Questions tagged [windows]
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Open source software to merge and rotate pdfs on windows [closed]
How to rotate and merge pdf pages the simplest way on windows?
it can be CLI method
please help
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Executable should automatically start with realtime priority on Windows
On an Windows 7 PC (used for legacy music software), I notice that enabling Windows Task Manager > Right click on process > Set priority > Realtime on a particular audio software improves ...
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Can't enable reagentc whatever I do
While trying to enable secure boot in order to upgrade my PC to Windows 11, I used the mbr2gpt tool to convert my disk to gpt, since without doing this, upon enabling secure boot my PC would boot ...
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Setting up an emulated windows 98 machine for old scientific measurement instrument?
We have an old Powder X-Ray Diffractometer that was built way back when, which operates using a software called "XRD Commander". This program only runs on Windows 98 and we are still months ...
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How to locate a device by container ID?
After bringing my machine up from a power failure, my Windows 11 machine pinged at me every few seconds, playing the "device was disconnected" sound. Pulling open the Device Manager ...
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Why screenshots are being saved in moved folder?
In my work system of Windows 11, I moved the contents of the default Pictures folder into D: drive from C: drive. I tried to take a screenshot by the Win+Prt Scn shortcut, it took the screenshot but ...
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BitLocker Encryption Stuck on 0.9%
As the title says, bitlocker encryption for my drive is at 0.9%, after running for many combined hours.
Running many commands that interact with bitlocker or the drive hang the console and all other ...
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How to SFTP a symbolic on Windows
I have a SFTP server with a jailed environment by doing:
Subsystem sftp internal-sftp
Match User Jailed_User ChrootDirectory "C:\SFTP_Jail" X11Forwarding no AllowTcpForwarding no ...
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Wake on lan keeps disabling itself every now and then
I work mostly from home so it's not something i check often, but every now on then when i go to the office and try to wake my machine up , it won't. I wouldn't normally be too fussed about it but it's ...
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How can I concatenate videos that don't always have audio using ffmpeg?
I have 5 video files (although, it could be 100s), some with audio, some without. They are more-or-less a consistent size but I'll force that by using something like -vf "320:240" on the ...
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Force installation of Pro, Enterprise or other editions of Windows from 24H2 onwards
In a system with an Original Equipment Manufacturer license tied to the motherboard, it's not possible to freely choose what edition of Windows to install.
Changing from say, Windows 11 Home Single ...
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How can I get back my grub menu after Windows update?
I have a dual boot installation on my laptop, I have both Debian 12 and Windows 11 installed. I updated Windows 11 yesterday and my laptop boots directly into Windows after the update, no grub menu is ...
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OneDrive downloaded files with wrong permissions
We have a Windows Server 2019 that has OneDrive configured. The OneDrive folder is being shared at the same time as a shared drive on users computers. There are a few users that have direct access to ...
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Mumu player emulator not utilizing my GPU
im currently using mumu 12 for some reason its only using my CPU on 100% despite the "forced use of discrete graphics card" option being on
ive tried to disable HyperV and various other ...
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Windows 11 - how to quickly start something from desktop without minimizing opened windows?
I just noticed that I am loosing too much every time I want to simply start something from desktop.
Given.
I have lots of applications, documents, etc. as shortcuts on my desktop, they are positioned ...
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The Downloads folder is not updated
The problem appears on Windows 10 in Chrome and Firefox browsers. Reproduction steps:
Open the Downloads folder in Explorer.
Download any file in the browser.
Open the list of downloads in the ...
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Connect external device as a keyboard to fresh instance of Windows 11
I've bought a PC and I'm in the process of configuring it. The issue I have is that I have only wireless keyboard and mouse, thus I can't connect them to my new PC, because I don't have any controller ...
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How to schedule a task that runs once every day only if the user has logged in
When an user logs in to his pc, we need to perform a certain task, but this task should only be done once a day.
So if the user logs in/out several times a day, only the first time the task should ...
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How to quickly record the video of only one window in Windows?
I have run into a graphical problem in blender and want to record a video of only the blender window. I don't want to record the entire screen because the screen is very big (about three times the ...
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How to download and use Info ZIP open source compress file [closed]
Can anyone help, How to download and use Info ZIP open source compress file to zip my files by using windows command.
FOR %F in ("C:\DB\20240702021721*.bcp") DO zip -j "%~nF.zip" &...
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Is there an alternative for explorer.exe's start menu function (& alt-tab) that doesn't rely on explorer.exe? I'm getting 0xc0000409, so can't use it [closed]
I don't know why every single supposed alternative (StartAllBack, start11 etc) uses explorer.exe itself, which makes me unable to truly replace it... otherwise, any help with 0xc0000409? On MS' site ...
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HDD is selectable but not loaded in the boot menu
Situation is as follows. Having another person's laptop for repair, and trying to turn it on, I see the logo, but after that a boot menu is seen with three points. First is the HDD, second and third ...
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Changing password for Veracrypt container in Windows Xp
I created Veracrypt container and added files to it. It was made in windows 10. I used latest version of the software. Can I change password for the container in Windows Xp? Veracrypt 1.25.9 or older ...
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Diagnostic details: - The last unmovable file appears to be: \$Mft::$DATA
I tried to shrink my c drive but i noticed that there's a point i tried to fix it but during the shrink phase i got this defrag Diagnostic details:
The last unmovable file appears to be: $Mft::$DATA
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Why am i getting a pureconfig.error.ConfigReaderException Conf file error?
I downloaded this bot from git hub: https://github.com/Alkaar/resy-booking-bot. I ran sbt and got a success. I have filled in parameters in Conf so i'm not sure why i keep getting this error. i use ...
