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How to make the power button show a prompt in Windows 10

There is no direct way to do this anymore. Windows XP used to have a feature in the Power control panel where you could set the power button to ask you what you want to do. However, that ...
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What does the dm in sysdm.cpl stand for?

Whilst I cannot provide a source, I would assume it stands for System Device Manager. The Device Manager has a menu of its own now, however in older versions of Windows the System properties menu had ...
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Remove a language from the language bar in WIndows 10

To solve the language keep adding itself issue follow these steps: go to Control Panel -> Language from the sidebar select "Change date, time, or number formats" select "Administrative" tab. in the "...
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How to navigate to Text Services and Input Languages in Windows 10 1909

In Windows 10 you can find it in: Settings > Devices > Typing > Advanced keyboard settings > Input language hot keys. (A bit long, but it gets there.) Edit Note by user pallxk: In Windows ...
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Windows 10 automatic daylight savings adjustment not working?

In general, "Adjust for daylight saving time automatically" should always be On. Turning it off is for a few legacy edge cases and a couple of places in the world that don't currently have an ...
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Control panel missing from right-click on start menu

This is what I do: Open Windows Powershell command prompt Paste the following code snippet This usually does the trick. $path = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\Windows\WinX\Group2" $x = "...
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How to pin out "Sound" to Windows taskbar?

create a new shortcut elsewhere using mouse rightclick -> New -> Shortcut target %SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "mmsys.cpl", Next name Sound, Finish change the Sound ...
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Remove a language from the language bar in WIndows 10

I found an answer that solved the problem for me. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/desktop/my-keyboard-layout-is-switching-automatically-by/98eda57a-c225-45b2-a233-42f21fadb0cd The ...
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Windows 10 removed the option to "Set this program as default"

As above, in Windows 10 version 1803, , the control panel shortcut now just brings up Settings. But the following worked: Right-click on the file, select "Open With" and click "Choose another app" ...
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How to change "Control Panel" settings without restart via Regedit?

Many Control Panel customization settings are intended to be updated through the SystemParametersInfo Win32 function. To change the notification message duration, that function can be called with the ...
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How to make the power button show a prompt in Windows 10

I have spent some time trying all sorts of solutions that used to work, but which do not work any more in Windows 10 : Shutdown script which does shutdown /a AutoEndTasks with HungAppTimeout ...
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Remove a language from the language bar in WIndows 10

I had a similar problem in a swiss environment. My language settings listed only two languages: swiss german and russian, which I also wanted to have. But the language box in the task panel listed 4 ...
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Windows 10 automatic daylight savings adjustment not working?

This has just happened to me this week on a Windows 10 machine, as we entered Daylight Saving Time in some regions here in Brazil, even with the "Adjust for daylight saving time automatically" enabled....
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Control panel missing from right-click on start menu

Steps: Open Windows File Explorer. Copy paste the following in the address bar: %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\WinX By default, there are three groups (folders) there viz Group1, Group2, and ...
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Method to get windows left open on second monitor which is off back to primary monitor in Win7?

While the Win+Shift+Arrow was the best solution for me, I found a very simple one to deal with this; and in my case it is mostly the secondary Monitor connected to my Laptop and the power goes off. ...
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Uninstalling program with no uninstall option

If you won't or can't go the CleanWipe route, this should restore the Uninstall option. First find SEP's Uninstall key entry by searching under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\...
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Windows path no longer shows as list in Control Panel Environment Variables

It turned out to be a pretty nasty twist. The path was perfectly valid and working. However, the first entry started with another environment variable (containing a base folder location). Once I moved ...
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Is it possible to save a shortcut to a specific control panel page?

Right click on desktop > New > Shortcut Write ncpa.cpl Name your shortcut as you want You can also change the icon by right click, choose property and click on the Change Icon button
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In Windows 10, how can we set an application to be the default for all of its supported file types?

Microsoft has created in Windows a new and more complicated mechanism for setting default programs. The declared aim was to make it harder for rogue programs to set themselves up as handlers for some ...
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Method to get windows left open on second monitor which is off back to primary monitor in Win7?

This works if the window is appearing off-screen 1) Hover over application on toolbar 2) Press Alt + Space or Shift + Alt + Space (if previous command is overwritten) 3) Click on Maximize or Move ...
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Uninstalling program with no uninstall option

Symantec recomends using the cleanwipe utility obtained from here https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO74877.html In the CleanWipe folder, double-click CleanWipe.exe, and click Next. ...
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Uninstall stuck Application

Uninstaller records reside under Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall If you know GUID of your application, you can navigate directly to proper subkey ...
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Control panel missing from right-click on start menu

It looks like you got the update to the Creators Update of Windows 10 v1703 - Build 15063 (run winver.exe to verify this). You should use the Win+X Menu Editor to edit the entries and add control ...
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Uninstall PowerShell 2

I was a little hesitant to post an answer since some of this will be my opinion. What is not opinion is that as of Windows 7 (Server 2008 R2) Powershell is an integral component of the operating ...
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In the new-style Settings interface in Win10, how do I cancel changes? (Use case: power & sleep)

There is no "cancel" as you note, because the entire concept of the settings has changed subtly. There's also no "OK" button. The settings are "set" upon selection. Given this new method, the ...
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How can I deep link to a page in Control Panel?

The control panel accepts command line arguments. Create a shortcut to target: control.exe netconnections The argument netconnections causes control.exe to open directly to Network Connections. Many ...
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Is there a shortcut key for opening Control Panel?

Since windows removed Control Panel from Power menu, you can simply add your own. Find it in start by writing 'control' -> right-click -> Open file location -> right-click on Control panel icon ->...
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Is it possible to save a shortcut to a specific control panel page?

The other answers are correct, right click on desktop to bring up options menu, select new and then select shortcut, then write ncpa.cpl. Though this can be easily expanded to create links to other ...
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Is it possible to save a shortcut to a specific control panel page?

Edit (2/15/2024) : Updated, improved answer per recent comments. If you're interested in a specific adapter, by far the easiet solution is to right-click on the adapter and select Create Shortcut: ...
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Windows 10 : How sync volume level control between two devices (communication & default)

Here is a tool that does exactly that: https://github.com/Arcitec/VolumeLinker/releases/tag/v1.0.0.1 It uses Microsoft Visual C++ runtime libraries which targets Windows OS and allows to control the ...
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