This tip is for anyone with a Windows laptop who has a second monitor on their desk and runs it in dual monitor mode (or is considering that). There are times when the laptop will be on the road, as laptops are wont to do, without the benefit of that second monitor. That spells trouble for certain software that knows how to play nice, but not super-nice.
Most software is considerate enough to remember the current size and position of the window when exiting. It’ll then use those settings the next time the program is opened. The idea is that since that’s where you placed it last time, that’s probably where you’ll want it to be again next time. That’s playing nice. The problem is, if the last time you had it on the secondary monitor, but this time the secondary monitor is not active, then the software should automatically reposition itself to the primary monitor. That’s playing super nice. Unfortunately, not all software thinks to do that (that is, not all programmers think to do that). Read More»
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The issue with either Windows XP or 32-bit Vista really isn’t the OS itself, but the legacy of the old IBM PC. The BIOS reserves a certain amount of memory for memory-mapped I/O. Still, even Win XP could “see” well over 3GB of RAM. It and 32-bit Vista do support something known as PAE (physical address extension), which allows applications written for PAE to use more than 2GB of memory.
However, Vista itself likes having more than 2GB of RAM. The reason is SuperFetch, the smart caching technology built into Vista. Read More»
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February 06, 2007 by
Jason Files that have been protected using EFS are encrypted at the file-system level. The benefit of this is that the files can only be opened by the user with the appropriate private key and certificate. Even if you were to reinstall the operating system, the files would still be inaccessible.
You can encrypt a file using the steps listed below. An important point to remember is that a file can not be both encrypted and compressed. If compression is enabled, it will be disable when encryption is enabled.
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