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Powershell (Win) stopped working with Win32 internal error
I know this question is unmistakably generic, sorry for that. Sadly PS stopping to function does not come with a simple "Powershell stopped working, here's why." kind of error. So at the ...
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Task Scheduler Windows 11 not waking the computer
I know that variations of this have been asked previously and I have read most of the responses to older threads. However I am using a newer OS and those older threads have helped me get this far but ...
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Acer Nitro AP18E8M battery stops charging at 67 % under Windows 11
I have replaced the dead battery of a two years old dead Acer Nitro AP18E8M. For calibration I discharged it to 0 V and charged it again. But it stopped at 67 % charge and an orange light started ...
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explorer.exe (MSCTFIME UI) stealing focus on Windows 11
I have used Focus Logger on my Windows 11 computer.
Whenever I click anywhere within any program window, Focus Logger indicates that explorer.exe, with a window title of "MSCTFIME UI", ...
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Green screen on RTSP stream from USB camera using mediamtx (ffmpeg)
I need to cast a stream from a USB camera via RTSP as stable as possible (at any moment i need to be able to get a static picture on a remote host, reflecting the real state of affairs in front of the ...
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disable and enable power monitor usb via cmd
I am using power monitor to test current, and I want to do some simple testing via automated commands
Before test, I need to send some cmd to machine via usb, then the current test need remove usb（...
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How to register dll, ax files in Windows 10? [closed]
How do i manually register .dll and .ax in the system without copying to system32 folder?
Thanks in advance!
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What is loadlin.exe in Debian installation image(.iso) explained for a newbie?
So I opened the Debian .iso image and in a directory "tools" there were loadlin.exe and loadlin.txt. I tried researching but everything was from 2005-ish. What does it do? What happens if I ...
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Deleted my EFI & MSR partitions by error, how to rebuild it?
I accidentally deleted every single partition of my computer except the one that Windows is installed on it. I thought it was a good idea. But it was not.
I have no more MSR or EFI partition, so when ...
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Computer with SSD slow after not being used for a period
I have this painful issue where I'm gone for holiday (1-2 weeks) and even for a weekend (barely 2 days) my PC gets really slow and I'm suspecting SSD.
Everything seems so slow despite boot being fast ...
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Charging laptop with a mobile phone USB-C cable: "The PC is not charging. Use the recommended charging cable and cord ..." [duplicate]
I forgot the power adapter for my HP notebook and needed to charge it. I tried it with the charger of my mobile phone which has a 5V 2.4A output.
Yet, my laptop does not load at all:
In English (...
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How to recovery previous data after reinstalling windows 11?
I asked a technician in my city to fix an error on my laptop, without knowing he performed a Windows reinstall which caused all my data to be lost. I have searched for windows.old on drive C: and I ...
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Windows 11 Desktop background suddenly disappeared
Just a couple of minutes ago I was casually watching YouTube until I saw my background picture vanish on my second screen I closed my browser and saw, that my main screen picture was also gone.
I ...
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Macbook Pro / Intel chip, running WIndows 10 natevly. To log in I need to press ctl-alt-del. External kbd works. How to do that from the laptop kbd? [duplicate]
I have a Macbook Pro A1398. I formatted the hard drive to run Windows 10 without any virtual OS. It does not have MAC OS asny longer. Everything works perfectly, even joined to corporate domain. The ...
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Windows 10 is stuck in safe mode and I'm unable to log in
What happened
I was experiencing a graphical issue after updating my AMD GPU drivers. I was in the process of rolling back to a previous version of the drivers when I ran AMD's cleanup utility. That ...
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Random Blue Screens and Missing Boot Manager - SSD Health is Fine
I've been experiencing random blue screen errors with different stop codes each time. After these crashes, when I enter the BIOS, my drive with the Windows Boot Manager is missing. However, I've ...
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Change Shared Drive icon in Windows 10 with Registry setting
I want to make my desktop look a little more to my liking, and that includes changing some of the icons. One of the icons I want to change is the shared drive icon:
I want to do this using the ...
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Why do i keep getting an java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: when running sbt?
I want to run a bot on windows. I'm trying to run sbt in cmd. I installed sbt and java 22 x64 MSI Installer. I ran sbt but i keep getting an error. I think maybe this has to do with java so i ...
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Bass in Sound fails sometimes
I sometimes have the problem that the bass in my sound is missing/failed. When I restart the system, the bass is back.
Software Info:
Realtek Audio
FxSound
The problem is NOT solved by disabling ...
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Window installation error with linux boot drive
I can't install Windows 11 on my SSD with a GPT partition. I've tried using both Ventoy and Rufus, with and without secure boot, but nothing seems to work. It keeps showing the error:
Windows could ...
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Terminal Powershell differences
When I type dir /A into terminal I get desirable output, but when I type the same to Powershell i get
dir : Cannot find path 'C:\A' because it does not exist.
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format EFI, Recovery partitions windows 10 in clean install?
I'm going to do a clean install of Windows, but during the installation I want to format all the partitions and then delete them, but I have some concerns!
As you can see in the picture below, I have ...
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How to open PWA minimized on startup? (Windows, Edge)
I want a Progressive Web App to start minimized on startup. I use Edge on Windows.
Bonus points if it can minimize to system tray.
Is there a way to set this up?
Is it possible using other browsers?
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Is there anyway to resume "stuck" cmd.exe in windows 10?
For a lack of a better description, look at this screenshot:
Sometimes, after an out of memory semi-crash, cmd windows remain in this state.
If I click on them, nothing happens.
(some of them work ...
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