Questions tagged [windows]
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Powershell script to show drive health only for drives with a drive letter
I'm made a powershell command that will give me info about physical drive health, in the following format:
DeviceId : 0
FriendlyName : WDC WD84PURZ-85B2YY0
OperationalStatus : OK
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Fast Startup (Hibernate): Windows failed fast startup with error status 0xC00000D4
The windows Fast Startup feature has a problem in my HP Victus 15 laptop.
i have it enabled from control panel, if i shutdown the laptop and leave it for like a day, when i turn it on, it is doing a ...
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HP 2000 windows 8 internet connection trouble
I am trying to update it. As of right now I have activated it and have it connected but says it's not connected to the internet.
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Sometimes desktop icon name cannot display with line breaks automatically [closed]
it should be like this
however sometimes it just displays with an ellipsis
I have to manually change resolution or scaling to recover, but they are all recommended (2560*1600,150%)
Does this have to ...
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How good is the long formatting of a hard disk of windows 11, from a security perspective?
I have an old hard disk that I want to completely format. I have found online that the windows quick format deletes the partition table and labels all the data as "Available Space", but the ...
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Restore all CMD commands (or windows commands) [duplicate]
I was messing with the environment variables and PATH, etc and i think i got rid of a bunch of terminal commands by accident (nodeJs commands, python, etc) even the windows ones.
So i cant run ...
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How to identify a network? [closed]
I am trying to make a local network with two computers (Linux and Windows) via Ethernet, without a router, the connection works fine, but I don't like the name of the network (if it has one) because ...
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Windows 11 navigation dropdown and search bar disappeared
I do not recall doing a Windows update. However, I noticed in the past month that the dropdown navigation bar and the search box next to it are missing.
Ctr-f gives nothing.
Although this is from ...
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Windows Boot: Stuck in Boot loader
This question is about a Laptop which has Windows 10 64-Bit and 32-Bit in a dual boot configuration via Windows boot manager.
A CPU upgrade (change of the CPU, bought used) was recently performed. I ...
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Windows 8.1 installation fails returning a blue screen with internal_power_error [duplicate]
Today I was installing windows 8.1 and everything seemed to go smoothly until the second stage of the installation. My pc restarted and a bsod quickly flashed an error that I could not read at first, ...
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Renaming file in a long-path in Windows 11 in GUI does not work, when programmatically it does
I have problems renaming a file in a long-path in the GUI on Windows 11 v23H2, while programmatically it can be renamed. How can I tell Windows to allow me do the renaming in the GUI?
G:\ is a google-...
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Is it possible for multiple people to use a remote desktop at once?
I work at a company where all of our work is done through remote desktops. The biggest drawback, however, is that only 1 person can use the remote desktop at a time. So everyone else can only sit idle ...
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Error while installing Ubuntu in E drive (status : 0xc0000225) [closed]
status: 0xc0000225 in Windows serverI’m in big trouble right now. I need Help. Recently I was attempting a Ubuntu installation on a Windows Server. The Windows Server have 3 drives C , D , E. After ...
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Which user's app crashed in the Windows Event Logs?
I have an app that is crashing and leaving crash reports in the Windows Event Logs. They look something like this:
Is it possible to determine which user was running the app when it crashed? If not ...
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Folder on NAS not accessible by Windows, network credentials give access denied
I have a home NAS setup (running openmediavault 5.5.6-1, outdated I know, but it does the job) where I recently backed up my files to. Lucky that I did, because two weeks ago my SSD got damaged/...
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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 Clean Install
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad P51. Below are the specs:
Intel i7 7820HQ
16GB RAM
512 GB NVMe SSD
Nvidia Quadro M1200
Intel HD 630
Currently, I'm on Windows 11. I updated through Windows 10 by changing the ...
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Unknown Memory Hog in Windows 11
I have an HP Omen gaming laptop that recently struggles with memory use hitting close to 100% when playing. Tried restarting to get a fresh picture, checked TaskManager and RamMap and there's lots of ...
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Is Windows / Linux Dual Boot a scam? [closed]
I have searched for this topic a bit on the web without any success.
Is Windows Dual boot + Linux way worse than it is imagined ?
Installaed a dual bot linux mint on a windows 11 computer. THe main ...
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Batch how to compress an .zip folder without root folder while also being portable
I'm trying to compress multiple separate folders to .zip (whether it be 7zip or PowerShell or tar)
as well as being portable (as in the .bat can be anywhere)
yes I looked at other posts but none of ...
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Windows print queue not created correctly
I am trying to create a printer/print queue in Windows, for a printer connected to a RaspberryPi running Cups. I have followed this procedure for setting it up:https://techblog.paalijarvi.fi/2020/05/...
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Print to local USB printer when using VNC over a VPN
We have client computer C. There is a NAS running OpenVPN at a remote location. Network access has been enabled on the NAS/OpenVPN to allow clients to communicate with the rest of the network. A ...
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Define route for some protocols
I'm on windows 10.
My default gateway is blocking ICMP, but if I change the route to some specific one (which pass through one VPN), ping is working. I can change ping to specific IP with route add ...
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How do I setup another BT adapter after previous one didnt setup?
