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Are saved Remote Desktop credentials secure (loosely speaking) on the local machine? They aren’t stored as clear text anywhere at least, are they? Edit: I understand the inherent risks of saving passwords. Certainly though there is a spectrum of effectiveness, for instance saving a password through something like CryptProtectData (what Google Chrome uses on Win32)…
I am attempting to install two hotfixes manually from Microsoft – one addresses the svchost.exe extreme memory usage problem, and the other addresses the slow Windows Update problem. This system is a freshly installed Windows 7, and I have the two MSU updates saved locally to my desktop, but it is never actually finding such…
Problems Assume a Windows 7 machine, especially a laptop. No mouse driver allows holding down the right mouse button and moving the mouse to scroll, and yet retain the right mouse button functionality. This is useful if you do not have a middle button. Mouse drivers do not work for some applications, and some like…
I want to configure Windows 7 to login automatically after the computer is switched on. That’s not because I’m lazy and don’t like typing passwords. That’s because I want programs that are configured to run on startup run automatically. But I don’t want everyone to see my desktop, so I want my computer to remain…
I have tried ForceBindIP, but it has a significant downside – it doesn’t affect the children of the application I’m trying to bind, it only affects the application itself. It also can’t force an application to always run through a specified interface, it has to be run through forcebindip.exe every time. It becomes a problem…
I’m using a laptop with TPM module with BitLocker-encrypted internal HDD, running Windows 7.Recently I’ve installed a Windows 8 on the external, eSATA drive.Windows 8 detected the Windows 7 and correctly replaced the bootloader with dual-boot option. Unfortunately, I’m now forced to enter BitLocker Recovery Key each time I start the computer.The only workaround I’ve…
I have a 64-bit machine that has Windows 7 32-bit and Ubuntu 32-bit installed as a dual boot setup. Can I run 64-bit software on top of these 32-bit OSes, or are they a “bottleneck” limiting the true capability of the underlying hardware? Solution: In theory I think no. But one work around is to…
I have a family member who complains that her laptop is slow. I checked the laptop over and indeed, it was slow, so I looked into what was using the most hardware, and found that the hard drive was at 100% pretty much the whole time. I disabled as many services and programs at startup…
I typically have 2-3 OSes in my boot menu: Ubuntu 10.04 Windows 7 [Sometimes, a third option, such as Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook] If I am in an OS other than the default choice (Windows 7 in this case), and I reboot, Grub boots into Ubuntu 10.04. This shouldn’t happen–when I reboot in Windows 7, I…
I want WINDOWS+LEFT and WINDOWS+RIGHT to snap to the top half and bottom half respectively. Any solution works, be it a registry hack, driver setting, or program I can run. This question is asking the same thing but the ‘Answer’ doesn’t really answer anything: Can window snap be programmatically rotated when monitor is rotated to…
