Windows 7 is a graphical operating system by Microsoft, released on July 22, 2009.
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Certain running applications cause middle-click in firefox to function differently under Windows 7
If I have photoshop, vlc player, or even just the Windows task list open, when I middle click in firefox to get it to open in new tab (by depressing both buttons on my Lenovo g550 with alps touchpad), ...
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Blocked outgoing SMTP socket connection in Windows
I have a private email sending application (Windows), which sends email notifications over SMTP protocol. This might look like a code question for StackOverflow, but it is not. The application works ...
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Accept print jobs from serial port, spool to USB printer
I've got a USB printer (HP LaserJet 1018) connected to my Windows 7 desktop. I also have a USB infrared adapter (Actisys ACT-IR224UN-Li) which presents itself as a raw serial port, currently COM3.
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How do translated folders work ? How to create one?
I was wondering about one new feature in windows, which is the folder name translation.
For instance, as i'm french the folder C:\Program Files will appear as C:\Programmes for me
So my question : ...
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Adobe Reader X is displaying incorrect data
Recently in our organization we moved to Adobe Reader X 10.1.2. We have a web application that displays data in pdf format in IE8 on Windows 7 SP1 64-bit PC. We started observing that the same data is ...
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Windows removes its own drive from bios, but appears in Linux
I'm having a strange problem.
Some background:
I have two sata drives in this computer. The first one has a boot partition and two NTFS partitions (one Windows 7, one storage). The second drive has ...
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How to turn an intel wifi card into AP under Linux?
I have an intel wifi card using iwlwifi driver. I want to turn it into an AP (not only an ad-hoc) so that my phone can share its wired network.
I've searched the internet (including superuser.com), ...
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Windows 7 / Linux Dual Boot Chkdsk Everytime
I have a problem with a dual boot win7/linux system.
Every time I boot in Linux, and then boot into win7, I have the annoying problem of windows 7 running a check disk.
Initially I dismissed it as ...
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How to enable win7 to hibernate on multi-boot environment?
I run a HP DV6000 multi-boot environment with MacOSX, Ubuntu and Windows 7.
In Windows 7 I cannot hibernate. After a long research, I've found that my Windows 7 partition must be set as active to ...
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Location based windows theme
Is there any way to change your Windows theme depending on what network you join?
When i am connected to my home network, I would like to have all of my wallpapers on the slideshow (Windows 7) and my ...
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Windows 7 won't shutdown; Win7/Ubuntu dual-boot
I'm reposting this from askubuntu.com, as it was discussed fairly quickly that Ubuntu's presence on a separate partition was almost certainly NOT the problem, and as such this question wasn't ...
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Unable to move Desktop Files on Windows 7
Has anyone come across an issue while running on Windows 7 Professional on a domain, where all the sudden they can no longer move around any files on the desktop?
What's even more weird is when I try ...
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Using 2 independent network lines to assure twice reliable connection windows 7
I have a very unreliable 24M ADSL2+ connection and an iPhone4S with unlimited data and unlimited speed (5M where I live). Right now I can choose between a very unreliable but low ping and fast line or ...
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Windows Desktop 'ghost' rectangles
I use Windows 7 Ultimate (upgraded from Home Premium) on a 2011 HP desktop PC with 10 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX550Ti. All related drivers and software updates are installed.
For some time now, ...
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Solution to archive and search PDF files on a NAS
In my company we have a lot of customer information saved in .pdf files which are stored on a QNAP NAS.
I want to be able to do a quick search for information inside the .pdf, like Contract Numbers ...
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Scrolling makes VMware Player leave fullscreen
I am using the VMware Player which comes with Workstation 8 to run Mac OS X Lion for which I don't have trackpad drivers. Therefore, scrolling doesn't work, which is a pity but not my issue here (I do ...
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Windows 7: restore network drive connections after resume from hibernation automatically?
