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Vimium-like navigation in Windows and all other applications

I used Vimium recently and was fascinated about its 'link hunt mode' feature. I wonder if there exists any tool like it in Windows such that pressing F would auto-assign a key combination for all UI ...
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What mode do modern 64-bit Intel chip PCs run the boot sector in?

I know with older machines like 286s, the first 512 bytes loaded from the first sector of the boot drive to 0000:7C00 in memory were run in 16-bit real mode, but what about modern 64-bit architectures?...
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Emacs CSS modes - most feature complete and maintained?

According to EmacsWiki there are bunch of CSS modes for Emacs, but none of them seems to be very actively developed or even that feature complete. Which one is the most feature complete so far and is ...
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Seamless mode for remote desktop software

Are there any remote desktop applications that make it possible to view [each window from one desktop] separately in another desktop (like "seamless mode" in Virtualbox?) I want to view each ...
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emacs R mode ESS

I can run the R interpreter through emacs. However, I am looking for the R mode for writing scripts that would perform syntax highlighting, autocompletion and so forth (let me know if there are other ...
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Firefox: box mode?

What is the "box mode" (for a lack of a better word) in Firefox? How can I exit it again? If I hold down the Ctrl key and left click while the cursor is over some element on a page it becomes boxed: ...
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How to enable or disable services silently?

How to run this command in silent mode? wmic service where name='HomeGroupListener' call ChangeStartmode Disabled
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Windows 10 pro wifi not working even after few deletion from registry (as instructed)

Just upgraded from windows 7 to windows 10 pro and now my wifi doesn't seems to be working. So, as instructed from microsoft/support, that few commands will ease out from this issue. So i did start ...
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What is the difference between an ADSL operating in modem mode versus bridge mode?

What is the difference between an ADSL operating in modem mode versus bridge mode? The scenario is that we have a router supporting ADSL, and a second router with more advanced options. Two routers ...
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Computer wakes from sleep by itself when I plug another device

I recently bought a desktop PC, and I've noticed something weird happening. Whenever the PC is in sleep mode and I plug another device somewhere in the room, the PC wakes from sleep on its own. I have ...
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Windows XP: How to boot up in normal mode after improper shut down?

I work in two different locations and whenever there is a power outage at one of the locations, Windows XP detects that the system was improperly shutdown. Once the power is up, the PC powers on and ...
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Windows 10 - Blank screen after sleep mode

I've been encountering this issue very often since I got my new PC last December: when I wake the computer from sleep mode, about 1 time out of 3, I get a blank screen, no login window or anything. ...
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Windows 7 problems when relying on "sleep mode" rather than shutting down

After not restarting/shutting down the computer for about a week (I just leave it in sleep mode when not using it), a huge performance drop occurs. Any application loads very slowly, and apparently ...
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Connecting an iPod being used as a Drive to a computer without iTunes

I have enabled disk mode on my iPod Classic which allows me to put normal files on it through windows Explorer. I need to be able to transfer some files onto a computer at school which may or may not ...
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Why does emacs start out with such a goofy tab spacing here?

This appears on a Linux version of emacs 24.3.1. Fire up a buffer, enter octave-mode (you may need to install from package), and enter something like this: function foo = bar(x,y) Now, if you go to ...
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Excel: find most common value of each group

I have data in the following format: YEAR CABINET 2017 Cabinet A 2016 Cabinet A 2016 Cabinet A 2014 Cabinet B 2014 Cabinet B 2013 Cabinet B These are the values for files in ...
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Tmux pane selection with mouse

I have the following problem while using tmux under Ubuntu. I enabled mouse-mode to switch between panes by clicking the mouse, but the switching is not always successful, and random characters appear ...
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Vim <ctrl-w> does not work on existing text, custom compilation of vim7.3

I am on a ubuntu 10.04 machine. The installed vim7.2 works as expected in insert mode for <ctrl-w,h,u> but my custom compiled vim7.3.744 shows a strange behaviour: Starting vim with an empty ...
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Pivot with mode of service time values

I have table like this: ApplicationName ServiceName Time Application Service1 1 Application Service1 1 Application Service1 1 Application Service1 ...
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Set DOS console mode (40 character mode)

How exactly would you set the DOS console to 40 character mode (which I believe looks like this)? I know you can do it, as in old games like ZZT.
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Connecting to cable modem - best architecture? [closed]

I have a DSL now, and am switching to Cable modem because in my neighborhood DSL is capped at 1.5 mbps which I can no longer tolerate. Now I have a combo DSL Modem/Wireless device. For the cable ...
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Canon printer Pixma IX6810 Service Mode?

I've been looking everywhere but still no luck. I own this printer Canon Pixma IX6810 (A3+ size printing), I need to enter service mode but can't find a way to do so. Service mode takes place using ...
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Can hibernating my laptop damage further my already damaged hard drive?

For the past year, I have been hibernating my laptop everyday (along with weekly shutdowns) and recently my hard drive got damaged which resulted to the notorious reboot loop. I just got it repaired ...
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What are some ways to save major amounts of power on Desktop Computer? [closed]

What are some ways to save major amounts of power on Desktop Computer? Also, I have a question about the Minimum and Maximum processor state. If I set both Minimum and Maximum processor state to 0 ...
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How do keep Dark Mode in Word yet changing the top bar to another color?

I'd like to use the dark mode, but I would like to be able to change the top of the application to be the old classic blue color. With everything all one color, it's difficult to find the top of the ...
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I have a MacBook Pro 2016 just updated to Sonoma then it went into Bootkicker.efi Openshell.efi Reset NVRAM I’ve tried everything nothing has worked

My MacBook Pro has the update Sonoma before the update there were absolutely no problems. But since the update I can’t get it to boot in recovery mode it keeps going to BootKicker.efi. Then when I do ...
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Windows Kiosk mode - Allow cookies in MS Edge?

I enabled on "interactive display" machine with Windows 10 Pro the Kiosk mode with MS Edge running an web application. I also set that the app should restart every 5 minutes of inactivity. ...
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Ansible playbook hangs in interactive mode

If I run the command (redis-cli --cluster create 192.168.1.10:6379 192.168.1.11:6379 192.168.1.15:6379) from the host(192.168.1.10) it prompts me for "yes" and it's working but in ansible ...
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Severe Compatibility mode issue with windows 7

All programs on my laptop somehow and out of no where changed it's compatibility mode settings even windows programs like Microsoft photo viewer! They all are changed! Some say windows vista some say ...
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I can't be root

My school gave me a dump with different partition, I have to Work on the linux one, it's a open suse modified by the school.. sometimes I need to be root for install stuff with zypper example, they ...
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Disable xemacs modes and highlighting

How can i disable all the modes in XEmacs that change the appearance or behaviour of my text files? All i want from XEmacs is to just show the text and make changes according to my keyboard input and ...
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How do I disable touch mode in Windows 8.1?

I am using a desktop PC, where the touch gestures (touch keyboard button and checkboxes on icons) appeared after using TeamViewer yesterday, this is what I'm talking about:
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KALI LINUX accidently disabled visual mode

I am a beginner in Kali Linux and I messed up: I wanted to set my VPN connection and after installation, Kali Linux started in command mode I used services.list from some forum and these commands:...
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PC not going to sleep windows 7

PC not going to sleep windows 7... Please help me come from this issue. Tried many basic steps to resolve this. But some services are stopping the PC not to sleep mode. For ex : In my org, we have ...
Anand M's user avatar