Recent content by elevadu

I think you and the other poster have not read well I've written. Saying that the power-saving toggle is per hub not device doesn't answer the question: which ones to disable. My frustration is completely irrelevant and not at anyone in particular. There's no impatience here, just trying to...

That doesn't answer the question you quoted: "How do I tell which ones to disable power-saving feature" Look at the screenshot showing the lines under the expanded line "Universal Serial Bus controllers"; those are literally considered "devices" by Windows (whether they are or aren't). They...

I'm trying to transfer a lot of files (tens of gigabytes at this point, but it could be hundreds) over a network from one USB-connected drive on a laptop to another one (of each). However, I come back to the desk (after the screen has gone to sleep) after a long while (like, 1-10 hours), and the...

I set the laptop speaker volume to be good so we can hear it while near the desk. Much louder is too loud, much less is too quiet. I do the same thing with the headphones, but for my ears to be comfortably hearable and not too loud. I thought that's what everyone already does with audio (make...

OK I think Windows Settings are supposed to remember the volumes for each output, but... it seems to not do that, or at least consistently, or maybe something I'm doing is futzing with it inadvertantly. I'll have to pay better attention to it to see how it actually works exactly.

I can't tell where the problem is; Windows? Drivers? Settings? The headset? I've dug around and not found a good solution. Example: I normally have laptop speakers set at volume 50 (of 100 based on Windows 11's default soundbar), but when I plug in my USB headset, I have to turn output down to...

I don't know what created this, but it's showing in Disk Management for an old external USB hard drive (disk, not SSD), a "WD Elements" drive originally used for its nonsense "backup" software (those pre-installed files have since been deleted, and the drive used for whatever), but now I'm...

Command line operations like rename or delete or move just gave errors that the file didn't exist even though it showed in a directory listing. Windows giving no error message for an unsuccessful rename/move is not excusable, it's either a bug or a design flaw. It's counter-intuitive behavior...

I enabled long files names before I posted, to no effect.

I've run into errors with long file names, but never where an error isn't shown. This happens when trying to copy-paste, cut-paste (move), or rename a file within a path in File Explorer that is unusually long and would probably show an error about it in previous versions of Windows. The...

Wow I never would have expected a bug like this 😆 Microsoft really seems to be slapping things together these days.

I noticed my laptop fan going constantly for a while, and while I have a lot going on (it's probably just some webpage in Chrome running ads or something like that), but when I checked CPU usage in Task Manager, I noticed mspaint.exe is at or near the top of the list consistently, like 3-8%, and...

Note that it's "USB Safely Remove" not "Safely Remove USB".

I wonder how Safely Remove USB tells what's holding up the drive 🤔

I don't have the Policies tab on Properties for my microSD slot card: (it's empty now but I'll be filling it soon) It's also not on the Properties of a USB-C m.2 2280 external drive connected: I don't know WTH 😆 Oh, when I go to uncheck "Allow files ... [to be] indexed", it pops up a...