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Error when installing .msi - needs to be installed on local drive
Right click .MSI file then run as administrator. This should ensure .MSI installs correctly
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Error when installing .msi - needs to be installed on local drive
This command worked for me:
msiexec /i "msi path" WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH="1" /qb
Just open cmd as administator, paste that in, and it should work.
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How to boot GParted Live from USB-C drive on a Dell Precision 7540 Laptop?
UNetBootin is known to have issues when creating bootable USB stick (see here here and here). If you're on windows, try rufus. Otherwise any of the method on arch wiki should work too.
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How to Set Target Directory for Windows Context Menu "Copy To" and "Move To" Options
I have the same question. I don't want to navigate to the folder everytime to copy and paste. I just want to right click items and have a button to paste to a static location.
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Windows. Master volume control does not affect application's volume control
I had the same issue, what worked for me was updating drivers and everything on the PC using Lenovo System Updates.
I work as desktop support at a large organization and one of our users reported this ...
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Logitech MX Master kills (destroys) bluetooth on my laptop
The same thing happens to me and has on multiple computers.
Here's my experience. When the Mix Master bluetooth mouse battery is low it kills the computer's bluetooth.
The fix is to shut down ...
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How do I set a default directory when opening a Command Prompt on Windows 10?
Turns out the way to do this is as below
Click the Windows Start button to open the Start menu.
In the search bar, type "Command Prompt."
Right-click on "Command Prompt" in the ...
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How do you enable focus follows mouse in Windows 10
No need to poke around in the Windows registry or use obscure PowerShell scripts. If you're a Python fan, you can enable Focus-Follow-Mouse with a Python script.
Install pywin32
pip install pywin32
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HDMI not working with TV and on Linux
Just signed up to say a big thank you. I was tearing my hair out on a Linux Steam build refusing to output anything to the TV after having no issues outputting from Windows 11 on the same machine. ...
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How will Windows System Restore affect GRUB boot loader?
System Restore is an operation that in a nutshell just copies files
within the Windows partition.
It should have no effect on GRUB, which is not installed in this partition.
An image backup of your ...
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PsExec Access Denied on remote computer
There can be many reasons for PsExec failing with the error message
"Access is denied". Below I listed some (hopefully most) of them:
PsExec is not Run as Administrator (try a local ...
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Computer waking up due to some PCI device
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
This helped me discover that it was my NVidia graphics card's USB-C connection over HDMI.
I had purchased a new HDMI KVM switch, and this was somehow causing the ...
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How do I set a default directory when opening a Command Prompt on Windows 10?
The simplest way to set the default directory for the Command Prompt
might be this:
Run regedit
Position to the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor
Right-click on the right and ...
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Exclude an input language from Alt+Shift switching cycle on Windows 10
I had a same problem and found a pretty simple way to solve it with reg editing
wrote a guide with a help of chat gpt
It will remove chosen languge from shortcuts and language bar
How to Exclude a ...
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How to change Windows 10 "Best Match" recommendation
If you click the settings cog in the search menu, you can access the indexing options which will allow you to customize which folders it will use to display files. Select modify and then de-select the ...
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Can I copy the windows registry configuration from one user to another?
You can export registry keys to a .reg file, and then import that into the other machine. Try to limit the scope of the export to specific keys, rather than the whole of HKCU or HKLM.
On the source/...
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Windows 10 doesn't reflect new emoji font from Windows 11
It seems that there is no need to copy file.
Just right click the seguiemj.ttf file, then choose install or install for all users. That's all.
I have tried it minutes ago, it works. And after I ...
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Ctrl+Shift works only on opposing sides on external keyboard
I managed to solve this problem myself and maybe the solution (though, nobody could have given it to me here, because I didn't realize nor mentioned that this actually changed) will help somebody, ...
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mklink gives message "invalid switch"
Many older Windows command-line tools, especially those built into cmd.exe (surprisingly MKLINK is indeed built-in and not a mklink.exe), have a peculiar command-line parser that thinks any parameter ...
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My external hard drive not detected from my Windows pc despite can be detected from my Samsung tablet
As the disk is not showing in Disk Management, then there is not much
that you can do.
You could try to reformat it on the tablet, but if this doesn't help
to make it show up in Disk Management then ...
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How to show system language AND keyboard layout on taskbar
Right click on taskbar, click taskbar settings. Set "Use small taskbar buttons" to off.
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How can I transfer installed programs from one laptop to another
The pragmatic option would be to disable security systems (TPM etc.), RAID, etc., clone the Hard Disk, and insert the clone into the new computer. Without going into details, if you are lucky Windows ...
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Is there a way to get file description field from the file metadata using the command line?
If you don't mind using a third party tool, exiftool can do the job:
exiftool -filedescription c:\windows\explorer.exe
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My windows 10 pc keeps shutting down when I press the power button
Hibernate actually includes the shutdown function. The computer saves the RAM to disk, then it literally turns off. It is intended for power saving, especially on laptops. But also works if you want ...
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Is there a way to get file description field from the file metadata using the command line?
Use the following cmdlet in Powershell:
(Get-Item C:\Windows\Explorer.exe).VersionInfo | select FileDescription
FileDescription
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Windows Explorer
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Is there a way to get file description field from the file metadata using the command line?
You can use Powershell's Get-Item to get the properties:
(Get-Item C:\Windows\Explorer.exe).VersionInfo.FileDescription
Result:
Windows Explorer
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Is there a way to get file description field from the file metadata using the command line?
