new hard drive or want to install Windows on your system, it is important to format the drive before you use it to store your important data. Usually, formatting means deleting any of your existing data or information on your drive and also setting up the file system so that your Windows 10 operating system can easily be able to easily read and write data to the drive. There are high chances that your drive might be used with some another file system in which case you won’t be able to install Windows 10 because it won’t understand the file system and thus, can’t read or write data to the drive.

Now to solve this issue mentioned above, you need to format your drive with the proper file system, and then your drive will be ready to use with the Windows 10 operating system. While formatting the drive, you have to choose from these given file system like FAT, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, or ReFS file system. It can also show you the option to do a quick format or full format.

Here we discuss the complete steps to format a drive and disk in the Windows 10 quickly.

Steps to Quickly Format a Drive and Disk in Windows 10

Generally, the time required to format any drive mostly depends on the size of the disk but you can make sure about one thing is that quick format will always complete quickly in comparison to full format. We recommend you that before following the steps you must have to create a restore point and backup only if in case something goes wrong. Here how to do it:

Format Disk or Driver in File Explorer

1. Click the Windows + E keys together on your keyboard to open the File Explorer.
2. Then, click to open “This PC option.
3. Right-click on the drive that you want to format.
4. From the context menu choose “Format” option.

Note: when you format the C: Drive, after that you won’t be able to access the system because your operating system would automatically be deleted once you format this drive.

5. After that, from the File System drop-down menu choose the supported file system like FAT, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, or ReFS, choose according to your use.
6. Ensure that you leave the allocation unit size option to “Default allocation size.”
7. Under the “Volume Label” field, name this drive anything you want.
8. Next, choose check or uncheck the “Quick Format” option, it usually depends on what you want like quick format or full format.
9. Lastly, review your choices and then click on the Start tab.
10. Click on the OK tab to confirm your action.

Emma Justine is a McAfee product expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Emma has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as mcafee.com/activate.

Source: https://mcafeeoactivate.com/how-to-quickly-format-a-drive-and-disk-in-windows-10/

How to Optimize and Defrag Windows 10 Drives?

For proper functioning of the computer system, it is necessary to improve the performance of your computer and to help with this Windows 10 performs disk defragmentation once a week for hard drives. But now, by the default settings, the disk fragmentation automatically runs on a weekly schedule at a specific time which is already set in the automatic maintenance of your computer system. Also, you can manually optimize or defragmentation of your drives on your computer system.

However, disk defragmentation now re-arranges all the pieces of data which spread across your hard drive and stored them again. Whenever the files are written to disk, it is broken into many pieces as there is not sufficient adjacent space to easily store the comprehensive file on time, thus file become fragmented.

Generally, defragmentation decreases the file fragmentation thus improving the speed by which the data is written and read to disk which ultimately increases the performance of your computer system. While the disk fragmentation also helps in cleaning the disk, therefore, increasing the overall storage capacity.

Here we will discuss the complete steps of how to optimize and defrag Windows 10 drives.

Steps to Optimize and Defrag Windows 10 Drive

Before continuing the process, we suggest you create a restore point on your system it will protect your data if something goes wrong. And follow the steps in a given sequence to make steps easier. Here how to do it:

1. Click the Windows + E keys together to open File Explorer.
2. Then, double-click on the ThisPC option.
3. Right-click on any hard drive partition that you want to run defragmentation for.
4. After that, choose Properties option.
5. Change it to Tool tab and then click on the “Optimize” in the Optimize and defragment the drive.
6. Choose the drive for which you want to run defragmentation for.
7. Next, click on the Analyze button and check it needs to be optimized.

Note: check if your drive is fragmented more than 10%, then it should be optimized.

8. To optimize the drive, click on the Optimize button.
9. Wait for a few minutes; the defragmentation process will take some time which depends upon the size of your disk.
10. Close all the tabs.
11. And finally, restart your system.

Emma Justine is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Emma has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.

Source: https://msofice.com/how-to-optimize-and-defrag-windows-10-drives/

How to Solve Microsoft Office Error Code 3-4

If we talk about Microsoft Office, then it has become an important component of our daily life which helps in our education, office work, business etc. Microsoft Office includes Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, PowerPoint and Outlook which has an everyday use in the western world. Microsoft is in development stages, so it has launched Office 365 and Office 2019 which are well developed and secure products and also Office 2013 which was preceded by Office 365 and Office 2016.

Solution: Disable Firewall and Antivirus temporarily

When we install or update Microsoft Office, it may appear subject to network or firewall restriction. In network or computer, the network rules or firewall rules may block the installation of Office program. It can also be blocked as a part of security measures by the network supplier who applies these firewall rules and Antivirus on the computer or the computer user on its core system or registry.

You can fix Microsoft Office error code by disabling the firewall and antivirus temporarily from the method listed below:

Follow the steps to disable Firewall:

1. Go to “Control Panel.”
2. Navigate to “system and security” and then to “Windows Firewall.”
3. Snap-on “turn windows firewall On or Off.”
4. Turn Off the firewall for both private and public network.
5. While installing or updating Microsoft Office and examine if  the Error code 3-4 is fixed or not.

Follow the steps to disable antivirus:

1. Unlock Antivirus application installed on the computer.

2. Hit on settings and move to real-time protection.

3. Turn off real-time protection.

4. Move to Antivirus firewall.

5. Turn off Antivirus firewall.
6. If prompted click-on YES or OK verification prompt.
7. While installing or updating Microsoft Office and examine if the Error code 3-4 is fixed or not.

