Intel Optane Memory Pinning - Unable to load DLL

Issue

Windows 10 displays the following error every time user right-clicks in Windows Explorer. Sometimes the same error appears without any user action.

Intel Optane(tm) Memory Pinning
Unable to load DLL
'iaStorAfsServiceApi.dll': The specified module could not be found.
(Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007001
Windows Explorer

Lenovo Ideapad 520S looses second screen capability

Issue

Lenovo Ideapad 520S-14IKB regularly loses the second screen capability. An external monitor doesn't display anything, and Windows does not detect the second screen at all. This laptop has two display adapters: Intel HD Graphics 620 and Nvidia GeForce 940MX. The laptop BIOS automatically determines when and for which applications to use the more powerful (and more power-hungry) NVIDIA adapter.

MS Outlook - Error while archiving folder in store. A folder by this name already exists

Issue

Archiving old emails within a mailbox to a .pst file in MS Outlook 2010 fails with the following errors:

Error while archiving folder "folder_name" in store "mailbox_name". A folder by this name already exists.

Delete large folders in Windows faster

Deleting large folders with multiple thousands of files using Windows Explorer can take a very long time.

Command prompt usually provides faster results, but depending on what command(s) were used it can still take quite a long time. After some experimenting, I found that the following way is the fastest one:

• Open command prompt (cmd.exe) and navigate to the folder in question.
• Run the following two commands:
  • DEL /F/Q/S folder_to_delete > nul
    Deletes all files
  • RMDIR /Q/S folder_to_delete
    Deletes remaining folder structure.