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Disabling the internal microphone of a Laptop
My laptop is an Alienware m5500 with Windows Vista 32 Bit and it has a built-in mic. The issue with this is that I have an external mic that I need to use.
Whenever I try to use Skype or Ventrilo it ...
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Disabling a USB flash drive from being used to boot
Is there a way to make a USB flash drive not detected on a reboot, to avoid the PC trying to use it to boot from? Assuming you only have control over the flash drive and are not administering the PC. ...
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Can I disable OS X Lion Autosave and Versions?
OK I'm going there: I want to turn off a new feature in OS X that's so infuriating I could swear it was designed by Microsoft, namely, Autosave / Versions. I just don't want it. I have a workflow that ...
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7 year old Vista laptop keeps trying to connect to wireless networks (despite instructions not to)
This one is puzzling me. A friend on a trip is having this issue with a vista laptop.
He can connect to a paid wireless network fine, and surf normally with IE.
He can't connect to his hotel's free ...
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Windows 7 builtin Backup and Restore - cannot turn off
Windows 7 Home Premium, service pack 1. I recently turned on the builtin Backup and Restore facility, pointing it at an external USB drive (500GB) I'd bought for the purpose. Now, I can't unmount the ...
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Shortcut for disabling javascript in firefox 8
I have found this site with firefox shortcuts. There is mentioned shortcut Ctrl+shift+F9 but it doesn't work for me.
Can anybody help?
(I need shortcut for quick switching to mode without javascript ...
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Permanently Disable Dell Latitude 2120 Touchscreen in X.org Upon Start-up and Suspend/Restore
In the spirit of full disclosure, below is the background, tl;dr: I am running Lubuntu Oneiric and I want to disable my borked touchscreen, running it on X.org start-up works but suspending the system ...
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How Do I Disable “Bluetooth Headset and Handsfree Profiles” on Sony Vaio? So I Can Use Multiconnection Mode for LG HBS-700
I have recently purchased a LG HBS-700 Bluetooth Stereo Headset. It comes with a multi-connection mode so that two devices can be connected to the headset at the same time.
However, both devices ...
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Disabling or removing a crypto partition
I accidentally created a crypto partition on a Debian server I recently installed.
When I reboot the server I have to enter the passphrase to manually get the server into the right runlevel.
Is ...
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Mac OS X Disabling a key on the keyboard?
I was wondering is their a way to disable a key on the keyboard. specifically the SHIFT key
The reason I ask this is that I spilled liquid on my machine, and the keyboard port on the logic board is ...
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How do I disable animations in Preview in Lion?
For example, open up a pdf and set view to two pages and hit arrow key up/down. Is there a way to get rid of the animation? Preview feels really snappy and fast, and to have animations like that just ...
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Firefox 4+ Pinned Tab Glow Disable (for one specific tab only)
Is there any way to disable the notification glow on an specific tab application in Firefox 4+, but not all of them?
For example, I want Facebook to glow, but not Linkedin or Twitter.
I know from ...
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How to disable Autoplay events for a specific device?
I have this USB microphone, and I usually keep it connected to my Windows XP box for recording, but since there are not too many USB ports on it, I sometimes have to disconnect it to use the port for ...
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Disabling an (/dev/inputX) input device on Ubuntu(/Linux)
My story: I have a laptop with a touchscreen, which is a bit faulty. It jumps the cursor occasionally to one point of the screen. It's annoying, but I managed to find the correct input.
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Can I disable USB Ports outside of the BIOS?
Is it possible to disable a computer's USB ports outside of the machine's BIOS if the BIOS does not offer the option to disable the USB ports? Could this possibly be accomplished via a terminal ...
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Disable Microsoft ehome IR Transceiver in Windows 7
I need to disable the IR receiver device on my Fujitsu Amilo xi3650 laptop. Its running Windows 7 Pro. Its picking up IR signals intended for a separate HTPC running Windows 7 HP.
In device manager ...
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Linux: Is there a non-root shell command to find if a user account is enabled or not?
Is there a non-root shell command that can tell me if a user's account is disabled or not?
Please note that there is a fine distinction between LOCKING and DISABLED:
LOCKING is where you prepend ! ...
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Disable automatic fsck_exfat on dirty volume mount in Mac OSX
I've several large hard disks formatted in exFAT to keep clean compatibility between Win7/Bootcamp and Snow Leopard.
Here's the problem: fsck_exfat needs something like 6-8gb of RAM to complete on a ...
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How to disable USB mass storage for normal user accounts?
How do I disable the USB mass storage only on a user account? It should be enabled on an Administrator's account.
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How to Disable Auto Run on Pen Drives in Windows XP [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to disable autorun for Windows XP Home
From what I understand, the feature is Enabled by default on Windows vista and onwards. How could I set up the same option in ...
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Disable laptops built-in keyboard
I have bought a new keyboard that I would like to use instead of the built-in keyboard, but I'm not able to disable the keyboard.
The "Disable" button is disabled in Device Manager, and the BIOS ...
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Disable Hyperthreading in the Windows 7 registry
Some bios's Do Not have the option to disable Hyperthreading of the CPU, it there a way to disable it in the Windows 7 Registry? Or a tool or software?
I know about msconfig boot tab (advanced ...
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Is it possible to permanently disable internet access under Ubuntu?
I have to find a way to finish a horribly boring thesis and I'm a huge procrastinator and easily distracted. A very useful trick was going to the library with an old laptop of mine with Ubuntu 11.04, ...
