Why can't I send files from Android to Windows 10?

With versions of Windows before 10, I could simply send files from any of my Android phones by selecting Share > Bluetooth > [PC Name] and at then the PC would show a dialog asking if I want to receive the file(s). After confirming, the transfer would begin.

With Windows 10, when trying to send a file from phone to PC, my phones quickly shows that the transfer was unsuccessful.

Is there a different process now or is this something more complicated like driver issues?

ANSWER :

I have found that to receive bluetooth files in Windows 10, first right-click the Bluetooth icon in the taskbar and select "Receive a file".

You will then see the following:

At this point, the file(s) can be sent from the phone and the computer will receive them.

Find My Device by Google - Android Apps

Introducing Find My Device - the new and improved Android Device Manager. Find My Device helps you easily locate a lost Android device, and keeps your information safe and sound while you look.

Locate your phone, tablet or watch. Misplaced your Android Wear device? No problem.

Play a sound. Find My Device helps you track down your device when it’s close by.

Lock, erase or show a message. With Find My Device you can secure your device remotely and help someone get in touch.

Permissions Notice
• Location: Needed to show your device’s current location on the map.
• Contacts: Needed to access the email address associated with your Google account.

http://www.friendlylearn.com/2018/03/find-my-device-by-google-android-apps.html

Don't click 'like' on Facebook again until you read this

Facebook has changed the way people do a lot of things online. For example, you probably notice yourself reflexively clicking "like" on anything your friends post on Facebook, even if it's just to acknowledge you saw it. Scammers are taking advantage of that reflex for a dangerous scam called "like-farming."

What is like-farming?

Like-farming is when scammers post an attention-grabbing story on Facebook for the express purpose of cultivating likes and shares. Based on the way Facebook works, the more likes and shares a post has, the more likely it is to show up in people's News Feeds.

This gives the scammer more eyeballs for posts that trick people out of information or send them to malicious downloads. The big question, of course, is why Facebook doesn't stop these posts before they get too big. And that's where the real scam comes in.

How the scam works

Scammers have found a simple way to fly under the radar during the early phases of their operation. The story they originally post to Facebook has nothing dangerous about it. It's just a regular story that anyone might post. That was the warning from one local Better Business Bureau last year.

Only after the post gets a certain number of likes and shares does the scammer edit it and add something malicious. They might start promoting products or sell the page information in an attempt to get credit card data. In fact, if you go back through your history of liked posts, you might find that some of them have changed to something you wouldn't have liked in a million years. By the way, if you’re not sure how to review your likes, click here for the step-by-step instructions.

So, what kinds of stories do scammers start with to trick people into liking and sharing?

Q&A: Avoid a big tech rip-off

Posts that should give you pause

One popular type of story is the emotional one. You've definitely seen the posts showing rescue animals and asking you to like if you think they're cute. Or maybe it's a medical story where you're asked to like that the person was cured or to let them know they're still beautiful after surgery.

There are also the posts that ask for a like to show that you're against something the government is doing, or that you disagree with something terrible happening in the world. Or maybe it's the ones that say "If I get X number of likes, then something amazing will happen for me" or "I was challenged to get X number of likes."

Basically, any post that asks you to like it for emotional reasons, unless you know the person who created the original post, is quite probably a like-farm post. Of course, emotional posts aren't the only types of post you need to watch for.

Other types of scam posts to avoid

There are a lot of scams on Facebook and most of them can be used for like-farming. A popular one, for example, is a post that asks you to like or share so you can win something cool. These pop up most often when Apple launches a new iPhone or iPad.

You might have seen recently during the huge Powerball frenzy people posting on Facebook saying anyone who likes their post will get a share of their winnings. How real do you think those were?

Just on Thursday, police in Australia warned Facebook users of a like-farming scam that attempted to lure customers of Qantas Airlines.

Thousands fall for Qantas first-class ticket hoax. Here's how to never be one of them

What about brain-teaser posts, such as the ones that have you like or share if you can read the words backwards or solve a tricky math problem? Yep, those are often like-farm posts, too.

It isn't just posts either; it can also be pages. A scammer might set up a page for "I love puppies" or what appears to be a worthy company or organization. It puts up enough content to get a lot of likes, then switches the content to spam and scams. Once you've liked the page, everything new the scammers put up goes on your News Feed and, in some cases, your friends' feeds as well.

How to avoid like-farming

Your best bet to avoid like-farming is to be very judicious about what you like and share on Facebook. Don't just reflexively click "like" on everything. Take a look at where the post is coming from. If it's from someone you don't recognize, it could be a friend of a friend or it could be a complete stranger. It would be good to find out.

Notice the content and whether it promises anything for liking or sharing. If it does, it's a good clue that it's a scam of some kind. The same goes if you feel pushed or pressured into clicking like or share.  Click here for 5 Facebook scams that continue to spread like wildfire.

Don't forget that, in the end, minimizing your likes is more than just a good security measure. It also reduces the clutter in your friends' news feeds, and their clutter in yours, so you can all spend more time seeing the really important posts. That's a win-win for everyone.

Windows 10 100% disk usage in Task Manager

A note to Windows 10 users.
All of a sudden your laptop/computer is operating very slow and unresponsive, this may be caused by your laptop computer thinking its disk usage is 100% full when it really isn’t. To check this open your task manager by right clicking on your taskbar and get more details. In many cases you may see disk usage 100% in red. If this is happening there are many easy fixes. Let me know if I can help.

