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Automatically commit files in a folder in Windows?

Is there a program which would automatically commit files into git when a file changes (or if that's problem, when it gets created)? There will be no conflicts as this folder will only be written by ...
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How to activate file and printer sharing from the command line on a French Windows system?

I am trying to enable files and printer sharing from command line, after some Googling I found that the right command to achieve this: netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="File and Printer ...
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Windows 10 sound driver disable after sleep/restart

I'm having an infuriating problem with my XPS 13. After a Windows 10 update it seems my sound driver stopped working. As in, it's still recognised in Device Manager, but the task bar says that 'no ...
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Rollback copy of files from SOURCE to DESTINATION

how to rollback copy of files from SOURCE to DESTINATION? Let me give examples based on Magento (but it does not matter). When I install a new module, I get a zip file, I extract it in a temporary ...
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Windows 10 How do I lock / limit another user's access to my folders?

I've got a media / gaming PC setup in my living room, with two accounts on it; mine, a password-protected administrator, and a regular user, called "Steam". Since I installed Windows on a 120GB SSD, ...
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How often do I need to backup my MBR?

If the partitions on a drive don't change, do I need to backup that disk's MBR if only the data changes? And if so, how often?
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Can Windows 'USB Install Media' Get Infected With Malware When Booting From It?

If you were to boot from a clean Windows USB Install Media drive on an infected system, could that USB drive get infected with malware while in that environment? If the system is infected and we want ...
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How do I list all process running with integrity level in windows in Java? [closed]

I am building a scan processes running with admin privilege in Java. But I only found the way list all processes running without tag UAC status (Not allowed is for admin) or integrity tag like Process ...
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Some apps show me a squarebox instead of the icon

For example, in this screenshot you can see in the storage icon shows the squarebox Is this a font issue?
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grep is not recognized as an internal or external in windows

I am trying to run this line scholar.py --txt-globals --author "albert einstein" | grep '\[G\]' | grep Results In the CMD, but I confront this error. I know grep is for UNIX but how can I run this ...
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Windows 10 upgrade = CPU 100%

I have upgraded my laptop (Lenovo G500s, "i3" 3rd Gen) from windows 8.1 to windows 10 home edition (Clean upgrade). It was pretty much smooth until now but recently I received the windows 10 ...
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Howto retrieve windows 2008 service stored password

We have Windows 2008 R2 joined on domain. There is an customized application/service installed in this system by a 3rd party vendor. Is there any way i can see the service stored password?
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How to add custom shell menu to selected .exe program or ."extension"

Any windows (xp,7,8,10 x32 x64) 1. How to add custom shell menu to selected .exe program? Example: "utorrent.exe" and "utorrent.exe.lnk" Action: right-click >> shell menu >> "Open UtData" Open ...
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Need Help Windows 10 ntoskrnl.exe!<Symbols disabled> is using 20% ofusage

I tried everything I can find here and many other sites using Google in order to solve this but no luck. I used WPT and this is what I got. Processes that constantly uses the CPU: I just installed ...
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Print to PDF into a specific folder

We have a new windows service that can automatically print results that it receives. I need to get it to print them to PDF and store them in a specific folder on the server. It doesn't download the ...
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Batch move a folder's content up one level

It is a simple task, in some instances but I have thousands of files inside hundreds of folders that I want to move up. The directory structure goes like this: C:\Photos\subject\randomnumbers\...
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Dell XPS 13 static noise from speakers (only on Windows)

I received a Dell XPS 13 (9350, i7, QHD+ touchscreen) yesterday. It is working perfectly except for the speakers, which start producing a considerable amount of static noise (different from the wide ...
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Invoking Windows "Update Driver Software" in batch file or VB code

I'm working on a program in visual basic and I'm looking to find a way to invoke the driver updating inside a batch file, or in VB code. Currently you have to go to the device manager: Example And ...
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Bootloop with only bios screen showing

I got a BSOD (DPC watchdog violation), so I powered the system down When I launched it again it got into a bootloop every 5-10 secs during of which the system would boot into BIOS with not a single ...
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Send x11 linux app to windows xming server from linux

I know from Windows with xming server and putty x11 forwarding enabled an ssh putty session can open linux GUIs on Windows. This flow is initiated from Windows. Is there a way to initiate the ...
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What does the dm in sysdm.cpl stand for?

I know running it opens up Advanced System Properties but unlike most Microsoft commands that have a logic to the name I can't figure out what this one stands for. Does anybody know what the dm in ...
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Why could a monitor go into power save mode during bootup?

I have a weird problem: Since last night, when I boot my 2012-vintage custom-built Windows 7 PC with an Geforce GTX 660 video cards (with separate power connector), the monitor will usually ...
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Windows 10: Why I can't create a folder named "a" or "b"?

Specification: Windows 10 with Norton Antivirus and CCleaner. When I try to create a folder named "a", it disappear from the explorer just after the action. I noticed the explorer says a message "...
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Keeping Windows10 snipping tool snip-ready

I miss the one-click-snipping tool of Win7. In my attempt to reproduce that readiness-to-snip in Win10, I let a batch file launch snipping tool at Windows boot, so that when I want to use it, I just ...
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Apostrophe and the next symbol turned into a Japanese symbol in a text file

I have Windows XP with three languages used: Russian (as the system language), English, and Japanese (support for Asian languages is installed). I have a subtitle file where everything looks normal ...
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Sound Blaster Audigy FX No sound

Hi I have a pci express sound blaster audigy fx card and a pci express ati radeon hd7970 graphics card. When I install the official drivers from the creative website I get different results in the ...
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How to get Notepad to enter fullscreen?