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Mac — disable “You have forced [appname] to quit” popup?
I don't want to see that popup anymore. I could not care less if it transmits my data or not. But I don't want to see the popup whenever I kill the app. Is there any way to disable it?
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what is the best (and free) tool to disable/enable USB ports
I want to disable USB ports (for everything except mouse and mobile phone) on my family computer. It runs on the Windows 7 home basic.
The idea is that the guests should not be able to plug in their ...
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Disable change in keyboard layout for Ubuntu
Is there any way by which I can disable "changing the keyboard layout" by any user of the machine but only the root user of the machine.
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Stop Message box appearing for updating links [closed]
I have a workbook that links to another for data. The links update when the book is opened, but I still get this message "This workbook contains one or more links that cannot be updated". You get ...
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virus infection & task manager [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
For some time, my Task Manager is greyed out when I right click on the taskbar. It's even not shown in the ...
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How can I disable the click-to-minimize feature of the Windows 7 Taskbar?
I routinely have several instances of the same program open at once and I don't have grouping turned on in the taskbar. I switch between them quite frequently for my work.
The problem is when I ...
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How to Disable Microphone in a Secure Fashion?
Like most laptops my laptop has a built in microphone. I don't use it for anything, so I consider it a bit of a liability. Due to the fact that I'm paranoid and don't want this hardware to be used to ...
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Disable Sounds in 10.5 and 10.6
I need to disable "Play user interface sound effects" and "Play feedback when volume is changed" in the Sound pref.pane via terminal/unix command/ARD on multiple computers.
fseventer shows ...
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Disable remote mail in exim
i am a web developer and have exim4 installed on my dev box, recently i needed to send a scripted email to a few project managers and so got exim heavy and all that setup which went well. Now i'm back ...
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Windows Defender shows GUI at PC start up
I am running Windows 7 64 bit on my PC. For a few weeks now, when I boot up my PC, the Windows Defender interface displays and I have to close it with the x each time. Even if I disable Defender, I ...
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Need solution to disable the taskbar at login
Is there a registry hack to prevent ruuning programs from appearing in the taskbar, or to disable and lock the taskbar at startup?
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How to disable click on touch pad?
I have a laptop with a touch pad running Windows 7 for HP EliteBook 8730w. I find it really annoying that it takes clicks from the touch pad surface.
How can I disable clicks originating from the ...
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How to disable outgoing SMTP server for certain Outlook accounts?
In my Outlook 2007 I setup Internet mail accounts for several e-mail providers. I use only one of them (default) for sending, while all others are just for receiving. When I check for e-mails, ...
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Disable touchpad on tablet
I use a tablet PC and I use the touch screen for navigating, so I would like to permanently disable the touchpad on the laptop. I've tried a few things but nothing seems to work.
I've tried ...
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How can I disable these Windows-specific ports?
Let's see what ports are opened by which processes, taking those that are specific to Windows itself:
C:\Windows\system32>netstat -anb
Active Connections
Proto Local Address Foreign ...
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Is there any way to reset the SMART data of hard disks?
I want to reset the "worst" case of the SMART's read error rate (currently at 100/max). The reason is simple: I don't want to be hassled by (1) the "press F1 to continue" for the error message at ...
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How can Win+P be disabled in Windows 7?
I have already disabled the Win-key hotkeys with NoWinKeys as well as the Win+Arrow keys in the DWM. However Win+P, the hotkey for the projector settings (which I don’t use anyway because I have a ...
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Disable or sleep secondary hard drive in Macbook
I've done some quick Googling but didn't find an answer. I've put an SSD in my Macbook, and at the same time moved the original hard drive to the optical drive bay. I'm running the OS and most of my ...
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Windows 7 - How do you disable error message pop-ups?
I have a Windows 7 machine that is constantly running test scripts. Services will occasionally fail and throw an error dialogue that I won't be around to attend to. These stack up over time and I ...
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How to disable Windows File Protection in Windows XP?
Is it possible to disable the Windows File Protection in Windows XP SP2 or above?
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Windows 7: How to disable auto-maximize/resize window (aero-snap) when near screen edge?
Whenever I drag or resize a window near any edge or corner of either monitor, Windows wants to maximize or resize the window for me in several different ways:
dragging a window near a corner offers ...
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Disable Chrome search on invalid urls
How can I prevent Chome/Chomium from searching via the address bar unless I explicitly start with "?" or any other keyword?
I'm trying to avoid searches where I'd rather have an error message stating ...
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ACPI disabled from BIOS causes a restart loop
I tried to disable the ACPI feature from BIOS, but it seems the machine enters a restart loop after I do that. It always restarts itself right before the system boot begins. Any ideas?
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disable headphone jack in Vista
I have a Dell Studio XPS 1645 laptop, it has 1 microphone and 2 headphone jacks.
Problem is, one of the headphone jacks has became faulty and Windows thinks it's constantly in use, thus I can only ...
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Disable GNU Screen “Special Terminal Capabilities” function?
I would like to disable SPECIAL TERMINAL CAPABILITIES of GNU screen. How do I do it?
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Disable .NET in windows XP without deleting it?
I want to disable all .net come with windows but without uninstalling it.
There is aspnet_regiis.exe -u for some version, but how can I disable all versions and then re enable them?
Also, how can I ...
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Disable streaming of Video and audio on a Linksys WRTP54G Router
Is there a way to disable a Linksys WRTP54G router so that users CAN NOT stream audio or video. I only want them to be able to send/receive emails and upload or download pictures within emails.
