Will a phone(or any device for that matter) charge faster if it is plugged into a USB 3.0 port compared to a USB 2.0 port? I know to assist charging you can turn features off(with flight mode) or even turn the phone off but if you need the USB 3.0 port for a device like…
I have a usb stick that won’t show up on the computer. It has always worked in the past, and nothing remarkable has changed on the stick or the PC since its last use. It could be that it’s not getting power. The light doesn’t show up, and other USB sticks work fine in that…
It is possible to use autorun.inf on a CD rom to make it run an exe without prompting the user but the same is not possible on a USB drive. Why?If its possible, how?On a USB drive it just prompts the user to select an action. Solution: This has been disabled in modern versions of…
I have a portable USB flash drive that I use with my netbook. When I’m on the go, it is convenient to be able to simply close the lid and remove my flash drive without first having to use Windows’s Safely Remove Hardware routine. The netbook changes to sleep mode (ACPI S3 mode) when I…
I have an HP Chromebook and a Nexus 6P smartphone, and both of them use USB-C connections for charging. When I plug the Chromebook into the Nexus’s charging cable, it works fine and I just get a message that says I am connected to a “low-power charger”. However, is it safe to plug the cell…
I’m trying to use the RBC9 SpaceNavigator TEST x64 build drivers for my SpaceNavigator 3d joystick so that it can work as a normal joystick in games like Quake. Unfortunately, I get the error “This version of windows requires all drivers to have a valid digital signature” and in the “Device status” in device manager,…
I’m building a new computer over the summer. I’m fairly competent in computer hardware, and am thus building the computer from scratch. I have everything planned out, but I was wondering if I should consider RAID, and if so, which RAID to use. I plan to purchase 2x1TB drives. Currently I’m leaning toward RAID 1…
Is it possible to gain a speed benefit of an SSD if you create a software RAID with a big SSD + two small HDDs? At the moment I have a system with only two 320GB HDDs. And I thought about inserting a 640GB SSD in. Maybe the SSD could be the main disk and…
Does anybody know how to hide this “Start” button in Windows 8.1 so that the task bar looks like it did in “old” Windows 8? Solution: You can’t as of current versions, maybe in later version but not currently. Microsoft has indeed brought back the Start button, but contrary to what people expected, an…
This may be a silly question
and I think I have looked elsewhere to find the answer… Might be a path issue
