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Automatically my laptop types +++++++ symbol in all search box

I use dell inspiron 15 3521 and os is win8. For three days whenever i start my laptop the search option came and began to type +++++++++++++++++. When i press windows key, magnifier opens and ...
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Display going to "no signal" at strange times

I know enough to assume this is a video card issue. I am using an AMD Radeon HD 6800 card that has worked like a charm. Recently, while playing League of Legends, this happened. The screen went ...
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Excuting Java processes on a remote Windows machine when Developing on Linux

My main development environment is in Linux. However, my execution environment for my application is on Windows. The language of choice is Java. Is there anyway to setup IntelliJ to invoke the java ...
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Use Windows 8 Pro 64-bit OEM licence in VirtualBox [duplicate]

My notebook came with Windows 8 Pro. It never booted Windows, I erased it and installed Fedora on it. I have to use a Windows system now, and I'd like to run the Windows 8 Pro inside Virtualbox on ...
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Sharpen PDF while preserving bookmarks and searchable text

There's a certain PDF of a book that I'm using, which contains bookmarks for all the relevant chapters and sub-chapters as well as searchable text (probably OCR'ed). Unfortunately, the text looks a ...
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How to cancel Ctrl+Tab navigation?

In Windows, if you hold down Alt, you can repeatedly press Tab to choose a different application to switch to. If you change your mind, while still holding Alt, you can press Esc and cancel the ...
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Why do MinGW and MSYS have separate versions of gcc?

This is my understanding of the relationship between MinGW and MSYS. When installing MinGW and its gcc toolchain, installing MSYS is optional. With MSYS installed, you get bash and a few other tools ...
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How to get a ISO with all the Windows Server 2008 r2 updates?

Server already have Windows Server 2008 r2 installed, but instead of checking for windows updates, that takes a long time, I would like to know if there is a way to download a ISO image with all the ...
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Is there a software that can simulate an input device (game controller) on Windows?

For a scientific experiment I want to control a driving simulation to make the car constantly go a certain speed. This requires a fixed input from an input device like a gaming pedal (say 80% force). ...
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Locking a partition/drive

I am working in an environment where people share the same PC running Windows 7. I would like to put my private files in an encrypted partition so that I can lock it when I leave the PC, yet leave the ...
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Windows won't see new drives

I've had this happen to me multiple times over the years, both XP and Win 7 yet I can't find any mention of it on the web: Something gets messed up in Windows and it gets picky about seeing mass ...
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How can I rate or tag files that aren't images in Windows 7? [duplicate]

In Windows 7 it is possible to rate images or tag Word-files. Since I'm reading a lot on my computer, I would like to mark PDF-files I've already read. The image-rating-option would be great and so ...
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Windows 8 Audio Changes Default Playback Device or Stops Playing Audio

I have a Sony Vaio SVT15115CXS laptop running Windows 8 64-bit. I've recently noticed a strange audio issue. At seemingly random times, the audio may switch from the default playback device (laptop ...
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How to log which process is printing?

I have Windows 2008 R2 server which has an Epson Docket Printer driver installed on it. The server is running Remote Desktop Services, and mostly runs point of sale terminals who are using Epson ...
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Batch file in windows scheduler

set PATH=C:\Users\... call date2.cmd md %DT_MM%-%DT_DD%-%DT_YYYY% cd %DT_MM%-%DT_DD%-%DT_YYYY% So, I set my path to the folder that has PSFTP for me to run and run a file that will get the current ...
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Error when trying to uninstall BurnAware from the Control Panel

I want to uninstall BurnAware so I go to the Control Panel -> Programs and Features and double-click on the entry for BurnAware but I get the following error: How can I uninstall it?
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Change the default "new folder" icon

I want to set a default icon for all the new folders created in windows by a Right Click > New > Folder. Is this possible in windows 8.1? I have googled a lot and found a way to change the icon for ...
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Bypass Avira blocking one of my scripts

I created a VB program to simplify a routine for me, but every time I try to launch it, Avira always blocks the action that is taking place in the C:\ drive. It's a little annoying to have to stop ...
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Can I access the Windows RT Browser in Windows Pro?

Can I access the Modern UI version of IE in Windows Pro? If you can access the Modern UI version of IE how?
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unable to merge primary partition with free space

I want to merge my C drive with free space. But there isn't an option for this on Windows 8. Does anyone know how I would do this?
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How to run a Batch File at Windows Login?

All the search results out there show about Windows Startup only!! I wish to start a batch file at User Login Session in Windows environment.
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Really truly install multiple independent versions of Firefox

I have seen some other questions on here (e.g., this and this), plus plenty of other pages on the web, offering various strategies for installing and running multiple versions of Firefox side by side. ...
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How can I get Emacs to run correctly in a Windows console with codepage 65001 (UTF-8)?

When my codepage is set to 65001 (UTF-8) in a Powershell terminal, emacs -nw displays garbage. When the codepage is set to 437, emacs -nw works. I would like to be able to run emacs -nw (much quicker ...
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How to run installed ubuntu inside of installed windows [duplicate]

I have installed Ubuntu 14.04/Windows 8.1. I want to play couple rounds of some game in between tasks which I develop in Ubuntu. Games are running on windows, so each time I need to reboot, but it ...
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Run a block conditionally on grep output

I've found a number of solutions to this problem, but unfortunately none of them seem to work on my windows box. I'm running a FOR loop in a batch file to loop through a number of text files. For ...
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Windows/Installer and Windows/winsxs using up 25% of my 60gb SSD [duplicate]

I'm wondering if anyone knows a safe way to clean these two folders or even clean the Windows folder so that I can get some space back as it's eating 25% of my SSD, the entire windows folder is taking ...
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Windows batch file - How to pipe output to text file and then open the text file?

