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Why do Windows 10 / Windows 11 copied/pasted shortcuts not appear, but newly created ones do?
With Windows 10/11 you can access the start menu items in these locations:
"%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs"
%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\...
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Is there a deterministic way to reboot Windows 10/11 from the login screen (if you can't see the screen)
I have a machine that sometimes boots up without activating the discrete Nvida GPU.
Thus I have a machine that's booted, running, at the login screen, but sending video to the wrong place. A reboot ...
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Windows not dual booting with Ubuntu
I recently installed Ubuntu 24.04 L.T.S. I had a lot of problems during installation but now, I just can't boot up windows. Even if i give it top priority through BIOS, Ubuntu somehow keeps opening. I'...
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windows defender antivirus folder missing on local group policy editor
gpedit.msc was missing, i added it with using .bat
after restart i could enter to gpedit.msc but windows defender antivirus folder is missing
i need that folder to disable windows defender. pls help
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I can't insert long paths in the "Target" box in Windows 11 shortcut properties (might consider using vbs or batch)
I'm trying to create a Windows shortcut that will be put in my startup folder. The shortcut starts a program (Discord), but with a 1-minute delay. I'm doing this because my (ancient) core i3-2100 PC ...
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Task manager shows ridiculously wrong memory consumed by processes
After one of windows updates Task Manager in Windows 11 shows memory consumed by processes in its Details tab as single kilobytes which is obviously wrong. Look at the screenshot, it shows Visual ...
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More space on disk taken than actual files Win 11 [duplicate]
Windows says that 207 GB of space is used, but when I sum it up, it amounts to 153 GB. This is an SSD disk, and Windows says it is optimised.
Update: I deleted the recycle bin, and it freed 9 GB, but ...
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Merging unallocated partition on a dynamic drive
So I have unallocated space on my drive, sandwiched between two recovery partitions of unknown provenance. I'm trying to merge it into my C: drive, but since they aren't adjacent I couldn't extend ...
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What's inside APPDATA and will it be reinstalled if WSL Ubuntu files accidentally deleted?
I was installing WSL and got some problem with the environment variables after doing nano adding 'export $PATH' to the ~/.bashrc. The WSL no longer able to do 'ls' commands nor doing anything else. ...
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Audio device keeps duplicating
I am running windows 11 version 23h2, on a victus gaming laptop with a built in rtx 2050(although I doubt that matters).
I am having an issue with my monitor(Sceptre M24) which is connected to my ...
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100% of RAM used despite little usage in Windows 11
I have am running Windows 11 on a cleanly-installed computer with 32GB RAM. Both Resource Monitor and Task Manager report that 100% of my memory is used, although if you sum the memory committed by ...
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Windows different scaling on multimonitor setup
I have a notebook (I think its 14") with a 1920x1080 resolution. Clearly things are too small and in the settings I have set a 125% resize in the screen option (and also a text size increase).
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Windows 11 extract all isnt working
How do you extract multiple zip files at the same time in windows 11?
I tried select all'ing my files, then right clicking one of them and pressing extract all, it only extracted one file out for the ...
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Webcam stopped working after upgrading to Windows 11
My Canyon C2N webcam was working fine in Windows 10 N, but after "upgrade" to 11 N it stopped working. When I went to https://webcamtests.com/ I was told that it was "blocked or used by ...
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Windows 11 seems to have disabled all ways to get around Auto Update Restarts. Is there a workaround?
I run Matlab simulations that sometimes take weeks to finish and when Windows restarts I lose all my work so I really need a way to stop auto restarts.
Windows 11 seems to have disabled all ways to ...
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Windows 11 Home cannot be activated nor purchased via the store due to "hardware change"
Yesterady I bought a brand new ASUS F16 gaming laptop without any OS installed. I used Microsoft's official tool to prepare a USB drive for Windows 11 installation. Not sure if this contributed to the ...
