Eddie On Everything

Microsoft went and hid the device manager.
It’s buried beneath at least 5 separate click events.
Fortunately, it is possible to run the device manager from the Windows command line. (That is, the box that pops up when you hit Start->Run.)
This should save you a lot of clicking around, particularly if you have to access [...]

I have a really crappy Kingwin USB external drive enclosure.
It doesn’t usually work.
When it does work, I am able to connect it to my XP computer exactly once. That’s right – after choosing to “Safely remove hardware” from the computer, when I reconnect the drive it isn’t recognized by Windows until I [...]