Questions tagged [windows-8]
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Windows's notification area showing a lot of icons
I used to have just a small amount of icons in the notification area, now I have lot. It's as if it shows every program running. I don't want this, but I cannot find a way to remove all the ...
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How to prevent automatic reboot [closed]
System updates are good and one should not avoid them. Company policy do address that.
There are couple of computers that shall disobey such rule for a damn good reason.
Is there a way how to ...
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Is there any possibility to create profiles of displays interdependence in Windows 8.1
I have 3 displays. I use 2 of them always in normal horisontal (landscape) orientation, but I use the 3rd display sometimes in horisontal (landscape) and sometimes in vertical (portrait) orientaion.
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How can I prevent Windows responding to a mouse media button?
Background: I broke two fingers on my right hand recently, and have mallet splints on them.
My mouse has a couple of media buttons on them for email and internet:
Right beside my temporarily-...
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In Windows 8, can you disable the new network connections sidebar and restore the classic connection dialog?
Windows 8 introduced a sidebar for connecting to network connections such as VPNs, as shown in the screenshot below.
Is it possible to get rid of this sidebar and restore the normal Windows 7 style ...
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move boot manager to the hard drive with installed windows
I've got Windows 8 installed on SSD.
For some reason Windows Boot Manager is located on a separate HDD. I am not sure why it happened though.
Is there a way to bring boot manager to SSD?
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How to use .bat to open default program?
Is it possible (using cmd or .bat) to automatically open a text file using the default Windows application?
For example, when opening a .html file, if Chrome is my default browser, the .html will ...
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How to make system restore point that will not be deleted after newer points created?
I use Windows 8.1
System restore deletes old point when creates a new one. I want to manually create a new point that will not be deleted after the creation of newer points. How to do that?
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I can connect to VPN using openvpn but I can't get internet
I cannot ping google.com or bing.com while connected to my VPN or access any website. I can connect to my VPN, but I do not have internet access while connected.
Below is what I have tried
Disabling ...
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Document smears as I scroll in Acrobat Reader DC
Whenever I open a file in Acrobat Reader DC (Windows 8.1), everything starts fine with no errors, except that the document doesn't actually display--it's just a blank white space in the area where the ...
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Windows Audio service not working
My audio stopped working recently. There were no particular events that could have prompted this (maybe an automatic OS update).
I'm running Windows 8.1 on a Dell Inspiron.
Initial error message
At ...
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Windows 8 High System Memory Usage
My problem seems simple. My computer is using more physical memory than is actually accounted for in the sum of my programs.
!(Running windows 8.1, latest patches)
I use 7.5 GB. Total usage is 12GB....
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Microsoft Remote Desktop only works with public ip
I'm having a weird issue. When I attempt to RDP into my server using it's local ip(192.168.0.30) my RDP client gets stuck on "Negotiating Credentials". If I use my public/internet ip (port 3389 ...
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My laptop hangs when my battery charge drains to 10%
My laptop (Dell Precision M4700) running with Windows 8.1 hangs when the battery charge drains to 10%, so I have to turn off my laptop by pushing the power button.
After restarting it still hangs as ...
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Windows default dpi?
The default dpi setting on my windows 7 laptop is set to 125%.
I know there was a time (and you still can see a lot of screenshots where this is proven) when 100% was the default windows (7) setting:
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System cannot execute the specified program/"cpuminer-64 is not recognized as an internal operable program or batch file"
I downloaded a program off the Internet and am trying to run it in Command Prompt. However, Windows says, "The system cannot execute the specified program." I'm not sure why this is happening, because ...
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Frequent BSODs cause Ethernet connectivity problems
I have an ongoing issue with frequent and random BSODs, but I’m waiting until I can try to analyze the minidumps to either identify the fault or ask for assistance on that issue. In the meantime, I ...
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Windows 8/10 DNS issues browser - ping - nslookup
I know it has been asked before, but to date, I've not been able to find a final working solution (which keeps working) because on very rare occasions, it all works, but after a reboot it is back to ...
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False Drive Partition in Windows 8 - How to Delete?
All on a sudden my Windows explorer became slower and taking more than 5 mins(sometime 10 mins too) to open properly. But I noticed some false hard drive partitions auto created and when I click any ...
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Laptop PC stuck at startup, formatted, now data unrecoverable, looks encrypted
Someone asked me to recover data from a laptop computer (Sony Vaio), after a Windows reinstall (Windows 8) through the startup recovery procedure.
Prior to that, the computer was malfunctioning : it ...
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Reinstalling Win10 to different hard drive - How do I activate? [duplicate]
After letting my PC get old for 7 years, I'm thinking about upgrading and moving to an SSD drive. I'm concerned about re-installing Windows 10 though. Back in the day it used to be simple: You went to ...
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Unable to boot Ubuntu on boot
I have a dual boot system (Windows 8 and Ubuntu 16.04), I successfully install Ubuntu and then powered down and restarted my system, But on boot the Grub doesn’t load and it straight away boots to ...
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Windows undo software uninstall
Is there any possible way, a solution to undo uninstall of software in Windows 7, 8 or 10?
Maybe some software that allows this functionality?
For instance: I installed OpenOffice and then ...
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Find Windows DNS info?
It's possible to change the DNS server using Control Panel and cmd, but is there a file which contains the DNS IP addresses?
Can we manually modify the DNS IPs using a notepad or something?
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Microsoft Windows taskbar bug [duplicate]
There has been very strange bug in every version on of Windows from 7 to 10 (Windows 7/8/8.1/10). I have been trying to google it for seven years without success because I don't know how to explain it ...
