Thursday 8 January 2015

How to remove write protection from USB flash drives

Security from viruses is among the greatest priorities for any Windows user. USB flash drives such as pendrives are most likely to catch viruses from any devices and may harm your files. There are some recovery techniques available after corruption of data due to virus or say malware attack but still you notice that every now and then pendrives catch viruses.

usb flash drives write protected gdrive

For the security purpose many people use write protection on their USB flash drives, pendrives so that it may not affect by the malware attack. But if you want to remove write protection on the pendrive or any other external USB flash drive for copying any important file you can do this using this simple registry tweaking trick.

How to remove write protection from USB flash drives

Method 1: Using Registry 

Follow the steps and you can write data to your pen drive.

*. Open notepad or any text editor and copy & paste the following:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorageDevicePolicies] “WriteProtect”=dword:00000000

*. Now save the file with .reg extension.

registry file

*. Now double click on the file you have saved and in the pop up window choose Yes and you will see the message as in the screenshot below. That's it just press OK and you're done, now you can write any type of data on the pen drive.

registry key applied successfully

To Turn ON the write protection you may follow the same procedure as above but paste the following code instead of above

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorageDevicePolicies] “WriteProtect”=dword:00000001

Method 2: Using Diskpart

*. Open command prompt as an administrator and type diskpart.

*. Then type list disk and press enter to see the list of drives.

*. Select the USB drive by typing  select disk 1 (if disk 1 is your USB drive otherwise choose the number which assigned to your  USB drive)

*. At last type attributes disk clear readonly and press enter. Finally type exit  to quit diskpart and you're done with the process.

cmd diskpart commands to remove read only

That's it you have no write protection on the usb drive now. Enjoy the trick and keep your system safe from viruses.

Tuesday 6 January 2015

How to download say thanks Facebook videos

We are back with another awesome trick. Did you know about Facebook's new photo messages which you can create for your friends on fb? Many of you are very well known about this video messages provided by facebook for it's users.

What is Say Thanks video?


Say thanks is created by Facebook to provide it's users video greeting cards. By using the say thanks feature of facebook users can create thanks video for their friends on facebook. It's a customizable video greeting in which you may add some another photos from your computer and make a video of it or can use previously shared photos with friends and create a great video to say thanks to your friends for being with you for a long time. You can create say thanks video from the link https://www.facebook.com/thanks

How to download say thanks facebook videos?

Most of the users already created say thanks video using facebook's say thanks feature. But they are not able to download it only they can view it online. Some of my friends also asked me about how they can download the video. But don't worry friends now you can able to download the video and also other videos which are not downloadable on the internet or on the Facebook. To download the video here is a complete solution, follow it and enjoy the download of facebook's thank you cards.

*. First of all download the firefox extension Video DownloadHelper from here.

video download helper firefox icon

*. Now login to facebook and play the video which you want to download.

*. When the video starts playing you will see the moving icon on top right side on your firefox. Now click on the small dropdown icon and then click on download. You can also convert the video format by clicking on Download and convert.


say thanks facebook videos download


*. That's it your video will now starts downloading.

Hopefully you like this post. Keep visiting for some more tricks for you.

Saturday 3 January 2015

Android data recovery with Coolmuster Lab.Fone

By the increment of the Android devices it is very common nowadays that you take pictures, videos from your phone and also all the contacts and important messages are there in your Android phone and if you deleted any important contact or a message accidently then it is very difficult for you to deal with the situation but here we are discussing one of the hard drive data recovery services. Actually it is an application for Android data recovery. It can be used to recover deleted images, videos, contacts, messages etc.



coolmuster lab fab data recovery for android

According to the developers of Coolmuster Lab Fone
"Lab.Fone for Android is engaged in recovering Android data lost due to deleting, restoring factory settings, flashing ROM, rooting, water damaged, screen broken and more scenarios. You need only 3 simple mouse clicks to accomplish the whole data recovery process for your Android phone or Android tablet."

How to recover deleted contacts from Android phone

Firstly download and install Coolmuster Lab.Fone software for Android from here.

*. Now connect your android phone with USB cable to the computer.

*. Enable USB debugging in your phone. To do this go to settings>>Developer option>> USB Debugging.

*. After that click on Allow on your phone to allow the program super user authorization.

*. Now run the software and it will automatically detect your device and SD card and scan them deeply.



coolmuster lab fone data recovery device connect

*. After completion of scanning it will show all the files in different categories like Messages, Contacts, images etc.

Note: To recover contacts and messages you have to root your android phone.


*. Now you can preview your contacts and click on Restore and select an output location and it will start data recovery. After few seconds check the output folder and your recovered contact will list in there.

Same method you can use to recover other types of files like audio, video, images etc. So if you lost your important data then don't worry and use Coolmuster Lab.Fone for data recovery of your Android phone.

Tuesday 30 December 2014

How to Unroot Rooted android phone

Rooting has many more advantages than an unrooted Android device. You can use custom ROM’s, kernels, themes and you can customize your device more easily. But it void's your phones manufactures warranty and if you rooted your Android device before the warranty period over then it is an act of violation of warranty terms. 

So, if you have a rooted Android phone and you want to unroot it and want to get warranty back or for any other reason you can do so by using some techniques given in this post.

Before unrooting make sure you have backup your data because while unrooting, all the data will be wiped out. So make sure to backup all your important data either on your SD card or your PC and charge your phone.

SuperSU app

Using this common app most of the android devices can be unrooted. This will work on all devices those are rooted without installing custom recovery.
 

*. First of all download and install SuperSU app from here.

*. Open SuperSU app and go to Settings then tap on Full unroot.


super user unroot phone

*. After successful unroot superuser will automatically close.

*. Restart your device and uninstall SuperSU and your device will be unrooted successfully.
ES File Explorer

ES File Explorer is an android app that will unroot your android device. Following steps will help you unrooting your android devices:

*. Download and install ES File Explorer app on your device from here. Don’t move it to SD card.
 

*. After opening the app tap on the menu button. Now tap on Tools and turn on Root Explorer.

es file root explorer

*. Superuser will ask for root privileges to the app, so allow it.
    

*. Now go back to the main screen of the app and select '/' in the top corner of the screen.
 

*. Now go to system folder and then bin. Find the busybox and su file and delete them. It no such files then skin this step.
    

system es root folder

*. Go back to system folder then open xbin folder and delete the busybox and su file there if any.
    

*. Now go back to the system folder again and open app folder and then delete the supeuser.apk file located in the folder.

*. Now restart your device and you are done.

That's it! Did you like this post? If yes then show your response. Enjoy rooting and unrooting android.

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