Unanswered Questions
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How to make vEthernet (Default Switch) appear in Network Connections of Control Panel again?
In my Windows 11 machine I do not see the vEthernet (Default Switch) shown in the Network Connections of the Control Center (Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections) or Settings (...
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Slack app crashes Ubuntu desktop
I am using the Slack app on Ubuntu 22.04. I find that if I right click and paste the app stops running immediately. Otherwise, at random times I lose all USB input and the screen goes black for about ...
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Snip & Sketch tool always flickers when using any annotation tools
tl;dr: Drawing any annotation in Windows 10's Snip & Sketch tool causes a screen flicker. Is there any workaround to this?
Snip & Sketch is a gem in Windows 10 and it makes my life really ...
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How can I hide a Window from the task switcher (Alt+Tab)?
To make clear what is this question about, this is the Windows Task Switcher:
The closest to hide a window from the AltTab Task Switcher that I have found is the Minime tool, but it hides too the ...
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Is it possible to record only a part of screen using Game Bar screen recording of Windows 10?
I have been trying to record a part of screen in my windows 10 machine. I found that Windows 10 offers a built in tool called Game bar (shortcut: Win + G), which can be used to capture screen or ...
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How to make robocopy delete excluded files in destination directory
I have a cross-platform build toolchain which copies some folders to destination. I use robocopy on Windows and rsync on macOS because they support console progress output. The commands were in this ...
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jenkins:Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value
I have docker-image of jenkins.
Home directory of jenkins is: /var/jenkins_home wich mapped to /home/user
So, i install android-sdk wich mapped to:
/home/user/tools/android-sdk/
When i install ...
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How to stop Windows Alarms (Clock) app from asking access permissions on startup without saying yes or signing in?
Sometime this year, the Windows Clock App that comes with Windows 10/11 asks for permissions every time on startup:
Let this app access your info? Windows Alarms needs your
permission to: Read your ...
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How to get the true textual verbose "No GUI boot + OS boot information" working again in Windows 10?
I find myself frequently needing much more information at Windows 10 startup than what we can seem to coax out of it now. It used to be possible to go into msconfig and select some options to get the ...
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Ubuntu unattended upgrades stops Docker
This is my current 50-unattended-upgrades file:
Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "false";
Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins {
"${distro_id}:${distro_codename}";
"${distro_id}:${...
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How to utilize all cores on high-end CPUs using ffmpeg
I have a high-end HPE ProLiant DL325 G10 server with an AMD EPYC 7401P 24-core/48-thread CPU, 128GB DDR4 RAM, and a Intel P4800x PCIe NVMe. I tried to run ffmpeg to convert a video (MKV) to MP4 for ...
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HTOP shows massive memory usage but proceslist shows otherwise
I'm running htop on my Ubuntu 16.04LTS server to monitor my CPU and RAM usage. I'm aware of the color indications used by htop as outlined below:
So, when I look at my htop-overview, it shows me the ...
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Multi-column Taskbar When It's on Left/Right in Windows
When the Windows Taskbar is at bottom/top (horizontal) it can be multi-row, but when you put it on left/right side of screen (vertical), it only has one column (row!).
Is there a way to have two ...
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Get a list of user profiles on machine local and domain
Is there a way, either by PowerShell, batch, C# to get a list of all the profiles currently on the local machine. I need to collect a list of profiles and show whether they are local users, or domain ...
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How does Windows decide whether to use Deflate or Deflate64 for zipping files?
I am observing issues when trying to unzip files from C#. These files were created with the built-in zip feature of Windows Explorer (in Windows 8.1 x64).
The issues are based on the fact that ...
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Connecting Android to Windows VPN
I have set up a VPN on my Windows 10 computer by going into Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections and hitting Alt and then going to File > New Incoming Connection... and setting up ...
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Can I enable Unicode UTF-8 WorldWide Support in WIndows 11, but set another encoding for a specific app?
generally, I like to enable UTF-8 worldwide support in Windows 11, because most of apps I use support UTF-8 and I am using Linux OS with UTF-8 at the same time.
But the problem I had so far is one of ...
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How can I disable Escape key binding in Zoom
How can I disable Escape key binding in Zoom?
When I press it, it shows the meeting controls while I am sharing my screen. I use escape a lot in coding and it is annoying that I have to re-hide the ...
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Why can't I just dd the Windows 10 ISO to an USB stick?
Why can't I just use isohybrid and then dd the Windows 10 ISO to a USB stick and boot it, and call it a day?
What is so special about this ISO?
Most posts refer to either using a Windows machine to ...
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Robocopy loops/nests "Application Data" 29 times when copying "Application Data" folder on Windows 10
My goal here is to be able to back up my entire computer by using robocopy. My robocopy script keeps getting stuck here as you can see with the Application Data.
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\...
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Prevent Windows 10 from switching the default audio device when a new one is plugged in
The scenario:
This is how my audio setup looks like:
A headset which I use as default audio device (input & output)
An USB camera that supports audio input apart from video, which I plug in only ...
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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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Can I make "Always trust software from" unchecked by default?
