Microsoft Windows is the most widely used family of operating systems in the world. The most recent client version, Windows 7, was released in mid-2009. Both standard Windows and Server versions are based on the same core code base. In addition, a mobile version of Windows is available for ...
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Excel 2002 won't activate
I installed Excel 2002 on my Windows 7 machine and activated it. I then uninstalled Excel 2002 and installed the Office 2010 trial to see if it's worth paying for the upgrade (I don't like it btw). I ...
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How to unload a Windows driver?
I'm looking for a cmd-line solution to stop a Windows driver that I had installed manually.
The installing procedure was the following:
sc create MyDrv type= kernel start= demand binPath= ...
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Choppy playback over network from one machine but not the others
I am suddenly experiencing very choppy/laggy playback from my laptop when streaming video over the local network. This is from my new server (Win 2008 R2), from the old server (also Win 2008 R2) there ...
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Microsoft Windows Licensing, transferring from old to “complete” new PC
In an question i asked, it seems that one phone call will help to transfer the licensed copy of windows to the replaced hardware
Microsoft Windows Licensing, Validity/transferring between ...
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Disable Drag-&-Drop in Windows Explorer (left column only)
I'd like to disable drag-and-drop in Windows Explorer but only on when the source is the left column (directory tree), however.
Better still, I'd like to enable drag-&-drop ONLY when I'm dragging ...
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How to rename and move files to new directory
I would like to rename a file that is uploaded to another server from extension .txt to .txt_mvd and move to a different directory for archiving in a Windows batch mode. Can anyone help with what the ...
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Will Windows notify me if there is a S.M.A.R.T warning?
If there are S.M.A.R.T. warnings, will Windows (7, 2008 Server) notify me that the disk may die soon? Or do I need to install some 3rd party notification software?
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Variable Names Between Called Batch Files
Let's say I have two batch files, foo.bat and bar.bat, that are located like so:
root\foo.bat
root\grub\bar.bat
Let's also say that both files contain a line that sets a variable, like so:
set ...
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Microsoft Windows Licensing, Validity/transferring between burnt/working MOTHER-BOARDS
I would like to license copy of WINDOWS XP and WINDOWS 7 for four to five PC's
From what I understand there are many ways shown on Microsoft site for Volume Licensing, but I am interested in ...
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Get ALL certificates installed in a Windows 2003 box
It seems that one of our Servers has a certificate that has expired, unfortunately we cannot find it, in other words, it's not in the local machine store or any of the personal stores of any of the ...
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Slow resume from standby in Windows 7 64-bit
I have a Lenovo W520 with 10GB of RAM with a super fast SSD drive. The computer cold boots in about 20 seconds, but takes more than 40 seconds to resume from hibernation.
I looked into the event ...
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Software for making a backup of a offline harddisk
As a computer technician, I'm allways on the search for software which can make my work a little faster and more efficient.
Does anyone know software to make a backup of a mounted drive (as in ...
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Tracking I/O Operations
On a Windows PC (specifically Windows 7, in this case), is there a method or tool that can be used to track / monitor the I/O operations being performed on the machine? Perhaps something similar to ...
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What are some optimal Windows 7 settings for maximizing a graphics card benchmark test?
I am using the HWBOT site to submit benchmarks. I have had some success with CPU benchmarking, achieving a hardware rank of #1 for my specific hardware in SuperPI 1M and #3 for SuperP! 32M.
However, ...
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Tethering with same IP address
Our university (school) has a limitation that one can only connect to their network using one device per student. It has been put in place because of the poor connectivity here (I'm in South Africa). ...
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Change my Asus fn+F4 key
My fn+F4 key is the internet browser, and it is set to be internet explore. I want to make it to be chrome, is that possible to do it?
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How to retrieve the list of computer shutdown timing for Windows OS?
Is it possible to retrieve the list of shutdown timing (regardless if it is shut down by the computer or by the user) for a Windows OS XP and up via command prompt or software or anything?
For ...
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How can I control the order of files in a ZIP archive?
There are times when it is necessary for the files in a ZIP archive to be in a specific order (for example, I'm currently creating EPUBs, which require that the first entry in the ZIP be the mimetype ...
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How to select radio buttons by cell value in Excel?
I have a group of radio buttons with labels in adjacent cells. How can I arrange for the radio button with the label matching a target cell value to activate?
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Windows 7: Mapping a key to something that is not on the keyboard
I want to map Fn+F2 to < and Fn+F3 to >, and leave all remaining keys intact. And by mapping I mean so that it will actually type those keys, and not just pretend I typed the key labeled <.
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A program to remove audio segments from a movie
I have a video file, and want to remove the audio from one segment of the movie.
Do you know a free software, preferably for Windows, that can do that?
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What's the difference between - CSV (MS-Dos), CSV (Macintosh), CSV (comma delimited)
What's the difference between - CSV (MS-Dos), CSV (Macintosh), CSV (comma delimited) file types in excel 2010? They are all listed as a save file type, but ultimately are Comma Separated Value files.
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syncing files on different machines [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Syncing Tool Between 2 Folders
How do you sync files in a two different folders, on two different computers, on the same network, so that when one is added or updated to ...
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Prevent Windows 7 User Accounts from accessing files in other User Accounts
I'm trying to set up another User Account on my Windows 7 Professional laptop for use by another person. I do not want that person to have access to any of the files in my User Account on the same ...
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Why does folder redirection remain even after removing roaming profile and redirection settings?
