Unanswered Questions
15,467 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Accessing IPv6 addresses through an SSH tunnel
I have a remote Arch Linux server which has IPv6 enabled (through Tunnelbroker, I am able to do ping6 ipv6.google.com successfully) and I want to know if it's possible to use PuTTY on my Windows 7 ...
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How do I get Explorer to default to Folder Path instead of Folder when I search?
Whenever I run a search in Explorer on Windows 7, the first thing I do is remove the Folder column and then add the Folder Path column. Is there a way to save this configuration so that this becomes ...
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Reducing volume of an audio device on windows 7
I have a USB headset with a very loud amplifier, but low granularity in its gain control. In order to get comfortable audio, I have to reduce the individual application levels in the mixer to '1', and ...
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How to prefer ipv6 over ipv4 only for specific websites?
I only have ipv6 connectivity via a HE tunnel on my router, so normally I want to prefer ipv4 over ipv6. For some websites however, I would like to prefer ipv6.
Right now I have just set ...
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How can I swap the usage of the 'fn' key for my Razer Blackwidow on OSX?
I just bought the Razer Blackwidow 2013 keyboard, and after installing drivers (Synapse 2.0) I run into a strange issue:
My function keys started to work very strange. They started to use their "...
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Windows Explorer freezes for 30 seconds when I click on (or even mouse over) a disconnected network drive
I have a network drive mapped in My Computer and displayed on the task bar beside my other drives.
Sometimes the server which hosts the network drive is physically powered off.
When the server is ...
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Show Optional or CC Field in Outlook Meeting Request
I would like to quickly add Optional meeting attendees to a new Outlook meeting.
I am trying to create a meeting with Alice and Bob as required attendees, but Steve is optional. There is no field to ...
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How to see detailed log of nVidia driver crash on Windows?
While doing GPU-intensive parallel processing, nVidia driver apparently crashed. Only information in Windows Event log is the following:
The description for Event ID 1 from source NVIDIA OpenGL ...
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Is there a way of scripting the "Roll Back Driver" feature of Window's Device Manager?
I need to roll back my graphic cards drivers once in a while(It's a long story.) and I have tried scripts using devmanview which worked great for disabling and enabling my drivers(and uninstalling it) ...
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Google Drive (googlesyncdrive) preventing PC from shutting down or hibernating
Everytime I try to shutdown or hibernate the PC I have this nag screen that comes up telling me that Google Drive is shutting down and the system is waiting for it. The problem is that the system can ...
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Auto Shutdown / Suspend Vagrant upon shutdown on Windows Host
I use vagrant in my development workflow on a Windows machine. Sometimes, I forget to do a vagrant halt or suspend before restarting or shutting windows down. I read that this could possibly break ...
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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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Windows 10 audio fades out
I'm having an issue with Windows 10 audio: when listening to something/watching a movie the audio automatically fades out and drops to a lower volume. To be clear, the volume indication in Windows ...
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