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I have a portable USB flash drive that I use with my netbook.  When I’m on the go, it is convenient to be able to simply close the lid and remove my … Usb storage – is it safe to unplug a USB drive while Windows is in sleep/hibernate/off mode?Read more

I have an HP Chromebook and a Nexus 6P smartphone, and both of them use USB-C connections for charging.  When I plug the Chromebook into the Nexus’s charging cable, it works fine … USB-C Chargers: Is it safe to charge a phone with a laptop’s power supply?Read more

I’m trying to use the RBC9 SpaceNavigator TEST x64 build drivers for my SpaceNavigator 3d joystick so that it can work as a normal joystick in games like Quake. Unfortunately, I get … Use an unsigned driver in Windows 7 x64Read more

I’m building a new computer over the summer. I’m fairly competent in computer hardware, and am thus building the computer from scratch. I have everything planned out, but I was wondering if … Use RAID for desktop computer?Read more

Is it possible to gain a speed benefit of an SSD if you create a software RAID with a big SSD + two small HDDs? At the moment I have a system … Use the speed of an SSD + two hdds in RAID 1Read more

Does anybody know how to hide this “Start” button in Windows 8.1 so that the task bar looks like it did in “old” Windows 8? Solution: You can’t as of current versions, … User interface – How to hide “Start” button in Windows 8.1?Read more

I’m trying to change the permissions to my key file key.pem in Cygwin 1.7.11. It has the permissions flags: -rw-rw—- chmod -c 600 key.pem Reports:   mode of ‘key.pem’ changed from 0660 … Using Cygwin in Windows 8, chmod 600 does not work as expected?Read more

I would like to share a folder from a Linux Guest with a Windows host (with read and write access if possible) in VirtualBox. I read in these two links: here and … Using Samba to share a folder from a Linux guest with a Windows host in virtualboxRead more

I need to fill an excel column with a sequential series, in this case from -500 to 1000.  I’ve got a macro to do it, but it takes a lot of lines … Vba – Filling cells with sequential numbers in an Excel (2003) macroRead more