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Windows 11 - opens multiple instances of some programs (like cmd)
When I run cmd and some other programs, it will open 2 (sometimes more) instances of it. This is regardless of whether I open it from a shortcut, the taskbar, or just typing 'cmd' into the Start Menu ...
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Can a directory junction in a trusted folder be a trusted mount point in Windows 11?
For example, I have a home directory c:\users\me.
Inside that, I have c:\users\me\Dropbox.
I also have a junction c:\users\me\Cloud -> c:\users\me\Dropbox to indicate that my current Cloud provider ...
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How to effectively ungroup apps in windows 11 taskbar
I have browsed this thread before posting this message because my question is a bit more specific.
I have found the option to "Never combine taskbar buttons and hide labels" in taskbar ...
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Change passkey order or remove mobile device in Windows passkey popup
I use Yubikey and sometimes Windows Hello but never use "iphone/android devices".
So it's annoying to see multiple options and even worse when my preferred option is not top of the list.
I ...
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Video metadata takes forever to load, can it be cached?
I organize a vast amount of videos (on Windows 11 using Windows Explorer or Directory Opus), and since these two can't be set to cache the metadata, I was wondering if Windows or a file system or ...
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How do I use Bitlocker on a mapped drive?
The drive is a usb attached to my router and has been mapped as a drive.
It shows and works fine from explorer.
But when I open Bitlocker from control panel I cannot see the drive
Thanks :-)
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Windows 11 snap windows group not coming back top using ALT + TAB after using fullscreen on Youtube video on browser. How to fix?
I have a browser window and a private browser window open side by side using snap assist on Windows 11. Using ALT+TAB I can cycle other windows and return the snap group back on top.
The issues is ...
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how can i uninstall **ALL** the non-windows drivers permanently without data loss in windows 11
After experimenting with various driver installations on my laptop, I've ended up with numerous options for a single device in the device manager. How can I efficiently uninstall all the non-Windows ...
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Device encryption no longer available after SSD migration
I have a Galaxy Book2 Pro with Windows 11 Home that I've exchanged SSD for and now I can't re-enable device encryption.
The steps I did for the SSD change:
Turned of device encryption for old SSD
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Is there a way in windows to split my monitor in multiple monitors (not just virtal desktops i can switch between, nor docking windows)
I have a large screen instead of multiple screens, i always preferred that and docking windows in either 2X split or 4X (or rarely 2X and then 2X again on another side) but sometimes i want to run a ...
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Is it safe to move Windows system partitions with gparted
My disk has the following partitions structure:
old windows recovery partition
EFI
main windows system partition
new Windows recovery partition
free space
I'd like to extend the main partition to ...
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Why I never get to eject my USB drive properly?
Since when USB drives started to be a common thing, I never could eject any USB drive properly. When I try to eject using the 'correct way' by clicking on 'eject' on the Windows taskbar, I always get ...
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Windows 11 & 11 Dual Boot - Show which OS to boot into on startup?
I recently moved an M.2 drive from my second PC to my primary PC. My primary PC already has a Windows 11 installation and so does the newly installed M.2. I would like to keep both installs and boot ...
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How can I make my computer go into "sleep" mode when no apps are in use, without shutting down display
I want to save power consumption and preserve my components, without locking my screen and without shutting down the display. Basically just show the desktop but running with minimum power. It could ...
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Unexpected store exception, Rebooted but now Windows won’t boot. Stuck at manufacturer logo
I’ll explain the situation So yesterday I got a blue screen of dead, with the error code UNEXPECTED_STORE_EXCEPTION. I tried to look online for quite a bit but I can’t seem to find a solution, even ...
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High CPU usage detected Message
I keep getting this popup that says
High CPU Usage Detected
It appears in a white box with rounded corners in the upper right of the screen whenever I watch a YouTube video in full screen (Edge, ...
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Windows Batch Script: how to recursively go through all files except certain file types and folders?
I'm trying to do a replace string operation on all files except those in .git folder and all pycache directories which can appear nested in any nested directory. I'm executing the script in the root ...
