Unanswered Questions
23,017 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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How can I swap the usage of the 'fn' key for my Razer Blackwidow on OSX?
I just bought the Razer Blackwidow 2013 keyboard, and after installing drivers (Synapse 2.0) I run into a strange issue:
My function keys started to work very strange. They started to use their "...
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netplan configuration not active -- ubuntu 18.04
trying to set up a fixed IP address on one of two NIC. I try using netplan. Not working at all.
Not an expert on this, I am out of my wits and ready to roll back to some other way (networkd). Maybe ...
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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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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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Debian/Ubuntu preseed generator?
All of these questions are related to the preseed support in the Debian
Installer: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed
Is there a means, perhaps a .ubeb Debian-Installer extension, by ...
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How to increase the scrolling speed in Google Chrome without using a plugin on Ubuntu?
I am using Google Chrome on Ubuntu but Ubuntu does not provide any setting for setting the scrolling speed. I know there is a plugin for solving this, Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller. However, its ...
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How to see detailed log of nVidia driver crash on Windows?
While doing GPU-intensive parallel processing, nVidia driver apparently crashed. Only information in Windows Event log is the following:
The description for Event ID 1 from source NVIDIA OpenGL ...
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Is there a way of scripting the "Roll Back Driver" feature of Window's Device Manager?
I need to roll back my graphic cards drivers once in a while(It's a long story.) and I have tried scripts using devmanview which worked great for disabling and enabling my drivers(and uninstalling it) ...
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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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Best way to share guest folder with host computer
I am running a Ubuntu VM on my MacOS X (host) using VMWare Fusion. I have found a lot of information about sharing the host partition with the guest VM but not much on sharing the guest folder/...
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Auto Shutdown / Suspend Vagrant upon shutdown on Windows Host
I use vagrant in my development workflow on a Windows machine. Sometimes, I forget to do a vagrant halt or suspend before restarting or shutting windows down. I read that this could possibly break ...
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Display remaining time in playlist in VLC
Is there any way to display the remaining time in the current playlist in VLC? Right now I can see the total time of the playlist:
and the remaining time for the current video:
but I didn't find the ...
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locked Ubuntu screen - apps do not detect locked status
I use Ubuntu 12.10 (happens also in 14.04) but I did not really like Unity GUI because of performance issues and total inability to easily customize launcher. So I switched to Xubuntu, which is much ...
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