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http://imgur.com/M3sni When booting up Windows, why would it say “Start Wandows Ngrmadly”, instead of “Start Windows Normally”? I tried googling for an explanation, but came across too many hits of people merely ROFLing at it. Solution: This looks a lot like a memory issue (or at least a glitch, since it doesn’t repeat everywhere), a […]

I just found that I have 4 GB of space in /Documents and Settings/<user name>/Local Settings/temp. Is there any reason why I shouldn’t go and delete these? Solution: The location you mentioned is the default location for System Environment Variable “TEMP” or “TMP”.Applications use the TEMP for storing temporary data, data that will be needed for

My wireless adapter (Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7260) has two settings in Device Manager which I cannot explain. Wake on Magic PacketWake on Pattern Match After a bit of research, I found this Microsoft Technet article which defines the feature as follows: Defines if a network adapter is enabled to wake a computer on the

My windows (XP) hard drive grinds a lot and it negatively affects the performance of other applications. I have plenty of RAM and have already verified that this hard drive activity is not page file swap activity.  I have also already looked in task manager to see if only one or two processes are active

I have read a lot of posts suggesting to “run sysprep” on a system.  I have done some looking around, but Microsoft’s site is confusing at best. What is the purpose of sysprep? What does sysprep do to accomplish its purpose? What are some real-world examples of how sysprep is used? Solution: Sysprep is really

I use Greenshot for screenshots, and it’s been nagging about some other software tool using the same hotkey. I started receiving this warning message about two days ago. It shows up each time I reboot and log on to Windows.   The hotkey(s) “Ctrl + Shift + PrintScreen” could not be registered.  This problem is

Sometimes when I follow the process to safely remove a USB flash drive, I get told that I can’t remove the drive because some programs are using it. However I’m unable to tell which programs these are, so I end up having to close programs – sometimes even randomly. How do I find out which

Why do 7-zip / WinRAR unzip files to “temp” before moving them to their destination? I do not see any advantage against just directly unzipping to destination. It is really irritating, especially for large files (as it is now!). Edit: Please explain why they are not done in place. Solution: How exactly are you extracting

I’ve noticed that whenever I copy or move large files from my SSD, which I use as the system drive, to my HDD or to an external hard or flash drive, the speed graph shown by Windows always looks the same: the transfer speed starts at around 450 MB/s, and after a few seconds drops

I understand why “Size on disk” is larger than “Size”. I have three NTFS-formatted drives with the same exact data on it. Their allocation unit is 4096 bytes. The number of files and folders as well as the size matches on all three. However when I open the properties for the root folder of these