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How do i make Internet Explorer portable?

As you know support for Internet Explorer (IE) is dropped, but I'm still using it for compatibility purposes. Eg. Bypass Webp format and save images in pure jpg or png format. I still have my windows ...
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My pc doesnt turn on and shows an error code [closed]

I have a laptop from hp 15s, it stopped turning on suddenly. It showed a cmos battery error, but my pc doesn't have one. It has eeprom chip instead. What should i do?
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Minecraft Server Not Accessible After Upgrading to Fiber Optic

Just recently we were upgraded to fiber optic with our service provider optimum. We use an eero router, & so our network stayed pretty much the same. Despite unlocking the port for the minecraft ...
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Second screen to laptop

I have an old laptop (4 year old) on Windows 10. It works fine but does not detect a second screen. Windows is up to date and I am sure the second screen/cables etc work as it works with a different ...
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Windows Phone Link audio quality

I tried using Windows Phone Link with my Samsung S21 and now also with Samsung S23+. Both on Windows 10 Professional and Windows 11 Professional. Former is a HP Elite desk 800 mini PC with integrated ...
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How to auto-refresh Chrome in kiosk mode

I've a computer (windows 10) with a link in the startup directory to launch a web page with Chrome in kiosk mode. It opens correctly but displays a blank page, until I press F5, at which point the ...
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Can I use a bootable drive partition to install OS on another partition on the same SSD?

I realize this is a little out of the box question so I wanted to reach out to the experts on the matter. I have a 256GB SSD. I have 2 partitions on it. Partition 1 is 20GB, another one is the rest of ...
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How do I pin Thunderbird / Thunderbird Portable (and other stubbornly unpinnable programs) to my Windows 10 taskbar?

For most apps this is straightforward, as long as the app is running and showing on the taskbar, you simply right-click on the icon in the taskbar and a pin/unpin menu entry shows up. However, lately, ...
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How to view a jpg file which was recovered after being deleted and it's attribute was checked to hidden before deletion?

I had a photo which I turned to hidden because it was a personal photo which I didn't want others to see. I then deleted it permanently in haste but I needed it again. I then downloaded Recuva after ...
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shortcut to change main display while in extended mode

I'm using a tablet as my second/extended monitor, I want to find a way to map a single hot key combination to one of my buttons, so whenever I toggle it, it changes my main display to the other ...
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Bios update for FoxConn 2AB1 1.00 Motherboard System BIOS 6.04

Hey all this is for a HP Pavilion ELITE HPE-410f PC, want to update the bios, not sure if even available to do so current version is at 6.04. Want to upgrade ram/processor so need bios updated if ...
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How do I rearrange a wrong order of EFI and boot partitions?

I am upgrading my Windows 10 boot disk. I went from a 128 GiB SSD to a 1 TiB SSD, with the old disk having the following layout: |--99 MiB unalloc.--|--119 GiB boot--|--527 MiB recovery--| [MBR] I ...
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I have a undeleteable Linux icon which leads to wsl.localhost on my windows 10 desktop

So one day when I boot up my Windows 10 PC, there was a Linux icon on my desktop which leads to wsl.localhost in the file manager. And like I’ve said in the title, the icon/shortcut thing can’t be ...
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GPO Windows Update Settings to schedule installs and reboots

I need to set GPO settings on a domain to schedule the install & reboot for windows updates. The device is public facing so don't want any pop's on screen and want it all to happen out of hours. I ...
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Google Chrome hangs for 20+ seconds before loading URL

When opening Google Chrome, I can interact with the UI and task manager shows no significant resource usage, but when I navigate to a URL there is a 20+ second delay. I can open multiple tabs and ...
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Create new partition in all computers in the domain [closed]

I want to create new partition in all domains laptops, I have scripts but it’s running every time when the laptop starts up ,so is there any way to create new partition just once in all computers?
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How to quickly delete files and folders in Windows 10 so that they can never be recovered or accessed again

I have an application and txt files where the records of this application are kept. When I give a command via CMD, I want these files to be quickly deleted, irrecoverable and inaccessible. Depending ...
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VBS working from all pcs except 1. Works from shortcut with argument though

