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How to solve blue screen issue coming even after using a USB media?
I have an HP-i3-7th bought in 2018. I had dual booted it 4 years ago with Win default and Ubuntu secondary. A year ago it started malfunctioning because the boot would not work properly. If Ubuntu is ...
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Set up USB tethering ON Windows 7
I have an old laptop with an Ethernet port, whereas my new laptop does not have have one. I need an ethernet connection to be able to set up a headless server, but the old laptop is not fast enough to ...
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Using the Windows 7 installer environment to add missing USB drivers to the OOBE
I'm installing Windows 7 on my computer. It's fairly modern (2020), uses UEFI (with legacy support), and has no PS/2 ports or disk drive and uses a modern chipset. I used NTLite on a separate ...
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I can't enable legacy boot mode in my Noblex SF20BA; the option does not show up
I need to enable legacy boot mode in order to install Windows 7 as dual boot with Windows 10.
I already have a bootable Windows 7 USB drive; which does not boot because I can't enable legacy boot mode....
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USB Printer not showing up on `control printers`, but showing up on `devmgmt.msc`
I have a USB printer (D110a) that was installed using the HP official driver pack previously, and worked fine. It has no operating failure.
When I connect it to the Windows 7 PC it always worked with, ...
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Slow performance on Windows to Go installation
I Windows 10 installed on an external SSD that is connected to a USB 3.2 Gen 1 port, which I guess used to be called USB 3.0 and has an advertised speed of 5 Gb/s. The SSD has a speed of 20 Gb/s.
I ...
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How can I rename a USB sound device (headphone) in Windows Sound settings?
How can I rename the CORSAIR HS70 device, I want to get rid of the prefix "2-". I have searched the registry and replaced all strings alike, but the "2-" seems to come back. After ...
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Can't boot from a USB stick to install Windows 7 Pro on Asus K55N
I have been at this since the 19th when all I wanted to do was downgrade from Win 7 Ultimate to Win 7 Pro.
I hired someone who said his software could do it and it couldn't.
Then he wanted to reformat ...
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Set Windows in a mode that all USB flash drives inserted in the future won't require "Eject"
I'm working on an embedded computer in kiosk mode, where the users can insert an USB flash drive.
Even if I add a "Eject USB storage device" button in my app's GUI, often, some users won't ...
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How to initialize a bootable disk and keep it bootable?
I have a bootable hard disk from a dead Windows XP computer. I want to see what is in it and if I should get a replacement mother board for it. I hooked it up as a USB disk but it disk doesn't show up ...
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Certain mouse inputs are blocked for an amount of time after keyboard inputs (Windows 7)
If I make a keyboard input and then quickly try and make a mouse input, said mouse input will be blocked for an amount of time after keyboard inputs (Windows 7).
I have reproduced the problem with ...
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Why am I still able to use unsigned drivers without pressing F8 disable driver signature enforcement?
I am booted into windows 7 with test signing off and without enabling 'disable driver signature enforcement'
These drivers are working fine and I'm not sure why.
Initially, when I installed windows 7 ...
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a usb flash drive shows sandrive.lnk when i mount it
i have a usb flash drive that contains multiple folders and app.exe, when i mount it, it only shows usbflashdrive.lnk(nulldll32.exe) when i double click on it, it shows me the folders inside and i can ...
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Windows 7 : How to remove option to "Save Windows on external hard drive" upon plugging the drive
Small question for an annoying issue :)
I have an external 3TB hard drive I use for storage (Western Digital). I use it with an older PC, Asus, on Windows 7.
When plugging the drive, there's a small ...
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Does anybody know how to boot a PC Desktop CQ 1010LA from a pen drive?
This PC, released in 2011, originally came with Windows 7 Starter 32 bits and now is updated to Windows 10 Home. Its motherboard is Foxcom 2ACA with Legacy BIOS, AMI 7.07 from 2011. BIOS interface is ...
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How I update the Google USB Driver on a Windows 7 laptop?
I am trying to update my Google USB Driver to perform adb debugging with my Google devices with a laptop running Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate.
I currently have Google USB Driver v7:
I went to https://...