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Can I swap harddrives with identical laptop, and different operating systems
My laptop had coffee spilled on it. After cleaning it up with alcohol, everything seems to work fine besides for some keys on the keyboard (which was replaced after the spill) The technician in ...
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Opening Windows console application in new window using shortcut key
If I create a Windows 8 shortcut for a console application and set a shortcut key (cf. the screenshot below), then using that shortcut while the application is already open will not open the ...
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Creating multiple folders ending with iterative numbers (Windows 8)
So I'm trying to create 60 folders with a name and different numbers at the end iteratively. So like Name_1, Name_2, Name_3, ect. Without typing out all 60 names. I found this link
How to batch ...
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VirtualBox to share clipboard and files
I use VirtualBox 5.2.6 on Windows 10. There is an Ubuntu virtual machine, from which I would like to access to host's clipboard and files.
I tried to use
Machine>Settings >> General>Advanced>...
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Bootcamp High Sierra Upgrade can't boot Windows
Having some confusion regarding which instructions to follow to fix an issue I'm having with my Bootcamp Installation.
I've had a copy of Windows 8 (not 8.1) installed for a quite a long time which ...
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Windows 8 - How can I make a shortcut to My Documents that opens with the full path, instead of the default shortened User-folder path?
I'm getting strange behavior when I access My Documents via navigation from My Computer, versus accessing it from a shortcut.
When I open My Computer and navigate to C:\Users\Foobar\Documents\, the ...
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Kernel-Power error (41) without anything wrong
I'm using Windows 8.1 and after reboot/power on, I see Kernel-Power error (Event ID 41) on Event Viewer. It doesn't cause anything to happen for more than 2 years, no sudden reboots etc. but I wonder ...
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How can I tell what version of Windows came on my laptop
My laptop is HP and its serial is CND5195Z2X and product number is M9V08PA#CJ,
I want to check with which version I had when I bought the laptop?
Is there any way to do so?
Thank you for your reply :)
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Scp from Linux to windows using freeSSHd
I need to run a script on my linux machine to be able to run a few commands on my windows server VM. One of these commands include scp and am having some difficulty with it.
I have installed freeSSHd ...
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Laptop only boots windows
I have a Lenovo Z585 and I want to replace the hard drive and install KDE Neon on it. I have tried putting in the new drive and it will not boot from a USB. The only working way to access the bios is ...
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How do you remove a default application for srt files? windows 8
I have my srt. file set to open up as Windows Media Player, but I want to remove it because I can't add subtitles to my movies because of that.
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Format original Windows 8 OS and setup dual OS
I have original windows 8 OS in my system. Now I just want to format my system. I need it to be fresh as when I freshly installed it as when I bought it with OS, and also need to setup dual boot ...
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The start up menu doesnt work in Windows 8
Every time there is an update, it somehow screws up the setting on my laptop. Now I cannot see any of the Apps and the Start menu doesn't work
Firstly, please advise if it is absolutely necessary to ...
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Automatic Login with wrong password on windows 8
This morning I was forced to change my password on my Windows 8 laptop. Since then my Active Directory gets locked within seconds after login.
To me this looks like there's some nasty software that ...
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Folder permissions on shared NTFS media partition
My HDD has a NTFS media partition shared between Win and Linux partitions.
When my bittorrent client on Windows 8.1 (Tribler) is set to save files in the Downloads folder located on that partition ...
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How do I format all partitions on the only disk, when only Win 8 Pro is installed?
The PC will be given away, but it should be reduced to a clean and empty disk without any OS on it, with a user in mind who is possibly interested in recovering confidential data.
The PC was reset to ...
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Steps for (re-)installing Windows 8 (or 8.1) on an OEM laptop
I have to reinstall an Asus laptop with Windows 8 sticker.
It doesn't have a license key sticker, and I assume that the key was stored in the BIOS. The OS had probably be upgraded to Windows 8.1 or 10 ...
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How can I prevent Windows 8.1 from reinstalling Metro applications automatically every time I create a new local user account?
I am working for a programming company as a IT Technician. Every time an employee quits, resetting the computers to their factory default is my responsibility. After resetting and do some required ...
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Is there a way to get a genuine windows 8 key anymore?
My computer isn't suitable for windows 10, and it would work on windows 8. On the windows store, only windows 10 seems to be available. I'm sure there must be some way to acquire Windows 8, as surely ...
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Can't use the "Run" (Win + R) Mirror
It just happened today, without anything that I did. When pressing for example the H key, will return me a lot of http sites I visited. Something automatically presses ↑. When there is no list ...
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How to start/restart the remote desktop service on windows 8?
As I understand it there is a remote desktop service that should be listening on port 3389, which should be visibile using this command: netstat -ano | findstr 3389. How do I start or restart it in ...
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Shrinking Disk - safe to delete LocationProvider folder?
I currently have a 600GB partition on my HDD, which has 100GB used. I want to shrink it down to 200GB, however when I try to do so, the "unmovable file" error comes up.
Using Application Logs, I have ...
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My ASUS UX32VD laptop's recovery partition doesn't work
After HDD swap (on Windows 10) the recovery partition doesn't work.
I would like to get the contents of the "Recovery" and "Restore" partitions.
(Came from the factory with Windows 8.)
(I swapped ...
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Missing file properties in windows-explorer
I have a 3 laptops (two WIN10 and one WIN8) and 1 external hard drive.
All of them have the license activated.
The problem is only on the laptop with WIN8:
when I plug in the external hard drive, I'm ...
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Gpg4win download integrity check
I just downloaded gpg4win onto Windows 8.
I wanted to check the integrity, and apparently you can do so with certutil. So I navigated to my downloads folder and typed:
C:\Users\xxx\Downloads> ...
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