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Windows laptop will not turn on after installing Wireshark

I have a Dell XPS laptop running Windows 10. I installed Wireshark from here, including Npcap from the same installer. All the additional options were left default. After closing the laptop lid for a ...
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Disabling Click Delay, Dell XPS13 Windows 10 Home Edition, Microsoft Touchpad

tl;dr - How do I disable click delay on a Windows 10 Dell xps13 9360 laptop? This quarantine has got me trying to play video games again. I loaded up CSGO for the first time on this machine and ...
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Hibernate a Dell laptop with a single key press

In my HP laptop, near the F1 button, there is a moon icon. When I click Fn+F1, the laptop immediately goes into hibernation. This is very convenient to me. In my Dell XPS laptop (with Windows 10) ...
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Laptop microphone is not working

I have a microphone built into my laptop. It is not working in any application (for example, when I try to make a Skype or Zoom call, the application gives me a message that the microphone is not ...
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cannot disable dell xps 13 9360 content adaptive brightness for FHD 1080p builtin display

I bought a new xps 13 9360 laptop with the basic 1080p FHD display (as opposed to the higher-res QHD one) and when I got the laptop, I immediately installed Ubuntu. However, I noticed that the ...
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Dell 9550 Crashes while on battery - Win 10

Been trying to solve this forever. Dell 9550 (XPS 15) - consistently crashes after 20-60 minutes while on battery power (fine on AC). The way the crash works is this: first the mouse/trackpad and ...
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XPS 13 9350 battery grossly uncalibrated

For the past week or two, I noticed that my windows 10 battery percentage on my XPS 13 9350 would max out at 55%. powercfg /batteryoutput showed a design capacity of ~56mWh and a full charge capacity ...
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Windows 10 Hibernating on Lid Close

This is a strange occurrence that I can't for the life of me figure out. For information: I'm running a Dell XPS 13" with Windows 10. To reproduce the issue: I will close my lid while working on ...
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Excel scrolling issues on second monitor [duplicate]

We're encountering scrolling issues with Excel 2013 (and 2016). What we mean by that is graphic distortions (blocks of black) appearing on the worksheet during the scroll action. It happens almost ...
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Dell XPS laptop, black screen before boot, but screen test works

Tl;dr Upon powering up the laptop, the power light, screen backlight, and keyboard backlight power on, but nothing otherwise appears on the monitor (no mouse, no boot screen, nothing). I have reason ...
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