Questions tagged [windows]
For questions not specific to a single version of Microsoft Windows. Otherwise, use a more specific tag such as [windows-7], [windows-10] or [windows-11].
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Why does clipboard history instantly turn itself off/refuse to turn on? Windows 11 Home Edition
I have Windows 11 Home Edition, and pressing WIN+V opens up the "clipboard history" box. It says "Let's get started / Turn on clipboard history to copy and view multiple items." ...
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How do you boot Windows 10 from an external SSD and how do you extract HKEY_CURRENT_USER subkeys?
So the following happened:
I installed Linux on my new SSD and when I tried booting the external SSD (containing my old Windows 10) thru an SATA to USB adapter it thought it's a good idea to try to &...
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How can I view the max wattage of my usbcpd port of my laptop?
I have a Lenovo laptop with one of the USB C 3.2 gen 2 ports labeled as USB-PD, and I'm wondering what it is rated for. Based on some Googling it seems that USB 3.1 PD ports support up to 240 watts, ...
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Unable to run Windows updated or shutdown
I recently had an issue, where I was formatting an old SSD, where I had Linux installed.
Afterwards I remembered, that when I was installing Linux on it, the bootloader or something was moved to that ...
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Windows 11 - Disabled sound output device keeps reappearing
I have two sound output devices I want: headphones and speakers.
My problem is that I have a third sound output device that keeps popping up even though I disabled it: The monitor. It will show up ...
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Windows can't connect more than 64k concurrency outgoing connection
I'm trying to make 100k concurrency outgoing connection from one pc to my local server.
My program can use specific ip on each connection.
Goal : 1 pc have around 100k concurrency outgoing connection.
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How can I cast from my Windows PC to Firestick without Miracast?
How can I cast my screen and audio from my Windows 11 PC to my TV connected to a Firestick? My motherboard has WiFi but it seems like Miracast won't work because I have an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X + Nvidia ...
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Use WDAC to block an EXE except when called by specific program? Possible?
Context: When Windows Defender Application Control blocks a program, in the Event Viewer log it also shows which application/process tried to open the blocked exe. For example it says this, followed ...
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Font family automatically resets to default (Calibri) as soon as I start typing
Here is what I'm experiencing, in Windows 11:
open a blank Wordpad document, type some text in it;
select all, and set the font family to anything other than 'Calibri' (e.g. Trebuchet MS);
put the ...
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Why is Windows 11 Numlock flickering
Suddenly on my Gigabyte G5 MD Windows 11 laptop NumLock started constantly to turn itself on and off,
please any ideas is it a hardware or OS issue?
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Hide & disable Windows 10 taskbar at all
I need to launch Windows but with taskbar hidden at all, not just the auto-hide option but totally hidden, without the possibility to show it with the mouse. It needs to be the default behavior at the ...
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Image a drive to network share from Windows
I have used both dd and clonezilla to image drives, and that's great for us Linux folks; but I have clients that run Windows and I'd like to be able to be able to either clone to an external drive (I ...
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Windows 10 Sound Mixer: Is it normal for only speakers to show activity?
I can open a cmd.exe terminal in windows 10 and echo ^G to make the terminal beep. When I do this, the Windows 10 sound mixer shows activity for my speakers (first column), but NOT anywhere else.
I ...
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Is there a way to change the Windows Insider text/watermark?
I was wondering if I could change the Watermark text or add text to it. As an example some builds have the "do not take screenshots" text above the watermark. Could I add custom text or ...
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Windows program uses incorrect (bold) font
I have program running on windows 10 which refuses to use correct font. I could only find 3 similar cases on entire web and solutions provided are not helpful, which is driving me nuts.
It appears the ...
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Azure VPN randomly stops connecting on Windows 11
I use Azure VPN to connect to two different Azure environments at once. Periodically, one or more of these connections will die and leave me unable to reconnect. The "Connect" button in the ...
