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Programmatically installing a system driver on Windows 7 x64
I am experimenting with the WinDDK and trying to install a system driver on a Windows 7 (x64)virtual box. I have an .inf file:
; testdriver.inf - install information file
[Version]
Signature = "$...
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How to stop recording after x minutes of silence in Audacity?
I am using Audacity to record sound from webinar recordings.
There could be a few minutes of silence during the webinar.
I want to set up Audacity to stop recording
the best would be after, let's ...
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DNS server keeps changing from Auto to Manual
A friend at a company I know has a fairly new Windows 7 laptop. She was complaining that the "internet doesn't work".
After looking at it the first time, in Wireless > Status > Properties > ...
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Mapped network drive is behind a VPN; How do I stop Windows from auto-connecting at startup?
(After about 15 minutes of searching S.U. I haven't found any relevant questions, so excuse me if I got the wrong search terms, and this is a dupe.)
I'm running Windows 7 at work, and have a couple ...
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Simulate high screen resolution Windows
I'm looking for a way to simulate a higher resolution on a Windows server than supported by the graphics card or screen.
A good illustration would be a Linux server that you configure with TigerVNC ...
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Chrome on Windows 7 is not respecting ClearType
I've noticed that my fonts seemed jagged on Chrome, but not Firefox, it seemed strange so I decided to configure ClearType again. It was already turned on, but I re-ran the config anyway. What I've ...
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Win7 VirtualBox Server with TeamCity keeps BSODing
I'm testing out TeamCity with a small project (one checkin per day or so, small code base) on a Windows 7 VM in VirtualBox. I've had many successful VMs on this host, some of which were also Windows ...
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Opening a specific MS Office program causes every executable in the desktop and below to be run simultaneously
I'm having a strange issue with MS Visio 2016 which when I open it, either directly (i.e. double-clicking Visio's executable from the Office's folder) or by a shortcut, it runs every executable (.exe) ...
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How does Windows identify the network name via Ethernet?
Recent versions of Windows (7 and newer, i think) seem to be able to identify the network, that they are connected to via Ethernet automatically.
The name "tbspace Networks" is the WiFi-SSID of the ...
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WMI-Activity Event ID5858, ResultCode = 0x80041032 & DCOM Event 10010 timeout errors
I've been trying to eliminate two types of errors for about a month now. First are WMI Event 5858 result code: 0x80041032 and the Second are DCOM Event 10010 server timeout errors. Read 100s of ...
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How to change windows console font with nerd or powerline?
First, this question is not duplicate of
How to change the Windows XP console font?, and
How to change the cmd.exe font?
I want to change console font from
to powerline font: (can show vim-theme, ...
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Sticky corners in Windows 7?
I couldn't google anything about it. Afaik, Windows 8+ has a sticky corners feature where, while using multiple monitors, if the user moves the mouse from one monitor to another at the top or bottom ...
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What exactly is "Browser" in Chrome's task manager, if it's not an open tab, and where is the traffic coming from?
I'm having problems loading some webpages on a slow connection on Chrome, and opened its Task Manager and saw that the "Browser" task is using up all the bandwidth to download something, but I don't ...
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Connect monitor without taking an extra PCI-e slot or using on-board graphics
I have a Supermicro x9dri-ln4f+ connected to a microscope.
It needs to have USB3, a high-res lag free display and 10GbE in same server. Currently my 6 PCIe slots look like:
#1-4: important cards,
#5:...
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Extra mouse buttons don't work with Remote Desktop (Windows)
I use Remote Desktop on my home PC to connect to two different PCs at the office. On one of the remote PCs, my extra mouse buttons work, and on the other remote PC, the extra buttons sadly do nothing. ...
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