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O rezolvare simpla atunci cand nu iti functioneaza mouse-ul si tastatura in windows 10

Keyboard and mouse failures aren’t uncommon, especially with regular usage. If your keyboard or mouse has stopped working on your Windows 10 PC, here are a few steps you can follow to resolve the issue.

It goes without saying that you should check your hardware thoroughly before doing anything else.

Start by carefully checking all of your device connections. If your keyboard or mouse is plugged in correctly, try switching them to another USB port. If you’re on a laptop, make sure you haven’t accidentally disabled your keyboard or mouse using the function keys at the top.

If you have a wireless keyboard or mouse, check that the batteries have enough charge to work correctly. Switch to a wired alternative to double-check the problem isn’t with the hardware itself.

Finally, try your keyboard or mouse on a different PC, or try an alternative keyboard or mouse. In either case, if your keyboard or mouse do work (or the alternatives work instead), then you can assume the problem is with your PC.

Check Windows for Malware

Malware can sometimes play a part in preventing you from using your keyboard or mouse in Windows 10. A malware infection that disables these devices will cripple your ability to use your PC.

If that’s the case, you’ll need to force Windows to scan for malware. You can use your own antivirus software to do this, using an antivirus boot disc or a boot scan to conduct the check.

You can schedule a boot scan using Windows Defender. This will scan your drives and remove any malware it detects. You might need to boot into Windows Safe Mode to do this first if the infection is stopping you from controlling your PC.

RELATED: How to Boot Into Safe Mode on Windows 10 or 8 (The Easy Way)

To begin, access your Windows settings menu by right-clicking the Windows Start menu button and clicking the “Settings” button.

Right-click the Start Menu button, then click Settings

From here, click Update & Security > Windows Security > Virus & Threat Protection.

Tap “Scan Options” underneath the central “Quick Scan” button.

In the Virus and Threat Protection menu, click Scan Options

In the “Scan Options” menu, select the “Windows Defender Offline Scan” option.

Click “Scan Now” to begin the process.

Choose Windows Defender Offline scan, then click Scan Now

Windows will reboot and begin the deep scan of your PC. This process might take some time to complete. Once it’s done, any malware infection detected on your PC should be automatically removed.

You can check your scan history afterward by clicking “Protection History” in the “Virus & Threat Protection” menu.

Forcefully Reinstall Your Keyboard and Mouse Drivers

Windows automatically handles the drivers for your keyboard and mouse but forcing Windows to reinstall these drivers can sometimes resolve any issues preventing them from working correctly.

To reinstall your keyboard and mouse drivers, right-click the Windows Start menu button and select the “Device Manager” option.

Right-click the Start Menu, then click Device Manager

The Windows Device Manager lists all of the devices attached to your PC, both internal and external. Your keyboard will be listed under the “Keyboards” category, while your mouse will be listed under the “Mice and Other Pointing Devices” category. To force Windows to reinstall the drivers for these devices, click on the arrow next to each of these categories to expand them. Right-click on your device and then click the “Uninstall Device” option.

It’s probably best to do this with your keyboard first and your mouse second, as you’ll lose access to the device until you restart.

Right-click your keyboard or mouse in the Windows Device Manager, then click Uninstall Device

Confirm you want to uninstall the device by clicking the “Uninstall” button in the confirmation pop-up dialog box.

Click Uninstall to begin the device removal

As we’ve mentioned, once the installation process begins, these devices will likely stop working until you reboot.Press your power button to begin the shutdown or reboot process. Once rebooted, your keyboard and mouse drivers should reinstall automatically.

In an Emergency, Use Windows Accessibility Options

If you can’t immediately solve a problem with your keyboard or mouse, you can switch to using the built-in Windows accessibility options. These will work only if you have a working mouse or a working keyboard available to you.

Enabling MouseKeys

With a working keyboard but a broken mouse, you can switch to using MouseKeys. This accessibility feature allows you to move your mouse cursor using the number keys on your keyboard.

