Questions tagged [specific-question]
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Clarification of question's acceptability in advance
How can I check a question's correct place, acceptability and plausibility before posting it on Super User?
Is it possible to check the correctness of a question in advance here on Meta Super User? Or ...
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Is this question about automation appropriate for SuperUser?
I'm working on a data cleaning automation task.
Every month we receive an e-mail from a specific client with two folders with PDF files attached.
My goal is to find a way to download these folders, ...
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What did I do wrong in my question about Windows Update?
I asked the question Windows Update gives 0x80070643 error on fresh Windows 10 install. I provided the steps that led to the issue and the troubleshooting steps I tried to solve it. When people ...
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Please, delete my question regarding svchost.exe
I have a question about my Super User post: How to force svchost.exe to run as a single process (Windows 10)
I want to delete my question, but I'm unable to delete it because someone wrote an "...
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Is this harddisk question on-topic in SU?
Storage Drive Gone Bad - Ran a HEALTH check on my external drive with HD Tune Pro and REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT is 4948. Need some advice
I feel like this question doesn't belong in SuperUser, but I ...
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I genuinely don't understand why this question was deleted when I asked for it to be re-opened?
Several years ago I tried to ask this question about how to make the best of the space in my PC for more case fans.
I thought I had put quite a lot of effort into researching for myself and then ...
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What should I do with a duplicate for which the flag aged away? Should the other question then become the duplicate?
I marked:
Disk usage at 100% during startup
+16
Asked 10 months ago
Modified 10 months ago
Viewed 14k times
6 answers: +23, +11, +9, +3, +2, +1
as a duplicate of:
Disk usage is always at 100%
+1
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Is a question about a Windows iPhone image type that turns out to be just about settings on the iPhone a better fit for Ask Different SE?
I asked How to browse the iPhone HEIC images on Windows without the automatic conversion to JPG?
and found out that the fix is on the side of the iPhone settings. Windows does not play a role for the ...
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PSA: Just because *you* don't understand a question doesn't automatically make it unclear
All too often, I'm seeing close votes (or even closed questions) as "Unclear" on questions that are perfectly understandable to me. It seems to happen roughly once a week, and that's just ...
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How can I further improve my freezing laptop question?
Commenters suggested me to address their comments in my main post and I think I did. However, I have received 3 downvotes so I guess my question still isn't up to the mark. How can I further improve ...
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What to do with "Opening local document files in Google Docs" from 2009
Please bear with me. I'm asking this because I'm got an edit ban because several of my lasts suggested edits were rejected. I'm guessing that people don't want that google-drive be removed from newer ...
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Finding hard to fit into right site between Super User and Web Applications
This is addressed to the OP of How to wrap lines of code in Rstudio IDE? in relation of the following comment
I am lost. My questions are migrated between Super User and Applications back and forward....
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How to fix an unfocused post, that I thought was pretty well focused
I have a question about my Super User post: Is it possible to write a cell as an "Accumulator" of conditional values? (Google Sheets)
I need help understanding why my post was closed. I ...
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What to do with a question about a script for Windows XP that became a list of different types of scripts
How do I set the desktop background on Windows from a script? from 2008 has 8 answers,
the OP usercard shows the OP user name but not a link to their profile.
It hasn't an accepted answer.
none of ...
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Superuser FAQ note about "websites and web services" is unclear?
Possible Duplicate:
Superuser website applications policy
I recently had a question on Superuser closed:
https://superuser.com/questions/104025/is-there-any-free-forum-software-that-supports-...
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