System: Windows 7 Pro x64
I've three network drives mapped (remote machine = Linux server) and mostly I put my Windows PC into hibernation rather then shutdown down every time.
When, after resuming, ...
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Windows 7 will not boot after sleep
As the title says. My PC with windows 7 will not boot up correctly after going into sleep mode and failing to wake up.
From what I can tell this is a common problem with the motherboard ASUS P6T ...
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Shutting down a Windows 7 machine sometimes restarts it instead
The machine in question is running Windows 7 (64 Bit) on a Core i5 with 8 GB of RAM with all Windows Updates applied. Not that the specs should make a difference.
Shutting down this machine from the ...
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Need help mounting device : mount -t ntfs-3g mount failed: No such device
I'm using ophcrack-vista-livecd-3.4.0.iso on Windows 7 to recover a password. When I tried using the software, I got a message saying "Tables Found" along with another message saying "No partition ...
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Error Downloading a File
I am attempting to download a file with Firefox and I see this error:
C:\Users\Lynda\Desktop\Sample.psd.zip.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.
Try again ...
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Creating file on disk partition gives 0x80070522
My Windows 7 is on sdd disk and I have hdd disk from old windows xp divided into several partitions. When I try to create a file on one of those partitions H:\ it gives me an error 0x80070522 "A ...
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PerfMon Counters missing
On my System (Win7 Ultimate x64, purchased & Installed in German(y), UI set to English), a lot of vital performance counters seem to be missing.
When starting perfmon, I get the following ...
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Internal Blu-Ray drive not recognized
This only just started happening yesterday, but when I put a BD disk into the drive and tried to do anything with it (just right clicking on the BD drive in Windows explorer), Windows explorer would ...
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HD5450 black screen after installing drivers
I just build a new HTPC-ish desktop computer and everything works fine until I install the ATI drivers for the videocard which is a Asus HD 5450 Silent 512MB DDR3 card.
The main issue is that I get a ...
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(solved) Email sent from a Thunderbird identity keeps the 'from' field of the original account
Summary: Emails sent from a Thunderbird identity I retain the 'from' address of the original gmail account.
Software: Windows 7. Thunderbird 14 (on a portable installation) w/google provider, ...
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IIS 7 http bindings option is missing
I'm having trouble figuring this out, the bindings option in my IIS is missing.
This is what I did before the problem.
Step 1. install Windows 7 Professional on a new hard drive.
Step 2. Install ...
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VMWare: Can't copy text from Ubuntu 12.04 guest to Windows7 host
I've got Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) running as a guest under VMWare 8.0.4 build-744019. The host is Windows7 sp1 (64-bit).
I can copy text from Ubuntu into Windows, but not back. VMWare tools is installed ...
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Touch gestures in IE not working without explorer.exe being run once
Edit: Rephrasing my question:
Upon further troubleshooting, I can conclude that:
Touch gestures (dragging, pinch to zoom, touch-and-hold right click) in Internet Explorer start to work when:
The ...
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How I can fix the “Display Driver has stopped responding and has recovered”?
I'm using a GeForce GTX 580, with Windows 7 64-bit. The driver version of the GTX is 301.42.
The problem happens after a few minutes, when I'm playing specifc games. It won't happen in all games - And ...
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Cannot Enable Integration Features on VPC on a Domain
Hi I'm running virtual Windows Vista within Windows 7 Pro. In order to do copy and paste between the two OS's I click Tools/Enable Integration Features in the VPC. It brings up a login box with: ...
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Prevent Parallels from dismounting data HDD when starting Windows
I've got two harddrives in my Macbook. A SSD with OSX and Windows 7 (via Bootcamp) on it and a ordinary HDD for data which is formated as exFat (because both OSX and Windows can read/write it).
I'm ...
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Trackpad and battery on stop working at same time
Gateway E-475M G
Windows 7 Professional SP1
Synaptics TouchPad 15.2.20.0
Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery 6.1.7600.16385
It seems that when my battery stops working correctly, my ...
