Questions tagged [windows-7]
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VBoxVGA works, but VBoxSVGA for VirtualBox
I am trying to run Windows 7 as a guest in a VirtualBox on my Kubuntu 20.04 host. When I use VBoxVGA as graphic controller, this works. However, I would like to use 3d acceleration; thus, I need ...
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What is the term (phrase) for the ability to move a disk from one PC to another [duplicate]
Context: two Dell desktop PCs of the same model are in two different physical locations. There is a similar question with a different context: the PCs are not the same model.
The goal is to configure ...
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Windows 7 checkdisk deleted my folders. Can someone please help me recover it (am desperate)?
I have a windows 7 system. Restarted the system and it said the HDD might need a disk check. So I let it continue. The checkdisk completed. But as I log in I see it has deleted a folder and all the ...
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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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VMWare Workstation Pro 15.0 rolling back setup on Windows 7
I'm trying to install VMWare Workstation Pro 15.0 32-bit version on my 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 machine but it always rolls back setup.
I tried rebooting, deleting vmkbd3 key from the ...
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Lenovo black screen and do not show charging
I have a huge problem with my lenovo B5400 with Win7.
On the power adapter without battery it works ok. But when I plug in the battery and it is charging, Windows does not show the charging icon, but ...
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Partial boot after replacing SATA controller
I am just a hobbyist who has had pretty good success dealing with computer issues by finding good instructions, following them and researching troubleshooting when something didn't work. So when an ...
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How can I recover the contents of a preserved Chrome Login Data database following a Windows password change?
So I have a machine here whose owner recently changed their Windows login password - and I learned all at once that the passwords in Chrome's password store are encrypted using the OS login ...
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Is there way to create a virtual machine image from current machine?
I have a PC that has windows 7 installed and I'd like to upgrade it to windows 10. Since there is various old software installed in the current system, to prevent them from not running on the new ...
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Please help. Chrome 104 ruined everything; 105 changed nothing
Ever since Chrome updated itself to 104 on my Win7 laptop,
the UAC box always pops-up: "Do you want to allow Chrome
to make changes to this computer?"
If I click "Yes" and there's ...
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Black on black Menus in LibreOffice
Suddenly, the menus in LibreOffice have turned black with black text. The only way to read the options is to mouse over them. Does anybody know a fix?
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Windows 7 corrupt file
Error:
\windows\system\drivers\atapi.sys
Status: 0xc000000f
I think I will lose my data.
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How to access Windows 10 partially encrypted BitLocker drive in Windows 7 or Linux?
On my Windows 10 second PC I have an additional SSD which was encrypted by default with Bitlocker using no password or secure key.
Because that PC started to show some other hardware problems I tried ...
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Windows backup failure reading shadow copy on an unidentified volume
I'm hitting this error running windows backup on a Windows 7 machine.
Windows Backup: Troubleshooting Options
Check your backup Windows Backup failed while trying to read from the shadow copy on one ...
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How do I scale videos etc by 200% on a 4K monitor but make sure each pixel is duplicated 4 times with no blur?
I'm not seeing my exact question posted anywhere unfortunately.
I'm using Windows 7, as I like Windows 7 over Windows 10 for ease and privacy.
I bought a new 4K Lenovo monitor and a lot of my old data ...
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Windows 7 Firewall stopped working after I changed permissions for the registry key SharedAccess
Today I've changed permissions for the registry key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess (under which FirewallRules are stored) removing "Everyone" and "Users" in ...
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Which Windows 10 version to install on Intel Core2Duo E7400 2.8Ghz with 4GB RAM
I searched but I did not find a satisfactory answer to my specific query thus putting it here.
I have an old PC Intel Core2Duo E7400 2.8GHz with 4GB RAM running a Windows 7 32bit. I want to upgrade it ...
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How Windows decide whether to use Deflate or Deflate64 for zipping files
Windows Explorer uses the Deflate64 compression method for its zip files, rather than Deflate. Is this behaviour consistent across "current" Windows versions?
I tried one way. I created one ...
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How to disable editing registry by standard user in Win 7
In the past a standard user in my Win 7 was not able to edit such registry key as HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules.
But now I see that it's ...
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Can I create a RAID 1 array with a drive that already has data?
I am moving an IDE drive from a customer's old desktop into his new one. I want backup the old drive (drive 1) to a new drive (drive 2) before moving it to the new computer. Afterwards, I want to ...
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How to burn a .bin image to a USB flash drive in Windows 7?
I’m running Windows 7 and have a .bin file that I need to burn to a USB flash drive. It’s the Chromebook recovery image for my HP Chromebook 14-q063cl.
So, as far as i know, the dd command isn'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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I deleted path in environment variable and add help new
I installed min gw compiler for my c programming and I am a beginner then I go to the environment variable and their in path I just deleted the last path of the system and added a new path of min gw ...
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Windows 7 USB setup freezes at logo on modern laptop
I want to use Windows Vista or 7 mostly because of its skin. I want to use it at my own risk. I've considered embedding it into a VM, like on Virtual Box, but I didn't get satisfied with it. My laptop ...
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How to integrate drivers from Windows 10 disc image to Windows 7 disc image
I watched this video, which shows that it's possible to run Windows Vista in modern PCs. The author used NTLite to integrate drivers from Windows 7 to Vista's /sources/boot.wim. I installed NTLite but ...
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RDP Windows 10 full windows size without scrollbars
After upgrading to windows 10, I noticed that one of my RDP settings no longer seems to have the same effect.