Emma Justine is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Emma has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.

Source: https://emmajustin.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/how-to-solve-microsoft-office-error-code-3-4/

How to Switch Chrome Default Download Folder Location?

By Default settings, everything you download from a web browser the will usually go to the Downloads folder on your computer system. It’s quite true regardless of the operating system that you are running. However, many people will use the default location for downloads, but when you are downloading various large files, and you don’t have enough storage space on the local disk, then you can download the files to an external hard drive or a network hard drive.

While the only problem with default download location is that it is located in the C: drive, and if you have windows installed in SSD, then the Chrome downloads folder can occupy your more space. The easiest solution to this problem is that you can relocate or change the Chrome default download folder location that can only be done in the Google Chrome browser settings. Moreover, you can also select a location on your computer system where downloads should automatically be saved instead of the default download folder.

Below we discuss how to change the default download folder location for all the foremost browsers. The steps are discussing below.

Steps to Switch Google Chrome Default Download Folder Location

Before starting the process, we suggest you create a restore point if in case anything goes wrong. And also follow the below-given steps in a proper sequence. Here how to easily switch your Chrome default download folder location:

1. Click on the Google Chrome icon to open it.
2. Click on the More button (three vertical dots) located on the top- right corner of the screen.
3. Then, click on the Settings option.
4. Under the Settings page and scroll down the page to the bottom and then click on the “Advanced” option.
5. Now, go to the “Downloads” section.
6. Then, click on the “Change” button located near to the default location of the current download folder.
7. After that, browse and choose the folder that you want to be the default download location of the Chrome downloads.
8. Next, click on the OK tab to set the above-selected folder as the default download location in the Google Chrome browser.
9. Once completed, close all the settings.
10. Then, also exit the Google Chrome.

Emma Justine is a self-professed security expert; she has been making the people aware of the security threats. Her passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. She writes for Norton security products at norton.com/setup.

Source: https://emmajustin.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/how-to-switch-chrome-default-download-folder-location/

Gartner: Top Chinese Brands Drive Worldwide Smartphone Sales in Q3 2018

According to Gartner, in the third quarter of 2018, Chinese brands Huawei and Xiaomi, helped drive global smartphone sales. Overall, sales of smartphones to end users grew 1.4 percent in the third quarter of 2018 to reach 389 million units.

"If we had taken both Huawei and Xiaomi out of the global smartphone vendors list, smartphone sales to end users would have declined by 5.2 percent," said Anshul Gupta, research director, Gartner. "Led by low-price smartphones, enhanced camera features and high-quality resolution displays, top Chinese mobile phone manufacturers boosted their sales across emerging markets in the third quarter of 2018."

While sales of smartphones are slowing down for most mobile phone manufacturers, Huawei saw demand for its smartphones grow by 43 percent in the third quarter of 2018 (see Table 1). Huawei remains the No.1 smartphone brand in Greater China and in the top 3 among many European markets.

"The gap between Samsung and Huawei continues to shrink, as Huawei expands aggressively by investing in branding and distribution in the emerging markets of the Middle East, Asia/Pacific and Africa," said Gupta. "Huawei is, for example, aggressively positioning its affordable Honor series smartphones to drive the shift from feature phones to smartphones in those markets."

In the third quarter of 2018, Samsung experienced its biggest decline since Gartner has been tracking smartphone sales globally. Samsung's smartphone sales declined 14 percent in the third quarter. Samsung's Galaxy S9, S9+ and Note 9 struggled to revive demand in 2018, and its revamped midtier and entry-tier smartphones continued to face huge competition from top Chinese brands who grew market share in key markets, such as India, and their expansion into regions beyond Asia/Pacific continues to take away opportunities from Samsung.

Apple's performance was flat in the third quarter of 2018 (0.7 percent growth).

"Apple's iPhones are facing a saturated premium smartphone market, with slowing growth rates and increased competition in China," said Gupta. "Apple's new flagship smartphones, announced in September, will be key to defining Apple's overall iPhone unit sales in 2018. Initial channel checks suggest that the Xs Max is outselling the Xs model, and we also see the Xs Max as a critical addition for the Chinese market where Apple has been losing share."

The Future: 5G and Foldable Smartphones

With global smartphone sales decelerating significantly, the attention of mobile phone manufacturers is moving to new technologies like 5G and foldable form factor to differentiate the user experience on smartphones and generate new user value.

"While 2019 will mark an important year for more R&D and testing/trials of varying 5G technologies, it is unlikely that 5G will be seen in mobile devices in significant volumes before 2020," said Roberta Cozza, research director, Gartner. "We expect 5G mobile phone sales to total 65 million units in 2020."

In addition, several vendors, such as Samsung, Huawei and LG, are expected to launch new foldable form factors in 2019.

"Beyond the initial interest these devices will be expensive and with usability trade-offs initially," said Cozza. "It will take time for vendors to build a strong ecosystem of software, and to get developers on board to generate attractive and innovative user experiences around foldable smartphones."

Source: http://www.itnewsonline.com/news/Gartner-Top-Chinese-Brands-Drive-Worldwide-Smartphone-Sales-in-Q3-2018/719/7/3