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Computer ports

What is a Port?

• is a physical docking point using which an external device can be connected to the .
• can also be programmatic docking point through which information flows from a program to or over the .

Characteristics

• External devices are connected to a using cables and .
• are slots on the into which a cable of external device is plugged in.
• Examples of external devices attached via are mouse, keyboard, monitor, microphone, speakers etc.

Serial Port

• Used for external modems and older mouse
• Two versions : 9 pin, 25 pin model
• travels at 115 kilobits per second

Parallel Port

• Used for scanners and printers
• Also called printer port
• 25 pin model
• Also known as IEEE 1284-compliant Centronics port

PS/2 Port

• Used for old keyboard and mouse
• Also called mouse port
• Most of the old computers provide two PS/2 port, each for mouse and keyboard
• Also known as IEEE 1284-compliant Centronics port

Universal Serial Bus (or USB) Port

• It can connect all kinds of external USB devices such as external hard disk, printer, scanner, mouse, keyboard etc.
• It was introduced in 1997.
• Most of the computers provide two USB as minimum.
• travels at 12 megabits per seconds
• USB compliant devices can get power from a USB port

VGA Port

• Connects monitor to a s video card.
• Has 15 holes.
• Similar to serial port connector but serial port connector has pins, it has holes.

Power Connector

• Three-pronged plug
• Connects to the s power cable that plugs into a power bar or wall socket

Firewire Port

• Transfers large amount of at very fast speed.
• Connects camcorders and video equipments to the
• travels at 400 to 800 megabits per seconds
• Invented by Apple
• Three variants : 4-Pin FireWire 400 connector, 6-Pin FireWire 400 connector and 9-Pin FireWire 800 connector

Modem Port

• Connects a PCs modem to the telephone network

Ethernet Port

• Connects to a network and high speed .
• Connect network cable to a .
• This port resides on an Ethernet Card.
• travels at 10 megabits to 1000 megabits per seconds depending upon the network bandwidth.

Game Port

• Connect a joystick to a PC
• Now replaced by USB.

Digital Video Interface, DVI port

• Connects Flat panel LCD monitor to the s high end video graphic cards.
• Very popular among video card manufacturers.

Sockets

• Connect microphone, speakers to sound card of the

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Scan my computer for Virus Schedule automatic System Scan in Windows Defender Guide

Schedule a scan in Windows defender on Windows 10 - Thats what we gonna see in this post...

Works on Windows 10

Creators Update, Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and other editions of Windows like Windows 10

earlier builds like Aug 2015 and Nov 2015 builds.

Do you need any third party Software?

No,we dont need an additional software to do this schedule a scan on Windows 10 PC as such

options are inbuilt inside our PC, we dont need an auto scan app for Windows 10, Also you

dont need to know scan commands to schedule a scan on Windows 10 PC and execute on cmd, 

as i had explained the easiest way in this post.

How to do it ?

Just follow the below steps..

1) Press Windows Key

2) Type scheduled tasks

3) Select the top most result scheduled tasks 

4) Expand Task scheduler Library on left pane

5) Expand Microsoft

6) Expand Windows

7) Scroll down and double click on Windows Defender folder

8) On your right pane, you can see some options changing now..

double click or single Click on Windows defender scheduled Scan

9) It will open Windows defender Scheduled Scan properties

10) On that, click on Triggers tab

11) Click on New ( which would be on the bottom of the window)

12) Now, it will open New trigger window

13) Now, configure the time you wish to perform scan for on the settings, like start time and end

time..

and click OK.

Thats it..

Like these, you can scan your computer for virus on a schedule on any Windows 10 laptop and

windows 10 desktops.

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Program to prevent spyware on your computer camera discover programs that try to run it without your permission!

Program Who Stalks My Cam

Yes, it is not surprising, that the webcam are also the target of malicious elements that seek to steal information from your computer, or just want to see your privacy. Classic solution to this is to put duct tape on the lens webcam, but if you prefer an alternative, the answer is to use a program called Who Stalks My Cam.

Who Stalks program My Cam. Is one of the important programs that need to be downloaded and installed on your computer, if you are available on the camera, both in desktop computer or laptop, then this program mission is to discover and control all the programs that are trying to run a camera computer with the possibility of preventing some of them.

The beauty of the program that alerts you via a pop-up window when trying to access any program and turn on the camera, so you can close the camera with a single click. In addition, the program comes the advantage of "white list", where you can all reliable programs and allowed the inclusion of her using the camera on your computer.

You can also make the program reveals any use of the camera own Bhaspock in real time, enabling you to rectify the matter and find out dubious programs and thus deleted from Haazk.

