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[Bohandas]

Is there any way to permanently assign a drive letter to a usb disk that it will retain no matter how many times it is switched out?

[miauw62]

I'm fairly sure the drive letter isn't bound to the stick, it's bound to the port it's in.

[Bohandas]

Some of them seem to retain letters even if I switch their ports or change the number of drives that are plugged in. But at other times they infuriatingly do not do this

[Bohandas]

Plus I heard that it can be done partially simply by assigning a new letter from the Computer Management screen. But none of the explanations were forthcoming with a way from locking out any other drive from ever using that letter on my computer, which is kind of an important part of doing this.

[Aklyon]

I'm assuming you can't just leave it plugged in to hold onto the letter that way?

[miauw62]

Also, can't you get the drive by its volume name instead of the drive letter?

[Graknorke]

For the first problem, is turning on from a powered-off state, or waking up from sleep mode? If it's sleep mode, is your computer's networking device trying to refresh the network state?

Powered off.
It's stopped now after wiggling around some wires though so I guess it wasn't anything serious.

[Bohandas]

Also, can't you get the drive by its volume name instead of the drive letter?

I don't know. Can I?? I'd always assumed that when programs (at least the kind of programs that have to be installed and that have their own registry files and possibly interact with other programs) call one of their files they use the address starting with the letter, necessitating that the letter be the same each time or the program won't work.

[Bohandas]

Is there any way to prevent windows photo viewer from re-saving images that are rotated (ie. they should be in their original orientation the next time I open them)? If not, is there a comparable photo viewer that i can switch to with this option?

[BigD145]

Use IrfanView.

[Sensei]

Use anything which is not windows photo viewer.

Please.

[Thief^]

What's wrong with photo viewer? It views photos fine.

It even uses a lossless transform when rotating jpeg images.

[Antsan]

I've got two monitors. One is a touch-screen monitor, the other one is full hd. I have both hooked up to my tower pc running Debian testing. Setting up the multiple monitors stuff already is done.
Now I'd like to use my touch-screen monitor as such. The problem is that the touch screen space is mapped to both monitors' screen space and I cannot figure out how to change that. Any ideas?

[Tellemurius]

Im going to assume that the touch driver was designed so that it encompasses all active areas of your desktop. you will need to use this command:

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xinput map-to-output <device> <output>
use xinput to find your touch device
use xrandr to find your output device

[Bohandas]

I accidentally changed the zoom of the icons in Windows Explorer by hitting ctrl+mouse wheel and can't seem to get them back to precisely where they were before, size-wise. Is there any way to reset the zoom level of the icons/thumbnails?