Issues not specific to a single version of Windows, otherwise tag appropriately
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Problems maintaining connection to bluetooth headset in Windows 8
Until a few days ago I was using a bluetooth headset (Plantronics Voyager PLT510) regularly and without issue in Windows 7, primarily for making calls in Google Talk. I then upgraded to Windows 8 and ...
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Windows will erase permissions on files
I have been seeing issues where Windows seems to "reset" permissions on files after I had set them. I have seen this in various versions of Windows. I'm sorry I don't have much more information. The ...
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Windows services: force windows to attempt to start service after failed attempts
Appears that after a Windows service fails to start once or twice (with the ~"Service failed to respond in a timely fashion" error) then Windows ceases even trying to start the service and just ...
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Windows 8 clicking on favourites opens whole structure
Hello my windows 8 explorer started to act really weird. When I click on any favorite folder shortcut on the left sidebar of my explorer windows (wheres the directory structure located) for example on ...
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Thousands of Logon/Logoff requests in Windows Event Viewer from a different computer on the same domain
For the past month or so, a computer that is on the same domain as me has been spamming my computer with logon/logoff requests via kerberos. I get ~4,000 requests on my computer a day. This includes ...
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How can I determine if my Thinkpad W500 will run Windows 8 Bitlocker?
I am running Windows 8 on a Lenovo Thinkpad W500, Model: 4063-RF5. How can I determine if it has the proper bits (TPM, etc.) to run Bitlocker? Or more generally how can I determine if any system is ...
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What can cause “Reboot and select proper boot device” other than hard drive issues?
I'm having some weird issues with my computer that I'd be hugely appreciative if someone can help me troubleshoot.
Recently, my HTPC will start fine, then after 20-30 minutes it will freeze up and ...
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Can't boot into linux on gpt-partition external drive on a pc
I've got an external HDD "Seagate Backup Plus 1TB". It's partitioned using the GPT scheme and carries two file partitions, an hfs+ OSX partition with OSX operating system installed, and an ext4 ...
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Can I use Easy Transfer twice?
I used Easy Transfer to migrate files from my Vista machine to a new Windows 7 machine. However, I have delayed in using the new machine about 2 months so now my old Vista machine has new files and ...
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YouTube web no sound but VLC has sound
On Windows 7, in YouTube web client (in latest Chrome) - videos play, but without sound. IIRC, they used to play with sound some days earlier on the same machine. Pretty sure I did not change any ...
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Windows 8 is not booting
I was working on my Toshiba c650 laptop when it crashed and restarted. Now the computer freezes after the boot menu and does not work until I reboot it and the same thing happens. I tried chkdsk, ...
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Press and hold settings sense?
What is the sense of two different settings in Press and Hold Setting dialog?
First called "speed", but also can be "short" and "long". Can something have "short" or "long" speed? If "long" speed ...
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laptop restarts when ethernet cable is plugged in
Laptop (Windows 7, Sony Vaio) automatically shuts down, retarts and then after a minute shuts down, restarts etc in an endless cycle when the ethernet cable is plugged in.
When the cable is removed ...
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Using Linux workstations to remote into Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 Windows 7 VM
I am trying to help out a very small business with a cost effective solution, but where users have to remote into their Windows 7 VM to do work so they do not save anything on the local Linux physical ...
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Windows 8 hides / data copied from a Windows 7 computer. Or am I losing my mind?
I've had this happen two different times:
1) I backed up a client's hard drive to my large backup drive.
2) I do initial Windows 8 setup on new Laptop.
3) I pull the hard drive from the Windows 8 ...
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linux <-> windows network (ethernet) connectivity over usb
problem:
I have a linux box that i want to use as firewall for my Windows workstation. it has only one ethernet that is needed for the switch, but no pci expansion slots.
So the only option to connect ...
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Deleting system files that are in a remote shared folder?
I have my videos on a Windows Home Server. I have access to the shared folders, i.e. \\server\movies, with modify permissions.
When I try to delete a folder like \\server\movies\movie, other files ...
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Reducing cache waste in Windwows VMs
At Is there a way to reset Windows file cache? we learnt how to use RamMap to free up the all-you-can-eat Windows file cache, which was nice.
Am I the only person to think that reducing cache sizes ...
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Is it possible to start all programs with admin privileges?
These days I'm having problems with "Run as Administrator" for most of my executables like Visual Studio, Command Prompt and sometimes even Notepad. It started with Visual Studio having problems ...
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Windows 8 - LAN connection doesn't startup on reboot
I don't know what's gone wrong, but of late whenever I reboot my Win 8 Pro x64 box, the ethernet connection doesn't turn on by itself. I have to go into network settings and manually disable/re-enable ...
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Windows Event Forwarding between two computer out of a domain
I've got two computers and I want to set up event forwarding between them.
Source computer is out of a domain, another is in some Domain. I tried to configure source initiated event subscrption but it ...
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Windows 7 Home - programs won't work after “sleep”
Just very recently - past four days - when the computer comes out of "sleep" programs will not open, or open and will not run. This is MS programs (eg outlook) and non-MS (eg Firefox). Never had ...
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Add a button to windows shutdown?: shutdown, hibernate, logoff, and “something”
In the windows menu there are some default actions, each one corresponding with a batch command.
shutdown /s /t 0
shutdown /h /t 0
shutdown /r /t 0
Is there a way to add a new button to that list, ...
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Network disabled in Windows 8 PC on startup
Windows 8 64-Bit pc will not detect network on startup. Every time we have to do a "scan for hardware changes" in device manager. Otherwise it will not connect to network automatically. We did ...
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How to have file/folder icons use a relative path?
On my portable hard drive I set icons for almost every organized folder. All these icons are located in an Icons folder located on the root directory of the same hard drive.
