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 is 'kubectl' is not recognized as an internal or external command on WIndows?
I edited env variables by pointing to kubectl and helm(after downloading them and storing into kube folder)
when I go for kubectl in cmd,I got
'kubectl' is not recognized as an internal or external ...
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Offline Installation and Updating of Microsoft 365 on Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Server
In an environment where my RDS 2019 server lacks internet connectivity, what steps should I follow to download Microsoft 365 installation files to another machine, transfer them to the server, and ...
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NVMe/SSD Driver for Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021 (Razer CH570 motherboard)
I have the Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2021 (RZ09-0409), and I'm trying to reinstall Windows. When I boot into the installation media, I can't select my SSD as the target device for installation. This ...
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Why did `exiftool -rotation=0 input.mov` rotate my video?
I have an input.mov video file recorded by an iPhone 12 mini. I copied the video to my Windows 10 laptop. When I open the on video on my Windows 10 laptop with VLC, the video plays in portrait mode. I ...
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How can I configure Windows so that it prioritizes download over upload?
When I use Windows, uploads are typically low priority (e.g., background online disk backup) while download are typically high priority (e.g., loading my emails). How can I configure Windows so that ...
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Force windows laptop to always use my dedicated GPU on power and integrated GPU on battery
I have an Intel OMEN laptop. It has horrible battery life (about 2h45m) because it's a high-performance "gaming" laptop.
I have two different uses for my laptop that are a bit opposing. For ...
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CUDA toolkit compatibility
I want to rent a server on Paperspace with GPU on a Windows instance. They offer only "Windows 10 running as Windows Server 2022" as OS, and the version of CUDA that I need (for Tensorflow) ...
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Not being able to dualboot Windows 11/Linux
I come with the question about dual booting Windows 11 on 1st SSD and Ubuntu on 2nd SSD.
After different tries with different scenarios, I'm still not abel to run installation of Linux on second drive....
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Paint disable auto transparent background [duplicate]
In a recent update, the background appears to default to transparent, except for the initial canvas - such that, if I increase figure size or move a part of the image, I see a checkerboard:
Can this ...
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How to re-enable drivers on not bootable Windows 10?
I have used Sysinternals Autoruns and disabled some intel drivers from autorun (similar to msconfig), after which my Windows 10 instance won't boot (blue screen) and Win 10 Install USB can't autofix ...
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How to wipe HDD with windows install
I have a two drive system, one HDD, one SSD. The HDD has windows installed, as well as the SSD. My goal is to run Windows from the SSD, and use the HDD as storage.
With both drives attached (SATA), I ...
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Windows taskkill not finding titled cmd.exe
I'm starting a lot of .bats, in which I execute, for example:
title Waterfall-Proxy
I do this, to have an easier closing the right cmds when I want to shut them down.
To shut them down, I'm using:
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Windows 11 does "system reset" when trying to boot from external USB
I have a HP Windows 11 laptop. I made a live fully installed USB with Ubuntu on it. The USB is tested on Linux machines and it boots nicely, no problems.
On the Windows 11 device (with HP Wolf ...
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How to avoid sticky ALT key on Windows 11
I'm facing this weird issue on Windows 11: sometimes, looks like my ALT key is being pressed without me pressing it. My keyboard stops working properly: for instance, if I type the 'D' key, actually ...
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How to open a random picture in a catalog?
I have an unknown list of folders and subfolders containing pictures
I want to run 10 random pictures at 30 second intervals
If possible, close the previous one after the timer expires.
I tried to ...
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Windows 11 'forgets' read only attributes immediately after it is set
I am logged in as administrator
I open the properties for a particular folder on a drive in my system
The administrator has all permissions checked and set
I set the selected folder to read only
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How to repartition the main disk without disabling Windows recovery partition?
I want to add a partition to my main disk, the one that has C drive.
I am running Windows 10.
Currently, to the right of the C drive I have my Recovery partition.
I do know how to shrink the C drive ...
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I want to change the default app for a specific protocol ('roblox') to launch multiple Roblox UWP apps using powershell
I want to make a tool which will launch multiple roblox uwp apps, but the apps use same protocol 'roblox'. Because I want to have a control of what app I want to launch, so I want to change the ...
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Cmdline to swap mouse buttons back
As a non-admin user without access to the reg command, how do I swap the mouse buttons back so that the primary button is the left button.
The command
rundll32.exe user32.dll,SwpmMouseButton
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Converting USB traffic to Ethernet to avoid a long cable run
I have an industrial computer cabinet ("near cabinet") to which Ethernet cable has already been run.
Because of an oversight in the design of the system, a proprietary interface module that ...
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What happens if I use a Windows registration code twice?
The situation:
Computer A runs Windows 10 with a registration code originating from Windows 7
Computer B runs Windows 10 with a registration code originating from Windows 7
Thus both installations ...
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How do I copy the URL contained in the Internet shortcut with unicode characters? (command line for many Internet shorcuts)
The subject was in part studied, there is 8 years (here : How do I copy the URL contained in the Internet shortcut?)
I have thousand Internet shortcuts that I would like copy the URL contained to txt ...
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Windows App Keeps changing time randomly
I faced a time problem this week, i have a Network camera app that runs based on multiple servers. the servers storage is where the camera recordings go.
Now everything was fine since the first ...
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Brand new Windows 11 computer crashing apps constantly
Last few weeks (and it slowly got worse as time went on), I have been getting application crashes/closes, weird seemingly memory related errors, a couple BSoDs, and Nvidia driver CRC errors.
All ...