To enable it, access your Windows settings by right-clicking the Start Menu and clicking “Settings.” From here, click Ease of Access > Mouse and then click the slider to the “On” position to enable MouseKeys.

In the Mouse section of the Windows Ease of Access menu, click the slider to enable MouseKeys

You’ll now be able to use your number keys to move your cursor.  For example, the number “8” will move your mouse cursor up, “2” will move it down, etc.

Enabling the Onscreen Keyboard

Another useful accessibility feature in Windows 10 is the onscreen keyboard. If your keyboard is working, but you have access to a mouse (or your screen is touch-enabled), you can use this feature instead as a short-term solution.

RELATED: How to Use the On-Screen Keyboard on Windows 7, 8, and 10

For easy access to the onscreen keyboard, right-click your Windows taskbar and click “Show Touch Keyboard Button.”

Right-click the taskbar, then click the show touch keyboard button

This will display an icon in your taskbar notifications area that you can press to easily show or hide the onscreen keyboard.

Click the on-screen keyboard icon in the Windows taskbar notifications area

With this option enabled, clicking it will bring up the onscreen keyboard to fill the lower half of your screen.

The Windows on-screen keyboard, activated for use

It’ll be easier to use on touchscreen devices, but if you have a working mouse, simply click on each key for it to respond as your typical keyboard would.

To close the keyboard, click the “X” button in the top right.

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Care este cel mai eficent mod de a face backup?

Everyone loses data at some point in their lives. Your computer’s hard drive could fail tomorrow, ransomware could hold your files hostage, or a software bug could delete your important files. If you’re not regularly backing up your computer, you could lose those files forever. Backups don’t have to be hard or confusing, though. You’ve probably heard about countless different backup methods, but which one is right for you? And what files do you really need to back up?

It’s All About Your Personal Data

Let’s start with the obvious: what do you need back up? Well, first and foremost, you need to back up your personal files. You can always reinstall your operating system and redownload your programs if your hard drive fails, but your own personal data is irreplaceable.

Any personal documents, photos, home videos, and any other data on your computer should be backed up regularly. Those can never be replaced. If you’ve spent hours painstakingly ripping audio CDs or video DVDs, you may want to back those files up, too, so you don’t have to do all that work over again. Your operating system, programs, and other settings can also be backed up. You don’t have to back them up, necessarily, but it can make your life easier if your entire hard drive fails. If you’re the type of person that likes to play around with system files, edit the registry, and regularly update your hardware, having a full system backup may save you time when things go wrong.

The Many Ways to Back Up Your Files

There are many ways to back up your data, from using an external drive to backing up those files on a remote server over the Internet. Here are the strengths and weaknesses of each:

  • Back Up to an External Drive: If you have an external USB hard drive, you can just back up to that drive using your computer’s built-in backup features. On Windows 10 and 8, use File History. On Windows 7, use Windows Backup. On Macs, use Time Machine. Occasionally connect the drive to the computer and use the backup tool, or leave it plugged in whenever your home and it’ll back up automatically. Pros: Backing up is cheap and fast. Cons: If your house gets robbed or catches on fire, your backup can be lost along with your computer, which is very bad.

  • Back Up Over the Internet: If you want to ensure your files stay safe, you can back them up to the internet with a service like Backblaze. Backblaze is the well-known online backup service we like and recommend since CrashPlan no longer serves home users (although you could pay for a CrashPlan small business account instead.) There are also competitors like Carbonite—we also used to mention MozyHome, but it’s now a part of Carbonite. For a low monthly fee (about $5 a month), these programs run in the background on your PC or Mac, automatically backing up your files to the service’s web storage. If you ever lose those files and need them again, you can restore them. Pros: Online backup protects you against any type of data loss–hard drive failure, theft, natural disasters, and everything in between. Cons: These services usually cost money (see the next section for more details), and the initial backup can take much longer than it would on an external drive–especially if you have a lot of files.

