Questions tagged [operating-systems]
The software layer between your hardware and application programs. It manages program scheduling, memory allocation, interrupt handling, disk input/output, graphic acceleration, hosting device drivers and various other resources.
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Nokia 150 TA-1235 [closed]
I had a nokia phone called Nokia TA-1235 for 5 years and i made way to watch videos from it from SD card i made a program that download and convert youtube links or playlists to the nokia phone to ...
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How to programmatically reboot Windows 11 without installing updates?
As the undermentioned demonstrates:
The Start Menu (Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy) is able to invoke a reboot without updating the OS. However, file:///%SYSTEMROOT%/system32/...
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Boot Custom Kernel with UEFI in QEMU
I'm trying to boot a custom kernel on QEMU using UEFI. This is for an OS that I'm writing. When I run this command, I'm brought into the UEFI shell. I may be wrong, but I think that if everything is ...
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HDD Crash and Optane Memory Uninstallation
Absolute noob here, so please bear with me.
My laptop was running on an HDD which was accelerated by a 16GB Optane Memory Module. A few days ago, the HDD crashed and the system now
prepares for ...
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After changing the VBE configuration in the SeaBIOS from using I/O ports to using MMIO, Windows cannot boot
QEMU's std VGA, when using the PCI interface, provides both I/O ports and MMIO to configure VBE. SeaBIOS uses I/O ports by default to configure VBE. I tried modifying the VGA BIOS code in SeaBIOS to ...
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My python application doesn't want to cross-compile using Yocto
I'm currently trying to set up a Linux OS for one of our embedded projects, I've successfully cross-compiled many packages from pypi using the PiP2Bitbake package but when I tried to do it with a ...
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Does accesing a file "random" and updating just a part of a file really updates record randomly on hard drive?
I use Visual Basic 6.0. It is possible "Processing Files with Older File I/O" as it is said using VB6. Files can be reached as "random" using this I/O. It gives opportunity to read ...
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Does Windows 10's portability limit OS features?
From what I can see Windows 10 can support 2015 CPUs, and I'm aware that all x86 architecture uses similar intruction sets, but surely there's features that are missing if it supports that many older ...
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How to fix error: "FAIL: Unable to load driver '\efi\rufus\exfat_x64.efi': [26] Security Violation"
I'm trying to reinstall Windows 10 but the short DST test fails and also it states Unable to load driver '\efi\rufus\exfat_x64.efi': [26] Security Violation.
My laptop is a HP EliteBook 840 G3 1TB ...
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Missing partition on disk utility for Mac. How to find it and revert it back to Mac?
A while back, I partitioned my Mac SSD, but never got around to installing an OS. Now when I go to disk utility, I cannot find the partition. Has anyone faced this before and what can I do?
There is ...
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Can I restore a Windows 95 MBR using a Windows XP installation disk?
If I have Windows 95 installed on a temporary, secondary, FAT32 drive (which needs to go back into its original machine), can I repair its MBR using a Windows XP installation CD ROM?
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Predict a disk's near failure or burnout [closed]
I have a project to submit on computer resource's monitoring, and for that I wish to create a CLI program -for Linux and Windows- that analyses the data provided by SMART each time the computer ...
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Can I use a bootable drive partition to install OS on another partition on the same SSD?
I realize this is a little out of the box question so I wanted to reach out to the experts on the matter.
I have a 256GB SSD. I have 2 partitions on it. Partition 1 is 20GB, another one is the rest of ...
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How to achieve SD card's life service to 10 years or more? [closed]
I have read from this link https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/faq/#servicelife about SD card's service life that with normal usage it can reached to 10 years or more? Wow, this is truly amazing! I know ...
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Is it possible to swap a hard drive from an HP TPN 119 laptop to a HP Stream laptop? [closed]
I have an HP Stream laptop with no operating system on it. I tried to download a Windows operating system onto it from a USB flash drive. But it would not take it for some reason.
Someone told me that ...
