Unanswered Questions
15,258 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How can I mix and map sound channels in Windows?
The built-in windows mixer, which can be accessed through Volume Control, allows users to change the output volumes of individual applications. I would like something similar but with additional ...
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Ghost boot disk on a pen drive
I am in process of ghosting several windows 7 machines. I have disk but no pc comes with floppy drives. So I need an external so I was hoping to create a bootable pen drive with ghost. I have the ...
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Windows 7 stops sending DNS packets at seemingly random times
Pinging an IP directly (and just about any other direct IP connection) seems to pass through.
On the other hand, when pinging a domain, using chrome to enter a website or attempting to use nslookup ...
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Are there any other modifier keys on Windows?
I'm trying to use the Win key as a modifier key on Windows. So far, the best approach I found is to map it to another key using AutoHotKeys. For example, I can map the left Win key to the left Control ...
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Kill unresponsive process in windows that won't stop through Task Manager or Process Explorer
Up front: I'm using windows 7 64 bit.
So sometimes I am trying to kill a process but it won't quit. I can try killing the process or the process structure, but Task Manager won't accomplish anything. ...
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how will DNS work under this circumstance (when no domain name specified)
Supposingly there is a host/server in the network with FQDN as "host1.example.com"
Can i know what will happen when i on another workstation, do a
"ping host1" assuming that host1 is not recorded ...
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How to temporally disable chrome extensions notifications
with new release of chrome 47, i'm not able anymore temporally disable notifications from bell icon in task bar in windows 7
when i play games in window-fullscreen mode, they appear and i prefer not ...
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Edit text from the preview pane in Windows Explorer
Is there any way to configure Windows Explorer so as to be able to edit text from the preview pane, when previewing text files?
I use Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate.
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Will TrueCrypt work with a multiboot system
I have a 4 multiboot system (Windows 7, 8, 10, and Ubuntu) all on their own partitions, with 2 storage partitions. If I encrypt one of the storage partitions in Windows 7 with TrueCrypt, will I be ...
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Parity errors after verify with Intel RST
I have Intel RST RAID 1 running on a Windows 7 machine. I have it set to do a verify and repair every week. I frequently notice parity errors, some weeks over 100 for a 1 TB RAID 1 array. I've ...
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Videos flicker during play back 2 GPUs Multi-Monitor setup
I have a multi-screen desktop. I have 4 screens in total. Three of them are in NVIDIA Surround setup. My issue is when playing any video on my right most screen the video will blink (only the video ...
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Computer wakes from sleep instantly. No lastwake information
My parents' computer wakes instantly when put to sleep. It spins down and then starts a second later.
There are no devices set to wake, lastwake gives no information, eventvwr is empty, and the power ...
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Google Chrome completely unresponsive
Pages load indefinitely and most of the time I get this error:
Pressing 'wait' or 'kill pages' does nothing, I have to close the error window from the upper right button.
What I mean by 'completely ...
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Windows 7 HOSTS files keeps reverting it's permission back to READ-ONLY
As a full-time Web Developer I am constantly adding fake domains to my Windows 7 HOSTS file to point a domain to my localhost web server that I develop on.
I have even built a nice little PHP script ...
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How can I remove a keyboard layout that isn't listed in the control panel?
Here's an interesting oddity:
My work computer comes with a corporate disk image preloaded, and it is preconfigured with the German "QWERTZ" keyboard layout.
Using the control panel, I added my ...
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