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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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Win 10: Disable "Restoring Network Connections" popup when connection to network drives drop
Whenever I get disconnected from my network drives and I happen to have like 10 folders of the network drive folders opened, 10 of these pop-ups will show up and I cannot close any of the windows ...
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How to force a specific software to use proxy?
I want to use a Tor SOCKS proxy on some programs (e.g. Android Studio) but not all.
I'm a Windows 10 user. How can I do that?
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Block Windows 10 P2P updates with a corporate firewall
I work for a small IT company that fix mostly Windows computers, and lately we have an huge issue with Windows 10 updates.
When a new computer enters our network and starts downloading updates, it ...
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Performing network connection "diagnose" / "troubleshoot" via command line in Windows
Is there a way in command line to do the steps that Windows 10 does when you right click a network connection and choose "diagnose" or when you tell it to troubleshoot a connection?
I'm ...
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vethernet doesn't show up in get-netconnectionprofile anymore
Last night my windows rebooted to install updates and is running 1903 18362.1016
I need to set my hyper-v vEthernet adapter to a private network. However when I do
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> get-...
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Can't join LAN game in Civilization 6
Few days ago I was able to play Civilization VI through LAN (Offline on Steam) without any problems, but after Windows Update (installed 9/14/2019) I don't see any games in LAN.
On 9/14/2019 I also ...
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Watching a YouTube video disconnects my Internet connection
Using Windows 10 (v1709) and Chrome (64.0.3282.167), when I watch a YouTube video, my Internet connection works for approximately the first minute, then drops out.
In more detail: I can watch a video ...
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Issues connecting to an IKEv2 VPN "The parameter is incorrect"
I've set up a VPN using StrongSwan software on a DigitalOcean server.
I used this guide here :https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-ikev2-vpn-server-with-strongswan-on-...
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How to enable Mobile hotspot (from Anniversary Update) in command line
I want to enable new Mobile hotspot from Aniversary Update in command line same way as from the Window's Settings. I know that there is
NETSH WLAN start hostednetwork
but this command doesn't enable ...
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MSG Command on CMD result Error 5 getting session names
I have 2 computer connected over LAN. Both has windows 10 pro version 1607. I open cmd from 1 computer and try to use message command like this :
msg * /server:lenovo-pc "Hello"
Lenovo-pc is other ...
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Can't connect to socket listening on 127.0.0.1 but works for 'localhost' in Windows 10
I have a clean install of Windows 10 Pro x64 and I’m trying to run PostgreSQL server on it. It used to work perfectly on Windows 7, but Windows 10 is behaving really weird: If I configure PostgreSQL ...
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Windows 10 - Wi-Fi limited on reboot
So I've just upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7. So far I'm not impressed. I could talk about other problems I've been having, however there's one main issue that has been bothering me.
When I ...
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Missing rasgreeng.dll on VPN server when client attempts to connect
I am running into problems setting up a VPN server on Windows 10 Home Anniversary Edition, which 'ver' reports as:
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393]
I am following the guide at: http://...
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Windows renamed my network interfaces
I have a laptop with an ethernet and a Wifi connection. The names of these interfaces were "ethernet connection" and
"Wifi connection". Suddenly i realized that these names have ...
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WSL on Windows 10 - localhost works, 127.0.0.1 doesn't (and is not my local IP)
I'm in the middle of setting up WSL on Windows to work on PHP stuff with my PHPStorm. Started the config, and installed Apache and PHP. To check, I'm opening my browser on localhost, it works, but on ...
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System tray shows standard WiFi icon while VPN connected
Normally, when I connect to my VPN the WiFi icon in the system tray changes to what I believe is the wired network icon. See images below for example images.
Wifi:
Wired:
Recently the icon is no ...
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How can I delete a Windows Filtering Platform rule or restore WFP to default settings?
I am using Mullvad VPN client on Windows 10 1909 which under normal circumstances sets up Windows Filtering Platform rules that block all connections outside the VPN tunnel when the application is ...
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set up Windows 10 PC as internet gateway for a Linux PC on local LAN to access internet
I have a Windows 10 PC with two NICs that I want to use as a gateway between a small LAN which is using 192.168.0.x IPv4 addressing and the internet.
What I have set up is the Windows 10 PC with two ...
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How to access Kubernetes runnning in Docker for Windows from another PC
I have a desktop PC, ALPHA, where I have installed Docker for Windows with included Kubernetes.
I have a notebook, BETA, where I have installed kubectl. Both are connected to the same WiFi network. I ...
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Why is Task Manager's Network Usage off by about 50%?
This is an interesting thing I've noticed since my internet upgrade (up to 100MBit/s downstream) and I'm not really sure what exactly is happening here – which boggles me. :) This discrepancy seems to ...
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Map network drive - The network path could not be found
I am trying map a network drive from Windows 10 to my Android phone by following these instructions: map Android to Windows drive. I'm running WebDAV server on the phone, but when I try to map the ...
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Working around the Network Loopback Isolation of UWP Apps
I've been hitting a blockage trying to get my UWP App to receive data from a local UDP port in the following scenario:
Windows 10 | Version 10.0.16299 Build 16299
UWP target and minimum Version 10.0....
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Bypass website that falls under wildcard proxy exception
I need a way to exclude a specific web address from the Win 10 list of proxy exceptions.
For example, if I am using a proxy, but I don't want the proxy used for a specific domain (google.com) I can ...
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Slow bandwidth with iperf3 when using Windows but Linux runs at full speed
I have a DigitalOcean Droplet that shares a gigabit connection and my college dorm fortunately also has gigabit connection. I noticed data transfers between the two were quite slow so I ran iperf3 ...
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How do I prevent Windows 10's File History Service from gobbling up all my networking bandwidth?