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Secure copy of large amounts of directories from Win to Linux and exclude certain filename patterns
I need to copy several Tbs of data FROM a Windows computer TO a Linux computer. I can do this in two commands in Command Prompt
Copy only directories and files that are not jpeg or jpg
robocopy ...
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How to run Safe Exam Browser on Linux
for school I have to run the Safe Exam Browser (SEB), but on my Laptop I have installed Pop!_OS and SEB doesn't support Linux.
I tried running on a VM but it didn't work because the configuration is ...
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Deleting folder named "." [duplicate]
When (typing) dir on Desktop in cmd.exe (admin) I get:
14/09/2023 16:51 <DIR> .
14/09/2023 16:51 <DIR> ..
When:
rmdir /Q /S \\?\C:\Users\Fireb\Desktop\.\
or any ...
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Docker desktop is failing DNS lookup on both Windows and Mac
I have three machines on the same network (simple, home one with BT router) Windows, Mac and Linux. The first two, running Docker Desktop (4.23.0) exhibit this issue, while the Linux one (running ...
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Make a bootable WinRE and certain applications in it [duplicate]
Although, you guys know what is "Bootable entrances" right? As to run a Windows or any bootable stuffs (like WinPE or tweaked Android, Linux,... OS)
Usually we need a Recovery Environment ...
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Creating a script for Windows 11 to gzip some files using 7-zip then move and replace them in another folder
I have the following directory structure:
Parent Folder: Project
Children of Project: data, rawData
Inside of rawData I have: index.html, settings.html, user.html, script.js, style.css and other files....
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Can I set priority of WiFi AP's on the same network as a user? [closed]
The scenario is that I am an employee at a company where they have set up a network that spans the entire floor of the office. They have used a sort of mesh system so there is only one Wi-Fi network ...
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Windows 10: leave only one language per one keyboard layout
I have Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. Recently I performed clean installation. Although updates are not finished yet (feature update constantly can't be installed now for some reason, I'll try something and ...
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Is there a way to prevent new profiles being added on chrome windows using registry editor?
I went here Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome and created a Dword 32-bit value with the name BrowserAddPersonEnabled & value 1.
This worked well but after I stopped Edge ...
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Whatsapp running at startup on Windows 10
I have installed the Whatsapp desktop application on windows 10. I downloaded and installed it via the Microsoft Store. I have gone into the startup section on the Task Manager and have stopped the ...
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Changing Open With default program and "the file cannot be accessed by the system" error [duplicate]
I have written a .sh file and I want to run it in Windows terminal by double clicking on it.
Todo so, I follow;
.sh file > Right click > Properties > Opens with: > Change > Look for ...
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Using external GPS on browser
I have the Cable GPS with USB interface (SiRF Star IV).
I want my browser to use my external GPS instead of my location from my laptop/prodiver.
On a browser I want to see the locaation of my external ...
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External GPS to browser [duplicate]
I have the Cable GPS with USB interface (SiRF Star IV).
I have a problem, when I wanna look on my internet browser to find my location it takes the location from my laptop, but I want it to be my ...
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In bios mode it will not select or deselect anything [closed]
Plz help me my acer laptop says missing boot. So I open bios mode and it will not select or deselect. It's stuck and only moves left or right
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Graphic card motherboard keeps beeping as soon as it boots up and the display doesn't come on
My computer specifications
Intel motherboard
Core i3
8gb ram
500 power supply
1tb hard
Nvidia geforce gt 630 graphic card
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Windows 10 Explorer no longer starting
I've been having 2 issues with Windows 10 for a few weeks:
The Security Center is not able to start and keeps terminating unexpectedly
The Windows Defender Quarantine folder has 700MB of files that ...
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run adb command after clicking a (google maps) link
I have an interactive map (leaflet) that displays custom markers that contain links to google maps. When I click this link, an adb command should be executed which contains the google maps URL.
I have ...
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Vulnerable Windows DLL Not updating
I have a Windows 2022 VM in Azure that vulnerability scanning is flagging because of an outdated Windows system DLL that has a vulnerability that was patched.
The dll in question is winmm.dll and the ...
