Questions tagged [windows]
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Good PIM for Windows and BlackBerry?
I'm looking for a good Personal Information Manager for Windows that can sync up with a BlackBerry (8520).
Here are some requirements I came up with:
Tasks with no due date must be carried forward ...
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How to search and copy emails from a large (15 GB) Exchange 2003 mailbox?
I have a request from our legal team to search a user's mailbox. The mailbox is 15 GB in size and it is on Exchange 2003. I am trying to use Windows Search and Google Desktop. I have gotten them to ...
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How to force a screen resolution which isn't listed in Windows 10?
I am using two 27" screens with a native resolution of 2560x1440.
All of a sudden, something happened that made one of the screens' max resolution be 2048x1080.
The higher resolution can't be ...
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How to list stored samba shares credentials in Windows10
I have a samba share on my NAS and mounted it in Windows-10 for a couple of days.
Then I removed the share on Windows, however it is still trying to access it - but with incorrect credentials. I know ...
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Whats the fastest way to perform MANY transfers of files from my Windows 10 PC to my iPhone 13 Pro?
I need to transfer 1 single file at a time at various different parts of the day every day from my Windows 10 PC to my iPhone 13 Pro. I am creating a sound file and I need to hear how it will sound ...
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Windows Network Drive Access is Slow From MacOS using SMB
I can't seem to wrap my head around an issue I've been having with this so I thought it'd be a good idea to drop it here in case someone else has run into this problem in the past, or will eventually ...
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Does the xcopy command on Windows provide a safe means of backing up data?
I recently backed up the data on my computer, using the xcopy command. I briefly looked through some of my backup files and directories, and they looked the same as the originals. However, I ...
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Windows: blurry texts?
I had to reinstall Windows and now labels usually blurry compared to my earlier system.
Also it seems to have problems generating windows correctly, see this below image for demo:
Corner of titlebar ...
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Is there any relation between batchfile vs batch job?
Here's what I think I know:
Batchfile is the filetype of shell scripts in Windows.
A batch job is not interactive, you start it and then watch it do its business but it doesn't check in with you.
Am I ...
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(Code 38) USB devices working only once after every startup. Windows 10
I have a Lenovo laptop with Windows 10 that's having problems with USB devices and shows the following device status:
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous ...
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How to recover edge passwords from SSD
I have my SSD from my broken PC, I bought an adapter so I can plug it into my new PC via usb-c. How would I go about recovering my passwords from edge on my old SSD?
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Windows 10 login screen not behaving like it normally does. Cannot login to account
When windows 10 starts up I'm greeted with the normal picturesque landscape image with clock and network icon but when I try to click or ESC to enter password the screen will flash and go right back ...
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Disabling Real Time Protection in Windows 10 by a PowerShell
I'm trying to disable Real Time Protection in Windows 10 by a PowerShell. So far I tried Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring $true and sc stop WinDefend, none of them 2 is working. Is there ...
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Start Menu and Search malfunctioning?
I noticed this randomly start happening on my laptop yesterday, where for some reason, when I open the start menu or search, it starts acting like the up arrow key is being help down:
I have no ...
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What is "Access work or school" in Windows?
Windows 10 has a feature "Access work or school". What is it good for and how do I use it?
I know how to get rid of it (disconnect), I know how to connect (which prevents me from controlling ...
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How can I get macOS like window edge to edge alignment in Windows 10?
Is there any utilities to get this windows behaviour in Windows 10? That's I'm talking about
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zip2john not working in latest windows Openwall distribution
I just downloaded 1.9.0-jumbo-1 64-bit Windows binaries from openwall.com. I added everything to the PATH and everything was running smoothly, until I tried to run zip2john.exe from the CMD: the ...
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how to repair windows 10 installation that I can't boot into using another installation on another partition
I have an installation of windows 10 on c: and another on d:. I'm unable to boot into the one on d: and would like to recover it with apps and stuff so I can forego the hassle of reinstalling apps, ...
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C drive full after reinstalling Windows
So i've used the windows 7 usb/dvd download tool and added a windows 8.1 iso to it, it downloaded the things to the usb and I booted the computer, went to the bios configured the booting, and after ...
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Best way to upgrade Windows from v. 10.0.14393
What's the best / quickest way to upgrade Windows from Version 10.0.14393 LTSC to a more recent one ?
Windows Update app says I'm up to date.
Thanks!
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Taskkill with windowtitle filter from scheduled task
Consider the following batch file:
taskkill /IM calc.exe /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq Rechner" > C:\test.txt 2>&1
When I start a calculator (it has the window title Rechner in German) and run this ...
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Java uninstalling itself Windows 7
I have two applications running with java (Java 1.7.0 upd 17 and Java 1.8.0 upd 25) on several clients. From yesterday to today I am receiving several tickets about Java being automatically ...
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Anaconda3 Blocked by Group Policy on Windows 10
I'm trying to get Anaconda3 to run in a Windows domain environment. We use Applocker to restrict what can be run. I'm guessing that since Anaconda doesn't install to Program Files or Program Files (...
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How can I remove a square button in the Network center on the task bar on Windows 10?
I want to remove square buttons I don't use so there is no chance for me to occasionally click on them. I can easily do it with the notification center but don't see how it is possible with the ...
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My Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit OS put password itself
I sat in my chair to use my computer, and when I started Windows OS, I noticed that Windows set a password by itself and I'm sure that I have not set any password before.
Okay, let's have a look the ...
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Remotely CD to current logged in user
I currently have a script that uses the following to run the main batch file using a remote CMD application:
cd c:/remoteinstallers & ME_Unavailable_Fix
However when running this remotely it ...