So, I create a share. I create a folder called profiles. I set user profile path in AD to said share for two users: user1 and user2 in this case. I log on to a machine using user1 account. When I log ...
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Restrict access to USB ports in Windows 7 Basic
How can I restrict access to USB ports in Windows 7 Basic to administrators only?
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Dropbox Install Pop-up on Windows 7 restart
How can I turn off the Dropbox Install pop up that occurs every time I restart Windows 7? It is already installed.
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Save search results
In the Directory Service Find dialog, I'm given the option to save my search, but not save the results. How can I save the results of the search?
Would it be easier to copy the directory, if my ...
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Windows 2008 modified page list bytes perf counter
we have a windows 2008 x64 system which is continually using all memory.
Looking at the process running I can see that none are consuming any more than they should be, nor trough analysing process ...
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using zfone in practice - how do i force gtalk to use SIP?
Recently i got a need for a fully encrypted and safe communications. Believe it or not - there is no simple solution.
Criteria for needed software include:
1. Encrypted 1 to 1 chats (text).
2. ...
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Can't boot Windows XP after putting HD into another RAID 1 PC
I have an existing Windows 7 system with RAID 1 set up on two HDDs.
I have a third HD from an old computer that has Windows XP Pro SP3 on it. I want to put this HD into the new computer so I can ...
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Does the command-line copy command work in 64-bit Windows?
I am automating a script which includes:
copy \\192.168.0.200\exportfiles\customersbysalesperson.csv %USERPROFILE%\Documents
The customer responded to me saying:
The PCO session A command ...
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Linux and Windows Dual Boot
I set up a dual-boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu Server 11.10. Everything works fine until I boot into Windows. After booting into Windows, the machine reboots when I select Linux from the grub menu. ...
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How can I copy a file on a network share using a different login with powershell or batch file?
I have a file in a shared location that I want to copy over to my local harddrive. However I will not be running as a user that has access to the share. So I want to be able to authenticate under a ...
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Page numbers in a PDF are off, how can I change them?
I have a digital edition of textbook I bought. The pages are numbered from 1 - 570.
As a result, when I search page 68, it shows page 51 as the first pages originally in the textbook aren't numbered ...
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Compute Sunlight or Shade
I have a 3D building (Google SketchUp, displayed in Google Earth (or Maps)).
Google earth has a feature to "show sunlight across a landscape". How do I show the building's shadow throughout the day? ...
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Windows drive letters for non-Latin languages
Windows uses characters A-Z for drive letters on English installations.
For languages with non-Latin character sets (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic etc), are letters A-Z still assigned to drives?
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rsync cygwin also hangs without ssh
I've been using rsync installed via cygwin on two Windows 7 PCs to sync my music and picture collection, but eventually it always stops transferring after some time. I've googled and it seems that ...
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How to remove Linux from my system without affecting Windows' bootloader?
I'm a Windows user. I tried to experiment with Linux and installed openSUSE on my system. I formatted a partition and installed Linux on that drive.
When I tried to remove Linux by formatting that ...
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Can I Start particular program with different language settings in Windows
I am using my windows with Turkish language as first choice. Non-Unicode programs also use Turkish language.
My particular program, Visual Studio 2005 (Business Intelligence Studio 2005) is behaving ...
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Taskmanager and memory usage
I'm a little bit confused about task manager and usage memory.
My question is:
the sum of all memory process is equal to physical memory used?
This is a picture of my task manager order by memory ...
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How to kill a particular tcp connection in windows?
On Linux we can kill an Established TCP Connection using tcpkill command.
For example, to drop all connection to/from a particular IP:
tcpkill host ipaddr
Or similary to kill all connection ...
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Windows font directory doesn't display all fonts installed
My Windows Fonts directory only displays 22 fonts, while i have around 1000 fonts installed. How do I unhide the remaining fonts?
When i view the fonts using BitStream Navigator I can view all fonts. ...
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Unable to connect to computer name other than for file sharing
I have a computer on my network at home called "shuttle" running Win XP Pro. I can connect to this machine's file shares by visiting \\shuttle and it works fine.
However, the machine also has a web ...
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Tray icon utility to track WAN IP address
I need small tray icon utility for windows which will track my internet (wan) ip address changes. I guess there should some freeware but I couldn't find any.
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Is there any freeware software to ghost a RAID 1 disk?
Where I can find freeware software to ghost a RAID 1 disk?
I installed Windows XP on a Dell server with a supported RAID card. I tried to ghost it using FOG project, but I think it doesn't support ...
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How to export multi-line cells to CSV file
I have an XSLX file where some rows have multiple lines, for example:
test
test1
test2
When I'm trying to export (using menu "Save As") this file as CSV or Excel workbook (1997-2003), Excel ...
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Perl Package Manager via NTLM proxy
I've installed ActivePerl and the include PPM at work, but I'm unable to get it connect to the module repository through the proxy. I've set up an environment variable
HTTP_PROXY = ...
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Hourglass flashes constantly in Word 2007, keyboard accepts no input
An hourglass flashes constantly as I type. When it's on, the keyboard accepts no input resulting in lots of typos. This does not occur in any other program. What's going on and how do I fix it?
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Is it possible to create an EBS AMI for windows EC2 instance? [migrated]
We have a Windows server (EBS backed) running in EC2. We make regular snapshots for data backups. I'd like to create a new EC2 instance from one of these snapshots.
Yes, I realise this is the same as ...
