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Run Command Prompt as Admin
Type
Powercfg –h –size percentsize

Size can’t be less than 40 percent.

Total size is dependent on how much memory you have installed.

If you use Windows 7 Sticky Notes.

Your notice it uses up space on your taskbar.

And theres NO option to force the program to live in the systray instead.

Unless you use this program

If you haven’t tried Windows 7

Windows 7 Being the next version of windows coming out later this year.

Then Sign up for the the release candidate (final version before release) now.

I am using the beta version and it works great.

You can try the release candidate for year for FREE.

Windows 7 and Vista have DVD and CD burning disabled by default, if your using the pc via Windows Remote Desktop.

Why has microsoft done this? no idea its pretty stupid.

Anyway here’s how to fix it.

First open Group Policy Editor….

# Click Start, and then click Run.
# In the Open box, type mmc, and then click OK.
# On the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in.
# Click Add.
# Under Available Stand-alone Snap-ins, click Group Policy, and then click Add.
# If you do not want to edit the Local Computer policy, click Browse to locate the group policy object that you want. Supply your user name and password if prompted, and then when you return to the Select Group Policy Object dialog box, click Finish.

Then enable “Allow direct access in remote sessions” in..

Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | System | Remote Storage Access | All Removable Storage

A client resized a partition using a free piece of software. he found on the net.

He did a scandisk (chkdisk) before he ran the resize, but he should have run it twice.

Because there where still errors on the partition, so the resize stopped halfway through.

So he ended up with a resized partition full of files that are garbage.

Lucky the file recover software I used saw the old partition and is now pulling the files off it, and they seem to be working.

All data written do a disk is done so in chunks, these chunks are called Clusters.

They are also called File Allocation Units in windows.

I recently created a spanned volume using two hard disks a 450 gb and a 700 gb, creating a single 1.1 Terabyte volume visible as a drive in windows.

In the past I’ve been very wary of spanned disks due to comments I’ve read in various forums.

Spanned volumes can join multiple disks together so they appear as a single drive in windows.

Please note that the disks used for spanned volumes have to be empty and converted to dynamic disks and NO other operating system uses dynamic disks, so getting them to work in other OS’s will require a work around if its possible at all. (it can be done in Linux)

Though it must be said if one disk in the spanned volume dies the whole spanned volume dies, and any remaining disks not are not accessible though the file system.

However if a disk or disks are temporary missing for some reason, the volume will reappear in windows as soon as as all disks in the volume are working again.

With spanned volumes the data is written the first disk in the volume until its full and then the next and so on.
This means you can recover data left on disks from a failed spanned volume.

I tested this by breaking a spanned volume and seeing if I could recover any data, from the individual disks even though they where not accessible by the windows file system.

I tried several data recovery programs, Getdataback worked the best, recovering all 450 gb of data. that I used to test the spanned volume.

Though it took a day to recover all the the data. using a mid range pc (core 2 duo e6600), using the on-board disk controller.

All in all in my opinion there’s no reason not to use spanned volumes as long you have good data recovery software and the time to use it.

Though personally I think creating a spanned volume of more than a couple Terabytes, is not a good idea.

Unless you have a full backup, or don’t mind waiting days to recover data

Performance wise I found no drawbacks using a spanned volume.

I tried file transfers on each disk formatted as individual primary partitions and then as one spanned volume and there was no difference in file transfer speed.

Very useful, this program will create a entry in send to menu, in the right click menu.

That will upload any file (under 20mb) to Virustotal

The file will then be scanned by Virustotal which uses 39 virus scanner engines to check the file for malware.

Noticed how Google will always switch to a version of the Google web page.
That is based on the country your in, and display results relevant to that country.

This can be a real pain for many reasons, however if you use this url…

http://google.com/ncr it forces google to just use google.com.

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