Unanswered Questions
23,018 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Running fsck from cygwin shell?
I need to be able to check / fix file system errors on SD cards from a win7 box. I had hoped to use e2fsck from cygwin but am having some issues getting this to work. (SD cards are used to boot ...
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Making always-on-top windows follow the same MRU order as other windows
Note: I'm using Windows 7 with the classical alt-tab style, ie the registry key AltTabSettings set to 1.
I want to use MRU (most recently used) ordering of windows in the alt-tab list. However, ...
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Telnet connect to localhost failed on windows subsystem WSL2 Ubuntu
I'm using Windows Subsystem (WSL2) Ubuntu 20.04, trying to run command telnet localhost 2181, but only got error message saying
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
Tried the ...
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How to debug tick_sched_timer high power usage?
My tick_sched_timer is using a lot of power, this is the output of powertop:
The battery reports a discharge rate of 24.7 W
The power consumed was 516 J
The estimated remaining time is 3 ...
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Windows 10 audio fades out
I'm having an issue with Windows 10 audio: when listening to something/watching a movie the audio automatically fades out and drops to a lower volume. To be clear, the volume indication in Windows ...
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How to get dhclient and/or NetworkManager to remove old client lease files?
My company produces IoT devices attached via USB, which contain a cell modem module, which contains a DHCP server. We have a production testing server running Ubuntu 14.04 and another server running ...
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Want unchanged HDMI output when lid closed (Linux)
My question is similar to a couple of other questions except I need a Linux/Ubuntu solution.
When I plug a HDMI cable into my laptop, I automatically get a second desktop on the second screen. This ...
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KDE 5 panel doesn't show pager widget although I've added it (twice)
I've clicked Add Widgets in the panel context menu, and the "pager" widget there shows the number "2" in the corner (it was 1 before). Which I think means the number of pagers I have. But there is a ...
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Ways to Recover Lost/Closed "Pinned" Tabs in Chrome?
I know this was TECHNICALLY an already-answered issue awhile back - and then was subsequently brought to life again briefly - but I have been experiencing this issue (only twice, but I had about 15 ...
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Removing stale xrandr entries
I recently switched video cards under Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and the xrandr command has cached many of the old settings.
$ xrandr | grep "connected"
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x ...
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How can I disable program notifications and popups in bottom right corner?
I have an older computer running Windows 7 SP1. I find that some installed programs, like antivirus trial, Flux, etc. decide they want to present some info to me in the form of a smaller screen with ...
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Explantion for CSRSS.EXE using the GPU
This is a follow up question to conhost.exe and csrss.exe questions
I am currently on a Windows 7 x64 machine, using a relatively high end GPU (GTX 970 4 GB). Windows Aero is enabled. I am using ...
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Can't scroll back after cat with mosh, tmux and iterm2 setup
My setup is the following: https://filippo.io/my-remote-shell-session-setup
When I do apt-get update on my server I can see all the output and am also able to scroll back as I expect. When I do cat ...
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How can I prevent my NIC from sleeping when Wake-on-LAN is enabled?
I currently have wake-on-LAN enabled and it works, but for some reason my Windows 7 laptop only allows me to turn it on if I also have the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" ...
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Syntax For Searching the Microsoft Update Catalog
Microsoft allows download of Windows Updates, drivers and other upgrades from the Microsoft Update Catalog: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com .
Unfortunately there seems to be no search syntax ...
