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I can't seem to trace this down. At night I simply close the lid of the laptop so that it goes to sleep. The system logs show that the computer wakes itself up out of standby precisely 3 hours after it went to sleep. Often it remains awake, completely draining the battery, while sometimes it...

I'm using a Windows 8 Pro box to serve audio and video, but it's also used as an HTPC box connected by SPDIF to an audio receiver. Using RDP (Remote Desktop) from another PC allows me to keep audio playing on the HTPC just fine during the RDP session, provided I tick the box in the options...

I'm using a W8 Pro box to serve audio and video, but is also used as a sort of HTPC box connected by SPDIF to an audio receiver. Using RDP (Remote Desktop) from another PC allows me to keep audio on the HTPC just fine, provided I tick the box in the options wherein I indicate to keep audio at...

I have a new Asus laptop (U38N) shipped with W8 and now running W8.1. According to the device manager, both wifi adapter and bluetooth modules are Broadcom. I can't make heads or tails of which driver to use. It's a virtual cornucopia of various drivers from 3 manufacturers when in reality...

I have a new W8 laptop and have acquired Windows 8.1 RTM. The install, unlike the W8 install, prompts me for a key. When I installed W8, the installer simply picked up the key stored in the BIOS, as there was no prompt. Now, however, in 8.1, there is a prompt, and of course I have no way of...

I've created a recovery disk using the built-in recovery disk generator and selected the option to copy the contents from the OEM recovery partition. This is not a "normal" system image, which creates an image of the current C drive. 1. Will booting from this recovery drive followed by a...

I will be receiving a new laptop shortly, namely the Yoga 13, whose SSD is partitioned into no less than 8 partitions from the factory. I suppose the first thing I'd like to do is backup the entire drive with all its original partitions before I start messing with it. I've heard good things...