Questions tagged [windows-7]
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What steps are needed to activate audio enhancements and beamforming using the default Windows audio driver on Win11?
Win7 had something called Audioenhancements for Speakers and Microphones. Not all Enhancements are available for all devices. Most times there are only a few enhancements available. In Win11 those ...
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Why we use window 7 for enabling telnet?Is there any connection between them?Or we can use any latest window to enable telnet while using kali linux?
I want to check the lan connections in my telnet network with the help of kali linux. So using window 7 it's possible, but my question is that why window 7 is important. Can't we use another window
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Back-up automatically through LAN shared
I have 11 Pc share through LAN (Back-up folder which be create by date vise) that 11pc back-up folder will be back-up in another PC through LAN.
Everyday I need to delete old folder(pervious folder) ...
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sharing printer from Windows 7 to Windows 7/10 error 0x0000011b
I have a printer which is connected with a USB cable to a Windows 7 machine and want to share it to a Windows 10 and 7 machines I do see it in network sharing from them machine but no matters which ...
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How to cancel the automatic turn on mode of the computer
Good time. My computer is mini hp model. When I turn off the computer or put it in sleep mode, it turns on automatically after a few seconds. How do you think I can fix it?!
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(Windows 7 virtualbox) Crashes After I Enable 3D Accelation And Change Resolution
I installed windows 7 on Oracle Virtualbox. I Can't change the resolution. When I try, it shuts down and restarts windows 7. It works when 3D acceleration is off.
(I have guest additions)
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External Hard Drive Going to Sleep CONSTANTLY
External Hard Drive Going to Sleep CONSTANTLY:
I've been a tech 30 years, I've NEVER seen this before. This is not a question I have ever encountered. Toshiba Canvio (Nightmare) external 3tb drive ...
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What is the default login password for the telnetd server? [duplicate]
I am trying to access the telnetd server on my D-Link Wireless AC1200 dual band gigabit range extender (DAP-1650) but I do not have the login password. I have attempted common passwords such as "...
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Laptop broke down when Deep Freeze is still active, Cannot start Windows in another laptop
I am using Deep Freeze Standard v8 in Windows 7. One day my computer won't start at all due to mainboard failure. It is totally dead. The problem is that Deep Freeze was active when it happened. I ...
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OpenVPN server not routing to its own LAN (Windows)
I'm trying to enable communication between local LAN of existing oVPN server and remote networks.
Both remote and local devices are communicating with PC (this was working for years) but they cannot ...
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Windows 10 installation keeps restarting from the beginning after successful installation
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I have decided to upgrade my old Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10. I downloaded the ISO file from the official Windows 10 download page as the installation media creation tool did not ...
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Limited connectivity when connecting computer Windows 7 To personal hotspot on iPhone
I am having problems connecting a computer with Windows 7 to an iPhone hotspot iOS 16 because it cannot use internet, staying in "limited connectivity"
Any other Wifi connection with this ...
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MiniTool issue creates orphaned files (unusable programs) and unallocated 1Mb partitions in Windows 7 when resizing C: partition
I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to repartition my recovery partition and make it bigger so that I can make a virtual machine with VMware which was complaining about its size. After that I could get ...
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Windows audio sounds muffled when plugging headphones back in
I've recently began to encounter an issue where my audio would sound very muffled. Often times, voices are completely drowned out by some other audio. For example, when playing Overwatch, I can barely ...
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Force network credentials
Is there a way to force Windows 7 to ask for network credentials after a specified amount of time? It will ask for the credentials on my networked drives after a reboot, but even if idle for days, it ...
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Strange MXM SLi card behavior
I have a 2008 Dell XPS M1730 laptop that I have recently acquired a brand new still in plastic dual 0K650M 9800M GTX card for, but I haven’t been able to get the SLi to work correctly.
When viewing ...
