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How do I unhide a message group in phone link in Windows 11?

I have my Google SmartPhone set up to link to my PC's Windows 11 desktop using phone Link. I was hiding messages by selecting the ellipsis beside the message and clicking hide. I accidentally selected ...
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How can I download a list of urls but filter by pdf content?

I have a large list of links to PDFs. I'd like to download all the PDFs that contain a certain keyword. Is there software that will allow me to input a large list of urls for download but then only ...
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How can I move linked Word/Excel files without breaking the links under Windows 7?

I currently operate under Windows XP and have multiple links between my Word and Excel files. I have to upgrade to Windows 7. When the .doc and .xls files are converted to .docm and .xlsm, ...
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Linking columns on different sheets

I'm very new to VBA coding (only dabbling for this specific project), so I would really appreciate any advice on an issue I'm having. I'm attempting to link a column range (A2:A300) on Sheet1 to a ...
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Is there a way to have windows ask me which browser I want to use everytime I click a link?

I would like to set up Windows 11 so that it always asks which browser to use when it opens links. I use different browsers for different purposes on my computer, and no single browser should be ...
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Links in Microsoft Office always open in Edge (instead of default browser)

I've encountered an annoying issue where any links in Microsoft Office 2010 applications (Word, Excel, Outlook) installed on Windows 10 always open links in Microsoft Edge. This is despite having set ...
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How to make Microsoft Teams launch my default browser instead of Edge?

I use FireFox as my daily browser. But when I use Microsoft Teams, when I click on a link in Chat, it always bring up Microsoft Edge. My default browser is set to Firefox. But Teams ignores it. Is ...
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Why is the shortcut's target sometimes read-only in Windows 10? [duplicate]

I observe, that sometimes in the sortcut's options the target is setable (s. the first screenshot) and sometimes it's read-only (s. the second one). Why? What does it depend on? Is there a way to ...
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Can Notepad++ be made to open file links in itself?

In Settings/Preferences, Notepad++ has an option on the MISC. tab under 'Clickable Link Settings' to the right, to Enable to open links found in the edited files. It underlines them and opens them on ...
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Getting “Command Not Found” when attempting to use R on macOS El Capitan (10.11.3)

I am working on a new machine running on macOS El Capitan (10.11.3). On the terminal, R returns -bash: R: command not found (and similar for r). In the meantime open -a R works fine and opens the ...
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Microsoft excel: Queries and connections - option to update data manually is greyed out

For my link to other excel workbook table: For some reason, the update: manual option is greyed out for this query link in excel Data --> edit links. I don't want the data to update automatically ...
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Excel online: link to specific row or cell

Goal: I would like to create a link that opens an Excel sheet in Excel online at a specified row or cell to help the user to find a specific entry in several thousand rows without filtering, searching ...
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How do I grab IDL path for Microsoft Store apps?

Somewhere I found out that I can execute Serif Affinity apps via "IDL: scheme links". How can I get the same type of (IDL) links for other apps that I've installed via Windows Store, ...
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OSX App, cannot find the library when runnig

I created an OSX app with graphical interface, MyNiceApp.app. This app uses wxWidgets library, so it needs the file libwx_osx_cocoau_xrc-3.1.dylib . When I run it on my Mac, everything is ok. However, ...
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How to open hxxp or other obscured links automatically in Firefox?

How to open hxxp or other obscured links automatically with Firefox (without copy and paste manually)? For non obscured links I use Linky Firefox add-on (obsolete, see archived addons.mozilla.org ...
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Choosing MacOS Mail rich-text link default

Since I have updated to MacOS 13, links (urls) I paste in Mail are automatically converted into link previews with an image. This happens when I paste links on a new line. A little pull down arrow ...
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Why do later versions of Windows continue to use shortcut files instead of symbolic links?

Windows XP and later support symbolic links. Yet, Windows continues to use shortcut files (which essentially store the location of the linked file as text). Why?
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Specific browser for specific links

Does any one know how to open a specific browser for specific links? I have two links that I want to open in IE and others in Chrome. Is this even possible?
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How can I always open certain URLs/domains in certain browsers?

My main browser is Firefox, so I want most URLs to open there when I've clicked on them from Thunderbird. But I want to look at Google+ in Chrome, where it's faster; likewise a few other JavaScript-...
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Create recursive hardlink of entire folder

First of all, I know that you can't create hardlinks of a folder. I was wondering if there was any command (linux) that could automatically (and recursively) create the subsequent folder-tree at the ...
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Win 11 home ed. with Admin privs. Can not run "Phone Link" despite multiple uninstall/reinstall reboots. There is no executable to run

I am the computer's owner with Administrator privileges, on Windows 11 Home Ed., but can not run "Phone Link" because "the app has been blocked by your system administrator" I ...
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Outlook add to internal link in email "file:///"

Since a week ago outlook chnaged his behaviour and started to add to the link used for the locall network "file://" and made impossible to open files on local network, someone has a solution?...
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Linux how to execute links in root folder

In windows if you create a shortcut to a .exe file or .bat, that file will run on its own directory, not where shortcut is, but in Linux, links pointing to scripts run in same directory as where link ...
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Slide links turned into not working hyperlinks. How to turn the hyperlinks back to slide links or make the hyperlinks work?

A Powerpoint presentation from 2009 that has working slide links was saved as a new file, in the same format "Microsoft PowerPoint 97-2003-Präsentation (.ppt)", and the slide links have ...
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Hyperlink to .bat file within an Excel file, no longer works. "No Program is registered to open this file"

I have a hyperlink in Excel that is directed to a batch file on my domain network (actually multiple links for multiple files). For years, I can click the hyperlinks in Excel and after clicking 'OK' ...
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What's the safest way to open a suspicious link?

