Unanswered Questions
16,363 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Windows 7 DSCP and 802.1p QoS Mapping?
When I create a QoS policy in Windows 7 through the Group Policy editor and set a DSCP value, does Windows 7 add the 802.1p QoS field to the Ethernet frame? If so, how does it map the different ...
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Want the Windows 10 start menu to show the expanded start menu
I am customizing the Windows 10 desktop, and am wondering if it is possible to make the start menu show the menu that one sees when they click the expand button, by default. Here's what I mean:
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How do you use multiple monitors in MS Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.7?
Using the RDMan from:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=44989
Tools->Options->Full Screen-> last checkbox is 'Use multiple monitors when necessary'
however this has no ...
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Difference between Task Manager and Process Explorer regarding CPU utilization
When I open Task Manager and Process Explorer I can see they present different CPU utilization values. Moreover, 'Processes' and 'Details' tabs in the same Task Manager indicate different CPU ...
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Windows XP installation disk for XP Mode under Windows 7?
I am running XP mode under Windows 7, for testing / troubleshooting software.
I am trying to install a third party driver(unidrv printer), and I get stuck at
Setup failed to locate required files. ...
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How do I remove all proper nouns from the Dragon Naturally Speaking dictionary?
I would like to get rid of all proper nouns, and just add the few that I actually use.
The best I have found so far is to display only words containing capitals letters as the screenshot below shows ...
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How to get a list of connected devices?
I'm experiencing a strange phenomenon. Every now and then (perhaps once per hour on average) my Win7 box emits the "Device connected" system sound (the one you get when you plug in a USB device) for ...
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How to change default view size of Windows 7 Photo Viewer
Is there a way to tweak Windows Photo Viewer so that it automatically opens images in actual size instead of fit in window?
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After plugging in a USB device, Win7 severely slows. What causes this and how could it be fixed?
This is the second PC undergoing this condition, both running Win7. On PC1 a Logitech device was connected through USB before installing it's branded driver (allowing windows to auto-install it), and ...
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How does the Windows 10 scheduler deal with Hyper Threading since Core Parking is disabled by default for Intel CPUs?
I'm running Windows 10 (1607) on an Intel Xeon E3-1231v3 CPU (Haswell, 4 physical cores, 8 logical cores).
When I first had Windows 7 installed on this machine, I could observe that four out of eight ...
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How to display ALT+TAB on both monitors?
I added a monitor to my laptop but whenever I do Alt + Tab on my computer it only shows the running applications on the laptop but not on my extra monitor.
Is there a workaround for this?
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Windows 7 hosted network not allowing internet access
I have a Windows 7 laptop and I am trying to set it up to broadcast Wi-Fi so that my mobile can connect to it when in the office (no mobile signal).
I've found plenty of tutorials, and while all of ...
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HTOP shows massive memory usage but proceslist shows otherwise
I'm running htop on my Ubuntu 16.04LTS server to monitor my CPU and RAM usage. I'm aware of the color indications used by htop as outlined below:
So, when I look at my htop-overview, it shows me the ...
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Run software as admin user, but in the current user context
Here is my situation: I have a single software that demands admin rights. That software needs to be run by commom users. Right-clicking and "Run as administrator" does not do the trick, therefore I ...
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Why don't device and app sound mixers match?
My question is specified in the title, to be more exact I would like to show this particular screenshot of the sound mixer:
As you can see here, the volume of the IE reached the maximum level, but ...
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