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Living Room / Re: SATA III - why no better rating than SATA II ?
« on: February 20, 2011, 06:07 AM »
Still don't really understand why SATA III drives on a SATA III interface don't see an improvement in system rating ???
-Carol Haynes (February 20, 2011, 05:37 AM)
That system rating actually measures the data transfer speed. As your SATA II interface already offers enough throughput to deliver the full potential of your disk, SATA III isn't needed, nor does it improve, the transferspeed to & from the disk.
You need a faster disk (or one with a higher burst-transfer, achievable by a big on-disk cache, but the system-rating probably has counter-measures to avoid falling into that trap) to require the need (and see any improvement) of a SATA III interface.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Save file to user-selected desktop on a multiple monitor setup
« on: February 20, 2011, 05:37 AM »
IMHO the desktop is just 1 location (folder) for each user, plus 1 location system-wide ('All Users' desktop folder) that are merged into the view that you have on your screens. Just the coordinates of the short-cut-icon determines where it is 'located'.
AFAIK, new icons can't be easily 'steered' into a specific position. Windows just picks the first available position (top to bottom, left to right on LTR (left to right writing) Windows) on the main desktop.

Workaround:
  • Create folders on your desktop for each monitor you have (DL-Screen-left, DL-Screen-middle, DL-Screen-right)
  • Drag each folder to the corresponding monitor
  • Download any file into the correct folder, your initial download location should be 'Desktop', so you can browse easily into the right sub-folder
To make the last item easier, you could use separate browser-brands on each monitor (IE, FF, Chrome, Opera), but you'd have a bit of trouble keeping favorites synched.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Windows Shortcut transformation
« on: February 20, 2011, 05:22 AM »
Do the suggestions at your original question-thread work for you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clever copy
« on: February 20, 2011, 05:19 AM »
Or the fine N.A.N.Y. 2011 entry PartialDownload could be useful?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clever copy
« on: February 20, 2011, 04:59 AM »
I'd suggest to only pursue this request at your new thread in the Coding Snacks section, over here. That's the best place for it.

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