Unanswered Questions
18,551 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Laptop won't boot, restarts on its own + black screen
yesterday I was playing on my Win 7 laptop when suddenly my screen went into this colorful faulty state, something of this
, though not exactly. And a second after my laptop died starting itself up ...
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Windows adding additional keyboard languages by itself
I have this really annoying problem with Win7 adding random keyboard language layouts...
I am using Swedish and Japanese since I live in japan and i only use these two (As I can write all the english ...
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Accessing IPv6 addresses through an SSH tunnel
I have a remote Arch Linux server which has IPv6 enabled (through Tunnelbroker, I am able to do ping6 ipv6.google.com successfully) and I want to know if it's possible to use PuTTY on my Windows 7 ...
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Bad Block on Virtual Machine (Virtual or Physical Problem?)
I am dealing with a virtual machine that is receiving the following entry in the event log:
TIME OF EVENT: 7/30/2011 3:47:05 PM EVENT LOG: System EVENT
SOURCE: disk EVENT ID: 7 SEVERITY: Error ...
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How do I get Explorer to default to Folder Path instead of Folder when I search?
Whenever I run a search in Explorer on Windows 7, the first thing I do is remove the Folder column and then add the Folder Path column. Is there a way to save this configuration so that this becomes ...
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Reducing volume of an audio device on windows 7
I have a USB headset with a very loud amplifier, but low granularity in its gain control. In order to get comfortable audio, I have to reduce the individual application levels in the mixer to '1', and ...
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How to prefer ipv6 over ipv4 only for specific websites?
I only have ipv6 connectivity via a HE tunnel on my router, so normally I want to prefer ipv4 over ipv6. For some websites however, I would like to prefer ipv6.
Right now I have just set ...
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Windows Explorer freezes for 30 seconds when I click on (or even mouse over) a disconnected network drive
I have a network drive mapped in My Computer and displayed on the task bar beside my other drives.
Sometimes the server which hosts the network drive is physically powered off.
When the server is ...
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mounting share on Mojave says No such file or directory
I am trying to mount a share on Mojave 10.14.3 for Mac mini distribution point hosted on VM Windows Server 2008 R2 using the following command :
mount_smbfs -f 0755 -d 0755 smb://username:pwd@...
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Show Optional or CC Field in Outlook Meeting Request
I would like to quickly add Optional meeting attendees to a new Outlook meeting.
I am trying to create a meeting with Alice and Bob as required attendees, but Steve is optional. There is no field to ...
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Reading data from a 23 year old IDE harddrive
I have a 200 MB Western Digital 2.5" IDE drive, originally from an Amiga 1200, that I would like to try to get an image file of, so I can keep the data that is on it.
Since the drive is very old, and ...
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LVM and Superblock failure; how to recover?
How do you repair the superblock of an LVM volume? Alternatively, how do you recover the data on an unmountable lvm logical volume?
I recently added a second hard disk, extended my volume group and ...
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Google Drive (googlesyncdrive) preventing PC from shutting down or hibernating
Everytime I try to shutdown or hibernate the PC I have this nag screen that comes up telling me that Google Drive is shutting down and the system is waiting for it. The problem is that the system can ...
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What causes this HDD sector damage pattern?
Out of curiosity, I ran GNU ddrescue on a Seagate ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB hard drive with known bad sectors, and then I visualized the ddrescue mapfile with ddrescueview.
When I zoomed in, this ...
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Kali Linux - Debootstrap error Failed to determine codename for the release
Installing the new Kali Linux 2016 rolling release to the HDD via USB.
I made a bootable USB using Universal USB. Booted off the USB and selected "Graphical Install", I had an issue at the beginning ...
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