Unanswered Questions
27,956 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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How to copy unsupported data streams with ffmpeg?
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I have some .wmv files (actually, my full batch file deals with multiple filetypes) with weird data streams that are needed for an external program to recognize them.
I'm trying to remove ...
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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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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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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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Does Windows trim unpartitioned (unformatted) space on an SSD?
Laptop with Windows 10 Pro v1511 x64, with 512 GB Samsung SSD 850 PRO as system drive.
In an attempt to overprovision space on the SSD, I just shrunk the system partition from about 475 GB to 400 GB. ...
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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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How can I make the mouse cursor render with software instead of hardware?
I use a program called f.lux to change the display color. However, the color does not affect the mouse: leaving it an ugly bright white. A partial fix is to set the registry value of mouse trails to -...
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Why is the free disk space on an external drive varying wildly while copying files on it?
I'm using Windows 8.1 Explorer to copy image files from my Android mounted as media device, onto an SSD connected via a USB 2.0 drive enclosure (NTFS).
While the copying goes on, the free disk space ...
