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XP pauses at the welcome screen for about 1 minute

Every time I start up my computer, Windows XP Pro will hang at the welcome screen (I don't have any user accounts) for about 1 minute before showing the desktop. Anyone encountered this issue ...
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Increase pauses in an audio (a dialog)

I am a language learner and I have a few audio files, mostly dialogues. I look for a ways to a) add/extend pauses between sentences, or between different actors, whichever is easier b) if possible, ...
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Can I disconnect a USB drive while copying is paused in Windows 8?

As you all probably know by now, Windows 8 consolidates all simultaneous file copy operations into one single dialog. Also, wonder of wonders, you can now pause any of the operations as well! What I ...
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Audacity: stop playing and move cursor to playhead?

While playing a track, I want to be able to press a button and stop what I'm listening to and move the cursor forward to that location (essentially more like pausing than stopping). But even pause ...
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start /wait doesn't wait. How to workaround without using pause in script (Script is meant to be unattended)

I have a script that is run after windows is installed and performs a vast number of tasks, including installation of drivers and various programs. The intent is that the script is run unattended. I ...
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pause media player on specific playback time

Watching movies with my friends, but friends request pausing movie and go out to get smoke. I want to pause movie in pre-selected point where break do not destroy movie atmosphere. Thinking about some ...
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Values of Components in a Matlab app are not updated while a loop is running

I have created an app using the App Designer in Matlab. I have a check box called CheckBox and want to access its value from inside a loop, e.g. display it in the console. The way this could be done ...
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Can a process that was started in a tmux session fall asleep?

Can a process that was started in a tmux session fall asleep? If yes, what is the cause(s), how to prevent it? Example reason for the question: I started a process on a server yesterday (training ...
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Windows 10 System Wide Pauses

I have a rather serious issue on Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB 32-bit: On this machine an application is running 24/7 with a lot of networking going on. In total there are 14 network ports. ...
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Batch file in pause continue execution after firefox finish the work and will close

I have a batch file that checking the internet connection, if the connection internet is up, launch firefox with a macro and go on pause. During this time fiefox works with the macro, after firefox ...
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How to pause a program at any time on Windows 10

I want to use point and click adventure games to help me study a foreign language. Being a beginner I need to take my time with each sentence. Unfortunatelly none of the games I bought offer a pause ...
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How to not include the Pause duration in the FFMPEG recording timeline

I'm trying to pause a screencast made with ffmpeg under Linux, giving the command: kill -s SIGSTOP <PID> resuming then it with the command: kill -s SIGCONT <PID> to finally interrupt ...
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Why would a command line program need user input when it's not specified in the source code

Why would a program that is run from the command line wait for user input (pressing Enter) if it wasn't programmed to do so? I was using an AWS EC2 instance to run a computationally intensive program ...
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Viewing movies/TV programs requires constant mouse movements or keyboard activity to watch

When viewing a television program using any mainstream browser (Internet Explorer/Firefox/Chrome/SeaMonkey/Safari), it constantly pauses unless I have some kind of activity with either the mouse or ...
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Command line PAUSE function not working

I'm experienceing a problem with a batch file command - when I run the program, I have a "PAUSE" command at the end of the batch file, however, the command window still automatically closes instantly, ...

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