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How to copy files from your computer to your Android phone without a cable

How to copy files from your computer to your phone when you use Wifi

How to copy files from your computer to your Android phone without a cable

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Share WiFi connection in Windows 10 tutorial You dont need to be a computer specialist to create hotspot

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What is My IP Address How to Find IP Address of your Computer in Windows 10 Updated

What is My IP Address in Windows 10 - How to Find IP Address of computer in Windows 10

If you dont know what is your IP Address or if you think it would be better if  to someone  helps me

on how to find your IP Address on windows 10, you dont

need it anymore because from now on, you can find your IP Address yourself.

Works on Windows 10

Creators Update, Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and other editions of Windows like Windows 10

earlier builds like Aug 2015 and Nov 2015 builds...

How can i find IP Address of a Computer in Windows 10 

There are lot of ways to find IP Address of a machine like using cmd, powershell, registry and so on..

But, you can find it out in just 3 steps here..

How to find IP Address of a computer connected through WiFi in Windows 10

1) Click on the WiFi  icon that appear on the taskbar

2) It will display the list of WiFi networks available and the one you are connected to..

3) Click on the WiFi network you are connected to..

4 ) Click on Properties

5) It will open Settings App and will display WiFi Properties.

6) Scroll down and find IPV4 the text next to it is your WiFi IP Address

Thats it..

How to find IP Address of a computer connected through WiFi in Windows 10

1) Click on the Ethernet icon  that appear on taskbar

2) select the ethernet connection

3) Click on Properties

4) Scroll down and find IPV4 the text next to it is your IP Address.

Thats it...

Are you a beginner ? then here are all posts that deals with mastering basics of Windows 10.

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Computer takes too long to boot after Intel display driver update in Windows 10 Solved

Today, i faced with a problem. My Windows 10 laptop took some more time to boot into desktop

then its actual time. I decided to find out the reason so, i checked windows update and found there

was an update installed to my PC through windows update and it is for Display adapter by Intel

Corporation. So, i decided to fix it and fixed myself using the steps given below.. If you are facing

with such issue then i hope it might be helpful for you ..

Why this happens?

Normally, Updates are served to fix the bugs that resides in the previous version, Updating the driver

will give you a more control on your display like more accurate text display and scaling,

resolution,etc..

But, inorder to perform those our PC must start the driver right ? So, its the startup of driver that

makes our windows 10 laptop or Windows 10 desktop to took more time.

So, how to fix it ?

Just turn off the startup of Intel driver.

How to turn off or disable the startup of Intel driver in Windows 10 

1) Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc

2) It will display the task manager, click on the Startup tab.

3) You will find list of programs that start on your Windows 10 computer.

4) Find "hkcmd Module, igfxTray Module ,Persistence Module or some other things that were

developed by Intel Corporation.

Important note : Some of them will be a core property of your display or some other devices driver,

so disabling those things will make your system unstable, so its better to leave it on, unless it really

slows your system..

5) Right click on those items and select disable.

Thats it..

This fixed the problem of mine..

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Cannot start Firewall service in Windows 10 local computer Solved

Today, While i was configuring my PC to suppress some network related issues i was faced with an

strange error.. The issue was with Windows Firewall, when i clicked on Recommended settings, it 

didnt change anything, in fact the option was not even grayed out, which made me to guess the error 

and as usual i tried my best go to method and it worked...

If you too are faced with such situation or even similar errors like cannot start firewall service 

error code 1068 or 1079 in Windows 10  ,then i hope the below method works for you too  you 

dont need to reinstall windows firewall ..

Just follow the Steps..

1) Login to your Windows 10 PC

2) Run CMD as Administrator

[See : How to Run Cmd as Administrator]

3) Type the following Command

Sfc/scannow

4) Hit Enter.

Wait,for the scan results to complete

5) Restart your PC

Method 2 : Start Firewall service Manually

Step 1 : Sign-in to Your Windows PC.

Step 2 : Press Windows + R Key i.e Run Command.

Step 3 : Type Services.msc

Step 4 : Hit Enter.

Step 5 : You Will be taken to Services that Windows runs into Your System

Step 6 : Scroll down to Find Windows Firewall

Step 7 : Click on Windows Firewall Service.

Step 8 : Right Click on it And Select Properties.

Step 9 : You Will Be Taken To New Window.

Step 10 : Select Start to Start the Service immediately And Follow Next Step.


Step 11 : Click On StartUp Type  And Select Automatic

How to Start Firewall service using Powershell

The above methods will take you some time to figure it out, but you can start the service in a single 

step using powershell..

1) Open Powershell

[See : How to open Powershell]

2) type the following command - > Hit enter

Get-service MpsSvc

3) It will display the status of Windows Firewall,now run the following command

start-service MpsSvc

(or)

Restart-service MpsSvc

4) Restart your PC.

Thats it..

Works on all builds of Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7.

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