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Ransomware hack usb controller [duplicate]
Apology to poor english , i am 56 year old , from macedonia , maybe the superuser isnt a best place to ask , but google lied to me some times so i dont trust it ,
My boss in work is dumb as a bike and ...
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How can one change the MAC address of USB WiFi Adapter TP-Link Archer T3U Plus on Windows?
I use a USB WiFi Adapter (TP-Link Archer T3U Plus) with my Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate. How can I change its MAC address?
The TP-Link Archer T3U Plus manual (mirror) doesn't mention how one can change ...
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If a computer is connected to internet by a wired as well as wireless connection, which would get a preference & why?
I have connected my pc to internet by usb tethering and a hotspot point(in this case it is same as my mobile phone), which connection is my pc is going to use by default and which is better and why ?
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Windows laptop: how to turn off display with usb device plugged in?
I need to plug in a usb device and turn off the display so that I can use the Windows as a headless server. However, I have already tried a couple of methods below but not very successful.
Window's ...
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Can't install Windows 7 on GPT partition
I am at my wits end trying to figure out how to solve this problem for over ten hours now. I am trying to install Windows 7 on an old computer from a usb, and when I get to the partition selection ...
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My cloned HDD (win7) boots on new hardware, but USB doesn't work in Windows. Works fine in BIOS. How to fix without working mouse/keyboard?
I guess this is not 'best practice' but I was hoping to make it work. I created an image of my old Win7 system, then wrote that image to a new SSD. (used Macrium reflect and booted into WinPE to write ...
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Windows XP Pro x64 will not complete installation via USB (can't find NT5INF.CAT)
I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro 64-bit to and older HP desktop where oddly, the AMD CPU isn't supported by Windows 7 x64 (and apparently, later versions of Windows Vista). I was using the Rufus ...
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PC boots bootable usb but turns keyboard and mouse off as soon as it gets into the windows 7 installation
I have already tried booting priority of the usb while disabling legacy usb support, already tried setting csm mode, have all drivers up tp date too, I also tried changing the PCIs to gen 3, but i ...
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Can not format my USB drive through diskpart [duplicate]
Recently I am having problems with my USB drive which can't be formatted, Even though I tried disk part and it recognized and showed my 14 GB flash drive on the list still I get:
DISKPART> list ...
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Install windows on USB from existing windows installation
I have old Windows 7 laptop with producent-changed Windows 7 image (very small + touchable screen support) but with very small disc. After multiple attemps I failed to make clear installation of ...
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No keyboard and mouse on the Windows 7 installation menu
Alright. I've been working on this for a week now, and I need to solve this.
So, here's my problem:
I have a Windows 7 USB I just formatted, GPT partition scheme, Fat32 format.
I then boot into the ...
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TV cannot see USB drive since Windows 7 ran repair tool
I store media from Windows 7 to a portable NTFS USB drive and watch on my LG TV (circa 2015 model).
One night I booted Win 7 with the drive already connected. Windows detected something wrong with the ...
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Booting from an old internal HDD via USB without formatting
So I've been trying various methods over the past few months with no success. I have an old laptop hard drive from a spent laptop. The HDD is good and it contains a copy of some software which I ...
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Can't connect desktop PC to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi but can connect to 5GHz Wi-Fi (USB network adapter)
My PC is having issues connecting through my USB Wi-Fi network adapter to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, but it has no issues with connecting to 5GHz.
I looked for an answer for this issue online and tried a few ...
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Different serial ports get the same COM identifier in Windows
We're using Windows 10 for testing several different devices, connected to several USB hubs. Some of these have the same VID/PID, some different. There are a lot of devices being plugged in and out, ...
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Can I format a USB drive using a laptop as a technician PC and having my desktop as my destination PC?
I was told that formatting a USB drive with a laptop would make the format not match the desktop and that it wouldn't work. The reason I'm doing this is because I just bought a new PC I have to build. ...
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Cannot install Windows 7 in native Windows 10 machine
I'm not able to install Windows 7 from a bootable USB in a Windows 10 native machine I recently acquired. I tried all the alternatives I guess to prepare the USB, disabling Secure boot, using GPT/MBR ...
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Two mice connected to PC - how to ignore ones input
I have two wireless mice (one gaming mouse and one ergonomic) connected to a Windows 7 PC with Logitech's Unifying dongle.
