Issues not specific to a single version of Windows, otherwise tag appropriately
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how can I import my data from yahoo to gmail account [closed]
Now I do not use my yahoo account I have changed to g mail account
So how can I import from my yahoo account to g mail account.
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Windows 7 laptop keeps restarting if external hard drive isn't connected
My laptop restarts whenever I try to start Windows without my external HDD connected - after I log in an error message pops up (one of those 0x... errors) but it reboots before I can read what it ...
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Is there a program that visualize the volume of an audio file by time?
I have some recorded audio files of several nights of sleeping. I need to find out when there is snore sound. It will be much easy to visualize the audio by volume/time. Is there such a software?
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Is it possible to run Chrome with and without web security at the same time?
I recently found out that I can disable Chrome "web security" using a command line argument, making JavaScript development easier. The issue is that I can't seem to run more than one "instance" of ...
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Editing screenshots [closed]
After taking a screenshot of a big window, I'd like to cut out the middle part(s) and move the sides closer together, so it results in a smaller picture with only relevant details displayed.
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Can you tranfer files off the ipad with bluetooth?
Just curious if you can tranferfiles off the ipad with bluetooth? or do you have to buy a 3rd party add-on.
From google it made it sound like you needed a 3rd party app to do that.
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How can I create a Windows shared folder which requires absolutely no authentication to write data?
I want to create a folder on a domain joined Windows server (NTFS), which any user can generate logs files to. When I say any user, this may include built in Windows user accounts, and from any OS ...
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Pulling photos off an iPad
I don't work with or use Mac OS X as I am a Windows/Linux guy. But if I wanted to pull photos off of an iPad with my Windows laptop for someone, how would I do it?
Is it as simple and connecting to ...
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logical drive to primary boot partition
I have installed windows 7 and installed some software in it. Later in a different partition I have installed windows 7 hoping I will have dual boot, normally when I have done previously it worked ...
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What is the difference between the read-only attribute and the access control list read-only flag on Windows?
I'm looking for a technical answer, not a general answer, pertaining to how Windows actually handles these properties. For example, there are some programs that recognize the read-only attribute and ...
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Can you defrag an encrypted file system
I just encrypted my entire hard drive with truecrypt and was wondering can I still defrag it?
Or will that not work anymore or break something.
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Hitachi hard drive with apple firmware - possible to install Windows on?
My friend gave me a spare harddrive he had, a 320GB Hitachi HTS545032B9A302. I was hoping I could use this in place of my 70GB internal drive at home. However it says on the label that it has Apple ...
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Windows 7 Boots up fine in Safe mode with Network, Normal Bootup just shows black screen with cursor How to troubleshoot?
As the title says, I get a black screen with a cursor.
If I boot into safemode with networking, all is fine.
I've disabled all startup items in msconfig, but not sure what I should do next. Any ...
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Playing music through skype with a USB headset
I want to be able to play music through skype and listen to it at the same time, aswell as talk and hear others but i dont want any echo as i tried a process bu it ended up with everyone hearing an ...
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Is it possible to create a RAR from specific selected files inside another RAR?
So I have one RAR and I want to create another RAR from only the (let's say 10K) files inside that compressed archive without uncompressing it.
Hope this makes sense and thank you all in advance!
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How can I tell what is causing an hourglass/spinning circle to appear? [closed]
Under one account on this computer, a spinning circle appears constantly, which is odd. Anyway to tell what's causing this?
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Hard Drive Encryption
I have a new HP laptop 2540p and was wondering how hard is it to encrypt the whole hard drive?
Does it slow boot time? Does it make loading programs take longer?
You have to enter a password at boot ...
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How can I turn my current PC into a NAS device without losing the PC
Basically I want to know if there is a proper way that I can take my current desktop PC (custom built) and add 2 additional hard drives and have these 2 drives act as a NAS backup with raid, while ...
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When compressing a file on command prompt with RAR command, how to stop the process without cancelling it?
I used the following command:
rar a -m2 file.rar *.xml \\myroute\
I want to stop the process on the file that have already been processed i.e. using Ctrl + C will cancel the process but not finish ...
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Install GitHub for Windows through proxy
I'm trying to install GitHub for Windows. The problem is that I'm working through a proxy and the installation app don't let you change proxy settings.
Is there a workaround to change the proxy ...
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How do I update SMB/CIFS in windows / file sharing services?
OLD QUESTION:
From what I have read on the internet, windows uses "SAMBA" to share files over the network, right?
Lately I have been encountering a memory leak (LSASS.exe / security accounts manager ...
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Sending files to CentOS machine via ssh
I'm using ssh and connecting to a linux machine for the first time from my Windows 7 machine and right now I'm using putty to access a CentOS machine via ssh.
I need to transfer some big files to the ...
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Overwriting with robocopy
I am using robocopy to copy files,but it simply hangs(I guess the reason is that the file is already present in the location). So, Could you please tell me that is there any option using which I can ...
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Cant start Windows Firewall from control panel
I have a weird problem.
I try to open the Windows Firewall settings through the control panel.
What i do, basically , is to click on Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Windows Firewall.
Well ...
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concatenating string in FOR loop in batch file
I have a file sfsview_monitor1.txt with the following content:
Total pages: 16320
Pages used: 142
Pages free: 16178
I want the output like this:
16320 142 16178
with the following code I am not ...
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Can I make Ctrl+alt NOT act like AltGr on windows?
