Questions tagged [windows]
For questions not specific to a single version of Microsoft Windows. Otherwise, use a more specific tag such as [windows-7], [windows-10] or [windows-11].
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How can I override the win 11 default simplified task manager view by editing the windows registry?
I'm writing a tool to fix various windows annoyances, but I'm having trouble with the Windows Task Manager.
One of the first things I do on a new machine is to expand the task manager so it looks like ...
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Why is my Windows laptop not querying local DNS server?
I have a local PowerDNS server on a Linux box. I can access it fine on my Windows laptop under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). dig @main probitas returns the expected address. ping probitas and ...
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Windows Terminal, Command Prompt, and PowerShell cannot change directory to or start in a folder with Asian characters
I'm on Windows 10.
I have this problem where I'm unable to start the terminal (which I set up to start with Powershell), or changing directory to this folder:
D:\Scanlation\神作家・紫式部のありえない日々\Upscaled\[...
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Transferring files from a Wacom tablet to a Windows PC through Bluetooth
I have a discontinued Wacom tablet that uses a mobile app to function. It is a paper to digital tablet and I would like to use it for my note taking needs in uni. I already have a latex-ish system in ...
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Why does my Jenkins service on Windows always turn off?
I use a Jenkins service on Windows to realize my CI/CD pipeline. Sometimes, this service turn off and my job cannot run. I don't understand why.
I decided to change my password for this service and ...
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Excel Sortby formula on alpha numerics e.g. A1 to A100 to return 4 rows of associated data
I have used this formula to sort the column A1 to A100 so that A
=SORTBY(A1:A206,COLUMN(INDIRECT(A1:A206)),1,ROW(INDIRECT(A1:A206)),1)
thanks to one of your posts: Advanced sorting of alphanumeric ...
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how do I reimage a Surface Go Tablet while retaining it's original windows key?
I work for a small company where I'm a software developer and we distribute our software on Surface Go tablets. I'm the only 'IT' guy here and the surface Go tablets that we buy already have a ...
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Network frequently dropping while playing online games on just one device - possible hardware issue?
Basically what the title says. It started happening about a week ago. It happens at random moments so it is hard to consistently replicate. It could happen even 10 minutes or it could not happen for 4-...
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Windows 11 - Network traffic cuts out (Both wired and Wifi)
I have a strange problem. The other day, my work laptop started acting up.
I as logged in to an rdp and the connection became very unstable.
As this happens as times, I didn't think much about it.
But ...
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Stop "will install updates on restart" or "will restart later and install updates" on Windows
I am using Windows 8 (not 8.1) right now. I think I have disabled most auto-updates (do not try to tell me that this unwise), but sometimes some updates sneak through. I have been in a cycle where the ...
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Create an image of a drive of compueter running windows 10 to configure multiple computers
At my workplace, we have to configure multiple computers with exact same hardware specs. We need to install our proprietary software on all of them one by one which takes lots of time.
I'm looking for ...
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A certificate chain processed but terminated in a root certificate which is not trusted by the trust provider
I noticed that some binaries on my machine were showing up as "Invalid Signature", and looking closer at one of them in particular (Microsoft's "widgets.exe") I noticed something ...
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How to build xmrig on windows with MSYS2 or VS 2022? [migrated]
I am trying to build xmrig on Windows 11 using mingw compiler since 3 days, however I can't figure it out as I am constantly receiving errors. I'm following tutorial on official xmrig page.
What have ...
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Windows YubiKey GPG works with putty but not terminal
I created three gpg subkeys stored on my YubiKey as described here. I added enable-ssh-support and enable-putty-support to my gpg-agent.conf file. Everything works when accessing a server with the ssh-...
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Enable Sort by Date Modified for all Win 10 Picture Folders
Is it possible to modify the registry or something to make Sort by Date Modified available as a default option for sorting image folders across everything in Windows?
I can enable it one by one folder ...
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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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Windows 11 (ASUS B550M WiFi) - is my Realtek NIC causing these problems?
So my PC has been experiencing intermittent disconnects from the internet (whether on WiFi, Ethernet or even tethering on 5G). Other devices have some issues, but none as frequent as my PC.
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Unable to Connect to Remote Desktop on Local Network - Diagnosing with CMD/PowerShell
I've recently encountered an issue with Remote Desktop Connection that stumps me. I have two Windows computers on the same Wi-Fi network. Until recently, I could connect without problems, but now I'm ...
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Is there a name for the text that shows up after executing each command line in a CLI?
for example in linux terminal I have
jurek@debian:~$ man help
No manual entry for help
I want to know how the second line is called
bc I want to ask an other question "How to copy this term (I'm ...
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Why does opening a socket delay for a minute with IPv6 but not with IPv4?
On my Windows 10 desktop machine, I am running the following bit of Python (3.10.9) to make an HTTP POST request:
import json
import requests
response = requests.post(
url="https://foo.bar/...
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How do I gray out the service startup type for my own windows service? (The service is written using win32 API ) [migrated]
I am writing a service, in which I want to restrict users from modifying service startup type. How do I do? I have attached a windows service which grays out the startup option.
WinDefend - Service ...
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Software vendor has asked me to give user read write permissions to c:\windows\system folder
In response to a user query a software vendor has suggested that the user have full read/write access to c:\windows\system. I have declined this as no regular user, workgroup or domain user should ...
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Which regex can I use to replace Greek capital vocals with tonos to ones without it, in Bulk Rename Utility application?
I would like to replace in a lot of filenames, the Greek capital vocals with tonos, with the ones without it:
Ά > Α
Έ > Ε
Ή > Η
Ί > Ι
Ό > Ο
Ύ > Υ
Ώ > Ω
I know how to replace them ...
