Questions tagged [windows-7]
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Windows 7 DSCP and 802.1p QoS Mapping?
When I create a QoS policy in Windows 7 through the Group Policy editor and set a DSCP value, does Windows 7 add the 802.1p QoS field to the Ethernet frame? If so, how does it map the different ...
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Want the Windows 10 start menu to show the expanded start menu
I am customizing the Windows 10 desktop, and am wondering if it is possible to make the start menu show the menu that one sees when they click the expand button, by default. Here's what I mean:
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How do you use multiple monitors in MS Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.7?
Using the RDMan from:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=44989
Tools->Options->Full Screen-> last checkbox is 'Use multiple monitors when necessary'
however this has no ...
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Windows XP installation disk for XP Mode under Windows 7?
I am running XP mode under Windows 7, for testing / troubleshooting software.
I am trying to install a third party driver(unidrv printer), and I get stuck at
Setup failed to locate required files. ...
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How do I remove all proper nouns from the Dragon Naturally Speaking dictionary?
I would like to get rid of all proper nouns, and just add the few that I actually use.
The best I have found so far is to display only words containing capitals letters as the screenshot below shows ...
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How to get a list of connected devices?
I'm experiencing a strange phenomenon. Every now and then (perhaps once per hour on average) my Win7 box emits the "Device connected" system sound (the one you get when you plug in a USB device) for ...
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How to change default view size of Windows 7 Photo Viewer
Is there a way to tweak Windows Photo Viewer so that it automatically opens images in actual size instead of fit in window?
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After plugging in a USB device, Win7 severely slows. What causes this and how could it be fixed?
This is the second PC undergoing this condition, both running Win7. On PC1 a Logitech device was connected through USB before installing it's branded driver (allowing windows to auto-install it), and ...
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How to display ALT+TAB on both monitors?
I added a monitor to my laptop but whenever I do Alt + Tab on my computer it only shows the running applications on the laptop but not on my extra monitor.
Is there a workaround for this?
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Windows 7 hosted network not allowing internet access
I have a Windows 7 laptop and I am trying to set it up to broadcast Wi-Fi so that my mobile can connect to it when in the office (no mobile signal).
I've found plenty of tutorials, and while all of ...
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Why don't device and app sound mixers match?
My question is specified in the title, to be more exact I would like to show this particular screenshot of the sound mixer:
As you can see here, the volume of the IE reached the maximum level, but ...
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Laptop won't boot, restarts on its own + black screen
yesterday I was playing on my Win 7 laptop when suddenly my screen went into this colorful faulty state, something of this
, though not exactly. And a second after my laptop died starting itself up ...
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Windows adding additional keyboard languages by itself
I have this really annoying problem with Win7 adding random keyboard language layouts...
I am using Swedish and Japanese since I live in japan and i only use these two (As I can write all the english ...
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How do I get Explorer to default to Folder Path instead of Folder when I search?
Whenever I run a search in Explorer on Windows 7, the first thing I do is remove the Folder column and then add the Folder Path column. Is there a way to save this configuration so that this becomes ...
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Reducing volume of an audio device on windows 7
I have a USB headset with a very loud amplifier, but low granularity in its gain control. In order to get comfortable audio, I have to reduce the individual application levels in the mixer to '1', and ...
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How to prefer ipv6 over ipv4 only for specific websites?
I only have ipv6 connectivity via a HE tunnel on my router, so normally I want to prefer ipv4 over ipv6. For some websites however, I would like to prefer ipv6.
Right now I have just set ...
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Windows Explorer freezes for 30 seconds when I click on (or even mouse over) a disconnected network drive
I have a network drive mapped in My Computer and displayed on the task bar beside my other drives.
Sometimes the server which hosts the network drive is physically powered off.
When the server is ...
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Show Optional or CC Field in Outlook Meeting Request
I would like to quickly add Optional meeting attendees to a new Outlook meeting.
I am trying to create a meeting with Alice and Bob as required attendees, but Steve is optional. There is no field to ...
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Run software as admin user, but in the current user context
Here is my situation: I have a single software that demands admin rights. That software needs to be run by commom users. Right-clicking and "Run as administrator" does not do the trick, therefore I ...
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Google Drive (googlesyncdrive) preventing PC from shutting down or hibernating
Everytime I try to shutdown or hibernate the PC I have this nag screen that comes up telling me that Google Drive is shutting down and the system is waiting for it. The problem is that the system can ...
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Auto Shutdown / Suspend Vagrant upon shutdown on Windows Host
I use vagrant in my development workflow on a Windows machine. Sometimes, I forget to do a vagrant halt or suspend before restarting or shutting windows down. I read that this could possibly break ...
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Display remaining time in playlist in VLC
Is there any way to display the remaining time in the current playlist in VLC? Right now I can see the total time of the playlist:
and the remaining time for the current video:
but I didn't find the ...
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Running fsck from cygwin shell?
I need to be able to check / fix file system errors on SD cards from a win7 box. I had hoped to use e2fsck from cygwin but am having some issues getting this to work. (SD cards are used to boot ...
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Making always-on-top windows follow the same MRU order as other windows
Note: I'm using Windows 7 with the classical alt-tab style, ie the registry key AltTabSettings set to 1.
I want to use MRU (most recently used) ordering of windows in the alt-tab list. However, ...
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Ways to Recover Lost/Closed "Pinned" Tabs in Chrome?
I know this was TECHNICALLY an already-answered issue awhile back - and then was subsequently brought to life again briefly - but I have been experiencing this issue (only twice, but I had about 15 ...
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How can I disable program notifications and popups in bottom right corner?
