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How to change toolbar skin in Media Player Classic - Home Cinema?

I am following this link to change toolbar skin of Media Player Classic - Home Cinema but it is not using the new skin. I'm using Windows 8 Pro N and Media Feature Pack is installed. More Information:...
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How to restore Windows 11 terminal properties

Last Friday I had a Windows 11 update pushed to my PC. Now when I open either Cmd or Ubuntu(WSL2), I get some new terminal window that I've never seen before. I could get used to that, but there are ...
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On Windows 11, is there a way to make the window borders visible aside from the high contrast Accessibility options?

In a sea of dark/night themed windows, I find it very difficult to find where one window ends and the other begins as the borders are nearly invisible on my large 4K monitors. In Registry Editor I ...
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gitk looks ugly / doesn't honor theme settings

I'm running Xubuntu, (actually linux mint with xfce on top, but I suppose it's essentially the same thing) I set my appearance theme to (a modified version of) MurrinaStormCloud, but if I run gitk, ...
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How to reset location of default Windows 10 application windows?

I've recently been noticing my explorer and control panel windows slowly creeping down into the lower right corner of my monitor. I was wondering if there was anyway of resetting the default location ...
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"Show window contents while dragging" keeps getting disabled

On my Windows 7 Enterprise x64 machine at work, "Show window contents while dragging" regularly gets disabled. I currently have Visual Effects set to "Adjust for best appearance", still, every now ...
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The texts lose “quality” after a restoration of Windows 10?

I have noticed that after a factory reset on a Windows 10 computer, the texts of the operating system generally "low quality". The edges of the texts look a bit pixelate... not entirely, but ...
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Display tilde (~) instead of home folder name when at home in macOS Terminal (zsh)

How do I have ~ $ instead of myUsername $ in zsh? My bash displays like the former and I like it because it looks cleaner. My .bash_profile export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1 export PS1="\...
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Change default windows dialog font without dpi scaling

In Windows, there is the "Window Color and Appearance" dialog. There you can change: title, message box, menu, status bar,icon fonts... However you cannot change the default window font. It is always ...
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Why does my desktop showing white outlines like this?

Why does my desktop showing white outlines like this? I am facing this problem very lately.
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Flat, basic, minimalist window decorations with OpenBox or similar

I am currently customising my netbook's ArchLinux install. I really like the minimalist basic style of things like the ThinMC window borders in Gnome, and the FullFlat Firefox theme. What options are ...
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how to save images presented at pre login in windows 10

How do I view the pre-login image on Windows 10 after I have logged in (Screenshot 1)? There are many good images which I wanted to save when they were presented on my login screen, but I don't know ...
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Why are my Chrome fonts so small?

the majority of the sites I visit look like the above example, extra tiny small. Google chrome on windows 7 no plugins tried everything from resetting windows fonts to custom zoom, which makes ...
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How to revert recent underline change in Chrome?

Today I updated Google Chrome, from version 36.0.1985.143 to 37.0.2062.102 which introduced a strange rendering change. It seems that for anchor links, the spacing between the bottom of the link text ...
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Google Chrome links now appear as crossed out not underlined why?

Since Sunday when I use Google Chrome links now appear as crossed out not underlined why? They still function but I have no clue how this has happened or how to change it back. Is not problem when I ...
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Change selection highlight color in Microsoft Visio Pro 2016 x64

In Visio 2010, if I selected, for example, a group of lines, the highlight in those lines to show that they were selected would be a thin, bright pink line. I just installed Visio Pro 2016 x64. ...
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Windows 10: How to change a theme slideshow time interval?

It's all int the title; I find myself unable to set a precise time interval defining how often the background pictures of the theme I am currently using change. The only similar option available in ...
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Shadows for Icon Labels on the Desktop is Appear after Use Split Screen. How to Fix That?

I disabled Shadows for Icon Labels on the Desktop in Advanced system settings -> Advanced -> Performance Settings: and on start system I don't have shadows (alright). But after I use split ...
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How to always highlight playing track in Foobar2000 playlist in the Default UI?

In Foobar's default user interface, the current playing track is signaled only by a very discreet arrow - no bold, no highlight, no different color. The only 'highlighting' happens by selecting ...
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Windows 10 taskbar width is very wide when positioned on the sides [duplicate]

Are there ways to reduce the Windows 10 taskbar width when it's positioned on the sides ? It can be resized but the minimum width is very wide. It seems to have a minimum width to fit the date.
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How do I remove the dashed border on previously selected desktop icon on Windows 7?