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How do I get windows to ignore security level and connect to the internet
Sometimes when I try to connect to hotel wifi, Windows tells me that it is at a lower security level that is due to be phased out. It then cleverly offers me help on what to do but when I click on ...
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How do I load a local whatsapp backup on my desktop, without interfering with Whatsapp?
How do I load a local whatsapp backup on my desktop, without interfering with Whatsapp? (So e.g. perhaps via a third party program)
I made a copy of whatsapp following instructions on this android ...
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Libvirt/QEMU using real drive, showing virtual data in VM
I'm using a real drive as my windows 11 VM drive in libvirt using QEMU. This is working fine, however, when I open task manager, the drive shows as "QEMU HARDDISK", and shows up as an HDD (...
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Failed to boot Windows 10 after resizing volume
I have a late 2013 iMac dual booting windows bootcamp and iOS 11 with the rEFInd boot manager. I ran out of space in the boot camp partition, so I got gparted live on an USB to resize the volume. ...
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Why HP Windows 10 laptop is not starting without charging cable
I have a HP Windows 10 laptop. I was reinstalling Windows yesterday so I left the charging plug on and today when I was using it, it suddenly got shutdown so plugged the charger. As you may know ...
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Why is my partition readonly flag being reset
I have a partition which I want to be readonly. It is one of several partitions on an external USB drive with GPT-style partitioning.
I have followed the instructions here and it works great for a ...
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Absolute location on touchpad on surface devices
The Surface Diagnostic Toolkit has a test for the touchpad that uses the absolute location of your finger on the touchpad.
Is there any way to get this absolute location?
In case that it's device ...
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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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Run script elevated as different user on remote machine
I have a Windows Scheduled Task that runs a Powershell script file A.ps1. This task runs mostly locally and does NOT need elevation/administrator access. However, a few steps need to run on a remote ...
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Windows - redirect stdout and stderr output to a file avoiding unsync
Following answer from this question I've found that using dir > a.txt 2>&1 to output stdout and stderr to a file might be unreliable as stdout and stderr appear to get unsynced sometimes. ...
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How does Windows Task Schedule run tasks with multiple actions?
If you have a Windows Tasks Schedule Task with multiple actions, how does it run them?
Does it kick off each additional action without waiting for the previous action to finish, or does it wait until ...
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Linux cannot see other hard drive after dual boot, also want to remove windows if possible
I wanted to switch to Linux and I did this by installing Kali onto my usb and and then booting from my usb. It then went through the process of installing on one of my two SSDs, it then installs fine ...
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New Windows mail client installed, old client keeps asking for password
I've got new outlook (mail client) installed on W11 after a lot of resistance to it. Anyway, I changed the password on one of the accounts in new outlook. Now, whenever I login, old outlook asks for ...
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How to Solve the Issue between Google Drive sync and Windows Security ransomware protection feature?
New Windows has a feature called Ransomware Protection in Windows Settings >> Windows Security.
I use this feature to protect the folder of Google Drive.
However, it doesn't go well. At the ...
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Change URL path in Registry
I need to find in the registry the location of a file which can update a URL. Right-clicking on the shortcut, select Properties > Target. There is a URL, https://test.domain.com.
I need to update ...
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Cannot install windows alongside linux on NTFS partition - unrecognised type
I am attempting to install Windows 10 Pro from a usb onto a partition that I have formatted to ntfs using
sudo mkfs.ntfs -Q /dev/sda3
When I run
df -T, --print-type
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Service startup issue in windows, how to troubleshoot? [closed]
The service is written to start automatically and usually it does so. But at some case service fails to start on machine boot up.
What are all the possible cases will this occur?
For now, I know I ...
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Packages being skipped when installing using winget sequentially
I have a bootstrap script which does a lot of things to setup a new Windows installation. It calls other scripts within that script, including this one which installs some packages using winget:
@echo ...
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GRUB: Windows Memory Diagnostic
I've been trying to add the "Windows Memory Diagnostic" utility to my GRUB bootloader. I have not had any luck, though. Every script I've tried writing has resulted in an error message, with ...
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Are Pause and Ctrl+S different in Windows Terminal & Console Host?
I know that Windows terminal applications have changed over time when looking at how they allow users to make the terminal pause accepting output.
Ctrl+S (XOFF) and Ctrl+Q (XON) used to work, then ...
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Is there a way for Windows to behave like a Mac when drag a file into a upload window?
When uploading an item like attaching a file on email on Windows, when I drag the file into the popup window, Windows will move the file to that current directory of the window, where Mac will instead ...
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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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A very simple screen capture and stream on Win64+ffmpeg
I need to stream my desktop to a TV, what I need is soo simple and I'm getting crazy to find a solution trying and failing with everything, please help me.
VLC and udp streaming, works very bad, ...
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Automatic sign-in New Outlook desktop app [closed]
In the old Outlook desktop app I was always signed in. This means that whenever I got a mail, a popup window would occur. But now in the new Outlook
desktop app, I have to sign in every time I start ...
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Cannot delete file in Windows 10 [duplicate]
On Windows 10, there is a file [%UserProfile%\Videos\Lorem.mkv] that is less thant 9KB and I cannot delete it. The file belongs to me, I have permissions to it, there are no prompts for entering a ...
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"For" cmd in Windows recovery console
I ask if my CMD prompt in windows recovery environment can accept this kind of script, as a paste only script.
I know it works ok in the regular cmd console, but I'm not really sure about the recovery ...
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User's PC have 2 different IP in the same DHCP network
I currently have an issue with a user on Active Directory where their PC have 2 different IP address but in the same DHCP network (ex: IP 1: 192.168.1.10, IP 2: 192.168.1.11), gateway: 192.168.1.1). ...
