Cloning Harddisk to another harddisk or SSD

If you want to transfer your data and system files from one harddisk to another, then Macrium reflect is a good program to use.

1. Go to http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx and download the free Macrium Reflect (for personal use)
2. Download and read the instruction for cloning harddisk
3. Connect your new harddisk or SSD to the computer that has the old harddisk
4. Do the cloning with Macrium Reflect
5. When finish, remove the old harrdisk and plug in the new harddisk or SSD
6. You will have to reactivate Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office programs
7. If Windows activation through internet failed, use activation by phone.

USB flash drive problem

I have encountered a strange problem with my windows 7 today.


When I inserted my Kingston USB data traveler, it was recognised but not displayed on windows explorer. I checked the USB on another PC with windows 8 and it  worked fine.


I tried to reboot my PC and it has no effect. The reboot even hang with USB plugged into it.


The solution that I found worked on my PC was removing the Kingston driver, then insert the USB drive. Windows should automatically reinstall the driver for this particular USB drive.


To remove the driver, go to your device manager and select disk drives section as below. Remove your USB driver, in my case it was Kingston Data Traveler.

Java Security on Internet Explorer

Have you ever got the error message below when trying to connect to a website ?.

This is caused by java security setting that is too high or your java version is too old. If updating java to the newest version does not solve your problem, then do the following.


Go to control panel, and select Programs

Once you click on the Programs from the above screen, you can see the screen below with Java in the last row.

Select Java by double clicking it, and you will get the screen below.

Click on the Security tab on the above screen, and slide down the slider from high to medium. Then click Apply button, followed by OK button.

Excel carriage return in a cell

To add a carriage return in excel cell you cannot just press the return key as it will go to the next cell.






Position the cursor to the letter where you want to bring down to the next line and press Alt-Enter keys.