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How to reconnect already paired bluetooth controller?
I cannot find any helpful information online, either they say "run Windows update" or "reinstall bluetooth drivers". The drivers are not a problem, Windows settings just does not ...
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Windows 11 boots slowly (tens of minutes), with Boot Degradation (ID: 101) in Event Viewer: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
My Windows 11 install boots slowly, sometimes taking tens of minutes, sometimes an hour or more. To rule out common issues, I have already performed the following:
Full virus scan (no issues detected)...
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How to remove all files that have been added to a Windows 10 file system from a certain account since a certain time?
My Windows 10 system has several accounts. I'd like to reset just one of them to its initial state. More accurately, I'd like to delete permanently any and all files that the user may have added to ...
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Chrome and Brave browser lagging in Windows 11
I've been experiencing some performance issues with Google Chrome and Brave Browser on my Windows 11 computer. Interestingly, when I run Chrome or Brave as an administrator, it seems to work smoothly ...
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Performance difference under Windows Server with two identical applications
I have two dedicated servers running Windows Server 2016. Both are for shared hosting of websites (developed in ASP NET MVC / Framework 4.8 and hosted via IIS). All the websites run correctly on the ...
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Establishing an Azure VPN connection from CLI/PowerShell
I've installed Azure VPN Client app and configured an Azure VPN profile. It works when I manually start it via the app's UI.
How do I initiate the connection via command line, Azure CLI or PowerShell?
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Windows 11 periodically freeze 1-2 seconds every 3-10 minutes
I have a Windows 11 Pro 10.0.22621 Build 22621.2283 on a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with ProArt X570-CREATOR, 128GB RAM a GPU P2000, only SSD 2TB Evo 970. BIOS was updated to 1301 (latest)
I have done a fresh ...
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Custom Text-To-Speech Narrator voices for Windows Screen Reader
I've been messing around a bit with TorToiSe TTS a bit recently and have realized that Windows 11 has a built-in screen reader function for people with vision impairment. I was wondering if there was ...
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WinRar and 7zip command to extract archive in new folder
Good morning
I would like to know if there is a command in WinRar and 7zip that allows me to extract a compressed file into a new folder with the same file name, equivalent to right-clicking and ...
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Upgrading an older HP Pavilion laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10
I'm updating someone's older HP Pavilion laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool.
I've created a recovery partition and made a complete system backup, in case ...
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access files in Manjaro partition from Windows partition
I am dual-booting Windows 10 and Manjaro Linux. While running a pacman -Syu on the Manjaro partition, the computer crashed. Pacman stopped working and at first I tried to fix it by deleting the lock ...
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Windows only shows 2.33Ghz with 2 cpus, when both cpus are 2.33Ghz each
I have a 2 cpu slot motherboard, each filled with a Intel Xeon E5410, which has 2.33Ghz, and 4 cores. I task manager, it shows 2 cpus, but is only recognising 2.33Ghz, instead of 4.66Ghz (I'm using ...
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Network Error: 0x80070043 - The network name cannot be found. Trying to insert a new drive
I'm using a 3-year-old computer - HP laptop, so I wanted to insert a new Windows 10 network drive on File Explorer, but the map network drive won't let me insert because the network name cannot be ...
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How to control the fan speed on compact desktop HP Elite 8200 SFF?
I have some HP Elite 8200 SFF desktops that I plan to refurbish.
These have two fans, one for the PSU and one for the CPU, which are quite loudy, as spinning at quite high speed and without ...
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I cannot use the computer because the Windows Hello PIN BOX does not appear
I am currently using Windows 10 installed on an NVME SSD. And my computer motherboard is very old, so I boot Windows 10 using Clover bootloader.
First of all, my NVME SSD Windows 10 can boot.
However, ...
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UEFI in asus H110 motherboard not work
I have created a bootable GPT and UEFI flash drive. but when I connect it to the system a screen appear that the BIOS configuration is not UEFI, it is legacy, but I set the motherboard configuration ...
