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Options to manage a Win7 machine remotely from macOS/Linux [closed]

My mom lives on another continent and is very computer-illiterate, e.g. she doesn't know how to open Skype again after she mistakenly closed it so we can't talk to her for weeks (until somebody comes ...
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Could a damaged internal disk that is just under power cause the OS to stop responding?

Recently a friend of mine had problems with his Desktop PC and more general the PC got slower (Windows -7-, so this is not strange to me) and had some problems like stop responding from time to time. ...
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Kali Linux 2019.3 Wi-Fi Driver Issue

So I have recently installed Kali Linux 2019.3 on my Windows 10 Operating system. I decided to do a dual boot with it as well with 40 GB partitioned for it dedicating 16 GB of memory to the OS. (UEFI ...
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My laptop was designed for Windows 7 and has issues with Windows 10. What should I do?

I have bought my laptop in 2011, when Microsoft Windows 7 was latest desktop Windows OS. Today, Windows 7 is dead. There is no reason of installing it for four months. I have attempted to install ...
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How can i install back windows 7 after install linux if i lost my windows 7 product key?

I bought my pc together with the windows 7. After a while, i decided to use linux. So, i install centos 7 on that pc. Now, there is a software which i only know can run in windows 7. So, i have to ...
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How does Ubuntu install on a hard drive with Windows already installed

I know someone who has just installed Ubuntu onto a harddrive which already had Windows 10 as the main operating system. Now there is the option on startup via Grub to either boot Windows or Linux. I'...
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Git Clone a repository sitting on a Linux server through a Linux jump host onto a Windows local hard drive

Ok so I have a Windows machine and I want to clone a git repository from a Linux Server A but I can only access Server A through another Linux Server B. From the Windows machine Git Bash, I can ssh ...
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Installing rEFind for Windows 7

I'm trying to switch from Windows 7 to Arch Linux (used it in a VM for years now preparing to use it 100%). First thing I'm doing is to have the computer boot using rEFind. I tried to install it ...
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Any way to install Windows on Linux PC without any Virtual Machine or CD/DVD/USB?

Long story short I got stuck with Linux on my PC. Can't find a way to install windows back on it. I've tried using my rooted android and boot windows 10 iso but it tells me I'm missing drivers. I've ...
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NTFS seagate ST31000528AS drive can be accessed from various linux distributions but not from Windows

This a windows 7 NTFS system drive that stopped booting windows.When seen from a windows repair boot DVD it appears as RAW.Seagate diagnostics (Seatools) Fails at 10% of simple diagnostics.BUT various ...
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CMD command to write few characters at the beginning of a video file

I have a video file, saying a mp4 file, I want to add few characters at the beginning of the file making the file cannot be played. how can I do this on Windows 7? EDIT: how about commands in Linux, ...
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What is the best partitioning and its sizes for SSD, to contain everything related to Mint 19.1 [closed]

++ For a Laptop, 300GB HDD, 3GB Ram, USB2, with Win7. ++ To install Linux Mint 19.1, with a dual boot with Win7. ++ In the case of installing Linux Mint 19.1, on a 120GB SSD, mounted in a Caddy DVD. ++...
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swap text before and after a character

I'm on Windows 7. I have a large text file code.txt with the following equalities oReservist.Role = Sheets("RECAP").Cells(ligne, 2) oReservist.Surname = Sheets("RECAP").Cells(ligne, 3)...
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Is there a way to fixing my slow computer without SSD, Lightweight Linux. and RAM and CPU upgrade?

I start a my old acer veriton m420 computer. and now open chrome on windows 7 computer. it slow for 1 minutes. and then page unresponsive. I have tried: Uninstall unused programs. (AP) Delete ...
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unable to mount HDD in linux but ok on windows

When I plug my HDD on my ubuntu 14.04 computer I get the following message: Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/ddepannemaecker/Seagate Expansion Drive: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=...
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