While installing an application, I received a prompt to install a driver which had a checked checkbox next to the text "Always trust software from [company]":
Since there have been instances of ...
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Windows hosts file alternative without needing admin rights?
I was inspired by DNS66, an app available to Android, which used a fake DNS server that dropped outgoing DNS requests to certain hosts. This way, it didn't need to modify the /etc/hosts file, thus not ...
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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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Windows Update gives 0x80070643 error on fresh Windows 10 install
I just did a clean install of Windows 10 22H2 onto a freshly wiped hard disk. (If it matters, I installed from a USB drive that I prepared with the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool yesterday.) When it ...
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Disable Windows Notification Suggestions
This thing is a relatively recent addition (less than a year), if my memory is correct:
This message shows up somewhat rarely, but is it possible to make that a never?
PS: Searching online gives me ...
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Win11: Task manager's cpu usage discrepancy
The discrepency is between the two views:
The 'Details' view shows a process as taking 11%.
System idle is 80%.
The 'Processes' view shows the same process as taking 70%.
Total cpu usage is 80%.
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Can I safely delete all inside the C:\Windows\WinSxS\Temp folder only?
I have reviewed the Similar questions suggested after creating my post Title and none are direct or helpful just for my needs.
In Windows 10 Pro, v1909, build 18363.1316 clean installed in Nov. 2019 I ...
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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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'IpICSHlpStopSharing' : '0x80070490' in event log
Suddenly I begin to see a lot of errors in my event log (Windows 10 Pro Build 19041):
'IpICSHlpStopSharing' : '0x80070490'.
Source: Host-Network service.
I am working with Hyper-V (and Docker) and ...
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What’s the command line equivalent of strace on Windows?
I need to | findstr SomePATH in order to search if a program access and close immediately a specific path. On Linux, I would use myprogram | strace 2>&1 | grep SomPATH.
But what’s the ...
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How do these VPNs achieve per-app tunneling?
I want to redirect traffic to specific network interfaces by application on Windows. This is commonly known as "split-tunneling" and a lot of people often do this to selectively send traffic,...
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Group by date (or month or ...) instead of "A long time ago" in explorer on windows 10
There seems to be no recent, current and clear answer to the simple question:
How can I FIX* the group by feature in the explorer in windows 10 so that it is actually grouped by time units in usable ...
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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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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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Windows keyboard shortcut for deselecting text?
Is there a keyboard shortcut for deselecting selected text? Perhaps it also works for deselecting selected items (in Windows Explorer)?
The arrow keys work in some software, but sometimes they also ...
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In Google Chrome browser, why does Gmail use so much of the CPU when hardware acceleration is enabled?
Here's a screenshot of the issue.
On the right, Windows Task Manager showing high Chrome CPU usage.
On the left, Chrome's Task Manager showing it's all coming from the Gmail tab.
If Hardware ...
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How to suppress warning when deleting thumbs.db?
There is quite a lot of information out there how to disable the creation of the thumbs.db files that store thumbnail info for images within a given folder.
I personally have no problem with the ...
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How does licensing work with Vagrant Windows boxes?
Can a single Windows license be shared between a team (akin to installing on a physical or virtual server) for hosting Vagrant boxes? The Vagrant docs don't seem to address this issue and all the ...
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Is it possible to monitor CPU Temperature with Windows Performance Monitor?
I would like to take a baseline of a system for CPU, CPU Temperature, Hard Drive Reads/Writes, Page File, and Memory. I did not see a counter for the CPU Temperature in the Windows 7 Performance ...
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Route traffic selectively through OpenVPN as a SOCKS proxy
Is it possible to convert OpenVPN traffic into a SOCKS proxy locally, so that applications can use the VPN only when needed by connecting to the SOCKS proxy?
I'm aiming for something like Underleech ...
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ROBOCOPY /MIR (or /PURGE) follows and deletes target symlinks
Let's say we have a folder SOURCEDIR to be synchronized with TARGETDIR. The problem: if TARGETDIR contains directory symlinks, ROBOCOPY /MIR (or /PURGE) will follow the symlink, and delete every file ...
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Disable unread count in the Skype taskbar icon
This is a Windows-equivalent question of this OSX question here on SuperUser: Disable unread count in the Skype dock icon.
Rationale: sometimes I don't want to be disturbed by incoming Skype messages ...
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Easy way to recover Windows.old folder after Windows 8 PC Refresh?
I recently did a Windows 8 PC refresh, hoping it would solve an issue I'm having, which it didn't. Now I'm hoping there's an easy solution for undoing the refresh.
Is there an easy way to recover any ...
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Force Windows 7 to store thumbnails locally
I want Windows 7 to store thumbnails cache files in the same folder as the files (thumbs.db) instead of using the centralized location for all thumbnails (By default %userprofile%\AppData\Local\...
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How to reduce the hide-delay of Windows 7 taskbar previews?
When you hover the mouse over a taskbar item in Windows 7, it pops up the thumbnail preview. When you remove the mouse, there is a short delay and then the thumbnail disappears. Does anyone know if ...
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