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Resetting window control buttons to the original in Windows 7
I'm using a Windows 7 laptop for the time being until I can repair my Windows 11 machine. Now I have one question I had once back in 2012.
My window control buttons look like this:
I want them to ...
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Visual studio repeatedly asking for credentials where credentials are correct & working with other applications
i am trying to get connect to my visual studio but its asking me for enter credential once i ask its again asking for credential its going on in a loop i have been deleted my credential form windows ...
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Windows blocks program to summon browser
Recently I have been facing some issues with some of my installed programs. Custom programs to access and program microcontrollers.
Some of these programs have kind of internet guides, which you would ...
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Can't share network printer from windows 11 to windows 7
I have a Kyocera TASKalfa 220 plugged into a Windows 11 PC and I want to share it with a Windows 7 one. I can share files but when I try to add it (the printer) to Windows 7 through the network it ...
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CPU 100% busy and computer very slow (from time to time)
I have a problem that something causes my computer to run at 100% cpu usage but nothing is in general processing. It looks like something is breaking up because suddenly all running processes got 10x ...
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change back iso file's default open program in Windows 7
In Windows 10, I can use explorer to open iso file. I think windows 7 can also do it.
So I change an iso file default open program to C:\Windows\explorer.exe, but it didn't work, and I can't change it ...
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How important are registry ROOT menu entries
I ‘m doing a fresh install of Windows 7 on another PC. Before making an image backup I do a clean-up of the junk.
After using ShellNewHandler to remove unwanted New context menu entries. I discovered ...
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Windows 7 display issue: blurry and messed up images and fonts
If it is not the right space to post this, where can I post it?
I just installed Windows 7 SP1 on an old Thinkpad T400 and I am seeing display issues. I am currently on an external screen (VGA port) ...
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What is required to to determine a way of detecting when the windows auditing service is down without using 1100
Windows EVentCode 1100 is being used to monitor when the windows auditing service shuts down.
However, it also triggers when a server is shut down.
What is required to determine a way of detecting ...
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Missing some Unicode glyphs on Windows 7, is there way to fix/patch it?
I have an arrowsbe.txt file, with the following content (in hex):
FE FF 00 41 00 42 00 43 2B A1 00 20 2B A2
You see, it is UTF-16BE encoded, with BOM at file start. There are two not-so-often seen ...
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Hyper-V is not found on windows 7 bios
I'm currently using Windows 7 Home OS with 2GB RAM and cores and I was trying to install x64 Ubuntu on most recent version Oracle VirtualBox for college assignment. All I got is the following occured ...
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How to specify custom a sound scheme within a Windows theme file?
In Windows, one can create custom themes, defined by .theme files. Each theme also contains a sound scheme for audio cues, as specified in the Sounds section of the .theme file:
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How to recover passwords from Google Chrome login data file
I have removed a standard user password on a windows machine with administrator user from console management; after removing the password of standard user when i open google chrome i don't see the ...
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How to overwrite all files only if SAME size and exact duplicate while renaming if different size?
I'm using Teracopy, but Windows also does not have this function. Instead it wants me to replace the file only if DIFFERENT, or skip it if the name is the same. I want to do the opposite.
I need to ...
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How can I know who's using an RDP connection?
Two years ago, I was working in a dreadful company. There, all my colleagues were using RDP connections and in order to know if a connection was available, I needed to ask them. So I have asked this ...
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Of what use are empty Windows Registry HKCR keys for my C: and D: drives? Can they be deleted?
I've been having ongoing issues with my system not starting correctly sometimes.
I've run chkdsk on my C: drive and have run sfc. Both reported no issues. Next I thought I'd get a registry cleaner and ...
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Driver BSODs (Minidump inside)
I have been attempting to troubleshoots some BSODs on an older machine running Windows 7. It first generated a corrupted dump that only gave me the following info:
DRIVER_CORRUPTED_EXPOOL (c5)
An ...
