docking station

Seems to be several opinions on this as I Google, so thought to ask you all here as well for your thoughts. Lenovo P51S with Ultradock. Two USB hard drives attached to the dock. Both set for "Quick Removal" in Device Manager. Do I need to "safely remove" these drives before hot undocking and...

Help needed. I'm using a laptop that is more often than not connected to more than one screen via a docking station. When I'm using certain program's the drop down menus will often appear on the opposite screens, whilst this is not such a massive problem when I undock the laptop and use it on...

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Hi, i have a Dell laptop with a Dell dock. I have three monitors connected to the dock. On my primary monitor i have organized my icons in a certain specific manner. The problem is that when i remove my laptop from the dock and then reconnect it to the dock the icons on my primary display are...

I have a customer who's numlock is beeping, only the numlock, not caps lock or scroll lock. The customer has bitlocker and entering the bitlocker code works fine with the number pad, but then once in Windows, the number pad will no longer work as it should. They are using an HP Folio 9470m...

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HP is warning customers: Check your laptop charging cord to see if it's at risk of overheating. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ, Tech30) and federal regulators on Tuesday recalled 6 million power cords sold between September 2010 and June 2012 with some HP and Compaq notebook computers, as well as certain...

I've been running into this error when running a VM on my second monitor (with laptop in docking station) and also today when running a VNC connection to another PC in the office. Hoping someone can help solve this. Reinstalling isn't a viable option right now as it's a company PC, we don't...

Lenovo is back with another Windows tablet similar to its ThinkPad 8, the aptly-named ThinkPad 10. With this tablet comes a QuickShot cover and screen just as beautiful as its smaller sibling, as well as a couple docking stations, one with and one without a keyboard. To see how the slate and its...

This might be of interest ................... Launch8 adds a stationary dock to your Windows® 8 Start screen It has a demo video.

I'm considering the idea of connecting both my W7 desktop and XP ThinkCentre simutaneously to my docking station, so I don't have to carry it back and forth. That way I could transmit data computer to computer more easily, with the data just pausing at the docked drive until I got to it. The...

This is an item I have heard about in passing many times, but never paid much attention to, because at the time, I didn't see why I would want one. However the notion struck me that it would be a convenient means of transferring data via a hard drive from one computer to another, so I quickly...

Hi, can someone help? - my os is windows 7 and I have an external 3.5 Hard Drive that was working fine in a IDE/SATA docking station, I think it was fat 32 - I pugged it in and it showed up as a RAW disk ( I haven't formatted it! ). I have tried getting the data from it using File Scavenger...

Win 7 Pro x64 NVIDIA Quadro K1000M For the six months that I've owned this Lenovo W530, it's worked this way: I bring it home, put it in the dock (closed), and I use my external keyboard and display. Yesterday, for no reason I know of, I couldn't get any video signal to the monitor. In an...

For use by BACK UP, is it possible to span two 2T HDs in a Thermaltake BlacX Duet Dock? Can Win 7 32 bit Back Up address them as one volume?

I have a Dell Latitude D630 and Windows 8. The generic Windows sound driver made the sound for the laptop run, but not with the docking station. I installed the Sigmatel drivers for Windows Vista 32bit. They also worked for me on Windows 7. First, they didn't wanna install, but then I made a...

Consider the following scenario: You have a Windows 7 tablet with a docking station. You undock the tablet and then in quick succession re-dock it again. In this scenario, integrated devices in the docking station may fail to start. In addition, Device... Link Removed

My computer will go blue screen every time it is restored from sleep/hibernate from a different dock other than the one i put it on sleep/hibernate. I went to the minidump and found the below. I have updated BIOS, power management, chipset, graphics driver still no use. Appreciate any advice...

The Lync 2010 SDK empowers developers to dock Lync conversation windows inside line of business applications. Danilo Perez Solano, an SDET in Lync Client Test, gives us a primer on how to quickly build an application with docking capabilities. Then he goes into some design considerations for a...

One of our staff members is running Windows 7 on a laptop (with docking station) and uses a USB VGA dual monitor device. Upon start up, the second monitor does not register any images (it remains black). Power is clearly running to the monitor and it is turned on. Strange part is, if she...