Unanswered Questions
24,609 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How to see detailed log of nVidia driver crash on Windows?
While doing GPU-intensive parallel processing, nVidia driver apparently crashed. Only information in Windows Event log is the following:
The description for Event ID 1 from source NVIDIA OpenGL ...
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Can I make windows file explorer treat underscore (_) as a word separator (for ctrl navigation)?
I'm overhauling my folder structure and trying to come up with a good file-naming system. Underscore seems like a good field separator - less obtrusive than (-) and more portable than space.
When ...
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Edge "security certificate is not secure" since bash installation
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I am running Windows 10 Insider - Build 14316. I managed to reproduce the issue by reverting the update and try it again to see exactly when the problem occurs.
So, I activated Ubuntu On ...
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How can multiple tiles be removed at once, or by group, from the Start Menu?
The vast majority of the default Windows 10 start menu tiles (on the right side) are not needed. To remove them requires selecting each one and choosing Unpin from Start.
(this is an image for ...
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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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Windows 10: Bluetooth headset's media play button doesn't work
I have a JBL E40BT Bluetooth headset. It comes with media controls on the left ear cup, a play/pause button, and a volume up and down (previous and next track is handled by three and two fast presses ...
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Windows 10 search: can't open Control Panel items
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I've mentioned this in the comment already, but it's worth repeating here to avoid any misunderstanding: this issue is gone after numerous Windows updates. This means that unfortunately I won'...
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Adjust window snap speed on multi-monitor setup?
I am using a multi-monitor setup and every time I try to move a window from one monitor to the other it tries to snap it on the side of the current monitor not letting me move it over to the other ...
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Make the left pane of the Windows 10 start menu wider
The left pane in my Windows 10 start menu is too small. For example, I have the following two folder entries cut off:
Microsoft SQL Server 20..
Microsoft SQL Server 20..
(I can hover on start menu ...
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How can I create a user-specific HOSTS File?
I know that by editing my HOSTS file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts), I can block any site, but I would like to take this a step further.
Is it possible (in Windows XP or newer) to have ...
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Why my command prompt is not recognizing 'netstat' as a command
I want to figure out my running ports in Windows 10, but when I write command
C:\> netstat
in the console, I get the following error
'netstat' is not recognized as an internal or external ...
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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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Error when running the command to create recommended inbound WSL firewall rule for use with IDEA- 'interface not found'?
Intellij IDEA cannot 'see' my WSL java installation. I thought firewall rules could be the culprit. (I've previously been using Kaspersky firewall but recently switched to just using windows defender, ...
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WSL command provides no output when run in Administrator console
I can run wsl commands 'wsl -l' etc from both command prompt, and powershell with no issue when the consoles are opened with user permissions.
WSL command working in non-admin console:
However, when ...
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MBR2GPT failing with "Cannot find OS partition(s) for disk 0"
I'm trying to use MBR2GPT to convert an MBR/BIOS disk to GPT/UEFI. I'm getting the error Cannot find OS partition(s) for disk 0. I found this in setupact.log:
GetOSDeviceVolume: Cannot get NT path for ...
