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Windows 8 DNS client
I've got DNS problems with certain domain names, e.g. "answers.microsoft.com". The behavior is consistent across browsers: all of them complain "unable to resolve the host name". If I open a command ...
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Tool to log the disk I/O of the specific process to the file
I'm using Windows 8 x64. The MSSE (renamed to Windows Defender) constantly causes BSoD during the quick scan (the problem described here). I wanna find out which was the last file[s] it accessed.
...
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What exactly is my graphics card doing?
I have an ASUS A43SD laptop with a built-in NVIDIA 610m graphics card.
I recently switched to Windows 7 64-bit and in the process did away with the NVIDIA driver I had installed. As far as I can tell, ...
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Frequent BSOD on Windows 7 x64? [duplicate]
This just started this week, no new hardware, no major updates or software installs either before it started happening. The system will often start slowing down or hang completely before BSOD, and ...
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1answer
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CUPS network printer and Windows 7 x64
I have a HP LaserJet 2200d printer connected to my Ubuntu Server 12.04, and I can print files locally with lpr command. Here's the output of lpstat:
cce@puntti:~$ lpstat -p -d
printer ...
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1answer
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Windows 7 x64 - Adjusting screen brightness is reversed
I have a problem with adjusting screen brightness on windows 7 x64.
If I change brightness with nvidia control manager, it works correctly but if I change it with windows, it is reversed. Pushing ...
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1answer
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Determining if I need a 32 bit or 64 bit driver for OSX 10.7.2
I'm looking to download an ftdi driver for OSX 10.7.2.
I will be using it for work I'm doing in python 2.7.x, using pySerial.
I have no idea how to determine whether I need to download the 32 or ...
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Home Debian install no longer boots
After almost a year of working wonderfully, my home computer has suddenly stopped. I thought it was a thermal issue: from cold I could login and even maybe start firefox before it would freeze (screen ...
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Windows 7 OEM 64 bit installation [closed]
I am a new user to SU. Sorry if this has already been asked before. I did ask a user in a comment a while back.
Anyway here goes :
I assembled my own PC. I purchased the OEM version from the market ...
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Deactivating DEP to run older video games and applications is it risky?
Hello Superuser community.
I am helping my friend get in to some retro gaming via good old games (GOG). And many of the older titles require the DEP to be turned off to function correctly. My ...
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Is there a need to upgrade to 64 bit [duplicate]
I have 32 bit windows7 installed on my computer with 4 GB ram, an i5 processor and I use designing software like AUTOCAD and SOLID WORKS on it, but they dont work as fast as they should. Should I ...
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how to block rst, ack packet on windows 7 x64
As the title says, I my trying to block a specific RST, ACK packet coming from my win7 machine. My machine is Win 7 x64, but all the firewall solutions I have seen so far (wipfw, pcktfilter) all seem ...
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2answers
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Identify 32 bit or 64 bit Windows 7 installation folder?
I have couple of Windows 7 installation folder in my machine.
How can I identify which one is 32 bit and 64 bit ?
I tried checking few .ini and .inf files but none of it could give me a hint.
Is ...
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1answer
66 views
Adding drivers for a device that's not listed in Device Manager
I'm running Windows 7 x64 on a Dell XPS m1730 laptop. I recently re-installed Windows 7 (complete wipe) and since that time, have been unable to get my Creative Labs Integrated Webcam working (or even ...
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1answer
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Cannot run AutoCAD 2008 32-bit on Windows 7 64-bit
I purchased a Dell notebook and it came with Windows 7 64-bit installed.
Now when I try to install AutoCAD 2008 which is 32-bit, I am unable to do so. I get an error message stating I can't run a ...
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1answer
806 views
Why can't I open ANY web page with the EPM box unchecked in IE10 on Windows 7 x64?
I upgraded from IE9 to IE10 on my Win 7 64 bit computer through the automatic updates through Win 7.
As soon as the upgrade completed I tried to open a webpage and got the error message: "This Page ...
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1answer
979 views
Installing Oracle Database 11g Express on Windows 64-bit [closed]
Is it possible to install and set up Oracle Database 11g Express Edition onto a Windows 64bit system at all?
