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I activated bitlocker with my drive and when it was encrypting something the power was suddenly interrupted. When I returned to my drive and entered the unlock password, The bitlocker wizard is not responding! Tried to wait for an hour but to no avail. Is there any way I can access the files again? Solution: […]

I watch a lot of movie’s on my computer which is connected to my TV. Problem is i built the pc to be a gaming computer and it has the power supply to match (1200w). Is there a way to set it into a “Low power mode” whilst i am playing a movie to use

I was trying to put the Windows 8 Consumer Preview onto a thumb drive, when I was asked if I was OK with wiping it (I said yes I as it was blank). I had to sleep my computer during the wiping, and now I can’t do anything with my dive. When I put it

I have an application to run on a dedicated kiosk. I want to  disable any key on Windows7. I want to block Alt+Ctr+Del, that users can’t shutdown the system. I want to disable Alt , Ctrl keys that users can’t use Alt+Ctrl+Del, I use this Scancode Map REGEDIT5 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlKeyboard Layout]”Scancode  Map”=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,09,00,00,00,00,00,5b,e0,00,00,5c,e0,00,00,5d,e0,00,00, 44,00,00,00,1d,00,00,00,38,00,00,00,1d,e0,00,00,38,e0,00,00,00,00 But don’t work

What’s the sparse file attribute on NTFS partitions and how can one remove it? Using Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Solution: Nicole Hamilton provided the description of what sparse files are.Let’s learn it with an experiment. Creating a Sparse File Start a Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as Administrator. Creating large file: fsutil file createnew

How do I run as a different user on a shortcut in Windows 7? On Windows XP, I had the ability to mark a shortcut as being run by a different user, so that every time I ran it it would prompt me for a username/password. This let me have two shortcuts for things like

I’m working on my systems without admin rights, but I’d like to start sysinternals process explorer as full admin to have some debug access on my machine. Right now I run procexp.exe with parameter /e, which prompts me for admin credentials. Of course I could use runas, but for this I would need to put

I use Powerpoint 2010 on Windows 7. My keyboard layout is German, but I write my presentations in English. Now I created a presentation with Default Language set to English, and I want it to use English for proofing. When I create a new slide/textbox/… the language is indeed English. However as soon as I

  Possible Duplicate:  How do I troubleshoot hardware issues related to a computer freeze/crash?   I built a gaming computer last summer and it has been working just great until now.It has started hanging for about half a second at a time every few seconds, like a video that won’t buffer fast enough. Needless to

I have been feeling this way for a while, looking at task manager mentally ballparking how much physical memory should be in use, and noticing a large disparity. I finally got around to measuring it. Taking the results of tasklist and adding, gave about 3.87 GB. Task manager told me I was using 4.6 GB