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Remote Desktop with multiple monitors: How to save window and icon positions

Many people these days have multiple monitors, especially on their primary desktop computer.

The trouble comes when you want to use Remote Desktop and “telecommute”. Let’s say you’re using your laptop puter, and you Remote Desktop into your main machine.

All of your icons and windows spread across 2 screens on your big puter get crammed onto one screen while using Remote Desktop on your lappy.

No big deal, right? But then you get back to your Big Puter, and all your windows and icons are STILL crammed onto 1 of your 2+ screens. OOPS!

Fortunately, there’s an easy fix…

How to stop Apps from re-opening on reboot in Windows 10

When your computer with Windows 10 reboots or restarts automatically after updates, it will re-open applications that were running before the restart.

There are two problems with this:

First, not ALL applications will fire up again – only some.

Second, sometimes you don’t want this to happen because you may have a program scheduled to start up via the Startup folder or maybe the Task Scheduler. In this case, you can end up with two copies of the app running at the same time!

What to do, what to do?

How to fix a Read-Only drive in Windows

There you are, minding your own business…

Maybe you just installed a Windows 10 update. Maybe you just had to run a disk check that asked you to reboot. Maybe you didn’t really do anything out of the ordinary at all.

Whatever the case, things go kaflooey. All of a sudden, you can’t save or create new files on a certain drive – be it a hard drive, partition on a drive, external disk, USB stick, etc.

Instead of working, you get an error message that your, “drive is read-only“.

At this point, you begin to panic. But fear not: It’s super-easy to unlock your drive and remove its “Read-Only” mode!

Help! My computer is turning off even though I have a battery backup

So, you buy a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) for your puter.

You hook it up.

Then, a power outage or brownout hits…

POOF! Your puter reboots.

“Hang on”, you think, “Wasn’t my battery backup supposed to prevent this?”

Yes, it was… But there are a few things you need to check to make things work nicely…

Fix Windows 10 won’t boot – Stop Error 0xc000021a

So there you are, minding your own business.

You try to restart your Windows 10 puter, and you end up with the new Sad Face Blue Screen of Death!

At the bottom of the screen, you see:

Stop Code: 0xc000021a

No matter what you do (like the automatic Startup Repair), you appear to be sunk… Windows just won’t boot up anymore.

What to do?

Windows 10 1909 Update: What’s new this time?

Yet another new version of Windows 10!

A new update to Windows 10 was released just a few days ago, and once again the rollout was quite smooth.

The difference this time was that 1909 isn’t really a “Feature Update”.

It installs very quickly and changes… well, pretty much nothing!

Let’s take a quick look.

Resize images in Windows 10 the super-easy way

You may have read my 2013 post entitled How to Easily Resize Images in Windows.

Thanks to a comment from a reader the other day (you rock, Nick!), you don’t need Windows Live Photo Gallery anymore.

There’s a free tool available from a Microsoft engineer that you can grab and make your life WAAAY easier.

You can even resize multiple images at once anywhere on your puter – in just a few clicks and without firing up any application!

Windows 10 1903 Update: What’s New?

Another new version of Windows 10!

A new update to Windows 10 was released a few weeks back, and this time the roll-out seemed to be way smoother than the last version – which is nice.

I got the update fairly quickly this time around, which almost never happens.

The update went off without a hitch. Naturally, I immediately started poking around to see what changed.

Well, not much… But as usual, there are a few things to re-tweak!

VICTORY! Reactivate Windows 10 after a hardware upgrade

Windows 10 Reactivation after hardware upgrade: CONQUERED!

Regular readers are aware that I have been doing battle with re-activating Windows 10 after performing numerous major upgrades on various puters.

I had another opportunity recently to upgrade yet another machine… This time, the entire computer was replaced – except the graphics card and power supply.

Once again, I was confronted with an activation error after the upgrade.

Out of desperation, I tried something crazy… and it WORKED!

Windows 10 1809 Update: What you need to know

It’s that time again!

A new update to Windows 10 was re-released a few weeks back, and it appears that it’s FINALLY rolling out to end users.

You may have heard that this update was the October 2018 update. It was, but then there were “a few problems” like people’s files disappearing.

I finally got the update on my desktop and lappy, and I’m happy to report zero problems.

It seems this bad boy is finally ready for prime time. So, what’s new in the features and privacy departments??

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