Title is very informative in fact. When you select an icon and then click on the desktop, the previously selected icon remains in a non-focused selection mode which consists in it having a dashed/...
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GTK applications looking ugly after an upgrade to Fedora 24. Why?

Here's an example of what pavucontrol looks like on my system after an update to Fedora 24: As you can see, widgets have no spacing and some are even missing altogether - in this example, I have no ...
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How to bring back round window corners on Windows 10?

I like the look of Windows XP, and Windows 7, and like the round corners of the windows of the apps. Windows 10 seems to take a step to remove them and make it 90 degree corners. Are there ways to ...
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Can firefox use themes across the whole of 4096 pixels width?

I have a monitor with 4096x2160 pixels and run firefox at full width. When I select a theme that comes with an image, it looks as if the image is at most 3000 pixels wide. About 1000 pixels (1/4th ...
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How to change the X-Windows default border width for all window frames in Ubuntu using Gnome 2.28

Way back from Windows 3.x days to the latest 64bit Windows 7 (classic/standard theme).. there is a way to make the window edge border wider then 1 pixel... I often use 3 to 5 pixel to make it easy to ...
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Smooth edges option not working on Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 while in remote session

Text displayed on the sceen is very hard to read because of the hard edges, but looking under Appearance Settings -> Effects the option to Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts is ...
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Windows Vista looks like XP post update

The other day the 'Windows Update' service prompted me for several important updates that were available. I sieved the ones that read 'Update for Microsoft Windows' and installed them. Here's a pic of ...
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Windows 7 logon UI image files - How to locate and edit them?

I want to change the color of my logon screen picture box - possibly along with other interface elements - in Windows 7.The image I'm talking about is the glossy bluish box surrounding the selected ...
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Make recycle bin appear empty in Windows 7

I prefer the appearance of the empty recycle bin to the appearnce of the non-empty recycle bin in Windows 7. In reality, the empty/not empty indicator is about useless (at least for my purposes). Thus,...
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Why the same font looks different on Windows and Ubuntu?

I use Windows, and sometimes I use Ubuntu in a virtual machine. And I'm wondering why the fonts in Ubuntu are so much easier to read? Bellow you can see GEdit with Monospace 12, on Windows 7 (left) ...
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How to customize Foobar2000 icons (including main icon)?

Foobar2000 is a highly customizable player, but is it possible to customize its icons - including its main icon? (I don't hate it, but I might want to change it, especially that multiple portable ...
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How to have bigger text in Windows Explorer only?

I am running Windows 7 with recommended resolution of 1366x768. I am finding the font in explorer really small and painful. If I increase the font size from control panel EVERY software gets an ugly ...
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Correct way to change default font in Windows 8? [duplicate]

I had been enjoying Windows 8 for the last couple of months on my desktop and laptop, but now it seems MS did actually do something really stupid in this OS that bothers me. You can't change the ...
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How do I change the font size in the root shell on Knoppix running LXDE?

The root shell's font is too small, and I have scoured Google looking for an answer. I can't find the settings for it, or a config file of some sort. I'm using the latest version of Knoppix with LXDE....
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Something weird happening with my Iceweasel tabs

What's going on with my Iceweasel tabs?
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Disable Aero zoom effect on Vista?

I'm used to the perceived speed-boost in XP by disabling window animation, and although it is nicer in Vista, it's still a noticeable and pointless lag for the window to be displayed. The same ...
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Is there a way to customize the Active/Inactive title bar in Windows 7 with Aero theme?

I use the Windows 7 Aero theme with transparency turned off, and window color Twilight. Occasionally I find myself struggling to tell which window is currently focused, because the active/inactive ...
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Automatically order icons in Mac OSX Snow Leopard

I was wondering, Is there a way to define automatically icon ordering, instead of make right click, order by, XXX. Every time I change a folder content I need to do that. Or change the view.
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Why isn't Internet Explorer respecting any stylesheets?

This question is not about my own computer, but a shared computer that I sometimes manage. It seems one of the users changed some setting so now every webpage you visit looks just plain wrong. I've ...