Questions tagged [windows-10]
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Is it possible to send Shared Drive's login information via Scheduled Task Arguments?
I have an application stored in a shared drive that requires user and password to login and access its files. I also have a scheduled task that is supposed to run that application on a local pc.
Is ...
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windows wont start via grub
So i recently installed ubuntu ( i had windows 10 already installed on my SSD). I installed it on a partition on my HDD. I tried to make it so if I boot from the HDD grub would start. When grub ...
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What is the difference between Windows Credentials and Generic Credentials?
I have noticed that when I add credentials for a shared drive as Generic Credentials instead of Windows Credentials to the Windows Credentials Manager they don't work, but when they are added as the ...
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Script or method to bulk edit file links within multiple PDFs
I received a set of project plans consisting of about 500 PDFs in 30 folders. All of these PDFs were originally set up with links based on the filename which previously incorporated the wrong project ...
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Certain key doesn't work when pressed, only when held
After swapping my language and input options about (UK layout and German layout) to support the two keyboards I have, a certain key will stop working partially depending on the layout.
If I swap my ...
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Hyper-V snapshot/checkpoint behavior with physical hard disk
What is the behavior of the snapshot/checkpoint feature in Hyper-V when there are physical hard disks attached to the virtual machine? I have a virtual machine with four physical disks passed through ...
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How can I connect my Surface Book 2 to two external monitors?
I have a Surface Book 2 (Windows 10) which I want to connect to two external monitors.
In total, I wish to have three screens: 1 x Surface Book screen and 2 x external screens.
I have extended the ...
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Laptop restarted by itself
System info:
MSI GS63 7RD (few months old)
Windows 10 v1709
At the time the laptop was connected to 4 external displays (2 of them displaylink)
I left my computer awake on the lock screen. It is ...
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Clean install of Win10 (free upgrade version)
I have Parallels running on my Mac, several years ago I got a copy of Windows 8 on disc from which I set up a VM. In time this was upgraded to Win 8.1 and Win 10, all within the VM.
I want to get rid ...
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Windows 10 System Wide Pauses
I have a rather serious issue on Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB 32-bit:
On this machine an application is running 24/7 with a lot of networking going on. In total there are 14 network ports.
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Can surf the internet but can't play online games
I bought an SSD-drive and a new power supply, installed Win 10 x64 on it, connected to the Internet via the TP-Link WiFi adapter TL-WN723N.
The Internet works great, I can download, watch videos on ...
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Application always starts in background process after Windows 10 update
I did last Tuesday Update on my Windows 10, after that my Firefox, which is not changed, starts ok but always in background process, so I can't access its GUI.
I have last stable version of Firefox ...
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Some fonts on Chrome on Windows 10 are massive - how to fix?
Some fonts on Chrome on Windows 10 are extremely large. Most are fine, but occasionally, I see a font that looks three or four times as big as it should be. For example, the tooltip on mouseover on a ...
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Windows Update 'Check for updates' does nothing
My Windows 10 hasn't been updated for a while. When I open Windows Update, I see the following text:
Your device is at risk because it's out of date and missing important security and quality updates....
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Windows 10 not using imported cert to decrypt EFS files
I encrypted some files with Windows's built-in EFS encryption, which involved creating a new EFS certificate and saving a backup of it somewhere. I recently swapped motherboards/re-imaged my PC and ...
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Windows 10 record DVR not working with GTX 750 TI
I recently bought an Nvidia Gforce GTX 750 TI graphics card. I installed it and ran all the driver updates through windows and the Nvidia update utility.
When I attempt to record through the built-in ...
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How to know and remove multiple network adapters in Windows 10
How do I know and remove multiple network adapters in my Network Connections in Windows 10?
I have read How to delete Network Adapter for Windows 10.
But how do I know which ones to keep and which ...
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Computer fails to boot
My computer starting freezing (showing 100% disk usage for the boot drive) so I tried restarting. Now it won't get past the motherboard flash screen. If I wait there, it eventually goes to a screen ...
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AutoIt Error when charging laptop
This message appears when I charge the laptop (hp)
and disappears when I remove the charger, tiyfmr.clh file in the message I can't find it in vlegjw folder and vlegjw is hidden and only display when ...
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Start menu not opening from either taskbar or keyboard button [ Windows 10]
I am unable to open my start menu by pressing the start button on the taskbar or keyboard. When either are pressed, the current focused program loses focus but nothing opens.
I have tried typing sfc /...
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Windows 10 Controlled folder access - remove "Documents" from protected folders list
Is there a way to remove "Documents" from protected folders (Controlled folder access) in Windows 10?
I have Controlled folder access feature on, but by default all user's folders are protected - ...
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Why is Windows 10 freezing for a second everytime the background changes?
I have my Windows 10 laptop set to change my desktop background every minute by using the built-in Windows feature to set it to a slideshow of a folder. It also changes the accent color accordingly. ...
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How to remote desktop separately when another people using the computer
I'm having this problem: I want to borrow my friend's computer to do some heavy render task. But I don't want to disturb him when he is using his computer. So I want to use remote desktop or any other ...
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Arrange windows in 8 tiles on Win 10
I normally arrange my windows on my FullHD monitor side-by-side:
To achieve that, I can simply press ← for the left window and → for the right one.
I then bought a new 4K (a.k.a. UltraHD) monitor - ...
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I have a NVIDIA GeForce graphics card as well as an integrated Intel HD graphics card
I have a NVIDIA GeForce graphics card as well as an integrated Intel HD graphics card. I know that by default NVIDIA is disabled, so I switched the setting on most of my programs to use NVIDIA however ...