Sometimes I get very suspicious messages or I see a random link somewhere I obviously don't click on them but I'm still curious what's on the site. So that makes me wonder what's the safest way to ...
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Possible to make *some* symlinks behave like 'cd -P'?

In Linux, suppose you have a symlink at /foo/bar that points at directory /foo/baz. Case 1: If you do cd /foo/bar, you'll be in /foo/bar/baz. Case 2: If you do cd -P /foo/bar you'll be in /foo/baz. (...
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How can I store a webpage title inside a Windows .url file?

This is a question about the .url file format: How can I store the webpage title inside a Windows .url file ? I was unable to find an official documentation of the .url file format anywhere on the Net....
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Import HTML anchors into MS Word

I have a HTML document with lots of internal links. Something like this: <h1 id="anchor">A Heading</h1> A LOT OF TEXT <a href="#anchor">Click to return to the beginning</a>. ...
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Remove delete option for broken file shortcuts in Windows 10

In Windows 10, if a link / file shortcut is "broken", a error message is shown: The item ‘[filename]’ that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved. Do you want to delete it? This ...
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How do I create a desktop icon to create an Outlook note?

In Microsoft Outlook 2016, it's possible to create notes that get stored similar to the Windows Sticky Note app. The problem is it's inconvenient to create these notes, but they're useful because they ...
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Link preview in Telegram client expose IP address?

When you receive a link in telegram messenger there is a small preview of what you see when opening the link. Will this preview expose the clients IP address already or is that preview generated in ...
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How to find links to other Excel workbooks when a search on the linked file names fails?

When I first built my Excel 2016 workbook, I used links to other workbooks. Then at some step, I performed a copy/past by values to suppress the links. But when I open the workbook, Excel ...
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How can I make a 50" long PDF from an email with preserving links?

Windows 10 on Lenovo YOGA, using Thunderbird and Wondershare's PDFElement. Email is a newsletter (in HTML I'm pretty sure); when I make a PDF it breaks into many ugly 8.5" x 11" pgs. but all ...
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Links browser "SSL error"

I have macos 10.10 Yosemite on my laptop and i configured links with this command: ./configure --x-includes=/usr/X11/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib/ --with-ssl --enable-graphics Output was: ...
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Where can I find netflix.exe?

That might sound a bit stupid but I can't get my head around on where netflix.exe is actually located. I can see in my process manager that such a process actually exists when I open the app in ...
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pfsense routing table: link vs interface

Here is my pfsense IPv4 outing table (netatst -r): Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire default 192.168.4.1 UGS em0 127.0.0.1 link#4 ...
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After clicking on an internal link in a PDF in the native Chrome PDF viewer, how can I go back to the location of the text where the link is located?

After clicking on an internal link in a PDF in the native Chrome PDF viewer, how can I go back to the location of the text where the link is located? Example of internal link in a PDF (green ...
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Can CALC external links be turned to internal links?

If I move or copy a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet that has external links to spreadsheets within a LibreOffice workbook, can the external links be converted to internal and, if yes, how?
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Showing anchor href links formatted normally

In reading user generated content on the web where links are allowed in the content, I have encountered cases where the normal underline text format (that indicates that the text is a link) is ...
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Can I link from my website to a certain section of a PDF?

I write a blog on WordPress for my cosmetology school and I'm trying to link to a certain section of page in an external PDF from the MN Board of Cosmetology. I've been using #page= at the end of my ...
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Resilient file or directory linking or automatic link updating?

Is there a file or directory link method that would be dynamic/resilient against target change? I mean if I create a link mklink /d test c:\test I can change the link name after but not rename/move ...
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How to see source of linked image in PowerPoint?

I have a PowerPoint presentation made in Office 2016, where I am linking to some images in a folder. Thus, when the pictures change (e.g. due to being updated with new data), the images in the ...
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Can't delete folders/files within a symbolic link or junction mklink

I used mklink to create a symbolic link /d to a hard drive. Now, even though I am the owner, confirmed by the "Take Ownership" process, I cannot delete files located in this symbolic link. ...
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I have two cells each with comma delimited values, I want to combine these into one cell

I have two excel cells(A1 and B1) each contains comma delimited values in, I want to combine these values into one cell (C1), so that the first value from cell A1 is "linked" to the first ...
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How to get a direct link to a twitter video?

How do I get a direct link to a video embedded in a tweet? For example, the video embedded in this tweet can be watched directly here. Note: I got the link from the Feedbro extension which can show an ...
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Change the iTunes Backup Location in Windows 10 fail

Cannot create a file when that file already exists? why is this happened?
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Trying to download threads from a forum that's shutting down, but HTTrack isn't saving images/menu/colors and page links correctly

NotebookReview is shutting down at the end of the month, and there are several threads in their forum that I want to download to my PC before all the information is gone forever. I am trying to use ...
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Start menu items without "Open file location" option to them: how to rename? (Windows 10)

Just upgraded my wsl Ubuntu distro to 20.10 "by hand"; the start menu entry name remained "Ubuntu 20.04 LTS" and I would like to rename it accordingly. How to do it? The problem is ...
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Problems with links form word to Excel

I am used to link excel tables and cells in to word using paste special/past link/HTML format (unformatted text). Sometimes I encounter with two problems that maybe are related to each other (but I am ...

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