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Temporarily disabling hardware IO ports for remote connection
I'm using moonlight with sunshine to stream my desktop to my mobile devices for remote access.
Is there a way for a script to toggle the all IO ports, except the ethernet, on and off to prevent direct ...
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How can I view the max wattage of my usbcpd port of my laptop?
I have a Lenovo laptop with one of the USB C 3.2 gen 2 ports labeled as USB-PD, and I'm wondering what it is rated for. Based on some Googling it seems that USB 3.1 PD ports support up to 240 watts, ...
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Check that every file is successfully readable on a volume
For the first time since many years, I have a disk (SSD that shows 99% health with DiskInfo!) that has a few unreadable files. I tried to open these files with wxHexEditor, and when scrolling in the ...
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How to get the current IO utilization in percentage from the command line on Windows 10?
I already know how to get the CPU usage percentage:
wmic cpu get loadpercentage
That returns:
LoadPercentage
21
But what about the IO? Meaning the total disk utilization in percentage, or one per ...
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Is there some way to make a foobar2000 playlist automatically track and update its file paths?
I have a lot of poorly named music files. They are poorly named because when they were digitized or converted, there either was no metadata at all, or it was incomplete/inconsistent, etc.
Manually ...
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Settings for com ports to speed device I/O data transfers
I used to be able to go to com port settings for device I/O on windows and change settings such as baud rate for computer between internal PC hardware. I'm looking for instructions to do the same ...
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Stop disk activity of a process without killing the process
Is there a technique or tool that can be used to stop a running process from writing to a drive, but not kill the process.
If I have more level of control in that, like selecting which drives the ...
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Any way to tweak Windows' kernels or drives to handle I/O and reduce or eliminate hangs with failing drives?
I frequently work with failing hard drives for data recovery and various tasks. These tasks are usually short lived in nature, but important. The way Windows seems to handle any failing drive that's ...
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See exactly which files each program accesses
You can easily observe that a program is performing I/O disk operations using a process monitor. Is there an easy way to observe exactly what files are being read/written to by each process?
Windows/...
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How to redirect specific file I/O to another drive
I'm on Windows and i'm dealing with a badly written application that needs to store huge temporary files, but the temp directory is apparently hardcoded to %localappdata%\Temp and cannot be changed.
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How to determine the duration for which a file was accessed/modified a program?
I would like to measure the speed of encryption performed by a utility on a Windows 10 box. Since there are no other ways in the utility itself to do this, I would like to know if I can determine how ...
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The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error
A few weeks ago something bad happened to my OS (Windows 10). In my laptop I have SSD with OS and HDD for data (cd drive slot).
I usually hibernate my PC instead of shutting it down. I also have a bad ...
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Can't Clear/Format HDD or Partitions (Windows 10 Installation)
So, here's what happened. I plugged in a bootable W10 installation thumbdrive. After deleting two preexisting partitions that I had made manually, the installer created a reserved system partition (...
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What limits writing to 2 SSD drives at the same time
I'm trying to understand about IO and CPU cores and have gotten myself confused.
Does writing to 2 SSD drives depend on the number of cores? In my mind, if it's a single core process then the ...
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Windows: Determining which output stream # (1-9) console output is coming from?
I've seen questions in the past about "highlighting" different output streams between STDOUT and STDERR, but I was wondering if there was maybe a simpler way to do this on Windows.
The reason I ...
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