Unanswered Questions
27,956 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Limit Disk Usage of WSL2
As the title already states, I want to limit the disk usage of the Linux subsystem. I'm trying to build huge projects on the WSL while using Windows normally...
I already limited the RAM and CPU usage ...
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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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How do I find what program is keeping the taskbar from auto-hiding?
The name says it all. Taskbar is set to auto-hide, taskbar does not auto-hide, obviously, I want it to auto-hide. Some program is keeping it from doing that. Sometimes I find the culprit quickly if ...
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Sierra Wireless AirCard 313U (AT&T Momentum 4G) on Ubuntu Linux
I'm trying to get a Sierra Wireless AirCard 313U (more specifically, the AT&T Momentum 4G) working under Ubuntu Linux.
I've looked at a number of pages so far:
How to connect internet using AT&...
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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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Is it possible to make WinSCP use my SSH config file?
I use SSH-based tools on Windows, which use configuration files in %HOME%\.ssh\.
Is it possible to make WinSCP use that configuration file too, so I only have to manage one configuration?
It's ...
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ASUS PA328Q 4K monitor Windows and DisplayPort issue
I have an ASUS PA328Q 4K monitor plugged onto the DisplayPort output of an MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4G. The monitor is configured to use DisplayPort 1.2. I am running Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit. The ...
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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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How to tell what HDMI version my system supports - Ubuntu Linux (10.10)
Looking to see if the HDMI output of my machine (with an nVIDIA GeForce 460M card) is HDMI 1.3 compatible or not. Not sure what the command is to tell that.
Thanks in advance!
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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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How can I get Windows 10's built-in brightness control to work on my desktop?
Windows only displays its built-in monitor brightness controls on laptops. Historically this has been because desktop monitors tend to have physical brightness controls already (though some don't, ...
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Why can’t I type during git clone PuTTY connection?
I want to clone git repo from CLI in Windows. When I'm executing:
git clone '...'
I am then getting:
The server's rsa2 key fingerprint is:
ssh-rsa blablabla
If you trust this ...
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CTRL+C isn't working as interrupt in command prompt
When I run a command and I wanna to stop it via CTRL+C in CMD or PowerShell nothing happens.
If these shells are run with Administrator group CTRL+C is working fine. Yes I have UAC enabled.
On ...
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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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wifi p2p between ubuntu 14.04 and android
I attempted to make a wifi p2p connection between Ubuntu 14.04(kernel 3.13) and Android 4.4 Kitkat(Samsung Galaxy Note 2)
In Ubuntu
I use wpa_supplicant v2.1 which is built in to Ubuntu 14.04(/sbin/...
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Is Xfce supposed to run slowly on Virtualbox?
I'm having problems getting Xfce systems on VirtualBox to run smoothly. What I mean by slow is that moving or resizing windows looks very "laggy" (basically just windows jumping from one ...
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Cannot make mobile broadband Vodafone USB connection Ubuntu 13.04
I have Ubuntu 13.04 and I bought yesterday a Vodafone USB stick for internet connection. I am located in Romania.
This is what I've did:
First Thing
Network Connections, added connection.
Selected ...
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Hide Menu by Default in Adobe Reader
Is there a way to make Adobe Reader 10 not display the menu bar (File, etc.) initially, when opening files? Even when you disable it in View>Show/Hide>Menu Bar or with F9, the next time you open ...
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Share MacBook webcam with PC over Remote Desktop
I have a desktop PC in an office with a webcam attached. Normally when I'm in the office I use this for meetings, etc.
I would like to connect to this PC remotely via RDP, but from my MacBook. One ...
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Convert Linux symlinks to Windows symlinks
I've noticed that Linux symlinks don't work in Windows, and vice-versa. Is there any way to convert Linux symlinks to Windows symlinks? Specifically, I want to convert relative Linux symlinks to ...
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How to display ALT+TAB on both monitors?
I added a monitor to my laptop but whenever I do Alt + Tab on my computer it only shows the running applications on the laptop but not on my extra monitor.
Is there a workaround for this?
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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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