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Display remaining time in playlist in VLC

Is there any way to display the remaining time in the current playlist in VLC? Right now I can see the total time of the playlist: and the remaining time for the current video: but I didn't find the ...
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Running fsck from cygwin shell?

I need to be able to check / fix file system errors on SD cards from a win7 box. I had hoped to use e2fsck from cygwin but am having some issues getting this to work. (SD cards are used to boot ...
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Making always-on-top windows follow the same MRU order as other windows

Note: I'm using Windows 7 with the classical alt-tab style, ie the registry key AltTabSettings set to 1. I want to use MRU (most recently used) ordering of windows in the alt-tab list. However, ...
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Get current working directory of another process

I have a PID, and I am trying to determine what the current working directory of the process is. I played around with wmic process for a while, but it doesn't seem to have the cwd available. Anyone ...
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Why my command prompt is not recognizing 'netstat' as a command

I want to figure out my running ports in Windows 10, but when I write command C:\> netstat in the console, I get the following error 'netstat' is not recognized as an internal or external ...
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What’s the command line equivalent of strace on Windows?

I need to | findstr SomePATH in order to search if a program access and close immediately a specific path. On Linux, I would use myprogram | strace 2>&1 | grep SomPATH. But what’s the ...
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Ignore certain changes in git diff

Is it possible to get a report from git diff or related commands that excludes a certain category of change? I've been asked to review a change where a huge number of files have undergone the ...
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How to NOT Terminate Batch Job

in my power shell command prompt when I run a command and pressing ctrl + c a message appears asking for Terminate batch job (Y/N)? no matter if I enter Y, or N or n, it terminates the job. My ...
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Ways to Recover Lost/Closed "Pinned" Tabs in Chrome?

I know this was TECHNICALLY an already-answered issue awhile back - and then was subsequently brought to life again briefly - but I have been experiencing this issue (only twice, but I had about 15 ...
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How can I disable program notifications and popups in bottom right corner?

I have an older computer running Windows 7 SP1. I find that some installed programs, like antivirus trial, Flux, etc. decide they want to present some info to me in the form of a smaller screen with ...
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Explantion for CSRSS.EXE using the GPU

This is a follow up question to conhost.exe and csrss.exe questions I am currently on a Windows 7 x64 machine, using a relatively high end GPU (GTX 970 4 GB). Windows Aero is enabled. I am using ...
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How can I prevent my NIC from sleeping when Wake-on-LAN is enabled?

I currently have wake-on-LAN enabled and it works, but for some reason my Windows 7 laptop only allows me to turn it on if I also have the "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" ...
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Syntax For Searching the Microsoft Update Catalog

Microsoft allows download of Windows Updates, drivers and other upgrades from the Microsoft Update Catalog: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com . Unfortunately there seems to be no search syntax ...
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VMware - Startup in Unity Mode

I can't figure out how to get VMware to start up in unity mode. Is this possible? I want the guess OS to startup in unity mode, with selected application(s). I am using VMware workstation on the the ...
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Can't use local default gateway with Cisco Anyconnect VPN connection

I'm using Cisco Anyconnect as my VPN client on Windows 7. When I connect to VPN, all my traffic is routed through the remote gateway, but I'd like the traffic to route through the local gateway. I've ...

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