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I am quite surprise to see that explorer.exe is holding my external hard disk. Is there any reason why explorer.exe is holding on to my external hard disk?
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My parents bought a new hard drive for a laptop that I've owned for several years. It's much larger than the current one, so I plan on splitting it up to dual boot it with Ubuntu.
I have no problem with partitioning a drive (I always keep a LiveCD handy), but my question is this: how can I go about…
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Is it possible for a Thermaltake BlacX HDD Dock to connect to and recognize an ATA-100 Hard Drive? I know that the specifications for the BlacX say that it only supports SATA & SATAII, but I was hoping for one of three things:
1) for it to still work even though it isn't supported
2) for there…
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I have made a C++ program which can copy the whole hardrive partition to another hardrive partition, but now I am looking forward for the program which can only copy the contents of one hardrive partiton to another hardrive partition.
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Hello,
I am looking for a backup tool for Windows 7, that will allow me to backup my laptop’s hard drive on an external hard drive as an exact image. In a case of a problem with the main hard drive, I would like just to swap the drives and to continue to work using the backup hard drive.
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I have made a C++ program which can copy the whole hardrive partition to another hardrive partition, but now I am looking forward for the program which can only copy the contents of one hardrive partiton to another hardrive partition.
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When I switch on my Windows 7 laptop a few minutes after turning it on I hear a single click sound like the one Internet Explorer gives during browsing. I don't use Explorer at all. I use Firefox. What can it be then?
Is it coming from Explorer running in the background? Or is it not related to…
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Our free extension to Visual Studio , the folder based Build Explorer Version 1.1 has now been released, and uploaded to the Visual Studio Gallery and Codeplex. We have collected up a few changes and some bugs, as follows: Changes: Queue Default Builds can now be optionally fully enabled, fully…
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In one part of a batch file (kind of), I need to restart Explorer. I use the following method to accomplish this:
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe >nul
explorer.exe
:: I have also tried: %winDir%\explorer.exe
:: start %winDir%\explorer.exe
:: start /b %winDir%\explorer…
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Edit: Rephrasing my question:
Upon further troubleshooting, I can conclude that:
Touch gestures (dragging, pinch to zoom, touch-and-hold right click) in Internet Explorer start to work when:
The system has been running for ~2 minutes. This coincides with the delayed start of services.
Explorer…
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Details: Internet Explorer 9 and Windows 7 Professional, running on a HP TouchSmart (touch screen PC). It is going to be a kiosk PC (running a custom GUI for displaying websites).
Scenario 1:
When running Internet Explorer as a normal program in Windows 7, touch functions work perfectly. I can scroll…
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