I can't download from google drive

Today I was trying to download some files from a google shared drive in Chrome. There are folders and files in the drive. When I right click on the folder or the file i can use the context menu to do the download.

A message prompt will show preparing for the download.

 

Upon finishing Windows will open a local folder (previous saved folder) to save the download.

However, after the download preparation has been completed the save folder is never open. Thus none of those folders and files are able to be download.

This has happened couple of times before. Some download was omitted but other was managed to download. I cannot remember what i did to get those download successful. Nevertheless this time i will check why those download has failed.

Some suggestion from google search that maybe too many google account were signed in at one time (X-notifier extension installed for checking multiple email accounts). I log out from all the google account except one but still the download fail.

It looks like the download was blocked. I disable the ads-killer extension and its still the same. Another google search suggested that the cookie was blocked. And i saw in the Chrome setting that the Block third-party cookies was selected. 

Then i select the Allow all cookies and finally the download was successfuly.

But i still need to block third party cookies. I cannot set to allow all cookies then after the download reset to block third party cookies again which is so troublesome.

Than i thought maybe the cookie was blocked in that google drive. Sure enough there was an icon in the right side of the address bar that when the mouse hover over a text message will show 'Third-party cookie blocking'. 

When i click on the icon a Windows prompt show that the cookies has been blocked.

To unblock the cookies click on the 'Site not working?'. Another Windows prompt will show together with the option to allow cookies

When the option is selected the cookies will be allow for that google drive. 

That is all.

How to Move Off-Screen Window back On-Screen

 Today i switch on the Windows 7 PC which was setup for 2 monitor display before but now only use a single monitor.

When i start a program where it has displayed in the second monitor before now has became off-screen Window. I can't use the mouse to drag it back to the main monitor. 

From the Microsoft Bing search i have found some sites that do the trick, howto geek and tenforums. 

I use the simple trick as follow.

1 Press and hold the Shift key, right click or press and hold on the taskbar icon of the opened off-screen window (ex: "Store" app), and release the Shift key.

2 Click/tap on Move. (see screenshot below)

If Move is grayed out, then it means that this window is either minimized or maximized. Click/tap on Restore, and repeat steps 1 and 2.

3 Your pointer will now turn into the Move  pointer. Perform either action below to move the off-screen window back on-screen where you want.

Press any arrow key, use your mouse or touchpad to move the off-screen window to where you want, and click/tap on the left button (primary) on the mouse or touchpad to drop the window.

That's it.

New printer disappear in “Devices and Printers” after installed to Windows 10

I have just installed a new printer HPRT SL42 to Windows 10 but it cannot be seen in “Devices and Printer”.😨 The actual printer is not installed yet, only the driver is installed for software programming test.

However, i can still select them in the Printer list in Word, Acrobat, etc. Somehow the printer can be used but cannot be seen. This doesn't help because sometime i need to change certain properties in the printer like paper size and etc right from the "Devices and Printers".

I tried removing the printer by Revo Uninstaller Pro to get rid of all leftover in registry, restart Windows and re-installing the printer again. Still the printer cannot be seen.

Then I open the Device Manager in Control Panel and HPRT SL42 is in the Print queues.

If i right click HPRT SL42 and select Properties, i can see that the Location for this printer is on Brother MFC-J200 Printer. This make me wonder that the printer link has been merged with Brother MFC-J200. To prove that i open the "Devices and Printer", right click on Brother printer and sure enough HPRT SL42 is in the option for Printer properties as well as some other option.

Now the question is how did this HPRT SL42 printer installed together with the Brother MFC-J200 printer? There must be some common hardware that shared by this 2 printer.

As i can recall when installing HPRT SL42 printer i have selected USB001 as the connection port and Brother MFC-J200 use the same port too. Then i open the Printer properties for HPRT SL41 and i saw USB001 was used by both printer.

To test if HPRT can be separated from Brother if i change the port, i tick the LPT2 as the new port now (I can't select another USB port since the physical printer is not connected yet and new USB port will not be added).

After i click the Apply and OK button, the HPRT SL42 finally appear in the "Devices and Printers".