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How is the font value in Windows Registry is organized?
This comment https://superuser.com/a/1069328/1664175 explains some crucial facts about the font value of Windows Registry but not completely.
I would like to know more about the font value. Especially ...
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Microsoft Windows taskbar bug [duplicate]
There has been very strange bug in every version on of Windows from 7 to 10 (Windows 7/8/8.1/10). I have been trying to google it for seven years without success because I don't know how to explain it ...
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Is it possible in Windows 8.1 to use thumbnail view w/o generating thumb.db files?
ie. generate thumbs per folder view on-the-fly for non read only drives?
Regarding internal drives including system.
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Can files and directories under C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming be safely removed? [duplicate]
I was looking at what files are on my hard disk, and saw that C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming has over 1 GB worth of files under it (found by a dir /s/a command).
What is the purpose of ...
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Windows TaskBar doesn't show new items
Since Windows 7(mayne Vista too) I have a problem with pinning an item to taskbar. The path to taskbar is %appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar, but adding either .bat,...
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Create Windows 7 Library on custom location
I want to create a "virtual" folder or Windows 7 Library on a custom location, for example "C:\Program Files\SomeSoftware", and link to there folders that are on a different drive, so SomeSoftware can ...
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Cannot convert Crystal Report to PDF "Failed to Export the Report"
Our users cannot export their Crystal Reports to PDF in Windows 7 and 8/8.1.
An error message pops up saying "Failed to export the report".
Users noticed this occurred after a recent Microsoft update.
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Windows Starter Edition, Home and Home Premium do not include gpedit, how do I install it?
I want to make some changes to Windows that require using the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc).
Unfortunately the Group Policy Editor is not included with the Starter Edition, Home and Home Premium ...
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How to stop Microsoft from gathering telemetry data from Windows 7, 8, and 8.1
Some of the update patches pushed to Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 during this year seem to be solely for the purpose of gather data from a user's system.
Is there a way to disable the telemetry through ...
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Transparency issues in Windows after resume from Hibernation
For the last several years I have been having this issue every day once I resume from hibernation. For example, this is what Firefox tabs look like:
What you see is actually 2 Firefox windows (one ...
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Windows 8.1 RDP to Windows 7 Pro cannot login with domain account
At work I have a Windows 7 Pro that my account on it logs into our domain server. At home, my Windows 7 Home Premium can RDP into that machine just fine using my regular username "Steve" (i.e. not ...
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Deafult Permissions for Folder Sharing?
I have a set of folders that I do not wish to permanently share (on boot) but rather share occasionally.
Whenever I invoke Advanced Sharing... > Permissions, I always get Everyone with read-only by ...
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How do I stop Windows from flooding smartcard with APDUs
Whenever I put a smartcard in/on my smartcard reader Windows (7 Prof, x64) immediately starts flooding it with APDUs possibly trying to identify the type of the card (SELECT and READ_DATA commands).
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Windows: Cannot associate executable with file extension
I know this is a very basic question, but I couldn't find the answer. When I right click on a file with extension .abc and click on Properties and then Change..., then even when I click on Browse... ...
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Stop new windows opening in top left corner?
Is there a registry setting etc for the default window startup location? I'm not talking about individual programs which can save such a setting, but the global default. Windows often opens windows in ...
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