My screen size is 2560x1440. I have 4 monitors, this is the first one to the left.
In ...
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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 can't be installed : ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING(0x80073701)
How to install Windows 7 (6.1 to be exact) Service Pack 1 (KB976932) if it ends with the following error:
ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING(0x80073701)
"System Update Readiness Tool, October 2014"...
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Customize Windows 11 window borders to look like Windows 7
I want to make window borders aesthetically look like Windows 7. It currently looks like this:
I want it to look like this:
This is also acceptable (DWM disabled):
I followed this tutorial: https://...
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I want to make 32bit INF driver file to 64bit INF
I am reviving MacBook Pro 2006 Late and installed Windows 7 64 bit on that. But the ATi Mobility Radeon X1600 driver only have 32 bit driver so Windows refuses installing driver. It says no required ...
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Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Memory Usage - 32GB RAM [duplicate]
I'm surprised recently by the fact that my OS complain about "lack of memory". So basically, I open and run many applications. I have installed 32GB RAM (Corsair) and as you can see in the ...
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Is there a way to disable global Windows hotkeys?
Basically I set up some global hotkeys for my app such as WinKey+Home/End/-/+, and Function keys, but Windows steals the WinKey+Home/End/+ hotkeys and doesn't let me app to fire its own actions.
I can ...
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Adobe audition 2021 unusable with folder with lot of files
I am a big user of Adobe Audition 1.5, and I'm mainly working with small sound effects files merging thems togethers for commercials spot.
I'm dealing with quite big folders, even if they are low in ...
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batch: configure a service to logon as a user with password
trying to configure Service1 service on windows 7 sp1 to logon as user user1 with password password1 using this batch script:
net user user1 /delete
net user user1 password1 /add
net localgroup ...
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Two issues both related to certificates on Win 7
I have two issues both related to certificates and perhaps both have common reason(s) I need to find out.
The first and less important issue is when I try to open any website via https in Chrome ...
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System process overwritten entire folder of images
I noticed abnormal amounts of disk access, checked Resource Monitor and saw "System" writing millions of bytes to various files in one folder. Checked the folder in question, the thousands ...
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When log into standard account of PC run VBS that requires admin privs
I need when I log into Windows account of standard user, VBS file should be run automatically.
I know I can create a new string value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ...
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Is it safe to change registry names from VBOX to something else in Virtualbox?
I'm trying to make a stealthy Windows 7 VM on an Ubuntu host but in the registry there are many keys and values which have "VBOX" written (see screenshot attached). Therefore, is it safe if ...
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Can't join a meeting via Zoom 5.10 and update the app to at least 5.11
Today when I try to join a meeting via Zoom v5.10.1 (I could do before), a dialog window is appeared with the text "Update required. Your app version needs to be 5.11.1 or higher to join this ...
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Install Windows 10 designed drivers on Windows 7?
My laptop is by default installed with Windows 10. I've tried to downgrade it to Windows 8, but the touchpad wasn't recognized and the screen brightness couldn't be changed due to Intel graphics ...
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Microsoft word file deleted itself - On a USB stick
There was a Microsoft word file that I've been writing on which was in a USB. I've been writing on this file on a desktop which is Windows 7 and I guess the Microsoft Word version is 2007 on that pc. ...
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Can I replace Win-11 with Win-7 in a brand New System?
I bought a new Dell workstation 3660 with
i-7 12700
2 NVIDIA T-600 Cards To Run 8 Monitors
Win-11 Pro
3 M.2 512GB NVMe & 3 SATA 4TB 5400 RPM HDDs
Eight 24 inch Monitors ( 1920 x 1200 ) Resolution
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RAM usage discrepancy - processes don't add up
Noticing issues with RAM usage on laptops. Windows 10 x64.
The RAM usage on the performance tab does not match that on the user tab of Task Manager.
If I add up all processes on process tab, they don'...
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Windows 7 - How to record Google Meeting audio?
I'm having psychoterapy through Google Meet and would like to record the sessions for studying them later. But Google does not allows recording natively except if you are the inviter and pay for a ...
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Windows 7 setup could not see HDD
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a Lenovo Desktop Core i5 PC, which originally came with Windows 7 installed, I bought it used and hard disk was cleaned.
When I run the Windows 7 setup it could not ...
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what happened to my OEM key after windows 10 home upgrade from windows 7 home premium?
I upgrade from windows 7 home premium to windows 10 home, after the upgrade the product id changed and doesn't include OEM in the key anymore. even after running SLMGR /dlv in CMD
it brings the ...
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Kiosk embedded computer: hide as much as possible before the app starts in Windows
What is the industry-standard solution for touchscreen "kiosk" embdedded computers (in public places) running Windows to hide things as much as possible when the machine boots, until the ...
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How can I connect two computers, with one without a display, keyboard, or mouse?
I have two computers. One is my main laptop (fully functional x64 Windows 11 machine with keyboard, mouse, display etc) and the other is an old 32-bit desktop running Windows 7 (unknown SP) without ...
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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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Dual Boot between Win 7 and Win 11
I have a notebook from my company that was installed Win 7 MBR + Legacy. I need to install a few programs, but they are not compatible with Win 7 anymore and I can't upgrade or do a clean install ...
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Windows 10 doesn't remember different RDP auth for different port numbers
I have various RDP configurations pointing to workstations on the same target connection, but using different port numbers. I swear Windows 7 could save different passwords with the connections on ...
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