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I’ve put a brand new SSD into my work computer and my IT department wants me to use BitLocker. I read one of the other threads on BitLocker performance on standard harddrives, but I was wondering – what’s the performance impact of BitLocker like on a Solid State Drive? Will it noticeably impact the speed […]

Is it somehow possible to get better audio quality sound when Bluetooth headphones are on hands-free mode?  When it is audio only, sound quality is good (16-bit 44 kHz) but when I talk through the microphone, audio quality is changed to poor (16-bit 8 kHz) like an old radio. Or I do not hear something through headphones.

  Possible Duplicate:  How can I enable PAE on Windows 7 (32-bit) to support more than 3.5 GB of RAM?  Is there way to enable 4 GB RAM in 32-bit Windows OS?   According to the official windows memory limits, Win 7 only supports 4 GB of RAM. I, however have been reading some forums

I just started using a program called MarkdownPad which is a Markdown file editor. My problem is that the program is a ClickOnce application and if I go to a folder (using Windows) and try to open .Markdown files, I am not able to select MarkdownPad as the program to open these files. So is

I have an old machine I’d like to get running with dual monitors. The pci vga only has only 1 output port. However, I have another output via the onboard video card. Can I leverage both video cards to go dual-monitor? How would I set this up? EDIT: Appears that this is possible but, given

Is it possible to make my laptop’s screen act as a second monitor for my desktop computer? Solution: Here’s an interesting freeware solution: ZoneScreen

Under Windows XP, is there any easy way to change or spoof the vendor- and product-id of a USB device? (changing the corresponding descriptive strings would probably be good too) Say for example there’s a useful program which expects a particular device but you don’t see why you should buy a new one when you

Same as this question but for Windows: How can I adjust by how much the sound volume changes every time I press the volume change keys? I’m on a Windows 7 laptop. It has “volume up” and “volume down” keys on the keyboard. Pressing them changes the volume by a tiny amount. Is there a

I am looking to write a script that takes user input, then makes system wide changes. I need this to be very generic, but simply put, at the top, I need it to check to see if it’s being run ‘As an Administrator’. If it’s not, then I want to display a message to tell