  • Use a Cloud Storage Service: Backup purists will say this isn’t technically a backup method, but for most people, it serves a similar enough purpose. Rather than just storing your files on your computer’s hard drive, you can store them on a service like Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or a similar cloud storage service. They’ll then automatically sync to your online account and to your other PCs. If your hard drive dies, you’ll still have the copies of the files stored online and on your other computers. Pros: This method is easy, fast, and in many cases, free, and since it’s online, it protects you against all types of data loss. Cons: Most cloud services only offer a few gigabytes of space for free, so this only works if you have a small number of files you want to back up, or if you’re willing to pay for extra storage. Depending on the files you want to back up, this method can either be simpler or more complicated than a straight-up backup program.

While backup programs like Backblaze and cloud storage services like Dropbox are both online backups, they work in fundamentally different ways. Dropbox is designed to sync your files between PCs, while Backblaze and similar services are designed to backup large amounts of files. Backblaze will keep multiple copies of different versions of your files, so you can restore the file exactly as it was from many points in its history. And, while services like Dropbox are free for small amounts of space, Backblaze’s low price is for as big a backup as you want. Depending on how much data you have, one could be cheaper than the other.

Backblaze and Carbonite do have one big limitation you should keep in mind. If you delete a file on your computer, it will be deleted from your online backups after 30 days. You can’t go back and recover a deleted file or the previous version of a file after this 30 day period. So be careful when deleting those files if you might want them back!

One Backup Isn’t Enough: Use Multiple Methods

RELATED: You’re Not Backing Up Properly Unless You Have Offsite Backups

So which should you use? Ideally, you’d use at least two of them. Why? Because you want both offsite and onsite backups.

“Onsite” literally means backups stored at the same physical location as you. So, if you back up to an external hard drive and store that at home with your home PC, that’s an onsite backup. Offsite backups are stored at a different location. So, if you back up to an online server, like Backblaze or Dropbox, that’s an offsite backup.

Onsite backups are faster and easier, and should be your first line of defense against data loss. If you lose files, you can quickly restore them from an external drive. But you shouldn’t rely on onsite backups alone. If your home burns down or all the hardware in it is stolen by thieves, you’d lose all your files.

Offsite backups don’t have to be a server on the Internet, either, and you don’t have to pay a monthly subscription for one. You could back up your files to a hard drive and store it at your office, at a friend’s house, or in a bank vault, for example. It’d be a bit more inconvenient, but that’s technically an offsite backup.

Similarly, you could also store your files in Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive and performing regular backups to an external drive. Or you could use Backblaze to back up online and Windows File History to create a local backup. There are a lot of ways to use these services in tandem, and it’s up to you how to do it. Just make sure you have a solid backup strategy, with onsite and offsite backups, so you have a wide safety net against ever losing your files.

Automate It!

All that may sound complicated, but the more you automate your backup system, the more frequently you’ll be able to back up and the greater the odds you’ll stick with it. That’s why you should use an automated tool instead of copying files to an external drive by hand. You can just set it up once, and forget it.

That’s one reason we really like online services like Backblaze. If it’s backing up to the internet, it can automatically do that every single day. If you have to plug in an external drive, you have to put in more effort, which means you’ll back up less often and you may eventually stop doing it. Keeping everything automatic is well worth the price.

If you don’t want to pay anything and want to primarily rely on local backups, consider using a file-syncing service like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Microsoft OneDrive to synchronize your important files online. That way, if you ever lose your local backup, you’ll at least have an online copy. Ultimately, you just need to think about where your files are and ensure you have multiple copies at all times. Ideally, those copies should be in more than one physical location. As long as you’re actually thinking about what you’ll do if your computer dies, you should be way ahead of most people.

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Cel mai bun program de comparat fisiere

De foarte multe ori s-a intamplat sa avem nevoie sa comparam 2 fisiere, sau chiar continutul a foldere intregi.

La ce imi foloseste acest lucru?

Intrebarea de mai sus nu are sens, daca ai de a face cu managementul de fisiere sau daca nu esti programator. Dupa mai multe programe de acest tip incercate, am ramas cu Beyond Compare (ce folosesc acum este versiunea de Windows, desi exista si o versiune pentru Linux).

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