How To Password Protect Your Pen Drive

Do you carry sensitive data in your pen drive? Then you should carefully keep your pen drive. Oh! You mean you are not that careful too. Then I would suggest that you should password protect your pen drive. Yes folks, you can do this by a simple method. This is an added advantage to Windows Vista and Windows 7 users that they can easily password protect their pen drives with the help of BitLocker Drive Encryption. Its an inbuilt feature of both of these operating systems.

Today we will try to understand that how we can password protect our pen drive. But before going to the process we must consider the advantages which you get by doing this.

• First of all your data remains safe. Nobody other than you can decrypt or unlock the pen drive.

• Secondly, if any how your pen drive is lost or gets stolen then also no one can use it without unlocking it with the help of correct password.

Process To Password Protect Pen Drive

• Insert your pen drive which you want to password protect.

• Click start and open Control Panel.
  

(Quick Tip : To skip the next three steps  type BitLocker in the search box and hit enter.)

• Go to System and Security > BitLocker Drive Encryption.

 

• Find your pen drive listed amongst all the drives.

• Turn on Bitlocker for your pen drive. System will few seconds to turn this feature on.

• A window will open in front of you asking your desired password which you want to keep for your pen drive. Click next when you done with setting up the password.

• Store your recovery key at your desired place. Click next to continue. Recovery key can be used if in case you forget your set password.

• System will ask you to start encryption for your pen drive. Encryption will take some time.

• Once the encryption is over you will see a lock symbol on your pen drive icon.

   

• Remove the pen drive and re-insert it. System will ask you to enter the password to access the data.

So this is how you can password protect your pen drive. Encrypting data with the help of BitLocker Drive encryption is really simple. Just follow this process and get rid of your tension of losing your data.

Re-open a Firefox Tab That You Accidentally Closed

Do you ever accidentally close a tab in Firefox, then want to get back to a website that you were exploring in that tab?
It happens to me a couple of times every day – I click on a link, and when I'm finished reading that page, I close the tab. Oops! That link hadn't opened in a new tab, and now I've lost the original page that I was reading.

Re-open a Closed Tab From the History Menu

Fortunately, Firefox remembers what you've had open, and stores those tabs in its History.

To re-open a closed tab:

1. Click the History Menu
   
2. Click Recently Closed Tabs, to see a list of web page names.
   
3. Click the name of the web page that you want to re-open.

Re-open the Last Closed Tab From the Shortcut Menu

You can also re-open the last closed tab by using a shortcut menu:

1. Double-click in an empty area of the tab strip, for example, to the right of the last tab.
   
2. In the shortcut menu that appears, click Undo Close Tab.

Re-open the Last Closed Tab From the KeyBoard Shortcut key

•   Ctrl +Shift +T

 

How To Apply Password On RAR Files

In this tutorial we will teach you how to password protect a RAR file or applying a password on RAR file using WinRAR. The process is very easy. You just need to follow some steps and you will have a RAR file which will only be opened with the password you set. So this can be used for protecting your personal files and data.

How To Apply a Password on RAR File :

1. First you must have WinRAR installed on your computer.

2. Right click on the folder or the file you want to lock with WinRAR.

3. Select "Add to archive..." as shown in the screenshot below.

4. You will see a window like below. First go to the "Advanced" tab. Second, click on "Set password...". 

5. Now you will again see a pop-up as shown above. Tick the "Encrypt file names" option and input the password you want to set for your RAR file. Now click on OK and you will have a RAR file of the data you selected.
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How to delete the Undeletable files from your hard disk without software

Many times when your are deleting any file from your hard drive then some error comes and dialog box appears in which message is written that Action could not be processed and that file did'nt delete. So, for the solution of this problem, we're giving you a trick which will delete your undeletable files from your Windows drive. You can follow this trick to download the undeletable files simply from your hard drive.

Follow these steps to delete files -

• Firstly, open your Command Prompt and let it be opened.
• Now, close all the opened programs.
• Also, you need to close the EXPLORER.EXE . You can do this by this way, open the Shutdown Window and click on the cancel by pressing the key "Ctrl + Shift + Alt", explorer will automatically exit.
• Go back to the Command Prompt window and change to the directory where the undeletable file is located in. At the command prompt type DEL <filename> where <filename> is the file you wish to delete.
• Go back to Task Manager, click File, New Task and enter EXPLORER.EXE to restart the GUI shell.
• Close Task Manager.

So, simply you have been successful to delete your file.

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