Windows Notepad is my favorite text reader on Windows 10. It takes very little ram, allows me to customize font, and has clean interface. How can I make it go full screen like TextEdit on MacOS?
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Share file/folder without copy permission in Windows 7

I have a shared folder in Windows 7 that a user can access with read permission. The problem is that, the user can also copy the shared files. I don't want them to do that. I just want them to view ...
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Copy Folder in Windows CMD

How can I copy folder in windows cmd. I would like to copy folder it self with files in it, not just files. When you use copy or xcopy commands they copy files but not folder name. xcopy folderOne ...
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How to speed up RDP on Windows Server 2012

My connection speed for upload is 100 KB/s But now I'm looking at resource monitor and it only consumes 6-15 KB/s (send/receive) for mstsc.exe service. I'm starting to think that I've enabled some ...
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Chrome and Windows 10 shortcuts

In Windows 10 I have created a shortcut for an application and assigned a shortcut key to that. It works fine, except when Chrome is active. When Chrome is active, shortcut does not fire. Is it ...
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How to partition a hard drive but not delete it's content?

I want to install Xubuntu on my friend's computer. There is one hard drive but multiple partitions. She doesn't want to delete Windows 10, but she wants to devote a large part of her hard drive to ...
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Synergy triple monitor server one monitor client

ok so i have a laptop as my client and a dekstop as my server my desktop has three monitors and I want the client to be situated above the leftmost monitor of my server as such ________________ | ...
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USB Audio and Video devices no longer work after Windows 10 Update KB3176493

I'm not sure if it's related to KB3176493 as I can't find anything else relating. I've been searching all day and all I've found are a ton of totally unrelated Windows XP/8 posts. Anyway, came to my ...
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Is there a way to decrypt a file in gpg without passphrase poping up and without batch file?

I need to figure out how to decrypt from command line without gpg asking a popup to enter passphrase, I want to define that in the command line? is it possible without having to create a batch file ...
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Is %PROGRAMDATA% the same in all versions of Windows?

I need to execute a script every time that Windows boots. I copied my script to the folder: %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup It works for my computer, but now I'm worried ...
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Lost ability to remotely connect to office PC with TeamViewer

I have TeamViewer installed on my work computer and my home computer. Up until recently I was able to access my work PC through TeamViewer, with no problem and could work away. Over the past week ...
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A single user can't access server folders from a single computer

This morning I had a domain user try to log onto his primary laptop. At logon he received a network permission error regarding his Desktop redirected folder on the server. He also received error ...
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How can I get Notepad++ to correctly print to legal size paper?

I cannot seem to get Notepad++ to correctly print to legal size paper. I do not see any paper size options in the configuration settings, but when I change to a larger paper size in the print dialog, ...
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My Java is in gz format?

I'm having problems downloading jre-8u101-windows....tar.gz java, because it's in .gz format instead of .exe, so when I run the installer it opens in my zip folder(Bandizip) please help Thanks in ...
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Why do Windows laptops auto-shutdown at 5% battery and not 0%? [closed]

Why do laptops shut down when their battery is almost empty? I'm basing my facts on Windows machines, but they always seem incapable of going past 5% without shutting down. (Because smartphones on the ...
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WUDFHost.exe constantly on 12-20% CPU

OK, this is actually my own answer to an unwritten question on this title problem chasen today ... Why there is WUDFHost.exe constantly on some 12-20% CPU? According to several posts on the net "The ...
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Addition of free space from Hard disk 2 to Hard disk 1 [closed]

I have two hard disks of 20Gb and 10Gb. My 20Gb hard disk is my C drive which contains the OS and my 10Gb Hard disk is my D drive which is empty. I want to add my free space of disk 2 to disk 1. I ...
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Why do I have two partitions labelled D: in Disk Management, but only one D: in My Computer?

I tried to install "Remix OS" but failed. Then I figured out some problem of my hard disk. In the first image- My Computer has 4 drive, but in the disk management it shows 5 drive, two drive with ...
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Viber desktop through proxy

I am using Viber for Android without any problems. Now I try to install Viber for Windows. I use Viber on my corporate PC. All internet traffic is available via proxy. Without proxy no program has ...
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Set icon size globally in Windows 10

I have a Windows 10 laptop and I want Explorer to show large icons everywhere. It's not a problem to set icons size in one folder, but can it be done globally?
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Windows 7 BSOD - ntoskrnl.exe MEMORY_MANAGEMENT 0x0000001a

Turned my computer on, went to brush my teeth, came back and it was recovering from a BSOD. Same errors from a couple past BSOD's within the last month. Not sure what could be causing it, help would ...
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Windows , disabling USB device while hot-plug (no GPO)

I try to disable a USB device when it is inserted under windows version Family (no GPO). I worked around several languages ​​to reach my end, but without success.I look for a corresponding method to ...
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Does Robocopy SKIP copying existing files by default?

I've read (somewhere) that Robocopy skips copying over existing files by default. But... I can't find any Command Line switches for that.
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How to view log of hardware removal and connection?

Short Version In Windows 10 how do i get a log of hardware that is removed and connected? Long Version I get the Windows Disconnect about every 3-5 seconds. Obviously Windows knows that some hardware ...
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