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Windows Setup USB Flash Drive Not Showing Up in BIOS List of Boot Devices

There are countless articles on how to install Windows 10 from a USB flash drive. Most of them, however, fail to mention a common problem: the USB flash drive does not show up in the BIOS’ list of boot devices. Here is a simple solution that often works.

Getting USB Smart Card Readers to Work with Citrix XenDesktop

Even if you only have a moderately sized VDI deployment chances are high you will face the problem of getting USB smart card readers to work on the virtual desktops. Given that this is such a basic requirement it is astonishingly hard to implement correctly. To save you the pain of having to start from […]

File Copy Performance to USB Drive Oscillating Between Fast and Slow

I just had the “pleasure” of having to copy the contents of a terabyte USB disk to another similar USB drive. At first, I did not give this simple task much thought. I plugged the USB cables in and made my faithful Total Commander do the work. It did not take me long, though, to […]

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Windows Setup USB Flash Drive Not Showing Up in BIOS List of Boot Devices

Getting USB Smart Card Readers to Work with Citrix XenDesktop

File Copy Performance to USB Drive Oscillating Between Fast and Slow