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Allowing Windows to communicate with USB devices when locked
Using Windows 10, is there an option to let Windows communicate with a USB device when the user account screen is locked?
Example:
User connects a USB device that has an LED connected to it.
User ...
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How to enable grub loader to support multiple OS boot
I have a lenovo laptop with windows 10 installed in UEFI mode. I wanted to install ubuntu OS and make the system a multiple OS boot system. I have installed the ubuntu OS by making a slight change in ...
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Chrome uses 80% CPU when I visit a specific website
Whenever I try to visit this particular website, chrome CPU usage shoots up to at least 75% and my laptop get way louder. If I close the tab everything goes back to normal.
RAM usage never goes up. ...
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Windows 10 not detecting Wi-Fi after booting Ubuntu
I'm dual-booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu. That said, I recently broke Windows 10 in trying to move it to an SSD and now have a clean install.
Every time I boot Windows after previously booting Ubuntu, ...
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Visual Studio 2017 installation fails
I am trying to install Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition on a Windows 10 machine which was recently reformatted. There's hardly anything installed but it is up-to-date in terms of Windows Updates. ...
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Notebook won't use dedicated graphic card
I have a Dell XPS 15 and I recently re-installed Win 10 (I don't know if the same behavior was happening before that).
I have also installed the Geforce Experience and the graphic card driver using ...
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Cascading Context Menu in Registry Editor
Following a guide, I've been trying to create a cascading menu as a new item in the context menu of a directory.
The item appears in the context menu just fine, however it doesn't open up to list ...
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Raidxpert2 shows disks but won't enable them
I have a Gigabyte X399 motherboard with Raid enabled. I have 2x250gb SSDs in RAID 0 with Windows installed. These two drives operate as expected.
I have another 2 SSD drives both 240gb and a 1TB ...
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Windows 10 - When combining MBR and GPT drives, does this affect boot priority?
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I have three drives in my computer. An SSD and two HDDs for storage (let's call them HDD1 and HDD2). My operating system is installed on the SSD. HDD1 has served me well for 7+ years and is ...
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How to measure LAN speed between Linux and Windows?
I have Linux machine running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I have Windows machine running Windows 10 Prof. When I open Putty terminal from Windows to Linux, I have characters appear with significant delay.
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Powershell command to update driver automatically from Windows Update
I am working on re-imaging some older machines. The process is down to a science, and the latest drivers from the manufacturer are injected after the imaging, automatically. I'm happy with this ...
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Updated driver for (playstation 1/2 to usb driver) now input is no longer read
I have a cheap USB to playstation 1 / 2 adapter that I was trying to get working using some drivers.
They initially appeared as a HID Compliant Game Controller, and using the windows 10 setup usb ...
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Can I(and if yes, how) Copy Windows 10 Home or/and Pro to Bootable Flash Drive
I want to buy Windows 10(home or pro, not sure yet) and a laptop without CD Drive and be able to install(when needed) Windows 10, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to copy Windows 10 to Flash Drive and ...
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Official downloads for Windows 10 N?
I know from experience that using a product key for an N version of Windows with a non-N version installation will fail.
Earlier I could just select the N edition in Microsoft's web form for ...
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Granting windows service file access
I'm attempting to run a connection with openssh by using a service. Unfortunately, openssh requires that the authentication key is readable only by the one user who intends to well..use it (If there's ...
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No Touchpad Settings - Windows 10
Please take a look at this article from PCWorld, and view the screenshots, Windows 10 provides so many customization for the Touchpad, but on my laptop I don't have those options, here's a screenshot ...
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VirtualBox: switch access to an attached USB device between guest and host from command line
I have a remote Windows 10 computer that serves as host for Linux (Debian 9) running as guest inside VirtualBox. The VM runs in Network Bridged Mode, so both OSes have local IP addresses and can "see" ...
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Splitting a text file by number of lines, not size
Using Total Commander you can split files by byte size, but that's obviously indiscriminate towards the content.
Is it possible to split files by number of lines instead?
Using Total Commander or ...
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OneDrive: "We can't sign you in" - Cannot resolve with cryptic error about browser cookies
Seeing an odd issue on a workstation's OneDrive installation. Getting the following error after attempting to enter the email for login:
As you can see, it suggest that the browser is set to block ...
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Installer Error 1721 - Win 10 won't allow writing a file component, possibly permissions?
Out of thousands of Windows 10 clients, ONE USER running Windows 10 Home Edition gets an error from our Installshield-created installer:
Error 1721. There is a problem with this Windows Installer ...
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How can I add a custom file association in Windows 10
My concrete case is that I'm using Oracle VirtualBox and I want to be able to right-click the .vdi file and have the option "Compact" in the list (next to things like "delete", "send to mail", "send ...
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Can't rename DLL file on Windows
I downloaded the PicoScope SDK, and I am trying to rename one of the DLLs (according to their programmer's guide p.5). However, Windows 10 won't let me do this.
I'm trying to change the file name ...
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Can File Contents Be Mixed Up?
I have an interesting case where Defrag? and power off seems to produce interesting side effects.
I have found a read only xml file which starts with binary content:
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Why is Windows using all RAM for deleting files?
I have a huge backup archive on a secondary hard drive that I'm deleting right now. After hours of progress in the delete dialog windows is now stuck on 99% and is filling up my RAM. Interestingly the ...
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Windows 10 hide public desktop icons [duplicate]
I have a windows 10 laptop at work. It's set up to show default icons on the desktop from the C:\Users\Public\Desktop folder. I hate that these icons clutter up my workspace but I have no privilege to ...