When I change the drive ...
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Windows CHM file only displays images for Administrator
I installed some software on my Windows 2000 machine. The software has a user manual in .CHM format. When I view the manual while logged in as Administrator, everything looks fine. The manual has ...
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Route traffic selectively through OpenVPN as a SOCKS proxy
Is it possible to convert OpenVPN traffic into a SOCKS proxy locally, so that applications can use the VPN only when needed by connecting to the SOCKS proxy?
I'm aiming for something like Underleech ...
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Reinstalled Windows 7, sound won't play through headphone jack
So I recently reinstalled Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit edition, and though my computer plays sound through the speakers, when I plug any earbuds or headphones into the headphone jack I can't hear ...
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FFmpeg audio disappears in the middle of the video
I've been trying to convert a sequence of PNG files to a video with some sound (mp3 or wav). It pretty much works with different codecs and quality settings for both video and audio.But the audio ...
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BSOD - “replacing invalid security ID with default security ID” - Cannot boot to windows, black screen
I was working away on my computer when it suddenly blue screened. It's maybe done that once many months ago. Upon Reboot it began running checkdisk, moving orphaned files and then it got to this ...
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Failed Slackware Setup - Internet Permanently Broken
I am new to Linux. I tried to install Slackware 14 on a fresh partition, with the rest of the HD as free space, except for the small "Dell" partition that seems to be necessary.
I got Slackware ...
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Is there a way to keep track of unopened/unchecked files?
I'm looking for a way to keep track of unopened/unchecked received/downloaded files via various means, browsers, torrents, DC++, hosting sites, etc.
Let's say that I'm a bit overwhelemed, and ...
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Windows Directory Structure
I couldn't find a Windows stack exchange so I am asking this here.
I know how a *nix directory structure is set up and how directories are pretty much just lists of files. I can open them with a text ...
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Windows cache and temp on RAM disk
I have 16 GB of memory and have just started to experiment with having a 1 GB RAMdisk. Currently, I only have the browser cache there, but I am thinking of moving the Windows7 cache and temp ...
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Percentage cpu use for a particular job decreases over time in Windows 7
I have a multi-core workstation running Windows 7. When I submit a job to run on 12 cores, things go fine, but after some time the percent of the cpu the job occupies decreases from ~30% to 3% even ...
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How can I hide the //tsclient/<drive> connection in Windows XP Mode
When XP Mode is started, it automatically creates \tsclient connections to the drives on the Windows 7 computer that is starting it. So for example c: becomes \tsclient\c etc etc.
Although I want ...
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Nexus 4 MTP not showing on Device Manager
When I disable USB Debugging on the Nexus 4 and connect it to my Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, a "Nexus 4" shows up in "My Computer" and the device is also listed on "Device Manager", under "Portable ...
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How can I create an encrypted file on OSX for opening on Win7 w/out 3rd party software?
I do love PGP/GPG, but I have users who don't want to, or can't, install 3rd party binaries. Is there a way on OSX to create a (strongly) encrypted file on OSX which can be opened by Windows 7?
With ...
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GitHub for Windows not showing repo owner
This morning I woke up and all of my repos in GitHub for Windows had become unindexed. Tools > Options > Scan for repositories added all of them back to the list, but now only the name of the repos ...
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Windows 7 to Windows XP file sharing permissions issue
I have a Windows 7 machine set up as a simple data file sharing system. I have 8 folders being shared between multiple machines. The issue I am having is that after a while, any Windows XP client ...
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How to share my comments, notes etc for my .pdf across multiple devices?
I have a Windows laptop and an Android PDA. I'm using Adobe Reader for reading my e-books for both these devices. But I'm also putting comments and notes into them, which are stored only in a single ...
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Is it possible to configure the Send to context menu to “send” files to an already open email message?
This could come in handy when trying to attach files that are deeply "buried" or scattered within the directory tree to a reply email.
I'm using Thunderbird as the email client (if that matters) but ...
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Windows 8 - No OS files found on disk
I had a working version of Windows 8 but yesterday my notebook was crashed and became unresponsive so I had to make a reboot by its power switch.
After that, I wasn't able to reboot the notebook: the ...
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Map Drive Username and Password required
I have a Microsoft server 2008, under that i have different folders to map drive for different users. My question is how could i make the map drive to have a username and password required when ...
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Dell Precision 690 workstation - Boot device not found
My Dell Precision 690 workstation has stopped booting into Windows 7 altogether.
About a week ago, the BIOS started giving me a message that the amount of memory had changed from the default ...
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Making emacs/AucTeX open Acrobat on Windows
How can I configure emacs 24 (with AucTeX) on MS windows so that I can bind a key to
compile the latex document in the active buffer and then open the resulting pdf in acrobat?
Can the same technique ...
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What is Event ID 33: SpellChecker in Windows 7 and 8 about?
On newly installed Windows machines (Windows 8 Pro, Windows 7)
I've seen event id 33 regularly appearing in the event viewer with this message:
Failed to add hardcoded change pair "aids -> aids" ...
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Windows can't find domain name that everyone else can see
I've configured a DNS server on my home LAN. It serves a few extra domain names, such as foo. Note that foo is configured to return 404s for all requests. (I haven't gotten to getting it to do what I ...
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Weird monitor issues related to sleep
About a week ago, the monitor did not return when the system spooled up from sleep. Actually, the monitor still had a green (connected) lite and when you turned it off, and then back on again i would ...
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Run 2 different games on 2 cards on 2 monitors in Windows 7
Well i have been looking for 4 hours and i cant find anything. I have a qx6700, 4gbs of ddr2 5 5 5 18 ram, evga 750i FTW mother board, a gts 450, and a gtx 480. What i want to do is set the gpus like ...