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Issues getting Java installed in Chrome in Fedora 17 x64
I am having trouble getting Java to work in Google Chrome on Fedora 17 x64. I have installed the 64-bit RPM from Oracle's site and run yum install java, but it doesn't show up in Chrome. Is there ...
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3answers
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Will the “End of Time” occur on a 64 bit system, virtualizing a 32 bit windows xp on vMWare?
So my question is regarding The end of time (Unix), will this occur on a 64bit Windows 7 OS, that is virtualizing a 32bit version of Windows XP?
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Intel Atom D2500, 64-bit mode
I have an Intel Atom D2500 processor which the spec site claims it supports a 64-bit instruction set. However, cpuinfo shows this:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep "(processor|flags|address)"
processor ...
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1answer
129 views
Windows 7 64bit crashes everytime I try to run Windows 7 Phone emulator
I have Vs 2010, Vs 2012, Windows phone 7.1 & 7.8 SDK on my computer and everytime I make a default project in Vs 2010 and try to run the emulator my computer crashes.
This was the last error.
A ...
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64x Not working, despite my desperate tries
So this is really weird, and extremely annoying. I've tried to install a 64x-version of some Linux distributions, such as Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, etc. But none has been successful. I am able to ...
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Redirect VS debugger to a specific connection
I need my visual studio debugger to use my ethernet cable connection instead of wireless.
I already tried ForceBindIP but it seems this solution doesn't work with windows7-64 bits
Do you guys know a ...
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3answers
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Unable to open IE 10 in 32-bit mode
I need to run IE 10 in 32-bit mode on 64-bit Windows 7 Enterprise N.
When I run IE 10 from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer" I can see in task manager that I have only one process ...
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2answers
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Migrate Debian to 64 bit and preserve home partition
I am currently on Debian Squeeze 32 bit and I want to install Wheezy 64 bit, preserving my /home partition
I know that compiled files will not work unless configuring multiarch, but can I find other ...
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Is my machine 32 bit or 64 bit?
i know this question has been asked a lot on superuser, but i am stuck as i have checked with different applications, windows system information, vmware processor x64 processor utility, cpu-z, ...
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How can I make this 32-bit program run on my 64-bit?
I have an old disc that contains a program which was made for Windows 95. I tried to install it on my Windows 7 64-bit system and it gives me this error:
"The version of this file is not compatible ...
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1answer
139 views
Can't open Foxit in Ubuntu / Mint Linux
After installing Foxit PDF reader on Ubuntu or Mint Linux, any attempts to open Foxit reader result in absolutely nothing. Foxit simply doesn't open, and provides no useful error messages to indicate ...
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3answers
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How do you register the 7-Zip GUI program with the .7z extension in Windows?
For whatever reason, the 64-bit Windows Installer doesn't seem to register the .7z file extension with the 7-Zip GUI (or with anything, as far as I can tell).
How do I go about doing it. A simple ...
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1answer
53 views
Best practice for Installing missing 32-bit package on a 64-bit Fedora Linux
I am using Fedora 13 64-bit. After reading few posts online it seems that most of 32-bit packages and libraries can easily be installed using the following command:
yum install *packagename*.i686
...
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1answer
154 views
How to turn off WinHttp proxy?
Not too long ago I turned on a proxy for WinHttp traffic like this (from this article):
netsh winhttp set proxy 127.0.0.1:8888
How can I turn the proxy off now? I can't seem to get the syntax ...
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How to install old Atos Sips payment API on WIN x64 machine
i have installed ATOS payment API under windows x86 (via the executable ATOS_ASP_v500.exe)
that i use to create a paiment transaction objects via ASP code like :
<%
transaction = ...
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5answers
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64 Bit OS and RAM
How much RAM can a 64-bit Windows 8 Ultimate Operating System use?
I have read on the Microsoft website that you can place up to 512 gigabytes (GB), but to my understanding, I thought 64-bit implies ...
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1answer
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ISA card in 64 bit Windows support
Is it possible to support an ISA card in 64 bit windows versions?