I set up file history service to sync certain files to my local NAS which works great. The two are connected using a suboptimal "DLAN"/Powerline connection which reaches about 90 Megabits per second. ...
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ipconfig /release (AUTO RENEW???)
I have a (very very) remote machine running over teamviewer, I (mistakenly) ran
ipconfig /release
The machine is set never to sleep or restart and no items are set to power saving mode. The only ...
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Cannot restart dnscache (DNS Client) service
I have cached DNS records which Windows just won't to let go of. I, of course have tried ipconfig /flushdns many times which tells me it was successful, but isn't. I am unable to run net stop dnscache ...
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How do I prevent Docker from listening on my public / all IPs in Windows 10?
I'm using the latest version of Docker for Windows, on Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit. When I run the following docker-compose.yml, Docker listens on my public IP, 127.0.0.1, and my router assigned ...
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Windows 10 update with P2P (peer-to-peer) enabled (Delivery Optimization) kills the whole Internet connectivity
Since Windows 10 we are challenging huge difficulties in Internet connection quality. Whenever there pops up a computer in the network which is just updating itself via Windows update (with P2P ...
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How do I get Windows 10 to respect my IPv6 Interface metric?
On a Window 10 system, I have multiple interfaces. I have assigned route metrics for both IPv4, and IPv6 for each interface. My IPv4 metric is used when I look at the route table. For IPv6 my metric ...
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How to connect on windows 10 through smb to external server shared folder
I am trying to connect to external ip address through smb on windows 10 without any success.
\\server-ip:port\shareDirectoryName
So far I did try the following ports: 139,445 but without any ...
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One or more network protocols are missing on this computer (Windows 10)
I've attempted to reset winsock, reset itp, reset IVP4 and 6. I don't know what else to try at this point. I don't want to reset/restore the computer.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I don't even ...
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WiFi can't be connected after resuming system from sleep/hibernation
I am having this weird issue with my laptop. It only happens when I put my laptop to sleep or hibernation. After resuming Windows I couldn't connect to WiFi anymore. When I try to connect it takes a ...
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Some WiFi networks missing since windows 10 upgrade
Ever since the upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10, some of the WiFi networks I was previously able to connect to have gone missing (not all of them, though).
I have tried the solution offered here, ...
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How can I connect to a Juniper Junos Pulse VPN from a Windows 10 PC?
Just upgraded to Windows 10. I used to be able to configure Juniper VPN connection on Windows 8.1 natively without any additional software. "Juniper Networks Junos Pulse" was listed in Windows 8.1's ...
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Virtualbox can't detect any network adapter after upgrade windows 10
I install virtualbox 5.0 in Windows 8.1 and running smoothly, but after I upgraded to Windows 10 my virtualbox could not detect any network adapter. I've tried to reinstall virtualbox with this way ...
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One computer recognizes the other computer on the network while the other does not
I have two computers running Windows 10 connected to a router. Both are in the same Workgroup. One computer recognizes the other computer on the network while the other does not.
So on computer A in ...
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WSL2 Routing and NAT Rules
I recently installed WSL2 on my Windows 10 PC and I'm trying to understand how traffic is handled to and from WSL2. The below article states that WSL2 is running as a managed Hyper-V VM and uses a NAT ...
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How to chain two VPNs? (basically tunneling through another tunnel)
Due to internet restrictions in my home country (Iran) which blocks all VPN traffic detected by DPI I can only connect to the internet using shared Obfuscated proxies (V2Ray and related technologies).
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Not able to ping Windows Host from WSL2
I have enabled WSL2 on my Windows 10 desktop. Till recently, I was able to reach/connect to applications installed on Host from WSL2. However, now for testing purposes when I ping the host, I get &...
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BSOD when connected to internet via Ethernet
Problem definition
I am using Windows 10 on a Lenovo laptop with a Realtek network card. The network card shows in the Device Manager as "Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller" and I usually ...
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Unable to enable network adapter
The device doesn't show up in Device manager, despite restarting the PC, re-installing the drivers and trying Network reset and troubleshooting in settings. Still the device doesn't show up.
This is a ...
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Getting an error code 0x800704cf when trying to sign in to excel 365
Everytime I open an excel file, it prompt me to sign in because my cached credentials have expired and every time I try to sign in, it give me a message that says
it doesn't look like you're ...
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Enabling VPN split tunnelling at the OS level
I'm creating a generic sandbox VM that can be given to a variety of potential corporate customers. I need to be able to query a specific ip address from a whitelisted source to access some of the ...
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How to sync a folder between multiple PC and Android devices using a local network such as Wi-Fi?
Basically What I'm looking for is a software/ program / anything that can help me achieve the following objective :
I have a folder that is full of PDFs and I have multiple devices ( Android and ...
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Weird network error on windows 10
My Windows 10 Pro (build: 19041.1110) PC has a weird network problem. POST request is not working. (That's all. Everything else is working.) I thought it was chrome, but every browser (Firefox, edge) ...
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WSL (Hyper-V-VmSwitch) connects/reconnects/does something with my networking every 3-10 minutes and it stutters my sound
I have ran WSL2 for a while with a Kali installation, I do most of my programming work there. Since a while ago, I can't recall exactly when, I started having issues with sound stuttering and was ...
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Chrome and Spotify app can't connect
I'm having this really weird problem on my computer that I can't seem to wrap my head around. Occasionally (and almost always after a reboot), the spotify app can't seem to connect to it's servers. ...
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How can I setup internet fail-over using windows 10
I would like to have fail-over internet on my Windows 10 Desktop PC. SO I have a Fritz!box 6490 cable and a Teltonika RUT240 LTE router, with a Win10 PC connected to the Fritz!box using a LAN cable ...
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