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I have a messages about drive errors in the Windows Event log, like this:   Bad Block On Device DeviceHarddisk0DR0 I have two hard drives in the system. How can I know which one causes these errors? I see nowhere the same identification type, like here. For example, the following are dialogs from Device Manager: […]

How can I pick a color from an image? When I move the cursor to any particular point in the image, I want the hex code of the color at the cursor to be displayed.  I would like to be able to do that with anything displayed on the screen even if it is not

I’ve got 3 videos, all 3 have the same time, same amount of frames, and they only differ in terms of encoding quality. Now I need them to run side-by-side in synchronized fashion for evaluation purposes. Meaning when I press “play” BOTH! videos should start. Analogically for stop, forward, backward. Anyone know any player capable

There are some .exe and .dll files belonging to some programs on my laptop which communicate with the internet without my permission (for self-update generally). I want to prevent those files one by one from accessing the internet. I don’t want to install any external firewalls. I’m using Windows 7 Home Pro and if this

I have a Windows 7 Enterprise x64 system and need to wipe the 1.5TB hard disk drive quickly and effectively. Quick, I guess, is a relative term; so more quickly than I’ve seen with some wipe utilities (which can take a day). The HDD has only about 400GB of data on it. I’d also like

When I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7, I had a second drive around and set it to dual boot. After a while, I decided that I wasn’t ever going to go back to Windows XP, and so I deleted the windows directory on that drive. Unfortunately, now I can’t remove Windows XP from

After (hopefully) scrubbing viruses out of a Windows 7 installation (after deciding not to simply run over the laptop repeatedly with my car), I’ve got everything almost back to normal. The only lingering issue I have is that for my non-admin users, the “.exe” file extension doesn’t work. That is, clicking on the various desktop

I need to run a program as a different user + make it run with admin privileges (Run as administrator). I use the ‘runas‘ for running the program as a different user How can I run the program as admin with that command? (or a different one so will give me my requirements) EDIT :

When I start SQL Server Management Studio 2008, I get an error that’s been around forever and is documented here.  One of the suggestions to fix it that actually worked was to start SSMS with Run as Administrator. So I modified the properties of the shortcut to always run it as the administrator.  The only

I have an external HDD which I would like to “safely remove”. Unfortunately, my system (Windows 7 x64) complains that “the device is currently in use”. Using Process Explorer I discovered which process is holding a handle on the device: Obviously, System is not a process that I can just kill and be done with