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Can a MicroSD card help speed up my Mini PC?
Adding an SD card will not be of any benefit to you aside from the larger (but considerably slower) disk space.
As Tom Yan mentioned in a comment, SD cards are slow. Even top class ones would be not ...
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How do I get Windows 11 to use existing Linux GPT on 6TB external HDD?
Every GPT disk also has an MBR partition table, for compatibility reasons, although normally the MBR of such a disk is supposed to have only a single "GPT protective" partition (type code ...
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Can a MicroSD card help speed up my Mini PC?
Some months ago I bought a Mini PC
So far, so good. I've had good experiences with mini PCs.
Intel Celeron J4125
This CPU is practically e-waste, the rest of my answer is irrelevant.
8 GB of DDR4 ...
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Multiple versions of the emoji font are installed on your PC
From this site:
Option 1: Restore Default Font Settings
1 . Open Control Panel and go to Fonts > Font Settings, then click Restore default font settings.
Option 2: Uninstall the duplicate SegoeUI ...
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Can a MicroSD card help speed up my Mini PC?
The PC is very slow in some operations, like starting up, or loading the software I use.
If you are not using SQL Server all the time, make sure you configure it to run on demand instead of ...
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Dual boot - 2 windows instances - add EFI to secondary drive
Manually create and format the EFI partition, then use bcdboot to install its contents. The tool will copy in all bootloader files, will generate a BCD with one entry that boots the specified OS, and ...
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How to copy files from one location to another using powershell and skipping files that are corrupt or that cannot be read?
Copy one file at a time in a loop, in a try catch block.
Get-ChildItem -Recurse | foreach { try { $_ | cp * '\mycomp.local\Location' } catch { Write-Warning 'corrupted File' } }
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How I can redirect the input from one mic to another mic input?
Easiest solution, buy a 3.5mm jack splitter cable, 1 female to 2 males and a 3.5mm jack extension cord (optionally a 2nd one), and actually connect the microphone to both computers at once.
Lowest ...
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How to pin to the Task Bar the Device Manager on Windows 11?
I created a new shortcut on the desktop. I pasted in "devmgmt.msc". I dragged the shortcut to the Task Bar.
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Why screenshots are being saved in moved folder?
When you moved the pictures folder, you specified that your pictures folder is the on the D drive. Screenshots save to your pictures folder, so it is logical that it is saved in the D drive.
To solve ...
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Windows 11 - How to open a Terminal with Admin privilege from current folder in File Explorer?
If you right click in File Explorer, you can select Open in Terminal in the current folder.
If you Shift + right click, you can select Open in Terminal or Open PowerShell window here in the current ...
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Can a MicroSD card help speed up my Mini PC?
The best thing to do would be to buy a new computer. If it's your own device, then replacing it should not be a big deal. If it's your company's device, it seems a ticket with the IT team stating that ...
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Can a MicroSD card help speed up my Mini PC?
No, as others have said, a MicroSD card will not help you here.
The best thing would be to turn off some Windows services that you don't need. For example, a few years ago I turned off Windows Search ...
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Windows 11 - how to quickly start something from desktop without minimizing opened windows?
Solution 1:
Minimize, launch, restore. This isn't minimizing one at a time - it minimizes everything on the desktop
Type Windows+M to minimize everything on the desktop
Launch your application
Type ...
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Hide user folders in Windows explorer
I needed to add "HiddenByDefault"=dword:1 to keys:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\[CLSID]
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\...
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How to recovery previous data after reinstalling windows 11?
Assuming the laptops storage device is a SSD and the tech re-formatted it in the process the data was most likely 'trimmed'. TRIM commands result in the drive un-mapping of LBA addresses by wiping the ...
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disable thumbnails for PDF in Win 11
Recent SumatraPDF viewer still provides 2 of 3 historic registry sets of features in Windows Explorer. For both these registered System abilities the installer version is required and writes many ...
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disable thumbnails for PDF in Win 11
Research indicates that the registry only allows enabling or disabling thumbnail handlers for all file types, and does not allow enabling or disabling this for specific file types.
In order to disable ...
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Automatically run powershell script as administrator
Put this code in your ps1
$ArgumentList = @'
powercfg /setactive ab6534a3-bc02-4c44-94d1-a8535b2eb070
set-itemproperty -path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Samsung\SamsungSettings\ModulePerformance' -name 'value' -...
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Scan QR code via webcam on Windows 11
There are third-party tools, such as Bytescout BarCode Reader, which reads both Bar Codes and QR Codes, free for non-commercial use, QR Code Scanner, CodeTwo QR Code Desktop Reader & Generator, ...
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Can a MicroSD card help speed up my Mini PC?
The J4125 CPU is much too slow if you run Windows. I have one with Linux. It's OK for receiving backups at around 100Mbps (its main purpose) but even with Linux it feels sluggish.
The latest mini-PCs ...
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How to programmatically disable or enable "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" in Windows 10 and Windows 11?
As I wrote this question, I noticed that I appear to have already answered this question a few years ago at learn.microsoft.com:
#!/usr/bin/env -S pwsh
#```PS1
#Requires -RunAsAdministrator
#Requires ...
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Windows 11 Recycle Bin often takes a while to empty
This is pretty normal.
Aside of your drive having a cache, when actually deleting files on an SSD, it will also use TRIM. Although you did not specify that you are using an SSD, it would explain the ...
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Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services not working
The PowerShell AD cmdlets weren't actually written to talk LDAP – they instead rely on an additional AD Web Services API that comes with Windows Server 2008+ and which would provide a HTTP-based ...
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Is this ResetWindowsSearchBox.ps1 the same as a Delete and Rebuild Index in Indexing Options?
Is ResetWindowsSearchBox.ps1 the same as a Delete and Rebuild Index?
No. ResetWindowsSearchBox.ps1 fixes problems with Windows Search.
Repairing the search on Windows 10 has numerous possible fixes, ...
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Why do Windows 10 / Windows 11 copied/pasted shortcuts not appear, but newly created ones do?
The first thing to understand (which you already noticed) is that the Start Menu will try to avoid showing two entries to the same program.
And it seems that behind the scenes, many automatically ...
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Bypassing Secure Boot without disabling it
Solution for ASUS Prime boards:
disable Fastboot setting in BIOS
change OS Type to Other OS in Boot/Secure boot
( maybe press one time on boot override option choosing installation media )
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Windows 11 Device Encryption not working after dual boot
The error message
"PCR7 binding is not supported, Un-Allowed DMA capable bus/debive(s)
detected, WinRE is not configured."
Is not very useful as it doesn't really point at the real culprit ...
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windows defender antivirus folder missing on local group policy editor
but windows defender antivirus folder is missing i need that folder to disable windows defender.
It’s not possible to disable Windows Defender on Windows Home Single Language. DisableAntiSpyware and ...
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Task manager shows ridiculously wrong memory consumed by processes
Check if the sympoms are the same like in this post.
How can I fix Windows 10 shows the wrong ram values in the details panel of task manager?
And check this answer:
https://superuser.com/a/192125/...
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