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I’ve ripped music files from my CD but they were in .wma format and cannot play on my Android phone. So that I need to re-rip them into .mp3 files. But the ripped button is disabled in Windows Media Player and the status of the file reads Ripped tolibrary How can I force a re-rip/rip…
I’m using latest Windows 10. I have dual monitors and am working on software development. I move Visual Studio to second monitor to work on it. When I lock wndows and leave computer and go somewhere and come back after 20-30 min both laptop and second external monitor is black and I need to enter…
I know that RAM disks are fast, faster than any disk, but they lose their contents on a shutdown of the operating system. The capacity is limited to the RAM. Is there a useful implementation on a new 64-bit Windows 2008 server? Solution: I am not sure about using a RAM disk for speed advantages,…
Where are the images from Windows Spotlight coming from? Where are they being saved on my system? Is there any way for me to point this at my own source of images? Solution: The pictures are located at: C:Users{your_name}AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewyLocalStateAssets And they will look like this: Renaming these to .JPG will reveal it as a…
On Windows 10 1809, I have enabled the in-built SSH server, and have configured it. On another machine, I have used WinSCP and PuTTy generator to generate an authentication key. I copied the public key portion and appended that to the .sshauthorized_keys file of my SSH server user. I fixed file permissions as required, to…
From my personal experience I’ve noticed that disabling the page file in Windows XP has given me, in general, the most speed gain out of any other software change I can make. Obviously this has to be done when a significant amount of RAM is available. Typically I find that it works nicely with +2GB…
How do I ensure a task is running all the time? I use speedfan to control my fans and on occasion it crashes or it needs to be restarted. If I manually quit speedfan because it isn’t working correctly it doesn’t reopen automatically. How can I use the Task Scheduler to ensure it always runs,…
I have not updated my Windows system for over 5 months now (Windows 7, 64bit, SP1). This happened by mistake, not on purpose, because Windows update was set to install updates manually with prompting at 3:00 am. Today I tried to install the updates. The following happened in sequence: I started updating a set of…
I have been trying to update my pc from 20h1 to 20h2 but the windows update shows error message 80007002 and when I manually install the update using windows 10 update assistant it downloads completely and then even starts install and gets stuck at 87 percent on the screen where it says do not turn…
I have a Windows XP Professional SP 3. In my C drive, I have a lot of folders which I do not know why they exist. Sample these names – 1da9de11ed14f5da3b6ace4e25f5 a0332ef3abcaf03e49 What are they? Why are they created? Can I delete them? Solution: These are most likely leftovers from the installation process and it…