You may use PowerShell to access the metadata attributes of the file.
The following script which you may store in a .ps1 file and execute
in a PowerShell session will get the file description:
$path = ...
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I've turned off DHCP on my TP-LINK router and since then I cannot connect to it - is the router broken?? Windows 10
On my router TP-LINK ARCHER C6 i set manually ip addr "windows" then i changed the default gateway as in windows inside router and disabled DHCP. Work perfectly... and I'm not sure, but ...
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Chrome window don't show in the alt tab menu when chrome in fullscreen mode, it appears and diseapears randomly?
It's still happening. The solution is to enable Hardware acceleration in the settings.
I turned it off when was running GPU-saturated tasks, to prevend videos from buffering. Then started encountering ...
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Opening two edge tab side by side with powershell
I have been able to solve the question by using Vscode that simulate the windows key.
Here the script I use that will generate an EXE file, this exe file can be trigger with powershell command:
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How to permanently disable Windows 11 upgrade nag screen?
There are a number of online tips to stop the nag screens. In my opinion, the safest is to add a Policies value so that Windows 10 updates (what's left of them, about a year, at this writing) can ...
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How to change the drive label after mapping a drive letter to a folder
I have a drive like your drive P: set in the registry in the DOS Devices like you do. I loosely followed this Wikipedia article to give this drive a label: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUBST
For ...
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Windows 10 taskbar multiple monitor - Show pinned apps + only active apps on each monitor
I know how to do this for 2 monitors. So, if one screen is your main screen and your second display needs the "File Explorer" to be pinned, for example.
Unpin the File Explorer from your ...
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WIFI disconnected immediately after Windows built-in PPTP vpn is connected
WIFI is always disconnected immediately after Windows built-in PPTP
vpn is connected.
Microsoft PPTP defaults to no split tunnel (and the Cisco App you are using may do the same thing).
Because of ...
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Slow response time with complex microsoft word 365 and windows 10
Converted files always have added complexity compared to native Word files.
.rtf is not a native Word format even though Word can edit such files.
The thing is, your file is likely completely ...
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Slow response time with complex microsoft word 365 and windows 10
"Microsoft 365 and Office 365 are cloud-based services..." Perhaps a limited internet connection slows editing.
Try another, locally installed (not cloud-based) application, such as free ...
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RoboCopy to hidden shadow drive partition; error code reads as Invalid Parameter #26 :x\
The x:\ after /log+:Cshdw is what the whole problem was.
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Tortoise Git not using id_rsa
I finally found the solution!
The problem was that I was using https authentication instead of ssh authentication. This is why it never even tried to access key file.
The solution was to change it to ...
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mysqldump on windows with mysql 8 community
You must check inside of the MySQL Server 8.0 directory.
In my case, the mysqldump file is located here:
C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin\mysqldump.exe
It is advisable to add this bin ...
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PowerShell Language Installation: ErrorCode -2147418113
As listed in Install-Language, you can also change your display language by using the International module commands (Set-WinUILanguageOverride ).
It is worth noting to not overlook and consider ...
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Lookup data corresponding to the same time for each date
For those using Excel 365, as stated on the comments, one can use the FILTER function. Adapt the following formula
=FILTER($C$2:$C$7;($A$2:$A$7=F5)*($B$2:$B$7=G5))
($A$2:$A$7=F5)*($B$2:$B$7=G5): this ...
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Lookup data corresponding to the same time for each date
In a new Excel using FILTER function would be appropriate, but without that function you can do it in an old style.
I hope this date and time formats are native in your system. Then you can use ...
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Why search in file explorer finds nothing?
I can't actually reproduce your example. Files named both [THEfile.txt] and [THEfile].txt were found when typing THE in the search box. However, there are several things to know about search, one of ...
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Wake on Lan has suddenly stopped working
Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Defender Firewall
Private networks should be "connected". If Guest of public networks shows as connected, change to Private.
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Windows 10 Mirroring: "All disks holding extents for a given volume must have the same sector size, and the sector size must be valid."
M500 disks have a 512 byte sector size. Source: https://www.storagereview.com/review/crucial-m500-ssd-review
MX500 disks have a 4096 byte sector size. Source: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/...
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How to delete standard Persian keyboard layout on windows 10?
thanks to grijesh ninama's answer :
type "Language" in the windows search box looking for language settings
Click on Persian and remove the language pack(all keyboards of this language will ...
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Windows 10 Mirroring: "All disks holding extents for a given volume must have the same sector size, and the sector size must be valid."
After a few hours of searching around online and finding no resolutions, I gave up and decided that I'll just restore the mirroring on the M500 drives and use the pair of MX500 drives as extra storage....
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"Super" Hidden Folder?
To add to the fix posted above, I found out both what's causing it in my case, and how to prevent it in the future.
After research, I found out that Robocopy has a bug where it alters
the attributes ...
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Do the Realtek Audio drivers have anything to do with USB headset volume?
If you have a USB headset then it will be completely separate and independent from the Realtek audio system.
The Realtek devices will control the various 3.5mm sockets on your motherboard. You will ...
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Windows laptop wakes up automatically from sleep
I last had that issue a few months back, in my case it was caused by the network device configuration being allowed to wake up the machine.
Below is the best article I could quickly find on how to ...
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