My problem is sometimes (quite often) vibrations activates the ergonomic ...
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Please help installing Zorin OS 15.2 on Asus Eee PC 1001PXD running Windows 7 from USB
so the laptop mentioned above is quite old and runs on Windows 7 (32 bit)very poorly. I figured a lite version of Zorin would do the job, as the computer will only be used for leasurely purposes (...
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Gparted made an error on USB
I am Kali linux user and I want to install Windows 7.
I tried to make bootable USB flash drive in Kali and it failed due unknown reasons. Then I tried to do it with help of Android.
I bought an OTG ...
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Flash drives won't work on USB port but keyboard and mouse works fine
I have 2 flash drives 8gb and 64gb work fine on other computers. So I've been my scratching my head all day already about this. I even tried reformatting it but still, the flash drives keep on ...
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USB ports not working on new Motherboard with Windows 7 [closed]
Today I bought new Asus H410M-K motherboard. BIOS and Ubuntu works normally with USB, but as soon as Windows 7 loads I loose all power to USB ports - none of them are working.
There are no such ...
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Bluetooth Dongle doesn't show up in Windows 7
I recently bought a Siyoteam Model HK-968 Bluetooth dongle. My desktop pc is running Windows 7 Proffesinal 64bit. The windows couldn't find the driver or even indentfy the device, it showed up as a &...
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What could cause Windows Explorer to display the error that data couldn't be read from the source file or disk when attempting to copy a file?
Recently, I was copying a folder containing multiple files from my internal hard drive to an external USB drive - both drives formatted with NTFS. All of the files were successfully copied - apart ...
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No input devices working after startup
It's a normal day. I start my PC and try to login and BAM. Both my keyboard and mouse are not working. The devices itself are working fine (I can see the lights and stuff) but Windows somehow doesnt ...
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LogiLink RS-232C USB-to-serial converter software
I have a device with RS-232 that works with a PCI board, however when I install a LogiLink USB-to-serial converter, I stop receiving data from my device. How do I resolve this?
PCI Board ...
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Delete CDFS volume from USB drive in windows?
I recently attempted to install ubuntu onto a removable USB drive. Eventually, I wanted to replace the ubuntu version with another, but the problem is that, besides for the 3.7gb of "free space" I can ...
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Can't install Windows 7 from USB (GRUB)
After 7 years of using windows 7 i decided to reinstall because it slowed down considerably. Used Rufus to create a USB using the ISO that i used to install it in 2013. But now when i try to boot ...
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Problems after Updating USB Drivers (BSOD and more)
I updated all drivers of my pc. After updating them an USB Cable(for samsung) doesn't work. It used to work perfectly fine before updating. This cable isn't an original one, so I tried an original ...
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BSOD & Windows 7 USB repair disk errors
I have a dual boot machine (Windows 7 Ultimate & Ubuntu which uses GRUB as bootmanager and is Windows as entry). I just recently added a third OS to (Windows 10 Pro). THings were running nicely, ...
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USB 3.0 hubs don't work with my motherboard
I have a PC with a Gigabyte GA-P67A-D3-B3 motherboard, which has 2 USB 3.0 ports and some USB 2.0 ports. I would like to use more than 2 USB 3.0 devices, so I thought of using a USB 3.0 hub. I bought ...
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Trying to fix Windows 7 which will not start, with ultimate goal of upgrading to Windows 10. Do I have any options other than a clean install of 10?
I'm working with an HP Pavilion running Windows 7 Home Premium x64. The PC is remote; I'm in New England, the PC is my brother's and he's on the Gulf Coast. I've been trying to assist through ...
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How to stop my PC waking from AMD USB3.1 eXtensible Host Controller?
Windows 7 x64
RAM 16GB Fury
Mother ASrock B450 Steel Legend
CPU Ryzen 5 1600
GPU RX 580
My PC wakes from AMD USB3.1 eXtensible Host Controller but there's no "Power Management" tab in the device ...
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can infect virus from usb in safe mode (windows 7)?
After searching, I know that there're virus run in safe mode. My question is : in safe mode (windows 7), are there virus can infect computer from usb? Of course, I do not run any file in usb, I just ...
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