In the past I have used a very simple script: set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").RUN "C:\windows\system32\taskkill.exe /F /IM &...
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Messed Up By Changing Username using netplwiz on Windows 10

I MESSED UP MAJORLY BY CHANGING THE USERNAME OF MY ADMIN (THE ONLY ACC I USE) using netplwiz nd now I’m constantly getting the message “No Mapping between account names and Security Id was done” ...
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Stop WD My Passport SSD going to sleep on Asus Vivo X513EA w. Win 10. NO power options shown in win 10

Asus Vivo X513EA running Windows 10 all updates installed. I have two new WD My Passport SSD's, 1x2TB & 1x1TB, both only a couple of weeks old. I connect them via the USB-c port and within 20 ...
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HDD freezes Windows 10 when reading

My external hard drive (MAXTOR M3) run into issues lately. At first I thought the MFT or boot sector got damaged somehow. Because the drive didn't show up at all, not even in the disk management. The ...
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How do I sign in using a passkey on a remote pc (RDP)

I've a PC 1 at work where I can sign in into e.g.: GitHub using a passkey which is stored on my iPhone. Bluetooth has two activated on my iPhone and on my PC 1. I've a PC 2 at home where I can sign in ...
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Upgrade Windows 10 to 11 with ISO and apply Autounattend.xml

I want to upgrade a bunch of Windows 10 PCs with a customized Windows 11 ISO. Usually I pass some settings using autounattend.xml which I put in the ISOs root directory. So far so good, installing W11 ...
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FileSystemWatcher does not react to changes in excel file

I am trying to create a systemFileWatcher that watches a specific excel file for any changes. When triggered it should runs a few commands, logs the activity and then continues watching. However, for ...
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How to turn laptop display ON and OFF with a certain key?

I am looking for a way to turn on and off my laptop screen easily (without it going to sleep or hibernate mode). I have various automation scripts running in the background (which include mouse ...
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Win10 file created without any ownership/permission at all

I was editing some file in Photoshop and all of a sudden - without any sort of error or anything, normal work as always - I was unable to save the file, so I did "Save As" and then I went ...
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How to re-install Windows 10 education after upgrade to Windows 11?

I got a laptop from the government that had a pre-installed Windows 10 education volume license, I decided to upgrade it to Windows 11 but it wasn’t activating. Since it had been more than 10 days I ...
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Why is Microsoft redirecting me to alternate language versions of their Update Catalog?

I was browsing an article on the Microsoft website when a link redirected me to a Chinese language version of the Microsoft Update Catalog. There was no token in the URL, so I don't know why this was ...
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Windows Registry Shows Windows 10 Pro Despite Running Windows 11 Pro

My laptop is running on Windows 11 Pro, and the system settings indeed confirm that it's running Windows 11 Pro. However, when I use PowerShell to query the registry for the Windows version powershell ...
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How to stop running a program (like Chrome) from an external SSD

A few years ago, I did something that enabled me to install the Chrome browser on an external SSD and run it from there. Apologies for being about as unspecific as it gets! Because I don't remember ...
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Windows 10 on an old VAIO. Hypervisors?

A classmate asked me to try to restore an old Sony Vaio laptop to working condition. It's a VPCEE2E1E (model PCG-61611M) which originally came with Win7 Home and a built-in licence. The HDD is ...
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"Hard disk not found" after attempted install Ubuntu 23.10

I had a dual boot system with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04. I wanted to install Ubuntu 23.10 instead of 22.04. Info: Secure boot: off SATA mode: AHCI Boot mode: UEFI Windows and Linux are both ...
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Long delay before Windows 10 launch screen

When booting I've noticed the past several months an extremely long delay (10-15 seconds) after the intial boot prompts. Just a blank (black) screen, before the Windows launch screen appears. Just ...
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Why can't I disable shortcut / desktop icon delete without disabling important maintenance?

