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Windows 10 - close laptop lid
I have two screens - a laptop and external monitor. Sometimes I want to shut the laptop lid and use ONLY the external monitor. On my old laptop all the Windows would just move over to the external ...
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Windows 10 Clean Install Failed and Stuck on a Boot Loop (No Administrator Account)
So, my son recently got a virus on my HP Windows 10 Home laptop. So what I did was backed up all the files that I need then I went into Settings -> Recovery -> Reset this PC -> Remove Everything and ...
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Laptop goes to sleep at random times ever since I upgraded it to Windows 10
My gs's laptop goes to sleep at random times when she leaves it idle for as short time as 1 minute.
I've checked the power configuration, and it should NOT be going to sleep at any given time, it's on ...
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How can i download a file from virustotal for free? [closed]
I want to download a file from virustotal.com
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/655bde7f3c270b7b06e6c3dbba5c041727aec5389339f71b3ca73f80316212f9/analysis/
http://processchecker.com/file/LidLock.exe....
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Bricked my computer by accident - need help repairing
So I've bricked my pc by disabling all HID devices, so I can't do anything. Right now I'm using a installation USB that I have booted off to try and reverse my changes (using devcon.exe), but after ...
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Swap function keys at OS runtime
I have an Alienware R2 anw17-7493slv and I can't figure out how to change FN keys to multimedia keys at runtime. I know there is a option in BIOS to do this, but I want to do this at runtime.
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Restoring positions and sizes of windows after undocking a laptop [duplicate]
I have a laptop which docks or plugs into 2 large monitors at my desk. When I unplug my laptop, to go to a meeting, it moves all the program windows onto the small laptop screen. Then when I plug it ...
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F5 key behaving as FN + F5
All of my laptop—a Samsung Expert running Windows 10—f[number] keys are behaving now as if I press Fn+f[number] shortcut.
For example, Fn+f5 normally disables touchpad. Then, when I press f5 key to ...
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How to change my Laptop (Windows 10) login password from another pc
I have lost my laptop and I want to change the windows 10 login password from another pc. As I remembered I was not using any microsoft account to sign in. Just that pc username and password.
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Awful Battery Life After Windows 10 Anniversary Update
I am running Windows 10 on a 6 month old Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 460.
I started to notice that I was originally getting about ~6-9 hours of battery life using painting and lite graphics apps, Chrome ...
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Can I install Windows 10 on new laptop after formatting previous laptop?
Recently I got a new laptop, and I want to move the windows license from my previous laptop. The windows installed on my old laptop is the retail version of windows 8.1 and upgraded to windows 10. Is ...
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Windows 10 battery usage information is incomplete
I have been trying to test my laptop's battery recently but I have found an issue where the battery usage breakdown in the settings app is incomplete. Screenshots on the internet show percentage ...
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Windows incompletely shuts down after heavy use
My HP Pavilion 15 Laptop (came with Windows 8 and upgraded to 8.1 and now on Insider Preview) has a Shutdown problem.
It'll shutdown completely without any issue if it used for a short while. But ...
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Laptop randomly completely freezes up
I own a Dell E6420 laptop, that runs Windows 10 Pro.
My laptop has this one issue. Randomly, out of the blue, it just freezes up. My touchpad becomes unresponsive. The DVD Drive switch would not ...
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HDD I/O error on high usage
I've got an Asus X550V notebook that has a 1TB HGST HTS7210 HDD.
I've managed to replace the optical drive with the hard drive, and insert an SSD into the original HDD bay.
So far so good it's ...
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