Get into laptop BIOS using Windows 10 Settings - The Simple Way

Are you frustrated with the button presses to enter your laptop BIOS/firmware? Some laptop models don't recognize the 'Enter BIOS' command through key-press (like F2, F8 and so on). Follow the below procedure to easily get into the BIOS using Windows 10 Settings.


Step 1. Open the windows settings by clicking the windows menu on desktop and then the gear symbol as shown in the picture below.

Step 2. Open Update & security

Step 3. Open Recovery in the left tab and click Restart now under the Advanced startup
 

Step 4. The system will now enter into a blue background interface. Select Troubleshoot from the options

Step 5. Now select Advanced options

Step 6. Click UEFI Firmware Settings

Step 7. Click to Restart into the BIOS options. You are done. Happy BIOS updation !!!!

Brain Computer Interfaces

We are all familiar with the Cerebro device used by the Professor in X-Men comics/movies. A similar but more realistic equipment is the brain computer interface or BCI. It has many other names like the human-computer interface or man-machine interface and so on. Technically, the BCI is a signal processing system that enables information exchange between the human brain and a central processing unit. In other words, this device permits humans to 'talk' to machines without any natural speech or actions. It uses the electric signals generated from the human brain to recognize the subject's intends. The signal collection is usually performed through electroencephalography or EEG. All BCIs that exist today are unidirectional, i.e, they can allow the machine only to hear the human brain 'talk', but cannot 'talk back'.

Get List of all Files in a Folder/Directory using Windows Command Prompt

This is a simple way to get the details of all the files in a folder as a text file list. It can be done by the following steps:

1. Open the windows command prompt. There are many ways to do this. Do any one of the following

• Press the WINDOWS key along with R key. You will a get a Run window as show below. Type "cmd"  in the window and press enter.
  
•  Another way is to click the windows start button at the lower left corner and type "cmd". You will get the result as shown below and then press enter.
  

2. Once the command prompt window is open, use the change directory command to move to the folder of our interest. Use the command as ' cd <folder location>'. For eg:- cd "E:\Backup\Work". Note that if the folder of interest is in any another drive (than that is shown in the cmd window), you will have to change the drive path using the command '<drivename>: '. For eg:- e: can be used to change the drive path to "Drive E"

3. After you have done this, use the command 'dir > textfilename.txt' to save the file details of that folder into textfilename.txt within the same folder. The steps 2 and 3 are illustrated below.

 Finally the file list will look like this.

How to Fix Virtual Router Plus Could not be Started Error

There can be different reasons for the Virtual Router Plus Could not be Started Error. Three methods to troubleshoot this issue are discussed below. Try these methods one at a time in the order 1 to 3, till your problem is solved. Hope these work for you

Method 1

1. Right-click network, click properties, change adapter settings, disable WiFi adapter by right clicking it and selecting disable from the context menu. Not the one created by Virtual router Plus.
2. Once disabled right click on it again to enable it.
3. Now try connecting to internet.

Method 2 

1. Press Windows key + X, select Command prompt (Admin)
2. Then type the following:
   netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=VirtualRouter key=123456789
3. Enter
4. Then type :
   netsh wlan start hostednetwork
5. Then try connecting to internet.

Method 3

1. Open Network and Sharing Center->Change adapter settings. Alternatively you may right-click network, click properties, change adapter settings
2. Right click the adapter you use to connect to the internet (Ethernet/WiFi/Data Card) and open its properties window.
3. Now go to the sharing tab and enable the 'Allow other network users to connect.....' and select the Home networking connection 'Ethernet/WiFi' as shown in the figure
4. Click OK
5. Now disable and then enable this adapter.
6. Now try connecting to internet.