Unanswered Questions
24,609 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Connecting to the GoPro Wi-Fi network through a router
I have a GoPro Hero3+ camera, and I want to stream it to my PC. Looking online there are many guides to doing just that, but they all require me to be on the same Wi-Fi network as the GoPro itself.
My ...
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Easiest way to toggle Light/Dark theme on Windows?
I often need to change the theme between Light and Dark depending on the ambient lighting condition. I cannot believe that Microsoft has not added a Light/Dark theme toggle on the Quick Actions ...
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How to quickly & easily toggle touchpad on and off on a windows 10 laptop?
I am wondering if there's a way to easily toggle the touch-pad on and off on a windows 10 computer that doesn't have a location on that can be tapped to do that action (upper left corner of the touch ...
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Is it possible to exclude a drive and all of it's content from showing up under quick access?
I want to exclude a drive and all folders and files from that drive to show up under quick access.
The drive is an external hard drive, I only use once to twice a day. Because of this, the drive is ...
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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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Is it possible to adjust Windows 10 notification click area
For a long time, I have been frustrated with Windows 10 notification popups.
It seems that when the popup is showing, the area that it consumes is in fact larger than the notification itself. This ...
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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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powercfg won't honor -requestsoverride
Currently I have two drivers that is preventing my Windows 10 from sleeping (running Command Prompt as administrator):
C:\Windows\system32>powercfg -requests
DISPLAY:
None.
SYSTEM:
[DRIVER] USB ...
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Windows 10 - Can't open Device Manager "This app has been blocked for your protection"
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Running a new Windows 10 Enterprise machine with all updates (1803) and whenever I try to open the device manager (or other programs like it), I get a UAC pop-up dialog saying "This app has ...
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Why is Task Manager using my USB drive?
After using the answers to this question: Can Windows tell me what is using my USB drive?, I found from Event Viewer that Task Manager was using the drive:
The application \Device\HarddiskVolume5\...
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Windows 10 unable to boot, failure to repair loop-refer to srttrail.txt inside
UDPATE2: This has been SOLVED by following this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f-GorXWkoc
It shows how to copy the registry hives from the Regback folder to the config folder. The Regback ...
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Restart Windows Defender on Windows 10 Home?
I would like to restart Windows Defender without rebooting my PC. Is this possible?
I do not want to disable it permanently.
I have tried the following methods:
"End Process" on MsMpEng.exe from ...
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Is it possible to disable Precision Touchpad's scrolling inertia?
I have a ASUS ROG Strix GL702ZC laptop that comes with Windows 10 and a Precision Touchpad.
While using the touchpad I find that the two-finger smoothing is very smooth, but it comes with inertia ...
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Copying files using MTP leads to 99% disk utilization
Since Android phones are no longer mounted as an external drive I'm having an issue with a copying of large amount of photos from the phone (no matter what - LG G3, Galaxy S7) to the laptop (Windows ...
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Windows 10 Search: Search my stuff by default
Generally I use the built-in Windows 10 search to find my documents by name. However, in Windows 10 version 1511 the search is not performed in my stuff. Is there a way to make "Search my stuff" the ...
