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How to get Windows NT version via command line
Many times I have to pass the User-Agent in the download headers for the download to be validated and working.
I need help finding a easy method to get the Windows NT version(6.1 or 6.2 ....) which ...
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How do I reassign win x in windows 8 to open chrome?
and for that matter how do I reassign any win+ combo?
(I am using a small software called winhotkey but it can only assign free letters with the win button - and Windows 8 has almost all the letters ...
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How to delete lnk files in desktop only from guest account in Windows 8?
I have a Windows 8 system and it has administrator and guest accounts. Whenever I install a program, its lnk file appears at desktop of both administrator and guest as usual. I don't need that lnk ...
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My 'SendTo' items dissapeared (only from contextmenu)
I'm running Windows 8.1 x64.
Days ago I've noticed that all the items that I have in the SendTo menu has dissapeared.
They dissapeared only from the menu, I'm an user who customized the sendto items ...
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Autohotkey on a win8 tablet: three clicks for an action
I would love to use three clicks on my tablet to perform an action such as ^w (closing chrome windows).
I have tried with "RapidHotkey" script but to no avail. I would greatly appreciate your help.
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Cygwin to execute windows shortcut files (.LNK)
I use Cygwin as my cmd replacement on Windows and I am in the process of cleaning up my system PATH variable.
I now have a folder containing exe's and shortcuts (.LNK) files which is in PATH ...
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Make a shortcut that doesn't do anything [duplicate]
I need to make a shortcut (.Lnk) that doesn't do anything when clicked. Is there a way to make such a shortcut?
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I renamed my user folder in Windows 8, and now my task bar shortcuts are gone. Why?
After renaming my user folder (e.g. from c:\Users\somethingelse to c:\Users\trusktr) and now my task bar shortcuts (among other things) are gone.
I've looked in C:\Users\trusktr\AppData\Roaming\...
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Keyboard shortcut won't work for shortcuts in USER/Links folder - Windows 8.1
I have been using keyboard shortcuts for some folders back in Windows 7. Lately I started using Windows 8, now using Windows 8.1.
There seems to be an issue about keyboard shortcuts in C:\Users\...
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How to reset the hotkeys and shortcuts in windows 8
Something went wrong in my windows 8, the windows button's stopped working and I can't live without Win+D, Win+E, Win+L..etc.
Is there any way to reset this shortcuts?
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Sort folder full of shortcuts by Destination property in Details view?
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I'm on Windows 8.
I have some folders that contain .lnk files.
problem
I would like to know if I can sort the files by the destination in the Details view column of the explorer. I can't ...
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Working symlink isn't accessable through explorer Windows 8
I made a symlink to an folder with mklink on w8x64 between two NTFS partitions on the same disk. All programs think it's a valid folder, but Windows explorer doesn't seem to get this, and displays a ...
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(Virtual) Path to My Computer
I've been doing a bit of registry editing. As you can see (the accepted answer), each of five keys in the registry points to a location. This works fine with normal directories.
However, My Computer ...
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Change shortcut targets in bulk?
I have hundreds of shortcuts to websites where the target looks like this:
C:\Users\Herb\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe www.somesite.com/foo
I just upgraded to Windows 8, and ...
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Is there a quick way to get to the Control Panel in Windows 8?
Obviously in all previous versions of Windows you could simply click START and then select "Control Panel" to get to it, but on Windows 8 there is no such option.
Is there an easy way to quickly get ...
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