Here is the website I use

https://www.drivereasy.com/…/100-disk-usage-windows-10-fix…/

do not buy the software suggested here, it is not needed..This is for Tips

Thanks.

Paypal by Prize Live

I have seen PrizeLive, several times already in different PTC ad and in sidebar of some bloggers. Until a friend asked me to sign up and she assisted me on how PrizeLive works.

So here's how it works:
1. Of course, you should have your own account. Click the banner below to sign up:

2. After, clicking the banner you will be redirected to the main page,enter your email address on the upper left corner.

3. Again, you will be redirected to the registration form. Please put on the How did you find us? section "referred by samsoft2012"

4. After hitting the join button, you will receive a confirmation code on your email, check your email and enter the code.


5. Once, verified you can now start earning points, but first, edit your account, and fill up the necessary field. Also fill up the telephone number section to be able to claim your rewards.

6. Download the PrizeBar and you will get 0.25 GC(game credits). Game credits can be used in playing games to earn Points.

7. Go to the forum, and create an introduce yourself thread and gain another 0.25 GC.

8.  Earn points by completing offers, commission from level 1 referrals, owning an offer in the reward section, and by winning in the games we offer. Points can be redeemed in the Rewards section for prizes and gifts. Points can also be converted into Game Credits in order to play Games and to participate in some Contests. 1 point is equal to $1.

9. Log in daily for more offers, more points and GC.

UPDATE: I gained 0.43 points in less than one day.  You can view my profile here. I'll update you how I did it.Click Here to Join.

How to force uninstall a program you cannot uninstall

At one point or another this happens to every computer user in the world: You install a program, find out that you don't like it, or need it, or that it's plain useless for the task you wanted to use it for, and you want to uninstall it. So you open up the Windows Add/Remove tool, click the button to uninstall the program... and find out that you cannot uninstall the program. In this article I will try to explain how to force uninstall a program, that you cannot uninstall using the Windows Add/Remove tool. Before that, however, I will try to explain what happens during installation.

What you need to know to uninstall a program manually

There are several things that happen during the installation of a program. First, of course, is the copying of files to the specified program folder (which is usually somewhere inside the Program Files folder). Also some files such as shared libraries (.dll files) can be copied into a folder inside Program Files called Common Files and some files such as drivers or shared libraries (again) are copied into the ‘WINDOWS\System32' and‘WINDOWS\System32\drivers'folders. After that the installer makes some changes inside the windows registry. The windows registry is a unified place where all the settings for programs and for windows itself are stored. The installer can make changes inside the registry for several reasons. For example if a shared library needs to be registered. Or if certain types of files need to be associated with the program being installed, so that the user could open them (e.g. if you install Microsoft Word, then you will be able to open Microsoft Word documents). After this is done, a key is added to the windows registry in a place where the Windows Add/Remove tool looks for installed programs. During the installation all these operations are logged in a special file (e.g. setup.log), and the installation program usually puts that file inside the application's folder along with the uninstaller. When a user tries to remove a program through the Add/Remove tool, windows looks for the registered uninstaller inside the registry, and executes it. The uninstaller goes through the log file and undoes all the changes done during installation. That is, it deletes all the files that have been copied, all the registry keys the installer created etc.

However, if there is no log file, or if there is no record of the changes made to the registry the uninstaller might fail to uninstall the program, and it will stay there untill it is removed by other means.

So if a program won't uninstall, how do you perform a force uninstall?

Well, if you know how to work with the windows registry, you probably can perform a manual force uninstall.

Before I go into detail about how to do this manually, I'd like to say that this is pretty advanced stuff, and if you're not a power user, then perhaps you should consider using specialized software such as the Perfect Uninstaller which allows you to do this in just a few clicks.

If you are a power user, then let's continue. First, let's see how to remove the program from the list of installed programs. To do that you need to open the registry browser:

1. Click Start and choose Run in the menu (If you're using Windows Vista then press Win+R on your keyboard).
2. Type regedit and hit Enter.
3. On the left side is the registry settings tree, use it to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
4. Inside that key you'll find a lot of keys that belong to different programs. Some are named after the program's name, others as a mix of numbers and letters that makes no sense. Look through each of them until you find one that has the key DisplayName (on the right) with your program's name in it.
5. Notice the key UninstallString - this key points to the uninstall program, and the log file usually resides in the same folder as that program.
6. If you delete the key in which you've found the DisplayName key with the value equal to your program's name, then your program won't appear on the Add/Remove programs list.

Some programs create new entries in the registry to store their configuration options, these entries can usually be found in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software or in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE - look for the program name or the name of the company that made the software. Don't delete Microsoft though - that contains Windows settings as well.

Next we have to find all the files that have been copied. Open the folder in which the uninstall program should be, and look for files which are named uninstal.log or setup.log or something similar. The list of files that have been installed is inside this file, you can open it in your notepad and find all of the files that have been copied onto your system. Delete the files and you'll get rid of the program almost fully.

Again, I'd like to stress that if you're new to the windows registry and all of this stuff, and if you don't feel like experimenting with your computer, then, again, please consider using either the Perfect Uninstaller or similar software, I do not want to be responsible for breaking your computer.