Questions tagged [pinning]
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How do I pin Thunderbird / Thunderbird Portable (and other stubbornly unpinnable programs) to my Windows 10 taskbar?
For most apps this is straightforward, as long as the app is running and showing on the taskbar, you simply right-click on the icon in the taskbar and a pin/unpin menu entry shows up.
However, lately, ...
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Nginx without public certificate
Is there any way that we can configure an Nginx without a public certificate?
The objective here is, I want to publish an API on public internet, but all the API client (whitelisted clients) should ...
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How do I pin icons as groups?
I need to group icons like this on Windows 11, but I have not found the correct term to search for this action / how to do it.
I want several of them to stick together like shown here:
Can anybody ...
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Changing behavior of icons pinned to taskbar when clicked
When an application is pinned to the taskbar, an icon is placed at the left side of the taskbar.
My preference is for those icons to act as a launcher, opening a new window of that application in a ...
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PowerShell, some pinned Taskbar items don't open linked to their pinned item
I like to have a set of standard apps that are pinned when I install Windows, and I like to automate that (currently using syspin as I don't have a method in PowerShell). My problem is that some ...
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How can I unpin MSI Center in Windows 10?
MSI Center is pinned in my Windows 10. I can't unpin it. How can I unpin MSI Center in Windows 10?
What I tried:
Closing doesn't help:
Editing C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\...
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KVM-QEMU + Libvirt - CPU Pinning
I would like to ask, if it is possible to reserve cores just for particular VM's and prevent others to use them. Let me explain closer:
I'd like to have 2 virtual machines to be pinned to cores 0-7 ...
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Automatically unpin applications every logon
My employer has set up my computer with a script that restores certain pinned programs every logon. Since I use quick launch for my shortcuts, the pinned icons are redundant (and mix with window tiles)...
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How to install outdated packages using chocolatey
#step 1) Installing Chocolatey when needed
if (-not (Test-Path -Path "$env:ProgramData\Chocolatey\choco.exe" -PathType Leaf))
{
# from https://chocolatey.org/install
Set-...
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Apt mistakes currently installed `code` package for a different version
I'm using Pop!_OS 18.04 and VS Code. Unfortunately Pop provides slightly broken code packages in its repos and I prefer to use Microsoft-provided code. I have their source added and apt sees it. I ...
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Why does my git bash shell show up as a separate tile in my task bar, when running as admin? [closed]
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Other SE users cannot reproduce this so it's likely an issue with my company's GPO. Holding open until I can send my helpdesk a link to this write-up.
I use Git for Windows, on Windows 10. ...
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Windows 10 taskbar pinned items exploring the exe folder instead launching the application
I've upgraded my Windows-7_home_premium to windows-10_Home.
Everything looks fine, but the items pinned to the taskbar are opening the folder which contains the target app instead of launching the ...
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Do multi-core processors have internal hardware for randomly changing in which core the instructions are executed?
A friend of mine says that a process always jumps between cores even if you pin a process to a specific core within operating system. He says that the processor manufacturers do this so that the ...
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SSL Pinning - Bypassing Pinning that uses .pem
Im attempting to test Spotify and it uses a "cacert.pem" file signed by Equifax Secure Certificate Authority.
Is it possible to bypass that and get the requests? At the moment im unable to sniff it. (...
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How can you pin a frequently used file on an FTP site in Excel 2016
There is a file that I refer to frequently on an FTP site that I once managed to pin to the Recent files in the Open menu of Excel 2016. I can't save the file on the FTP, so it will not add to the ...
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