I don't want Windows 10 to remove shortcuts from my task bar or icons from my desktop for any reason. And yet apparently the only way to disable this behavior, is to also disable the entire Scheduled ...
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Win10 - Quarantined file by McAfee - r_74DB6FURNR2TGPBK.bin

On my Win10 desktop, McAfee quarantined the file, r_74DB6FURNR2TGPBK.bin, located at: C:\Users\UserAnon\AppData\Local\Microsoft\IdentityCache\1\UD\u_HJI7MQHTOTD91KRC\e_C2GK9UTC67FSUCG3\Accounts Image ...
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Four partitions on MBR disk

I have four partitions on an MBR disk: Boot Win 10 OS File Storage WinRE I have a need to install Windows 10 on the third [File Storage] partition, but I have an error that states Windows on UEFI ...
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Problems with duplicate startup items in Task Manager

I have problems regarding the startup list on my Task Manager in Windows 10, as seen in the picture below: You can see the duplicated entries that I marked in red circle. I have tried to find the ...
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Routing Windows 10 trafic via MacBook as Internet router

I try to configure MacBook Pro (Mid 2015, macOS High Sierra, v.10.13.6) to work as an Internet router for Win 10 laptop. My configuration: Ethernet cable directly connects Win 10 laptop Ethernet port ...
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Recovering non-booting Windows from overfull partition

Windows demands a minimum amount of free space on its partition. It reserves this space, so it cannot be used. So, Windows would say, the partition is completely full, the free space is zero. But it ...
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Moving Windows from SATA SSD to M2 RAID

I have a Windows 10 machine with Auros Z390 Pro mainbard, SATA SSD system disk and RAID0 with two M2 disks: How do I move my system to RAID? I created system image: and a recovery DVD. Also I have ...
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How to have windows 10 recognize a MSDOS FAT32 formatted USB stick?

I am using a HP EliteBook 840 G8 Notebook running windows 10 Enterprise (with a dock) and I have problems to recognize a USB stick (actually 2 of them). Both are recognized without any issues on a Mac,...
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Every method of installing unsigned printer driver has failed

I have tried enabling nointegritychecks, testsigning, disabling driver signature enforcement through advanced startup, using gpedit.msc to enable using unsigned drivers. Nothing I have tried works, ...
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How to unshare a shared folder shared to system owner in Windows 10?

I've shared a folder to myself (owner of the system in Windows 10), but now I cannot unshare it; under Owner I don't have Remove, etc. How can I do so? I have tried the following: $ net share c:\...
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WLAN showing an X and unable to connect

I have Windows 10 laptops for guests visiting our company and they want to connect to WLAN. However, the WLAN they need to conect to, shows an X in a circle: When clicking on the WLAN, I get an error ...
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Windows Update gives 0x80070643 error on fresh Windows 10 install

I just did a clean install of Windows 10 22H2 onto a freshly wiped hard disk. (If it matters, I installed from a USB drive that I prepared with the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool yesterday.) When it ...
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In Outlook, is there a way to open a previous session with items if the option to "ask me to reopen last items" does not appear when starting Outlook?

This option is already selected in the options yet Outlook did not save the last open items. Is there a way to get the previous session for Outlook?
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How can I tell in a script, which AzureAD domain a machine is joined to, and which groups it is in, locally on the machine?

I have existing PowerShell and VBScript scripts to tell me things like which AD domain and forest a machine is joined to, which OU it resides in, which site it considers itself to be in, etc. And I ...
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How to Share a Single GPU Among Multiple VMs with Parsec Connectivity?

I've managed to set up my HP Z4G4 workstation tower so that multiple guest VMs can share a single Quadro P4000 GPU. This was achieved by utilizing the scripts from the “Easy GPU PV” project found on ...
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Is there a way to save all Greenshot Captures in a folder but not temporary folder?

When capturing with greenshot the capture is saved in %TEMP% where it eventually gets deleted. Is there a way to save all the captures automatically to a specific greenshot folder so they do not get ...
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In Windows, how do I retrieve the data of which folders I most use?

Windows tracks which folders I use then displays the most used one in Quick Access beneath the pinned items. How do I retrieve this data? 1508457, 1072785, 885073 do not address this.
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