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WIN11 data decryption stuck and system frozen
I'm currently dealing with a significant problem on my ASUS laptop, which seems to stem from possible hardware malfunctions coupled with Windows 11 altering crucial settings without my permission. ...
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Windows Error Logging (WerFault) Leaves Unkillable Suspended Process
The symptom is eerily similar to this question. However, I have no SN-DBS service installed and it seems to affect all executables ran on the machine not just a couple compiled files.
Normally, when ...
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In Windows is there a way to check which port can be opened
I am experiencing an issue where port 64120 through 64130 cannot be opened.These ports are needed for the Eclipse SonarLint plugin.
The ports are not in use, checked with netstat, tcpview and portqry.
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Graphics drivers keep crashing when booting up android studio device emulator after I removed wrong drivers
Here is what happend.
I have a surface laptop 4 (AMD-win11) that was running it's custom drivers from microsoft. I use android studio device emulator(virtual device manager) to make android apps. This ...
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Monitor signal cutting in and out repeatedly after hibernation
I am on Windows 11. This started happening only a few days ago after I had manually ended the LampArray Translation Service from Task Manager. Many users are suggesting this task interferes with ...
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Windows VM with seamless windows?
I work in business environment with the following setup:
Our PCs are added to a work account (and being managed)
We are allowed to keep admin access to the machine
I have a client with strong ...
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How to ask Windows "Task Manager" to automatically maximize on startup?
I'm on Windows 11 Pro. Every time when I start "Task Manager" it'll run in a very small window and I have to click the maximize icon. How can I make it auto maximize on startup?
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why is cmd taking like 20 seconds to open up in windows 11?
When I run cmd.exe, it takes ~20s to load, but when run as Administrator, it works immediately.
I've tried:
closing background apps, with memory and CPU usage being normal
looking online, but all the ...
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Windows 11, Nvidia 3080, HDMI video out works, but windows detects no HDMI audio device
My system:
Windows 11 23H2
Nvidia 3080 FE
Denon AVR-S960H receiver connected to HDMI output from vid card
I used all of this hardware before with Win 10 for years with no issues. I installed Win 11 ...
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How to get out of a Windows recovery options loop?
Windows 11 Laptop goes to recovery options after failed Windows Update, can't boot into Windows.
Using the command prompt under the "advanced options" I can see that all my files in my C ...
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How do I change language in the Windows Recovery Environment?
I have two preferred languages in Settings: English and Swedish. The Windows display language is English.
When you restart Windows 11 by pressing Shift and clicking Restart, Windows boots up to the ...
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Corrupted file yields in error "The file cannot be accessed by the system" when accessing WSL app
This is a well known error, but the common solutions don't seem to work and I'm also seeing something else that I think is new, I'll go through each troubleshooting step because I hope some of them ...
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How to configure the Remote Desktop Client?
I am using Remote Desktop to connect to a useful Windows 11 machine. I use Windows 11 myself. Sometimes, the connection is interrupted, and Remote Desktop tries to reconnect 5 times. I would like to ...
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How to identify a driver causing every exited process to become a zombie, polluting page table and active unused memory?
I have a pretty new Windows 11 Pro installation, it has about a week. I noticed that my RAM usage is constantly going up. It was concerned because procexp readouts did not match the total used RAM ...
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How to stop Windows from decreasing processor speed when not connected to remote desktop
We use a windows 11 machine as scientific workstation at work. When I'm connected via remote desktop simulations I run in R are fast but when I'm not connected one simulation takes about 3 times ...
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Chrome: how to prevent changing color setting with Chrome Group Policy ADMX Templates?
Finally I installed the Chrome Group Policy ADMX Templates on a windows 11 pc but I didn't find any option to prevent editing. Maybe I'm missing something...
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How to open the CMD or the PowerShell in the Windows terminal when you open them as Admin?
I noticed that when I open the CMD or the PowerShell in non-admin mode, it always opens in the terminal; however, when I open the CMD or the PowerShell as admin, it always opens the old window. Indeed,...
