Long gone, but now back… sort of. :)
Sure! Although only one operating system can “own” the drive, it can share that same drive with one or more other OSes. Let’s say a Windows PC shares one of its drives to the local network; its permission can be adjusted as you like, but in general, any device on that network — Mac, Linux,…
Um, you click on it? I think you’re actually asking how to create and then run a batch file. That’s easy. It’s also pretty old-school, as Microsoft is pushing everyone towards the much-more-powerful, but much-more-complicated, PowerShell environment instead. But batch files still work fine In Windows 10; they’re still useful for quick task automation; and…
You don’t need to wipe it. Simple re-partitioning and reformatting will make the drive fully available to you. And that’s a very good thing, because wiping a drive involves overwriting every spot on the disk — in your case, a trillion bytes’ worth. On an average system and HDD, that’d probably take something like two…
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I recently got a new Samsung Galaxy S10, and have been playing with its three rear cameras. If you follow smartphones, or cameras, you probably have seen comparison and demo pix taken by professional reviewers to show the capabilities of the new crop of smartphone cameras. You’ve also probably seen the studio-quality promotional shots taken…
(Answer requested by Dennis Hayes) I think I can suggest a better approach; but first, to answer your question: You need a hub, not a reader. When you plug in a standard card reader — even one with multiple slots for different types of cards — the reader is assigned one address from the PC;…
In response to “Is there any way to charge a phone faster?,” reader Peter Rothschild sent in the following interesting and very surprising post, based on his real-life measurements of smartphone charging times. Fascinating info about differences in USB charging cables! (Thanks, Peter!): “I have done a bit of experimenting with this on my last…
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Not exactly. But if you’re using Windows, you can use a capable flash device to speed your system a different way: It’s called ReadyBoost, and it’s been built into the OS since the days of Vista. ReadyBoost lets your PC use a flash device as a predictive (“prefetch”) cache, preloading the data that the OS…
(Answer requested by Mark Austin) There actually are multiple ways to run Android on Windows, including the official emulator that’s part of Google’s free Android Studio. It’s excellent — Google is the de facto authority on all things Android — but it’s aimed at developers, and so might not be quite what you’re looking for….