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Mouse wheel scrolling is jumpy only on some boot ups
Sometimes I boot a windows 10, the mouse wheel is scrolling stably, not a single jump, but in some boots of windows it's all jumpy that I can't even scroll and have to use another method. It doesn't ...
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How to test path exclusions in Defender
Listing Defender Path exclusions ((Get-MpPreference).ExclusionPath), there is quite long list. Some paths contain wildcard and/or environment variables. There might be configured also file extensions ...
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Why don't I see some of the backed up hard drives on backblaze.com?
I am looking at some Backblaze account with the 1-Year Version History option activated over 1 year ago. The Backblaze Windows client indicates that at least one file from external hard drives with ...
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When can/should a Windows service Start type be "Boot" or "System" instead of "Automatic"?
While running the Services.msc GUI offers the ability to manually set a Windows service start type to Automatic, Automatic (Delayed start), Manual, or Disabled, the configuration of services is stored ...
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Disabling address bar in the Windows open/save file dialog
Is it possible to somehow disable the navigation bar in the default open and save dialogs from Windows?
We use a VM to stream a desktop application and we block almost everything using AppLocker. As ...
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How do I send an email about Windows Update Failure
I have the below playbook which gathers information about only windows VM's from a vcenter_inventory_vmware.yml inventory file and executes the ansible.windows.win_updates module properly. I am ...
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Computer does not print, accept remote-connections nor open SMB folders until restart
I encountered a Windows 10 which seems to have problems with authentication. The computer does not accept remote connections, does not open smb-folders or print a file (no error shown, when the pc ...
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Adobe Cloud is popping up every few minutes, how to stop it?
Adobe's Creative Cloud, is the most annoying cancerous app I've seen in my 25 years using computers (including the good old trojans)
I've succeeded in putting it on leash by disabling it from the ...
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Windows 10 Leonova recovery
I have a laptop that seems to have crashed into Window PE recovery tools.
However every option regarding images, windows repair, system restore and rollback errors.
But I do have command line and thus ...
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Win + X, U, U not shutting down my windows 11
Win + X, U, U is not shutting down my windows 11. Language is not the issue as i am using English. Everything is normal, The issue is that when the list opens after Win+X it doesn't response to any ...
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Windows 11 Font Folder
Is it possible to change the font installation destination folder? I mean, fonts are installed in C:\Windows\Fonts by default, can I have them installed in D:\Fonts? (Windows 11)
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Finding folders on PC with fewer than five files inside [closed]
Is it possible to find folders that contain fewer than five files inside?
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How to uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader 32-bits without user confirmation or window confirmation
My goal is to switch from Acrobat Reader 32-bit to 64-bit via Intune. Since the 32-bit version of Acrobat Reader currently installed on computers wasn’t installed through Intune, I can’t remove it ...
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Permissions on specific subfolders with Set-Acl
I have to create a set of folders based on an address list and then configure the permissions in active directory.
Creating the folders and subfolders works for me, I adapted a few lines I found ...
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Windows .Bat file behave differently when executed from command window and by double clicking on the bat file
batchfile is simple which has only two lines below, but behaves differently.
run from command window.
> sc \\server query | findstr SERVICE_NAME | find /c /v "" //result is 135
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How to back up Documents with OneDrive, while also using another cloud service?
I use OneDrive for Business on Windows 11 and I want to back up the Documents folder on my harddrive to OneDrive.
In the OneDrive settings I go to "Sync and backup > Manage backup". Here, ...
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Cannot uninstall hp hotkey support windows 11
Hi this morning i received this popup from windows It says: HP hotkey notification display has stopped working and then in the other pop up it says something along the lines of this: "Unable to ...
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Windows 10 UWP Beta Apps on Windows 10 Stable Build
I am wondering if there is a way to get Windows Beta UWP apps running on a stable build specifically I am talking about the old Microsoft Edge Legacy and the UWP File explorer. I am having issues with ...
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How to prevent a console window from being "paused"?
I run local network web servers via the cmd prompt and noticed that the Pause/Break button will put the server in a state that is quite hard to deal with.
Normally, if the server is not running, the ...
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Change default driver for USB-device
I'm working on a small project which uses PlayStation Buzz!-controllers. The newer controller get automatically detected has HID-devices, but the older versions are unfortunately detected as a ...
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Surface Pro 7 plus corrupt SSD
I'm working as a Level 1 IT help desk in a High School. We exclusively use MS Surface devices for the students. I have a student device I'm struggling with. It's a Surface Pro 7 Plus which shows the ...
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Windows 11 %USERNAME% still truncated
I understand that some find this problem negligible, but it really bothers me. I have not known this phenomenon before either.
It's about the problem known to some that since Windows 10(?) Microsoft ...
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drive is not accessible chkdsk raw [duplicate]
So I have this D drive on my Dell laptop having important information, and it said first it's not accessible, then I did the chkdsk D: /f /r and it said the drive is RAW, thus no chkdsk, what the best ...
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Creating shortcuts in desktop
I have some files that are stored in Onedrive folder and I want to create shortcuts to my desktop for the files that I work on these days. Is working on those shortcut files will guarantee that any ...
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Opening a new instance of a OneNote notebook via Windows Batch Commands?
I'm attempting to use a batch file to open up a OneNote notebook .url shortcut, however, the notebook always ends up opening in the existing OneNote instance, replacing the existing view in the ...
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How can I view the content of images when accessed via "Delete Clip Data" in Ditto?
I saw some large image in my clipboard history managed by the Ditto program, when clicking on Delete Clip Data:
How can I view the content of these images?
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