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Windows 10 1903 Intel wireless Bluetooth loses connection after few minutes
I just updated to Windows 10 1903 and since then I've been having issues with my Bluetooth mouse connection. It will work fine for between 3-7 minutes (sometimes longer) then just stop responding. ...
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How to have RDP work right after rebooting?
I have a Windows machine which I run headless (no monitor or keyboard). I control it by Remote Desktop. But whenever it reboots (for Windows updates and such), the RDP won't work until I log in ...
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The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
Occasionally I have this message in the regular screen output of one of my runs via a CMD script:
"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."
I know I can use ...
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Is System Reserved a special type partition? If yes, how can I create one?
I recently moved from an old laptop to new but had to merge two hard disks into one. Old laptop had small SSD and a HDD. However the new laptop had SSD only.
So I tried cloning the old SSD disk, and ...
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How much data is included in Disc Image?
Does creating a Windows disk image copy the entire disk, or just the data contained within the OS, plus user data? That is, only the bits on the disk that are referenced by the master file table (if ...
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Can't change CUBE_MAX_DIM Postgresql
I have a problem with Postgresql
I'm truying to change max dim of cube extention
The official guide of Postgresql:
"To make it harder for people to break things, there is a limit of 100 on the number ...
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How to create Unreachable routes (IPv4 and IPv6) in Windows?
I need to set some rules to block network traffic, both IPv4 and IPv6. The routes should be a blackhole or unrecheable depending on the case. In Linux and MacOSX seems simple, there are specific ...
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Installing Adobe CC 2019 on Windows 10 LTSB 2016 without upgrading
i am a happy Windows LTSB 2016 user and I am not willing to upgrade it. However Adobe wants me to upgrade my OS in order to install their newest Adobe Products. Is there any Fix/Bypass to get around ...
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Prevent Windows from creating $RECYCLE.BIN folder on Samba share
Browsing a Samba share on a Windows machine, I notice after a short while that it has created a $RECYCLE.BIN folder in within the network share, usually containing a single desktop.ini file. How do I ...
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Video playback is cut - GPU RX 560
I built a PC with this configuration:
ASRock B450M Pro4
Ryzen 5 2600
RX 560 OC 2 GB
Windows 7
When I play video at 720p / 1080p / 4K / 8K, it cuts so terribly.
When I play the VLC video on a PC, it ...
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Cross Domain Windows Authentication "Allowed to Authenticate" not working
We have couple of websites which is working on different servers and all are internally connected with the LAN. All websites are using windows authentication.
Now I would like to use Single Sign ON ...
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Prohibit shutdown /s /t 123 forcible closing of hanged programs?
When time come, shutdown will try close apps, waits about 10 seconds, then terminates all apps(Photoshop for example). I need make it to wait forever, or, better, for very long time(~1 day) and after ...
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How to disable SHIFT modifer for NUMPAD keys?
Is there a way to disable shift modifer on numpad on Windows 10?
In some games, I use SHIFT|CTRL|ALT modifiers and on the numpad it automatically switch to LEFT (SHIFT + NUM4), RIGHT (SHIFT + NUM 6) ...
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Reinstalling Windows 10, now getting "An operating system wasn't found. Try disconnecting any drives that don't contain an operating system"
Today I decided to add another SSD to my system and reinstall Windows 10 on that drive. I created the Windows 10 installation media (disc) and then inserted it, restarted my computer and then went ...
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How to bypass NTFS file permissions?
Recently I had permissions problems with Windows Search, then I run Permissions Time Machine to restore the permissions to default (according this topic)
After this, I receive a blue screen on ...
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Cannot write changes to hosts file at Windows 7 by GVIM
I removed read only permission from C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file and file is not hidden. I belong to Administrator group at Windows 7 system.
When I open file in gvim without ...
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Unable to install Windows Store apps
I'm unable to install any apps from the Windows Store. When installing apps I am just presented with the following error:
Code: 0x80070005
I so far have tried all the fixes listed in the link below ...
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Cannot access Apache website within VMware Virtual Machine
I installed a Bitnami image of ownCloud in my Windows 10 host. The image itself is a Debian 8 distro, which I run in VMware player with bridged mode networking.
Everything works fine in my LAN; the ...
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Creating Bootable Windows 10 USB
I'm trying to create a bootable USB to install Windows 10. Using these steps:
Format USB using Diskpart:
select disk 1
clean
create part primary
select part 1
format fs=ntfs quick
active
I then ...
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Poor sync between Windows 10 and Google Calendar
I added the Google account into my Windows 10 cal app and everything's going mostly smoothly, except not.
For instance, I'd add two entries for the same day in the Windows 10 cal. I obviously expect ...
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Where is a directory that will delete it's files on shutdown in Windows 10?
In Unix-like systems, generally /tmp is wiped on shutdown (there are some exceptions to this, but most of the time you can rely on this).
Is there a directory in Windows 10 that can guarantee this ...
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Windows batch, How to rename a directory to date and time with seconds
Windows batch,
How to rename a directory to date and time with seconds
Current drive and directory is S:\1 = a backup.
via batch, How to automate, How to rename a directory, not a file?
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Windows 10 Taskbar JumpList Issue, Not working
Issue: I'm having trouble with the Taskbar and Windows Explorer. I right-click on Notepad (that I've pinned to my "taskbar"), I try opening a previously pinned file (or recently used in the list that ...
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Unlock encrypted partions per user account with Bitlocker
I am using a Laptop and have encrypted the system partition, with Bitlocker, so that every user can use it after boot, which works. But I would also like to have multiple partitions (one per user), ...
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