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I can’t get a good definition of the difference between a normal RDP session and the /console (/admin in Windows 2008 and later) session.   What can I do in console that … Windows – What exactly is the console session in RDP?Read more

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 … Windows – What explains the garbled message “Start Wandows Ngrmadly” in text mode?Read more

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 … Windows – What files are in local settings/temp and can I delete them?Read more

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 … Windows – What is a “Magic Packet” for waking a computer?Read more

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 … Windows – What is causing hard drive grinding?Read more

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 … Windows – What is Sysprep? How is it useful?Read more

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 … Windows – What other tool is using my hotkey?Read more

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 … Windows – Which programs are using my USB flash drive?Read more

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 … Windows – Why do 7-zip / winrar unzip files to “temp” before moving them to their destination?Read more

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 … Windows – Why do file transfers between drives use RAMRead more