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Windows 7 losing one of my displays after restart
I have an Intel DZ68BC motherboard with Intel HD graphics card using two monitors (on DVI and on HDMI » VGA). My friend asked me to test if his NVIDIA graphics card works well on my computer (at his ...
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Keyboard mapping program, different settings for different keyboards?
At work I have an Apple keyboard that a friend bought me. I used it for a long time on my desktop, but have recently switched to using my laptop for everything. On my desktop, I had long ago ...
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Remap eject-key in Boot Camp
I am running Windows 7 x64 on my MBP within Boot Camp. I would like to remap the eject key to work as a forward-delete and remove the delay from it.
On OS X this is easily achieved with ...
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Is it possible to use software raid in Windows 7 on the boot partition?
I want to use RAID 1 on my workstation configuration at work, and I've been looking at using the build in mirror functionality in Windows 7. When you click on the add mirror option it presents you ...
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Multiple HDMI Audio Devices in Windows 7
Question: How do I determine which audio capable display gets sound when I chose "HDMI Audio Device" from Playback Devices?
Desired End Result: A three monitor setup with a TV being a clone of one of ...
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Hibernate between OS X and Bootcamp Win 7
Is it possible to use the true hibernate system functionalities of Win 7 and OS X to create a kind of instant switching between the two? Imagine this when reading/writing the sleep images to a quick ...
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Rendering artifact when using Eclipse (FlashBuilder)
Once in a while when using FlashBuilder, I'll get a rendering artifact that doesn't go away until I do a full reboot. This artifact seems to be caused by a popup triggered by code documentation popups ...
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Is there a way to check if my monitor is switched on through a program?
I need to know if my monitor is switched on, through a program so i can check when i am using a system through a remote session.
I've been playing around with chrome remote access, and a few other ...
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Taskbar Window Order changing in Windows 7
In Windows 7, I have the “Never combine” option of the taskbar selected. (I'm using this hack to remove the text from the icons, but I dont think this has much of an impact on my issue.)
I tend to ...
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Using integrated webcam after updating for youcam software
My webcam doesn't work since 2 months ago.I tried to resolve the problem but I couldn't yet.
at first,I tried to update my webcam driver but I couldn't find the location of webcam.In my device ...
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Is there any way to reduce the timeout when accessing a network resource in Windows?
I have an app that needs to regularly (1 sec) read a file across the network. Occasionally, the network fails me, and the app can't read the file. Problem is, the app hangs for a very long time each ...
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How to change where flash caches video files?
When I watch videos on youtube or similar sites, flash saves the buffered video information to the disk. Unfortunately it saves it to drive c, which is very inconvenient for me. Is there any way for ...
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Can Windows Explorer be configured to “move” a file from temp rather than “copy”?
I ask a question a few days ago regarding the reason 7zip took so long perform a move on a large file after extraction.
After reading the FAQ, I discovered the issue was actually with Windows:
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How to setup Windows 7 per device Autoplay?
Autoplay works, but the devices are not listed in Control Panel - AutoPlay - Devices, thus I can't set it up per device. Tried two different PCs, USB sticks, USB harddisk, DVDs, nothing. In XP I could ...
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Pairing bluetooth mouse with two system on same computer
I have a Microsoft Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 paired to my notebook under Windows via Bluetooth. However I have a Linux installation as well (openSUSE 12.1) and I thought I could make that mouse work ...
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“Please Insert a Disk into Drive \Device\Harddisk1\…” when trying to use putty
I am trying to use putty, the ssh-client, on my W7 laptop. When I try to load or remove sessions, I get an error
Please Insert a Disk into Drive \Device\harddisk1\Dr6
with buttons Cancel, Try ...
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Is there a way to hide Share Folder size status on Windows 7?
I'd like to hide shared folders size status in users side. The status shows like this:
And this makes users to put more data's on the shared folders instead of using dedicated place's. Is there a ...
