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Is there a way to transfer thousand of small files faster on Windows 7?
The solution is to archive with WinRAR, but, when asked how to archive, choose store. This means that there will be no compression. Thus in approximately one minute you will end up with one large file ...
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How can I access media on my OnePlus 5 with a Ubuntu OS?
What you want to do is to configure your phone's USB settings for MTP (Media Transfer Protocol). Unfortunately, this is hidden away deep in the Developer Settings on recent OnePlus 5 phones. To enable ...
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Transfer user profile to windows 8
I have my user account/profile on my laptop and need the same on my new PC
You can use Windows Easy Transfer:
Microsoft offers their own tool, known as “Windows Easy Transfer.”
It’s built into ...
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How can I access media on my OnePlus 5 with a Ubuntu OS?
None of the answers above worked for me, I had to select the "File transfer" option, then install adb
sudo apt install android-tools-adb
Then execute the .sh file found in one of the mounted drive:
...
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Is an already using windows 10 pro licence transferable to another PC?
Since Ubuntu was installed on the computer when you bought Windows 10 Pro,
that license is not an upgrade of Home and must be a full Retail license
(correct me if I'm wrong).
Such a license can be ...
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What is the proper way to use QEMU's socket feature?
The QEmu-KVM notes
contains this section
Interaction based on Unix sockets
that resumes all the options for using sockets :
Interaction based on Unix sockets
QEmu virtual machines are usually used ...
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How do I transfer brave bookmarks, settings and passwords from one windows computer to another
One way is to set up sync between both devices:
On old laptop, click hamburger menu icon in top right, then choose Sync.
Click on Start a new sync chain -> choose Computer -> copy the code and ...
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Periodic data transfer between HDD and SDD
This is likely just that the SSD is faster at writing than the HDD is at reading - the average appears to be about the same... nothing to worry about.
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How can I transfer installed programs from one laptop to another
Various apps store various data and settings in multiple places, mostly:
registry, most often HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software
config files with many different formats, e.g. ....
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How can I transfer installed programs from one laptop to another
The pragmatic option would be to disable security systems (TPM etc.), RAID, etc., clone the Hard Disk, and insert the clone into the new computer. Without going into details, if you are lucky Windows ...
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What is the proper way to use QEMU's socket feature?
Are you trying to use the virtual serial port interactively with a terminal program? If so, minicom appears to be able to let you interact with a socket instead of a serial port device. From https://...
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I cannot connect SFTP over a cellular data network
It's not just cellular internet on the iPhone, it would also be with any other Wi-Fi connection you connect to. Your real issue/situation is that you cannot connected to the SFTP share when you are ...
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Word (.docx) document not opening in Chrome
So if I understand it, you worked on a document in Google Docs and "saved it" (downloaded it to your computer. Now you cannot open the document in Chrome.
What you need to do is go to Google ...
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Is it possible to install Windows on a hard drive on one computer, then activate it on another?
Windows is in fact tied to hardware, so if you are asking if you can install Windows 10 on one computer, pull the drive and have it be seen as a licensed copy on the other machine, the basic answer is ...
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Moving large numbers of emails between two MS Exchange (O365 and Outlook.com) accounts
Based on my experience, it's suggested that you could export all the emails of the O365 account as a .pst file, and then import the file into the outlook.com account. For more information about the ...
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How to restrict user access in AWS Transfer?
According to the AWS Create a scope-down policy documentation and their example provided, it seems you need to utilize and structure the configuration differently but similar to their example with &...
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Selling Personal Laptop - How to Transfer Windows 10 and Office Home 2016 License to Buyer
some are saying that OEM licenses cannot be transferred from one MS
Account to another
I agree with this - OEM licenses stay with the computer / purchaser.
The email address you used to register the ...
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Transferred old SSD with OS to new laptop w/o clean install. Battery drains indredibly quickly
In order to verify that your new computer is operating properly, you need a fresh install of some operating system and measure that way.
You have used an old disk with an old operating system install ...
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Transfer video files to iPad Pro from PC using USB and no WiFi
You can use the Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter. Put the video files on a USB Flash drive, connect it to the Multiport Adapter along with USB-C power. On iPad open the Files APP. From there ...
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Transfer Office license without account
Is your Office 2013 a volume license or a one-time purchase? Since the important thing you should consider is how to activate Office 2013 on the new computer, I will explain the three activation ...
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How do I transfer photos from Samsung SGH-T139 cell phone to Win 7 PC?
Unfortunately, the internet seems to think this isn't possible:
"The Samsung SGH-T139 does not have the ability to transfer pictures using a data cable or memory card."
Furthermore, there seemed ...
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WinSCP from Unix to Windows - Conserving timestamp, ownership and permissions
WinSCP does preserve timestamps by default (and you do not have to disable the "resume support").
WinSCP cannot not preserve the ownership and the permissions. There's hardly any way to do that ...
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How can I transfer a custom keyboard layout from one computer to another?
Layout definitions are saved in Layout DLL files. These files reside in the Windows's standard System32 directory.
If you don't know the DLL filename of your keyboard then get Keyboard Layout Manager ...
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Can I transfer all of my Keypass details from one machine to another?
Keepass databases are stored in files. Depending on how your database is protected (password, key file or both), you could need your key file as well, but you can always open that file on several ...
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Is there a way to transfer thousand of small files faster on Windows 7?
Seems to be lots of indeterminate answers here, so I'll add a datapoint.
For me it was significantly faster to zip (using store-only compression) and then transfer the zip. Significantly.
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