I have an older computer running Windows 7 SP1. I find that some installed programs, like antivirus trial, Flux, etc. decide they want to present some info to me in the form of a smaller screen with ...
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Explantion for CSRSS.EXE using the GPU
This is a follow up question to conhost.exe and csrss.exe questions
I am currently on a Windows 7 x64 machine, using a relatively high end GPU (GTX 970 4 GB). Windows Aero is enabled. I am using ...
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How can I prevent my NIC from sleeping when Wake-on-LAN is enabled?
I currently have wake-on-LAN enabled and it works, but for some reason my Windows 7 laptop only allows me to turn it on if I also have the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" ...
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Syntax For Searching the Microsoft Update Catalog
Microsoft allows download of Windows Updates, drivers and other upgrades from the Microsoft Update Catalog: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com .
Unfortunately there seems to be no search syntax ...
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VMware - Startup in Unity Mode
I can't figure out how to get VMware to start up in unity mode. Is this possible? I want the guess OS to startup in unity mode, with selected application(s). I am using VMware workstation on the the ...
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Can't use local default gateway with Cisco Anyconnect VPN connection
I'm using Cisco Anyconnect as my VPN client on Windows 7. When I connect to VPN, all my traffic is routed through the remote gateway, but I'd like the traffic to route through the local gateway.
I've ...
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Alternative synaptics touchpad driver for windows 7
I have hp pavillion dv6 laptop(Windows 7) with a synaptics touchpad . The gestures like two finger scroll doesn't work automatically after I disabled a startup service or something. (I dont remember ...
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Force Windows 7 to store thumbnails locally
I want Windows 7 to store thumbnails cache files in the same folder as the files (thumbs.db) instead of using the centralized location for all thumbnails (By default %userprofile%\AppData\Local\...
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How to reduce the hide-delay of Windows 7 taskbar previews?
When you hover the mouse over a taskbar item in Windows 7, it pops up the thumbnail preview. When you remove the mouse, there is a short delay and then the thumbnail disappears. Does anyone know if ...
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Bluescreen Stop 0x00000027 RDR_FILE_SYSTEM after cloning system on new HDD
A couple of months ago I got a new 500GB HDD for my no-name-brand Laptop PC and I cloned the complete Win 7 Pro 32bit system with clonezilla from the old 70GB drive to the new one. At first everything ...
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How do I get the full path to a USB drive in Windows 7 with no drive letter?
I plug in a Nokia C3 phone to USB and select view files on this device.
It shows up in the Explorer "my computer" window as Nokia C3 under "Portable Devices" but there's no drive letter associated ...
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IP Helper service uses 50-60% CPU every 1 minute for 3-4 seconds on Windows 7
I have checked everything - all the processes in the process explorer. IP Helper service is causing CPU usage of over 50 % every 1 minute for 3-4 seconds then comes back to normal. In the task manager,...
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How do I clear the cache / history in Windows 7?
In Windows XP there was an option off the task bar properties to clear all recently accessed webpages, recent file lists, ie. cache, temp files and so on; is there an equivalent for Windows 7?
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How can I display GIMP's logo in the taskbar instead of a thumbnail?
Whenever an image is opened in GIMP, the Windows taskbar icon changes from the standard Wilber head into a thumbnail of the current image.
I sometimes get confused trying to locate GIMP on a crowded ...
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Windows 7 set to UTC RTC forcibly changes time
I really want to make Windows 7 understand that RTC in using UTC instead of local time. I found a solution, except for it does not play well with time synchronization.
I have:
Modified the registry ...
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synergy: how to switch language on client
I use synergy to share single keyboard and mouse and clipboard on 2 computers. Server and Client computers run windows 7 x64 ultimate. On client computer I got 2 languages English and Russian. When I ...
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How can I mix and map sound channels in Windows?
The built-in windows mixer, which can be accessed through Volume Control, allows users to change the output volumes of individual applications. I would like something similar but with additional ...
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Ghost boot disk on a pen drive
I am in process of ghosting several windows 7 machines. I have disk but no pc comes with floppy drives. So I need an external so I was hoping to create a bootable pen drive with ghost. I have the ...
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Windows 7 stops sending DNS packets at seemingly random times
Pinging an IP directly (and just about any other direct IP connection) seems to pass through.
On the other hand, when pinging a domain, using chrome to enter a website or attempting to use nslookup ...
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Are there any other modifier keys on Windows?
I'm trying to use the Win key as a modifier key on Windows. So far, the best approach I found is to map it to another key using AutoHotKeys. For example, I can map the left Win key to the left Control ...
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Kill unresponsive process in windows that won't stop through Task Manager or Process Explorer
Up front: I'm using windows 7 64 bit.
So sometimes I am trying to kill a process but it won't quit. I can try killing the process or the process structure, but Task Manager won't accomplish anything. ...
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how will DNS work under this circumstance (when no domain name specified)
Supposingly there is a host/server in the network with FQDN as "host1.example.com"
Can i know what will happen when i on another workstation, do a
"ping host1" assuming that host1 is not recorded ...
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How to temporally disable chrome extensions notifications
with new release of chrome 47, i'm not able anymore temporally disable notifications from bell icon in task bar in windows 7
when i play games in window-fullscreen mode, they appear and i prefer not ...
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Edit text from the preview pane in Windows Explorer
Is there any way to configure Windows Explorer so as to be able to edit text from the preview pane, when previewing text files?
I use Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate.
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Will TrueCrypt work with a multiboot system
I have a 4 multiboot system (Windows 7, 8, 10, and Ubuntu) all on their own partitions, with 2 storage partitions. If I encrypt one of the storage partitions in Windows 7 with TrueCrypt, will I be ...
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