I built a new PC and to get my bluetooth devices connected to it, i initially used a cheap Bluetooth adapter, which in order to setup & install it's drivers, told me to disable memory integrity in ...
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How can I automate the connection to an On Prem Windows VM that uses Azure AAD for authentication?
My requirement is to automate the transfer of files, and running commands on the Windows VM, which is currently a manual process where I log in to the VM via RDP (and it prompts me for my username/...
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I am trying to download pictures from an older phone. I have paired it to my laptop via Bluetooth but cannot get the pictures out
WP8990 flip phone. The options to send pictures from the phone is by picture message or to online album. The phone is no longer useable as a phone. The album no longer exists. It is obsolete and ...
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How do I sort the items in my Taskbar Jump List
I want to rearrange the pinned items in my jump list for Visual Studio. I see Unpin, but I cannot drag and drop or rearrange the items in any way. How can I do this?
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How to suspend Windows PC for a specified period of time using Powershell?
Using Powershell or batch scripts, how to make a PC with Windows OS automatically suspend during the weekdays and automatically reactivate for every weekend?
I know that in Linux OS this can be ...
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Windows "winget" says that a program is installed but it is not anywhere on the installation drive
I had downloaded and installed clink manually. It did not show up anywhere on the path. So then I used the package installer: it says that it is already installed:
C:\Users\sboesch>winget install ...
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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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Trying to capture same functionality in Windows cmd prompts as in a PowerShell list of commands using net localgroup
I work in an environment with a mix of older and newer Windows components on isolated networks. To try and make a certain task easier, I worked on a list of PowerShell commands to create a single text ...
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Windows Desktop lags constantly, unless youtube is playing a video
I have a 144Hz monitor that works perfectly for games or any demanding app.
But I get constant stuttering / low framerate on the desktop (web browsers, explorer, excel, etc.).
But, whenever there's ...
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Is there any way to make Windows always start on a specific audio output?
Sometimes I turn off the computer using the headsets, but I usually use the speakers more.
This would be a quality of life feature.
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Unable to create/open Word documents Windows 10
I was trying to clear up storage space on my computer and accidentally deleted something. I now seem to be unable to create Word documents, and the ones I have are all grayed out and ask me "how ...
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Torrenting unbearably slow in Deluge
My Deluge client is consistently getting less than 1.0K/s on all torrents it is downloading
There aren't very many peers on each torrent even though the website says >100 on every torrent... Why is ...
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Starting a program from the CLI with some File Properties Options activated
Start a program from the CLI with some File Properties Options activated
I want to start from the CLI automatically a graphical application with a File properties flag setted.
High DPI scalling ...
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Execute windows exe files on wsl after metadata,umask=022, fmask=111
WSL can't run any exe files after I added options = "metadata,umask=022,fmask=111" to wsl config. The reason I did this is so I can share ssh keys from a parent windows machine. So I would ...
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MDT removing old VB programs after sysprep
Good morning. I have installed 2 old vb programs on an image build in MDT however when I sysprep and capture the image and apply it to a laptop those programs are gone from the image. Any help would ...
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How to make a specific volume bootable using CMD in Windows10?
Operation system: Windows 10 Home version
The volume containing the operation system is shown as hidden. See attachment on links:
Can this be the cause why my computer won't boot in properly ?
When I ...
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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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How to assign a windows drive letter to a Microsoft Remote Desktop shared folder?
The screenshot shows my home directory stephenboesch on the host machine stephenb
I have not been able to figure out how to assign a drive letter / alias to that folder. I have tried subst command ...
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How can I have a colored Powershell prompt and still have conda env label?
When I add the code below to C:\Users\USERFOLDER\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1:
function prompt
{
$ESC = [char]27
"$ESC[46mPS $($executionContext.SessionState....
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Windows 10 DOSBox installed but Cd-rom game will not load
I have DOSBox installed and trying to run 1994 cyberwar video game off a cdrom but when the game asks me what directory to install to I’m lost. My main hard drive is c and cd is e but will not work ...
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in "tor-expert-bundle-windows" how to ask for a new identity?
I know this forum is for super users, and I am not one, but we need a way to access the free internet despite the censorship in our country. I apologize if my question seems basic, and I appreciate ...
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Does the presence of a large `found.000` folder on a Windows machine would indicate a dying SSD?
I found a large folder named found.000, I know this is linked to data corruption and bad-sectors but what it means is unclear to me.
Should I change my SSD? Are the bad sectors not used anymore? If I ...
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Windows Security Event ID 4800 (lock screen) on Win 11 Pro for Workstations
I have a task that is triggered on PC1 whenever the user locks their computer. This works fine.
I just set it up the same on PC2, but the Event ID 4800 is not logged on this machine when the user ...
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Unable to Delete Partitions on SSD and Reinstall Windows 11
Details:
MOTHERBOARD: MSI MAG B660 Tomahawk wifi ddr4
OS: Windows 11
Processor: Intel i7-12700
SSD: XPG S5 512 GB
Issue Description:
I was using my system to browse the internet when I suddenly ...
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Fairly new computer, windows 10 pro, not able to open cmd in a specific path by typing cmd in the address bar of file explorer
I used to be able to do this on my laptop. But now I have a desktop and when I try this, it just shows C:\>
instead of being in the path I want it to be in. I have no idea how to fix this or where ...
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