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How to solve blue screen issue coming even after using a USB media?
I have an HP-i3-7th bought in 2018. I had dual booted it 4 years ago with Win default and Ubuntu secondary. A year ago it started malfunctioning because the boot would not work properly. If Ubuntu is ...
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Set up USB tethering ON Windows 7
I have an old laptop with an Ethernet port, whereas my new laptop does not have have one. I need an ethernet connection to be able to set up a headless server, but the old laptop is not fast enough to ...
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Using the Windows 7 installer environment to add missing USB drivers to the OOBE
I'm installing Windows 7 on my computer. It's fairly modern (2020), uses UEFI (with legacy support), and has no PS/2 ports or disk drive and uses a modern chipset. I used NTLite on a separate ...
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I can't enable legacy boot mode in my Noblex SF20BA; the option does not show up
I need to enable legacy boot mode in order to install Windows 7 as dual boot with Windows 10.
I already have a bootable Windows 7 USB drive; which does not boot because I can't enable legacy boot mode....
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USB Printer not showing up on `control printers`, but showing up on `devmgmt.msc`
I have a USB printer (D110a) that was installed using the HP official driver pack previously, and worked fine. It has no operating failure.
When I connect it to the Windows 7 PC it always worked with, ...
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Slow performance on Windows to Go installation
I Windows 10 installed on an external SSD that is connected to a USB 3.2 Gen 1 port, which I guess used to be called USB 3.0 and has an advertised speed of 5 Gb/s. The SSD has a speed of 20 Gb/s.
I ...
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How can I rename a USB sound device (headphone) in Windows Sound settings?
How can I rename the CORSAIR HS70 device, I want to get rid of the prefix "2-". I have searched the registry and replaced all strings alike, but the "2-" seems to come back. After ...
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Can't boot from a USB stick to install Windows 7 Pro on Asus K55N
I have been at this since the 19th when all I wanted to do was downgrade from Win 7 Ultimate to Win 7 Pro.
I hired someone who said his software could do it and it couldn't.
Then he wanted to reformat ...
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Set Windows in a mode that all USB flash drives inserted in the future won't require "Eject"
I'm working on an embedded computer in kiosk mode, where the users can insert an USB flash drive.
Even if I add a "Eject USB storage device" button in my app's GUI, often, some users won't ...
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How to initialize a bootable disk and keep it bootable?
I have a bootable hard disk from a dead Windows XP computer. I want to see what is in it and if I should get a replacement mother board for it. I hooked it up as a USB disk but it disk doesn't show up ...
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Certain mouse inputs are blocked for an amount of time after keyboard inputs (Windows 7)
If I make a keyboard input and then quickly try and make a mouse input, said mouse input will be blocked for an amount of time after keyboard inputs (Windows 7).
I have reproduced the problem with ...
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Why am I still able to use unsigned drivers without pressing F8 disable driver signature enforcement?
I am booted into windows 7 with test signing off and without enabling 'disable driver signature enforcement'
These drivers are working fine and I'm not sure why.
Initially, when I installed windows 7 ...
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a usb flash drive shows sandrive.lnk when i mount it
i have a usb flash drive that contains multiple folders and app.exe, when i mount it, it only shows usbflashdrive.lnk(nulldll32.exe) when i double click on it, it shows me the folders inside and i can ...
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Windows 7 : How to remove option to "Save Windows on external hard drive" upon plugging the drive
Small question for an annoying issue :)
I have an external 3TB hard drive I use for storage (Western Digital). I use it with an older PC, Asus, on Windows 7.
When plugging the drive, there's a small ...
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Does anybody know how to boot a PC Desktop CQ 1010LA from a pen drive?
This PC, released in 2011, originally came with Windows 7 Starter 32 bits and now is updated to Windows 10 Home. Its motherboard is Foxcom 2ACA with Legacy BIOS, AMI 7.07 from 2011. BIOS interface is ...
