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    ASUS BIOS "Remembers" Ghost Disks

    I've been custom-building my desktop Windows boxes for 20 years, but I've never seen anything like this. My primary Windows 10 system started having explorer / context menu problems, whereby whenever I right-clicked just about anything, the expected window would open and then close by itself...
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    Best Advanced Properties for Qualcomm Atheros AR8xxx PCIE Fast Ethernet Controller?

    Hey, thanks very much! I genuinely appreciate your help. It's not surprising that I can find no official documentation for those settings, given that many engineers, especially hardware engineers, are often disinclined to write these up for the average hardware dummy like myself. Thanks again!
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    Best Advanced Properties for Qualcomm Atheros AR8xxx PCIE Fast Ethernet Controller?

    I am perplexed by many of the Advanced Property settings for the on-board Qualcomm Atheros AR8162/8166/8168 PCIE Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.30) on my Toshiba Satellite laptop running 64-bit Windows 10 Version 21H2 (OS Build 19044.1288). What I'm looking for are the best settings to both...
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    Anybody use Wireguard VPN?

    It's provided by IPVanish as the main, most secure connection technology, and it works fine on my Windows 10 computers and on my Second Generation Fire TVs.
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    How to find a Bluetooth/USB Dongle with Realtek Chip?

    Thank you, sinisterDei, for your reply! See, the thing is, it is absolutely necessary to have a Realtek Bluetooth driver installed so that the Microsoft work-around can work. I've found several such drivers (mostly from station-drivers), and spent a lot of time trying to install any of them...
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    How to find a Bluetooth/USB Dongle with Realtek Chip?

    I am utterly unable to upgrade my home-built desktop running 64-bit Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 due to the known issue with Realtek Bluetooth drivers described here: Updating to a new version of Windows 10 on devices with some driver versions for Realtek Bluetooth radios BUT The solution...
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    Win7: Can I use an external touchpad for specific apps ONLY, Not Explorer?

    Thanks for your reply! I don't think it's a Windows 7 Pro issue, since the exact same thing happens with all of my Win 10 Pro systems as well,
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    Win7: Can I use an external touchpad for specific apps ONLY, Not Explorer?

    I have a couple of Windows 7 applications that can use a touchpad for gestures (primarily Pot Player). So I bought a small, external wireless USB touchpad for this purpose. But Windows Explorer always just grabs and dominates it completely. But I emphatically do NOT want Explorer to use it at...
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    Just replaced mobo, now turns off immediately. Now what?

    Yep, you make a lot of sense. Thank you! Just ordered a replacement,,,
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    Just replaced mobo, now turns off immediately. Now what?

    Last week, I was happily coding away on my best machine that's about 7 years old when it just shut itself off and stayed utterly dead. So I ordered the same model mobo for a replacement, and I just finished putting it all together, and now it will only stay on for a second before shutting off...
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    Confused on how to update firmware for Aten CS1764a KVM

    Probably I'm stupid, but I've been trying for days to upgrade the firmware of my Aten CS1764a 4-port USB KVM without getting anywhere close! Here's a link to the manual: User Manual (pdf) For example, what do you think they mean, exactly, when it says: "Disconnect the CS1762A / CS1764A from...
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    [SOLVED] Suddenly, Win 10 desktop won't wake from sleep via USB keyboard/mouse

    BINGO! That fixed it! It doesn't make any sense that these settings would suddenly change and prevent wake-ups without any changes whatsoever, but I don't care about that now that it's working again. Enormous thanks, gimp! :)
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    [SOLVED] Suddenly, Win 10 desktop won't wake from sleep via USB keyboard/mouse

    Thanks, gimp! I'll give that a try and report back
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    [SOLVED] Suddenly, Win 10 desktop won't wake from sleep via USB keyboard/mouse

    Thanks, EchoWars! I hope you can find it.
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    [SOLVED] Suddenly, Win 10 desktop won't wake from sleep via USB keyboard/mouse

    Additional Info-- output of "powercfg –devicequery wake_armed" command: HID-compliant system controller (002) Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller HID-compliant consumer control device (008) HID-compliant vendor-defined device (022) Logitech USB TrackMan Wheel (009) HID Keyboard Device (027)
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