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Remove Cold Fusion Tags from Word 2003 document
I'm trying to remove cold fusion tags in a Word 2003 document (converted from a Word 2007 document), and I used the instructions on this page
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284927
to do so. This ...
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Is There A Need To Safely Remove Device If “Quick Removal” Is Enabled?
i have been always ejecting devices from USB prior to removing them from computer and then i thought that if i have "Quick Removal" set, would i still need to eject? What could be the worst case if ...
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How to remove the registration completely after installing visual studio 2010 professional? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove registration information of VS 2010 from a computer without reinstall Windows
I need some help with uninstalling Visual Studio 2010 Professional ...
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Remove a folder inside a symlink
Having a symlink:
ln -s /var/www /media/Disk2/dropbox/www
How can I remove a folder from the symlink located at /media/Disk2/dropbox/www/test without afecting the main folder?
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How to remove URL embedded in PDF document? (dialog “the document is trying to connect to” appears)
I have an Adobe PDF document which when opened displays a warning dialog with the words "the document is trying to connect to" followed by a certain URL.
I choose the "Block" option to try to be ...
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How to delete binded port from cmd in Windows 7?
How to delete binded port in Windows 7 from cmd? I'm developing client server application which running on the port 3434 and also is binded on port 0.0.0.0. When I type in cmd netstat -an, I get this ...
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How to Remove Asus Panel to Access HDD and RAM?
I'm trying to install a SSD in my new ASUS U46E-BAL5 laptop [image below].
Problem I'm having is that I can't open the bottom side of the notebook to access the HDD. I've unscrewed every screw but ...
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How to keep Linux running after hard drive removal?
I am working on an embedded Linux device with a USB hard drive. There is a swap file on this drive. The hard drive may be powered down at any moment before being powered back on few seconds later. ...
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How to remove TuneUp Utiliies 2012 completely?
Having issue with TU 2012. Installed 2-3 months ago. Now when I try to uninstall from "add/remove programs" appearing following window
When I click yes, nothing happens, window doesn't dissapear
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how to remove write protection in memory card?
I have a 4 gb micro sd card ,now my memory card is not properly working and when i insert card into phone it shows card is write protected..
it even not recognised in system give me a helpful solution ...
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How do I temporary delete files with the command line?
I've tried to alias rm with rm='mv $1 /tmp/' to no avail.
How can I temporary delete files with the command line?
I want to replace the rm command with the mv command to not delete my files and ...
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How to remove Macrovision Software Updater for ever
I'm having trouble with this "Software Updater" in a couple of windows machines, which has malware-like behaviour. I kill the process, run an "oficial" uninstaller, delete the folders and still it ...
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Finding and fixing Blue Screens of Death (BSOD) on a damaged operating system from another OS [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
Last night I got a rootkit in my Windows 7. I think it's the gromozon rootkit (I'm not sure). After ...
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Reliable procedure/tool for removing print drivers in Windows 7 (domain environment)
One of the troubleshooting steps in resolving printer-related issues with any version of Windows is to remove installed print drivers and then reinstall the drivers. This is a domain environment and ...
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Want to clean Group Policy from my machine (Vista 64) before I update to Windows 7
On my way home from a visit to Virginia, I purchased a machine from Best Buy (a couple years ago). I didn't want them to put all the sales crap on the machine and it was the only one Dell left with a ...
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Mistakenly ran “sudo apt-get remove python” (system is not working in normal mode, is there any solution?)
By mistake I ran the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python
After this my PC is no longer working properly.
It shows graphics problem during restarting and every time it starts in Grub ...
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How can I remove a directory with rm - rf?
I try to remove a folder with
rm -rf foldername
… but it says
rm: cannot remove folder :is a directory.
What's wrong?
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how to remove mcafee.com from windows XP system
I have an Windows XP-32 system, running a (Cox-supplied) version of McAfee. That seems to work fine.
There is also for reasons I don't know (I inherited this computer) a version of McAfee.com here. ...
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How to unplug a network cable that's stuck?
I have plugged a network cable into my PC to temporarily adjust some settings on my router. Now I can't unplug it. The cable is physically stuck in the RJ45 port. I've tried squeezing every part of it ...
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How to remove files that start with a number and don't end with a letter?
I am doing some practice question off a text book and I ran into one thing that I cannot seem to solve. It wants us to remove all files that
start with a number and
end is not a letter
So I use ...
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Free registry removal tool?
Are there any free 'registry items' removal tools for Windows 7?
An example use case would be if I uninstalled a program and then wanted to delete any entries that contain the program name.
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How do I remove individual autofill suggestions from Google Chrome?
Sometimes, some things are better meant to be private and shouldn't be shown when others watch.
How can I remove individual auto-fill suggestions so that they don't re-appear?
I don't wish to remove ...
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How do I find out what opened the file I try to remove on Windows 2000 Server? [closed]
Possible Duplicates:
How do I delete a 'locked' file?
Tool to determine what has locked a file
While trying to remove an empty directory on Windows 2000, I am told that I can't do ...
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Problems with viewing programs in START > All Programs
I'm having some trouble with the All Programs menu, off the start menu.
I use Windows 7, and wrote a batch file to make several new text files in the folder:
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Removing some types of files recursively
I'm having some trouble with this command under bash in Ubuntu:
rm $(find . -name "*.exe")
My aim is to remove, recursively, all files ending in ".exe". But some files have white spaces and this ...