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Deleting some system Files for VPN un-install
On my way to un-install Cisco VPN client manually(completely) I tried the following link:-
http://www.maas360.com/maasters/forums/laptop-management/show/13/manual-uninstall-of-the-cisco-vpn-client
...
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how to install windows 8 x64 from the dreamspark windows 8 32/64 ISO?
I am a student and I have a Dreamspark account. I have an x64 laptop so I downloaded Windows 8 Professional 32/64 from their site (there was no other version only for x64). After I install the OS, I ...
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Aborted software install - epson perfection 3200 on Windows 7 64-bit
I just upgraded to Windows 7 64-bit, and boy this is a challenge to old hardware to work. I tried to install my software for my 3200 perfection scanner straight form autoplay. When it tried to ...
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Installing Steam on Ubuntu 12.04.2 64bit
So Steam is a 32 bit application, but after I install it on Ubuntu tells me I to type "steam" and "steamdeps" into the terminal to complete installation. But when I type either command, it says I am ...
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3answers
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Memory limits in 16, 32 and 64 bit systems
The theoretical memory limits in 16, 32 and 64 bit machines are as follows:
16 bit = 65, 536 bytes (64 Kilobytes)
32 bit = 4, 294, 967, 295 bytes (4 Gigabytes)
64 bit = 18, 446, 744, 073, 709, 551, ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 hangs on reboot (“All processes ended within 1 seconds”); how to debug?
I read through a lot of ubuntuforums threads and tried out various things. Still freshly installed Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, 3.2.0-38) hangs on reboot/shutdown after the line "All processes ended within 2 ...
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.xlsx file recovered by “Recuva” not opening. Shows msg "Excel cannot open file 'abc.xlsx' because the file format or file extension is not valid
I had deleted some of my important .xlsx files accidentally. Finally, I recovered these files withe help of "Recuva". But while trying to open any of these files, file is not opening and showing a ...
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1answer
126 views
How do I have Java auto-update for both 32-bit and 64-bit?
I have both Java 32-bit and Java 64-bit installed on my computer, and when automatic updates rolls around it asks me to save in Program Files (x86), but no equivalent for 64-bit Java comes up. How can ...
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1answer
296 views
WIPFW: Install unsigned drivers in Windows 7 (usual methods not working)
I'm trying to setup WIPFW in 64-bit Windows 7 and it involves installing an unsigned driver.
It seems Windows doesn't allow that without some tricks, such as the ones listed here. E.g. pressing F8 ...
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1answer
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What does it mean if a “Unknown Device Installed” message appears?
I came back to my computer, and the following message had appeared:
I'm wondering what reasons could there be for this? Is there a log I can check to see what was actually installed?
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2answers
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Why don't we have 33-bit CPUs? [closed]
I have seen that CPU's and operating systems have moved upwards in terms of bits from 8-bit to 16-bit, to 32-bit and currently to 64-bit. I understand that this change is to increase the maximum ...
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3answers
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Can I upgrade from Windows 7 32bit to 64bit without formatting? [duplicate]
My friend installed Windows 7 on his computer (upgrading from XP).
He wasn't sure if his processor supported x64 or not, so he installed the x86 version, just to be on the safe side.
After I looked ...
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Solaris 10 SPARC 64bit as virtual guest OS on 64bit Windows server 2008
Can I install Solaris 10 SPARC 64bit as guest OS on a virtual machine on the Host OS Windows server 2008 64bit?
Edit:
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtual_machines
QEMU ...
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2answers
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Where is 1.5 GiB of my RAM going in Windows 7 64-bit?
I have 8 GiB of physical memory, but only 6.56 GiB of it is available. See the screenshot below:
It is not shared with an onboard video card - I have a NVidia NVS 3100M video card with 512 MiB of ...
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2answers
118 views
Disable Reset or Refresh PC in Windows 8
I wish to disable the ability of a user to refresh or reset the PC, it should only be an admin right.
How to go about this ?
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Cannot open all .SNP snapshot files on Windows 7 x64
We receive .snp snapshot files from legacy MS Access databases out in the field. Our new Windows 7 x64 machines are running Office 2003 and the Snapshot Viewer (SNAPVIEW.EXE), however the vast ...
