User Violet Giraffe

22 votes

5 answers

29k views

NTFS compression on SSD - ups and downs

asked Oct 18, 2016 at 19:56

20 votes

3 answers

5k views

How to diagnose abnormal CPU usage by svchost.exe? [duplicate]

asked Mar 24, 2017 at 20:49

7 votes

6 answers

12k views

Noise/hiss produced by Windows(?) on the audio output (not a hardware issue)

asked Nov 29, 2016 at 11:55

7 votes

3 answers

10k views

How to delete the folder "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs" and stop Windows from piling up garbage on my SSD?

asked Dec 20, 2020 at 0:17

5 votes

0 answers

199 views

Clipboard only holds data for as long as the source application is alive

asked May 21, 2019 at 12:42

4 votes

2 answers

5k views

Debugging Windows PC freeze

asked Oct 10, 2012 at 8:09

4 votes

5 answers

12k views

Is it possible to pair a keyboard without entering a passcode?

asked Sep 21, 2016 at 18:39

3 votes

1 answer

3k views

Can't run a service under local user account with no password ("logon failure")

asked Dec 11, 2018 at 9:51

3 votes

2 answers

677 views

How to enable display scaling beyond the default cap?

asked Jun 14, 2017 at 7:03

2 votes

0 answers

1k views

Monitor color profile cannot be applied after Creators update

asked May 13, 2017 at 7:31

2 votes

1 answer

4k views

Troubleshooting a USB GPS receiver on Windows

asked Apr 10, 2016 at 6:00

2 votes

2 answers

4k views

Switching from IDE to AHCI and booting Fedora

asked Mar 1, 2013 at 17:21

2 votes

4 answers

10k views

Improving Windows 7 perfomance on a PC with slow HDD

asked Aug 7, 2013 at 8:08

1 vote

2 answers

13k views

"Network path not found" when trying to access network PC

asked Apr 5, 2013 at 5:34

1 vote

1 answer

150 views

Visio: all text became covered with gray pattern

asked May 29, 2016 at 6:46

1 vote

1 answer

1k views

Generic way to get the path to the terminal binary on different Linux systems?

asked Jul 9, 2015 at 17:51

1 vote

1 answer

896 views

A slot similar to mini PCI-E or M.2, but has 11+22 pins. What is it?

asked Jul 12, 2020 at 21:12

0 votes

0 answers

36 views

Windows Update stuck looking for old updates (leftover from upgrading Win 10 to 11) [duplicate]

asked Mar 6 at 18:12

0 votes

0 answers

35 views

Web video playback stops, only reboot helps

asked Sep 23, 2015 at 18:08

0 votes

2 answers

4k views

How does the motherboard PW switch operate, exactly?

asked Nov 3, 2015 at 8:50

0 votes

0 answers

196 views

Ways of significantly speeding up Windows 10 loading on a modern low-performance PC?

asked Dec 17, 2015 at 7:41

0 votes

0 answers

2k views

How to set a custom image as the boot logo on UEFI Windows 10 x86?

asked Jan 2, 2016 at 20:54

0 votes

0 answers

73 views

My menu animation used to be fade, now it's suddenly slide. How to change it back?

asked May 17, 2016 at 4:52

0 votes

1 answer

13k views

New files from shared folder not showing up on remote PC

asked Jul 20, 2013 at 18:10

0 votes

2 answers

121 views

Hibernation: computer shuts down completely, but powers back up in a couple of seconds

asked Feb 5, 2014 at 10:21

0 votes

1 answer

427 views

Why does the cursor jump to a random place unpredictably while I am typing?

asked May 1, 2014 at 9:57

0 votes

1 answer

1k views

Why do some Ethernet ISPs only serve you at the specified MAC address?

asked Nov 1, 2016 at 14:49

0 votes

1 answer

344 views

Automatic log-off scheduled; Windows boots me out after sign-in. How to disable it?

asked Sep 16, 2017 at 19:52

0 votes

0 answers

76 views

Troubleshooting poor Wi-Fi performance of one particular device in a home network

asked Jan 27, 2018 at 11:50

0 votes

0 answers

46 views

Bogus ""Drive needs to be formatted" message for an SD-card

asked May 27, 2018 at 10:49

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NTFS compression on SSD - ups and downs

How to diagnose abnormal CPU usage by svchost.exe? [duplicate]

Noise/hiss produced by Windows(?) on the audio output (not a hardware issue)

How to delete the folder "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs" and stop Windows from piling up garbage on my SSD?

Clipboard only holds data for as long as the source application is alive

Debugging Windows PC freeze

Is it possible to pair a keyboard without entering a passcode?

Can't run a service under local user account with no password ("logon failure")

How to enable display scaling beyond the default cap?

Monitor color profile cannot be applied after Creators update

Troubleshooting a USB GPS receiver on Windows

Switching from IDE to AHCI and booting Fedora

Improving Windows 7 perfomance on a PC with slow HDD

"Network path not found" when trying to access network PC

Visio: all text became covered with gray pattern

Generic way to get the path to the terminal binary on different Linux systems?

A slot similar to mini PCI-E or M.2, but has 11+22 pins. What is it?

Windows Update stuck looking for old updates (leftover from upgrading Win 10 to 11) [duplicate]

Web video playback stops, only reboot helps

How does the motherboard PW switch operate, exactly?

Ways of significantly speeding up Windows 10 loading on a modern low-performance PC?

How to set a custom image as the boot logo on UEFI Windows 10 x86?

My menu animation used to be fade, now it's suddenly slide. How to change it back?

New files from shared folder not showing up on remote PC

Hibernation: computer shuts down completely, but powers back up in a couple of seconds

Why does the cursor jump to a random place unpredictably while I am typing?

Why do some Ethernet ISPs only serve you at the specified MAC address?

Automatic log-off scheduled; Windows boots me out after sign-in. How to disable it?

Troubleshooting poor Wi-Fi performance of one particular device in a home network

Bogus ""Drive needs to be formatted" message for an SD-card