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How to add NVMe drivers to an SSD to a cloned Windows installation to use in new computer so the system can boot?
I used a disc cloning software to clone a non-nvme drive into an NVMe drive.
The problem is that I need to add a couple drivers for Windows to boot. Namely, the NVMe drivers. This includes 2 hotfixes ...
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How to solve the windows7 Remote Desktop License error message？
I used rdpwrap to support multi-session login in win7. I am currently using windows7 as a remote desktop host.
But, However, after running for some time, you cannot connect to this host.
I was using ...
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java not updating "Failed to download required installation files."
On my Windows 7 machine the Java update consistently fails with this error message.This seems to a common problem, does anyone have an insight into what's going wrong, and is there a fix for it other ...
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How to set CanvasText color in Windows to properly reflect in web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Edge)?
Modern web browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, et al.) can be configured to use colours (colors) set by the operating system. They do this by using named colours such as ...
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I can't enable legacy boot mode in my Noblex SF20BA; the option does not show up
I need to enable legacy boot mode in order to install Windows 7 as dual boot with Windows 10.
I already have a bootable Windows 7 USB drive; which does not boot because I can't enable legacy boot mode....
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Windows 7 x64: Should I use W7 32bit drivers or Vista 64bit drivers? [duplicate]
So, I have a Samsung NC110 Netbook and I just installed windows 7 on it. The problem is that the provided video driver from samsung, wont install at all. So, I went ahead and looked up on Intel and ...
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My computer is not booting after some files got deleted
My computer (HP-mini Intel Atom) is not booting and showing just a blank screen.
I want to install Ubuntu onto it. Please help me with it.
I have the bootable USB stick ready but the main issue is ...
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Recover bootable Win 7 recovery drive from an image
I have a laptop that came with a Windows 7/OEM license, for which I still have the product key. I have replaced this OS with another (Linux), and I'm trying to re-install the former. Here's the ...
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Broken thumbnails of .cur (cursor) files in Windows
I am on Windows 7 x64 with Irfan Viewer installed. Most of the .cur files in C:\Windows\Cursors have icons of random things (programs, link files, even my .ico/.cur stash). When I go to the Properties ...
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How to switch mouse pointer shape or size when crossing monitors?
I have dual/triple monitor, and I need different mouse pointer size on each monitor.
I'm looking for a way to change mouse cursort depending on the monitor where the mouse cursor is at.
Can it be done ...
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How can I delete Microsoft Account (formerly Windows Live ID) automatically?
I'm looking for a way to delete accounts I've previously logged in with automatically with a script. I'm having trouble searching for the cache location of them. I've looked in multiple different ...
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How does a startup shortcut behave on W7 if nobody logs on?
I just added a shortcut to an app that I want to start when Windows starts to
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
It will run even if nobody is logged in? Should I do it in a ...
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Seperate shortcuts to run the same program as different compatibility windows version?
Can I have different shortcuts on the same windows user to run as different compatibility version.
For example
google chrome shortcut running as windows 7 compatibility
another google chrome shortcut ...
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I have a windows 7 desktop and need a way to restore deleted system backup purposely deleted by my ex wife
On my PC windows 7 desktop. Going through a horrible divorce and my ex has been wiping everything.
Is there any way to restore deleted system backup files or any other way to undo her efforts and ...
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Unlocking USER files on old Drives [duplicate]
I have old drives where I want to get to the download, pictures, and documents folders that windows creates. I have a SABRENT adapter that turns the drives into a USB drive. I can access any folder ...
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Change wallpaper of window
I had nude photos set as wallpaper, now I can’t change it back. Please help.
I do not know how to change it.
I want to remove it.
I don’t have Google so I do not no.
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can I change laptop bios menu hotkey?
I am trying to update the Toshiba Satellite c665 from windows 7 to 10 using bootable USB, but all my hotkey (f2,f12, ESC) is not working, so is there any way to change the hotkey or any method to ...