I have a weird problem where I have a simple batch file that runs another batch file, outputs what is on the screen to a log file, and then attempts to open the log file. The problem is, the log file ...
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Remote Desktop services local login and remote sessions?

If i have a server with Remote Desktop Services installed, could I log in locally (keyboard/mouse/monitor attached) and login remotely and still share all sessions? Will Windows allow this? Will it ...
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Can't get private GitHub repos to work with Vagrant/Puppet on Windows

I have a project and we use Vagrant for our development env. On Mac/Unix the provisioning works perfectly except in Windows, the problem is that forwarding agent doesn't work on windows and therefore, ...
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Grub rescue, unable to boot windows

I have windows vista and backtrack Linux installed on my dell PC. I wanted to uninstall backtrack so I delect the partition, but when I try to boot widows again, the grub rescue> shown up. I can't ...
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Cygwin to execute windows shortcut files (.LNK)

I use Cygwin as my cmd replacement on Windows and I am in the process of cleaning up my system PATH variable. I now have a folder containing exe's and shortcuts (.LNK) files which is in PATH ...
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Installing windows xp on a SATA drive computer

My laptop make is Lenovo,model is Z580. It has i5-3210m and 500 GB HDD.Also,it has nvidia geforce gt 630m GPU.System memory is 4GB. I wanted to dual boot windows xp with the other OSes,currently ...
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Most common locations for shortcuts on Windows (Start Menu, Desktop, Quick Launch...)

I'm searching for the most common locations for a user's shortcuts, that are quickly accessible, like the Desktop, Start Menu and Quick Launch. This should work from XP on through to 8.1. I'm ...
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How can I write a windows batch file that opens a command prompt and executes a command?

I want to create a .cmd file that opens the command line at a location relative to the .cmd file itself, and then executes something like this: someapp start ../../config.js How can I do this?
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How to open a folder in a new tab in windows 7?

I am a window user from the beginning but recently I started working on the Linux and there is one feature that I really like in Linux (off-course there are many more but I didn't use all thoroughly). ...
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How to set Desktop to show files and folders from different directory?

I recently installed the Google Drive app onto my main PC which creates a Drive folder that syncs the files I have on Drive with the files in the Drive folder. Is there anyway to set up Windows 8 so ...
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How can I recover files deleted in java?

I did a mistake and deleted .wav files using File.delete() in Java. I use Windows 7 and NetBeans IDE 7.0. How can I restore the files?
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How to use Virtual Box with a Disk image created with Norton Ghost?

I was given a file with "sv2i" extension and a couple of "v2i" files. According to my search, it is a disk image created with Norton Ghost. I converted the sv2i file to a vmdk file, which apparently ...
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How to show file size in MB on Windows XP?

It's strange that Windows XP is showing my file in KB in details view under Windows Explorer (there is a 14GB file in the folder, so it doesn't make sense). Is there a setting somewhere to change this?...
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Have a self extract archive extract to specific folder

How can I create a self extracting archive that will extract the contents into a specific folder? Any program or method is acceptable on windows.
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How do I use a font with a space in its name in gVim?

I just installed vim-airline, and I want to use a font that has support for the cool arrow glyphs that vim-airline supports. So, I downloaded the font "Liberation Mono for Powerline" from the ...
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Fetch from NPM registry always fails

On my Windows server 2012 machine I am unable to install/update npm packages. It was working allright, but stopped one day. I tried everything and I am seriously thinking about reinstalling the system....
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Port forwarding works on Ubuntu but doesn't work on windows

I set up my wireless router to port forward 80 -> 80 (as well as 8080 -> 80) to my local http server. I have dual boot windows + ubuntu and both of them have apache installed. The problem is if I boot ...
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Keyboard key fix for right arrow key? [duplicate]

My right arrow key doesn't work anymore. Maybe it's a hardware failure but is there an easy workaround maybe a software key remapping? I have tried to open my pc to no avail.
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MPC-HC live thumbnail on Windows taskbar

I have a problem with Media Player Classic thumbnail in Windows taskbar. In fact, the thumbnail shows a fix screenshot of the moment when I minimise. So is there any way to make it show the live video ...
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Trying to mass replace files from one directory to where the file is found in another. Windows 7

I have 200+ files in a single directory that I need to first search for in another directory with subs and replace after it is found. File names are the same. Content/size is usually different. Last ...
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Wiping a computer before re-imaging [closed]

I don't have my windows disks because our computers come directly from Lenovo with a company disk image. Also we have a disk image that installs when we boot a blank computer on our network. What ...
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Appending filename and path in Batch file

I'm having a hard time learning how to use command lines and the using batch files. What I want to do is write a custom path and then add the filename so that the output could be saved there. This ...
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Power Point Presentation two monitors

I need to realize a presentation with this approach: I have a PC connected to two monitors that extend the desktop. My power point presentation must run different contents on each monitor, but each ...
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Can I set an icon for for an application registered under OpenWith?

I want to set up a script, where the base executable is the interpreter, to be selected in the Open With dialog. I already know the information in this question: How do you add a non-program-files ...
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