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How To Remove Write Protection From An SD Card

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The write errors that we find on SD cards are literally a lot of pain and will disturb and distract us from all the things that we are doing and grab our entire attention. We may be picking the good company SD cards and purchase the perfect one. But these issues can be found on any company cards and as many cards have write protection, we cannot be able to format them to get them back.

Steps To Remove Write Protection In SD Card

We thought to bring a proper and easy solution for this he4ad burning problem and here are the steps that you need to go through

  • Some cards come with a toggle switch that has the ability to remove the write protection. So check whether your card has one such a toggle or not and if it has your solution is pretty simple, just toggle it and then try inserting it and you will be able to format it
  • And the second thing that you should check if your card doesn’t have a toggle switch is by checking the device’s properties. You just head to the Devices and Drivers window on your PC by just searching for devices and drivers on your PC and then right click on your particular card and click on properties where you will find toggle option, if you can’t find the toggle option even here, then head to the next process
  • The other troubleshooting step that you can try to get out of this issue is using the command prompt Open command prompt in administrator mode, then type ‘diskpart’ and hit enter, then type ‘list disk’ and you will find the list of disks connected to your device, then note the number of your card by figuring out your card by its size. And then type the command ‘select disk [disk number]’ and hit enter, then type ‘attributes disk clear readonly’ and hit enter to remove clear the write protection

Hope these simple yet useful troubleshooting tips help you to get back your SD card. Remember you can always get back your lost data from such cards through various backup managers and EaseUS Data Recovery tool is one of the very useful ones.

How To Enable Copy And Paste In Command Prompt

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Copy and paste is one such an option in Windows PCs that the users are very much used to. It makes the tasks very simple and quick to do. There will be no computer user without the knowledge of these copy and paste features. But anyhow it doesn’t work in command prompt window where it is actually needed sometimes to enter the lengthy and not so easy commands.

Enabling Copy & Paste In Command Prompt

So, we have made this article that will help you to learn the process of enabling copy and paste in command prompt with simple steps.

  • Open the run command by clicking Ctrl + R and then type CMD in the box and click ok
  • Then you will see the command prompt window open, just right click on the title bar and then select the properties option from the pop-up window
  • Now you can see the properties window open, just tap on the options tab and make sure the checkbox for the Quick Edit Mode is has a tick in it
  • Enabling this Quick Edit Mode in the CMD window allows the users to copy anything from the CMD window and paste it somewhere or else they can also copy something anywhere and paste it in the command prompt window
  • You can just simply copy the text wherever you found the required one and then open the CMD, just right click the mouse and you can find the copies text pasted in the window
  • And if in case you wish to copy something in the CMD window, just select the required text and then right-click the mouse and it will be copied, you can paste it somewhere else

So, don’t worry about typing the long command if you ever happen to, just make use of this simple yet very useful copy and paste feature and make life easy.

Learn How To Ping A Computer Or A Website On the Internet

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If you have had any conversations with IT professionals or even if you have had some interest in the internet technology and terminology, then you must have definitely heard of the word ping. Pinging a computer or a website has got many different uses. You can measure the speed of your internet connection with this thing. You can also connect to another computer. You may feel like it is a complicated thing to do. But in fact, it is not. Here is how you can ping a computer or a website.

First of all, in your Windows computer, you will need command prompt.

Then for a simple ping, you just need to type a single command line in the command prompt window.

Ping [web URL] for pinging a certain website, just replace the URL with the website address.

Ping [IP address] for pinging the particular computer, just replace the IP address with the computer’s IP address.

In case if you want to run a continuous ping on Windows, then you need to use

Ping –t[web address]

Ping – t[IP address]

When you ping a computer or a website using the above command lines, then it will provide you with some kind of information which will include the time it took to send and receive the pingback, TTL, packets, round trip tip kind of information.

This is the simple process that lets you ping a computer with the help of the command prompt program.

Here Is A Quick Guide For You To Remove Shortcut Virus

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The most common problem that many of us get to experience in common all the time is the shortcut virus. When we find our files, folders turned into shortcut virus we may obviously be annoyed that we can’t think of any solution immediately to get rid of that situation. Using an anti-virus is obviously not the solution for this as they can be found in anti-virus protected devices as well. So here we provide you an easy and simple procedure using command prompt, just follow these steps

  • As a first step, you obviously need to open the command prompt and to do that you can just click on the start button and then choose command prompt or just click Windows + R and then type cmd and press enter
  • Now you need to go to the location of your pen drive, so enter the drive it may be e, g or f. so enter the letter in your case and then press enter
  • Then type the command ‘del *.Ink’ and then press enter to remove all the link files in the directory
  • Now enter the command ‘attrib -h -r -s /s /d drive letter:*.*’, and then press enter ( replace the words drive letter with the letter of your drive
  • This shortcut allows you to get rid of the virus and when you open the drive and find your files, all you have to do is just copy and paste them somewhere else and do the formatting of your drive once, after the completion of formatting, you can get the files copied back to your pen drive.

Or you can also choose to use other third-party applications like USBFIX to remove the shortcut virus. But getting rid of that virus using any process is needed, so choose this simple process without any other downloads and all.

Some cool command prompt tricks that you must know

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Command prompt is the command liner interpretation application available in most of the Windows Operating systems. It is basically used to execute the entered CMD or DOS commands.
There are much a lot of things and cool tricks we can actually do using the command prompt, here in this piece of article I am going to take you through some command tricks which will be quite helpful and cool as well.

Encrypt Files:
This is one of the coolest things you can do using the simple command and many are actually not aware of these simple tricks they can do using the prompt. So here is how to encrypt your important files very easily
• Open the command prompt window
• Now change the directory using the simple cd command to the file/folder where your important files exist or to the file/folder which you would like to encrypt.
• Now just type “cipher” and press enter. That is it, you have encrypted your important files and no other user can delete them.

Change CMD color:
Aren’t you bored of the black and white theme of the CMD prompt window? Yes there is way we can simply change it. Here is a simple command trick to change the font color.
• Open the CMD prompt window
• Type “help color” in the prompt window just to get an idea about the colour codes
• To change the colours of the foreground and background, just use the simple command “color” followed by the color codes that you like
For example “color xy”
x attributes to background color
y attributes to foreground color

Change Window Title:
The command prompt window title is very boring and if you wish to change it something quirky and cool. Yes, you can do that using a very simple command trick.
• Open the command window
• Just type the command “title” followed by the window title that you would like to replace with and press enter. That is it, you will notice the change.

Hide a file/folder:
Hiding files and folders in windows can be done easily using the properties option, but the hidden files in that way can be unhidden when someone makes changes to the folder options. But using a simple command trick, you can hide files actually in way that they cannot be unhidden.
• Open CMD window
• Chang the directory to the file or folder that you wish to hide.
• Now just type “Attrib +h +s +r” d press enter, your file/folder will be now hidden
• To unhide the file/folder just type “Attrib –h –s –r”

Get List of Programs on PC:
Typing the command “wmic product get name” will get you the list of all the programs installed in your computer after a little while. It will take some time, so kindly have some patience.

So, these simple DOS commands are thus helpful and cool as well, so try these for sure.