Daemon tools is a stand-alone application that allows DVD isos (amongst other things) to be mounted on "phantom" drives. Before I got my DVD drives I used to use it to mount DVD's. Now that I have them, I've disabled the virtual drives and just keep Daemon around for occasional mounting of isos.
Thanks for the tip. I found the following line:
Found "GenCdRom" in C:\WINDOWS\inf\cdrom.inf; Device: "CD-ROM Drive"; Driver: "CD-ROM Drive"; Provider: "Microsoft"; Mfg: "(Standard CD-ROM drives)";
Seems like a device is being conjured out of nowhere. Disabled, the drive doesn't appear in...
In my device manager I have a CD drive listed that does not physically exist and I don't know where it has come from. At first I thought it was a mounting drive for Daemon tools, but I've checked and it isn't. When I try to uninstall this drive it just comes back again when I restart windows...
Personally, I can't see why ATI are making CCC the monopoly. They can't possibly be making more money from it than CP (the drivers are free, for god's sake). In fact, I suspect CCC is more expensive to implement than CP, what with all the fancy videos and shiny menus.
All ATI are doing is...
Since ATI have seen fit to dispense with the wonderful control panel that accompanied their drivers, I've had to resort to using ATI Tray Tools with "plain" driver updates, as there is no way in hell I'll propitiate the CCC by using it.
My question is: in the CP there exists the option of...
They got it from ebuyer, who are outstanding IMO, for £12 (about $20.50 these days). I'll admit that this is inordinately cheap for a 256, but projects have limited budgets. Ah well...
As an aid to my Final Year Project at university I was given a 256MB pen drive by the School of Engineering. It was kept on my car keys since I bought it, 3 months ago, in the same pocket as my mobile phone.
A coupe of days ago I plugged the drive in and the PC asked me to format it. After...
The answer I most frequently received is that the microwaves eventually migrate back to the magnetron when no water is present to absorb their energy. The opening for the magnetron is the only real gap in the microwave's interior (microwaves will bounce off the walls, floor and door) so the...
By far the funniest "microwave curiosity" is a bar of soap. Just put it in, nothing else needed. I first saw this on TV and could not believe it. I won't spoil it but it isn't very dangerous at all.
I was asked these by a venerable old secondary school teacher of mine. They sound like modern day Zen "empty your mind" problems to me...
1. Why are things not upside down when seen in a mirror? What is so special about the up-down direction?
2. Why do microwaves carry the warning "do not...
Yes, I think I catch your drift. A black hole's escape velocity is equal to c but I can't for the life of me see why a body can't be made even MORE dense so that its escape velocity is greater than c. Then you could just throw a tennis ball at it (which might travel back in time for all we...
Very possibly! "Distortion of space" essentially means that the geodesics (shortest paths between two given points) become curves rather than straight lines.
A particle moving at a fixed speed right-to-left along the curve xy=1 will appear, if you are the y-axis, to approach you with an ever...
To any astrophysicists out there: a little thought experiment.
Consider a large massive body (a Schwarzchild-type black hole would work best) and a spaceship, positioned a great distance away, which is set gently into motion (or shoved violently; it makes no odds) towards the black hole...
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