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I’m on a Thinkpad T510 and I accidentally plugged my Razor USB mouse into the eSata port not realizing my error because it has been working fine this whole time. Does this seem a little odd? Solution: It sounds like you have a USB/eSATA combo port AKA eSATAp. Which enables you to use either the…
Here are a few questions, I wish you could enlighten me. Is it possible to combine processing power of 2 computers? How do I do it? Solution: Not transparently where a running program can somehow use the second machine to execute code, since they are logically separate with no way for the cpu to communicate…
Is it possible to dual boot two OS’s at the same time? For example: I’m currently dual booting Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7. Ubuntu is running on a single 500gb HDD, Windows 7 is running on 1TB RAID 1 mirror. To switch between the two OS’s, a reboot is required. Is it possible to switch…
Background Info I recently completed a new ‘Home Theater’ setup in our new house. In the living room I have a TV and sound bar, and in my office on the other side of the wall I have my PC (running Plex), PS3, Xbox 360, and the router. I installed some new faceplates and ran…
I always used to wake up to my favorite radio station on my alarm clock. However, I have moved and can no longer get that radio station over the air. To solve this problem, I would like to stream the station on my laptop, but have it muted overnight, then set it to unmute at…
There are three options for customizing taskbar buttons in Windows 7: Always combine, hide labels Combine when taskbar is full Never combine Is there any way to hide labels and not combine taskbar buttons? Or even better, to exclude only certain applications from combining? My main problem is that I switch a lot between two…
What are the all possible values of Repeat Rate / Repeat Delay offered by Win 7 concerning Keyboard settings. Solution: Check in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelKeyboard. The KeyboardSpeed property determines the rate at which a character repeats when a keyboard key is held down. This is a value in the range from 0 (approximately…
I know that WinKey+M and Winkey+D will essentially minimize all windows and show me my desktop. However, I have been unable to locate a similar shortcut key that either maximizes or restores all windows. Is there a pre-existing way to do this in Windows 7? I’d rather not mess with the BiOS if I don’t…
Periodically when I select a menu command, the label or selected option gets “stuck” on screen and won’t go away. I can close all open applications, including whichever one I was using when it got stuck, but it still won’t go away. In the screenshot below, I opened an new instance of IE just to…
I tend to have a few Word documents that I keep open all the time, with notes for a long-running project. Normally they are all minimized. The problem is that when I click on a different .doc or .docx file in Windows Explorer, even though the new document opens in its own window, the other,…