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Fink remove all packages
I switched to HomeBrew from Fink, and I want to uninstall Fink and all of the packages I installed with it to avoid problems in the future.
I found this perl snippet that should remove all pacages, ...
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Detection and removal of Trojan.Spyeye.AA [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What to do if my computer is infected by a virus or a malware?
I've found myself stuck with a keylogger that my firewall keeps reporting on startup/shutdown as ...
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Which programs are using my USB flash drive?
Sometimes when I follow the process to safely remove a USB flash drive, I get told that I can't remove the drive because some programs are using it. However I'm unable to tell which programs these ...
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Remove ALL NTFS ACL's except time stamps - for data migration
I am migrating some data (2TB) off of a Windows NTFS server file share to a Mac OS X file share. I need to strip all the NTFS permissions, except for the time stamps.
Any good scripts out there with ...
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How to remove the watermark on my desktop in test signing mode?
My Windows is in Test Signing mode and I want to keep it that way as I'm a developer.
However, is there a way that I can get rid of the
Test Mode
Windows 7
Build 7600
in the bottom right corner ...
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Windows 7: How to remove the test mode watermark on wallpaper?
After I restarted my computer, I find that Windows 7 has added a watermark to the wallpaper at the right bottom corner. It reads:
Test Mode
Windows 7
Build 7600
This is legal copy of Windows 7 and ...
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Removing iMesh from Internet Explorer
A while back I installed iMesh but then uninstalled it by going to Computer > Unistall or Change a Programme
But even now, when I open a new tab it takes me to the imesh search bar, and when typing a ...
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Can't remove Internet Explorer Add-On
I'm using IE8 on Windows 7. I'm trying to delete an add-on from my "Manage Add-ons" panel. But when I double click the add-on I'd like to delete, the "Remove" button is grayed out. Only the disable ...
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oracle removing error [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
how to Completely remove Oracle 11g from my computer ?
when i am trying to remove oracle service an error is coming that access denied.
i have logged in as admin user ...
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How to remove an URL protocol default handler
I'm working on an application which should handle particulr url types (liked ed2k for emule or magnet for torrent). Recently I decided to change this url type from abcd to a more speaking word. Using ...
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Removing installations done by “make install”
Is there anyway of removing files installed by running the command make
install?
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Can't remove certain fonts in Windows 7
We have an x64 Windows 7 professional machine on which some but not all fonts can not be removed. The problematic fonts in question are not system fonts or Microsoft Office fonts (I think, they ...
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App to watch installer and roll back host later?
I'm looking for a Windows application that can watch everything an install programs does to Windows, and can roll it back to what it was like before installing an application.
InCtrl5 is useful to ...
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How to remove comments in all files including in subdirectories?
to remove comments (start with # and /* comment */) in settings.php, below command is just works fine:
sed '/^\#/d' settings.php > outp.txt
mv outp.txt settings.php
sed '/\/\*/,/*\//d; /^\/\//d; ...
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Windows explorer or alternatives won't show fonts folder with over 24 000 files
[Windows 7, 64bit]
I downloaded a bunch of fonts a while ago. Without too much considering it, I installed 24 000 of them - which, obviously, resulted in many of my programs becoming very slow. I was ...
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Remove encryption from files on Windows 7
I m using windows 7 ultimate 32 bit and few months back it crashed for the unknown reasons...I tried to recover that problem through repairing up from the original DVD but nothing was useful so I ...
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Recursive rm with condition in Linux
I have the following folder structure:
parent
- folder1
- main1.x
- main1.y
- main1.z
- main1-626262.x
- main1-626263.x
- main1-626264.x
- main1-626265.x
- main1-626266.x
...
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How can I uninstall/remove Norton's changed settings on my Linksys Wireless router?
After Norton expired on a new pc, Linksys wireless router stopped sending wifi. Hard wired pcs connect but no wireless devices can. WLAN light won't come on anymore. Tried Norton'd removal tool but, ...
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Uninstall doesn't remove/delete program folder from Start menu
When I want to upgrade a installed program, usually it looks so that I first uninstall the old version and install the new version of program. Uninstalling a program is not successful entirely, it ...
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Allow reassignment of [Win] + [num+] or completely remove Magnifier on Windows 7
I'd like to use hotkey Win num + for my audioplayer but this combination is bound to Windows' Magnifier. Anyone have an idea how to fix it (unbind or completely remove magnifier)?
(This problem is ...
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Removing a very large folder (~40GB) with lots of files efficiently in linux
I'd like to remove a folder with lots of files (namely millions of) efficiently. When I issue rm -rf folder/ it takes hours and I have to kill it. I'm wondering whether there is a magical way of doing ...
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How to permanently remove the taskbar from Windows 7?
Is there a way to permanently remove the taskbar in Windows 7?
If so, what are the steps to do so?
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What are the most common folders for software to store data and information?
This question is closely linked with my previous question, so it may make more sense to read that first.
I want to remove all the personal data and software files from a friends computer so it can be ...
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What's the best way to completely remove everything from a computer, without re-installing?
I have a friend who wants to sell their computer, but obviously all personal information and software that it is on it needs to be removed before doing so.
Usually I would format and reinstall it, ...
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What files and/or directories can be removed from a Windows XP install without breaking anything?
This is after installation (I haven't got the option of nLite or similar tools to slim the install disc).
I'll be taking a hard disk image (using Norton Ghost running off a BartPE CD). To be exact, ...