Many applications like Google docs uses Ctrl+Alt short cuts like Ctrl+Alt+2 for heading 2, Ctrl+Alt+m for comments etc. On international keyboards on Windows Ctrl+Alt is how ever mapped to AltGr, so ...
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One key for one language
If you have only 2 languages on Windows to switch, you can use Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift to switch between them.
But if the count of languages is more than 2 (I have 4), it becomes tricky to use the ...
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How to run a file as executable with a different extension?
After taking a look at the listed processes in Window's TaskManager, I've noticed that there are some process that has a different extension other than .exe. I then opened the folder location of one ...
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Obtaining previous day's User Log details from the command line
Generally we can find the User Log details for a particular day by using Quser at the command prompt. Is there any way or particular command to find the User Log details for the previous day also?
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How to copy all files in the subfolder
I am using Windows 7 and I want to copy all PDF files inside a folder and inside all its subfolders in a new location. What is the command to do that?
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Windows 8 Security shows all “permissions incorrectly ordered”
I have a strange Folder/File security problem with a new Windows 8 Pro machine and I spent 3+ hours on the phone with Microsoft today and they don't have a 'fix' but have heard of it a "couple of ...
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How to blacklist a particular bad RAM area in Windows? [duplicate]
I have found a RAM error with MemTest86+ (the version included with Ubuntu 13.04), it says:
Failing address: 002f796c48 - 759.5 MB
I have no money to buy new RAM now and the error seems to be ...
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How do I get Word 2007 to spell check Hebrew?
I have bought a laptop with Windows 8 installed. I installed Office 2007, but for some reason I can't get Word to check spelling in Hebrew, even though I've added it. In the language screen, English ...
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How to get timestamp since epoch in Windows?
I want to measure the time of start for a program but for this I want to get the timestamp in Windows, but I need to get the time-stamp in mili-seconds since the Unix epoch format. (The Unix epoch is ...
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How to print the default java classpath from the command line in windows
I'm doing some trouble-shooting which requires me to know the default classpath under windows. There's java code which will do this (e.g. ...
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Exhaustive Windows 7 troubleshooting procedure?
I have been using this laptop for almost two years now. Its an Intel 2nd Gen i3 with 4 GB of RAM with a 512 MB of ATI Radeon 5470 GPU running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 ultimate (Not too ...
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With Nvidia Optimus, which graphics adapter's control panel settings apply?
I just found out that I have both "Intel Graphics and Media Control Panel" and "NVidia Control Panel". How do these controls work together? I have an i7 with on-board graphics and a NVidia 650m. I ...
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Disable screen orientation hot keys in windows 8 (ctrl alt arrow) [duplicate]
I want to disable the screen orientation hot keys. I have tried looking in the NVIDIA control panel, but I have not found the option in there yet.
Details:
I am using an Asus Zenbook running ...
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Relative path names - Unknown directories up in DOS prompt?
For relative paths, i know:
./ is of this directory
../ is 1 directory up
../../ is 2 directories up etc
Is it possible to keep going up until you reach a specified directory?
Basically my ...
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Robocopy: show skipped files and files with an error while copying
I'm using the following command for copying files while preserving timestamps:
robocopy [source] [destination] /E /ZB /COPY:DAT /DCOPY:T /R:1 /W:5 /V /NFL /NDL /NS /NC /NP /log:"[log-path]" /XD ...
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How should I diagnose issue with handful of identical machines BSOD'ing while others don't [closed]
I'm currently in the process of upgrading machines from windows xp to windows 7, all the machines hardware and bios settings are identical, there doesn't seem to be any noticeable fatigue with the ...
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Where can I find an initial/default computer name per OS? [closed]
After installing the OS you get an initial/default computer name, i.e. for some Windows computers is something like "WIN-SJ32FF4". Does it always start with "WIN-"? What would it be for Linux? ...
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Windows 7 Administrator user doesn't have Admin rights
On windows 7, I have a user account of the 'administrator' type. However, whenever I try to do anything that only admins can do (ie: run a few cmd commands), I receive a message that I don't have the ...
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Windows batch file, use the “|” (OR) character
I'm trying to work on a batch script for windows (.bat) that executes some commands, and need to send the '|' character as a parameter. Here's an example:
echo hello|world
this will never return ...
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Can I uninstall a program or driver from Windows 7 recovery tools?
I just installed Windows 7. The first thing I did after desktop was run a full system update. Upon reboot, BSOD. The message doesn't display long enough for me to read what it says - it flashes for ...
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How to install Windows 7 on formatted drives?
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a formatted drive from DVD, but I always get an error which says that the drive does not have bootmgr:
BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
When I ...
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How to change the cmd.exe output into English on German system [duplicate]
On German platform, by default, run command line "systeminfo", the output is in German.
But, I need it to output in English.
So, I run "chcp 437" to change the code page to United States.
But, it ...
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I'm receiving an unusual error when I open up Windows Firewall
Today, when I tried double clicking Windows Firewall through Control Panel, it wouldn't open the window. I also searched for Windows Firewall and was able to access Windows Firewall with Advanced ...
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New Windows 7 Installation New Hard Drive [closed]
I'm helping a friend repair a laptop. It is an Acer and had Windows 7 on it previously. There is a fresh HDD installed, and I have Windows 7 ISO on a USB drive. I start the installation process, ...
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Dell Inspiron laptop has extreme lag issues as of late [closed]
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop with Windows 7. It's almost 2 years old. For about the last 9 months, the audio would occasionally be choppy when I listen to music. It would usually happen when I was ...
