Unanswered Questions
13,309 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Swapping boot and backup disks during WinPE's image restore procedure
I have 4Gb of DDR in a laptop running Windows 7. I want to do a full Windows system image restore from a 2nd hard-drive that I use in the CD/DVD cartridge slot with a "drive caddy" adapter. ...
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fixing up very old pc so it can connect to internet again
I upgraded my uncles windows 7 computer to windows 10 and it cant connect to internet now. looking around the internet i find the most common problem being the drivers.
when i go to device manager>...
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Imaged windows 7 won't boot
I have a physical windows7 system (HP) and am migrating the user to a new windows10 machine. I'd like to virtualize this machine as a backup. I clonezilla'd the drive and if it was windows 10 I'd be ...
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Is it possible to determine which Windows program last modified a jpeg?
I keep finding jpeg images on my computers, which are corrupt. Some have a gray band at the bottom, some are reported bad by Bad Peggy (but look normal when viewed in e.g. XNView) and some are just ...
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External HDMI monitor needs mouse move to wake up
A Lenovo ThinkVision monitor connected via HDMI to a Toshiba Satellite R830 laptop (Windows 7) after waking the laptop from sleep does not display anything until the mouse is moved. The internal ...
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computer booting then reporting no drive
Im having a very odd problem with a windows computer.
bios reports 2 nvme ssds in raid 0, leaving bios the computer will boot into windows and will fully enter windows (past sign-in page) but after a ...
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How to access Host devices on Windows 7 VM (Hyper V)
I am running Windows 7 with XP mode as a VM on a Windows 11 Host. How do I get the Windows 7 VM and XP Mode to access the Windows 11 Host devices?
Note* Enhanced Session Mode (ESM) IS NOT supported on ...
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Installing Windows 7 on an OLD Toshiba Laptop
I have a very old Laptop. It was running Windows 8 but got corrupted. I have been trying to do a clean Windows 7 install.
Toshiba x870-f746. (InsydeH2O - UEFI-Bios)
I've tried multiple combinations ...
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Configuring IPsec idle timeout on Windows
I am experimenting with built-in Windows IPsec functionality (advfirewall Connection Security Rules method) against an embedded Strongswan server. I have observed the following behavior:
Phase 2 (...
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Can i transfer my wsl ubuntu installation to a usb and run it from there?
I am running out of space on the c drive of a shared work windows computer. I am currently running ubuntu using wsl downloaded in the c drive and I'm hoping to move it to free up some space in the ...
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How to easily install 150+ updates on a 32 bit windows 7 laptop?
I have an old Asus laptop with windows 7 32 bit, and after fixing various driver problems, now I find myself with 150+ windows updates to install.
Is there a way to install all of them in the right ...
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Migrating Old Windows XP and 7 machines to VMs to improve security
I work for a manufacturing company which has all kinds of equipment that runs older operating systems. Some have computers that run full blown Windows XP and Windows 7, while others run embedded ...
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Disk corruption when using Windows 7 and Windows 11 on the same computer
First let me describe my setup. I installed Windows 7 onto a harddrive, then disconnected it and installed Windows 11 onto another harddrive. With both drives connected I can boot into any system by ...
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Right-click (on text) - clicking on text and right-clicking, add to context menu via REGEDIT, run batch-file using %clipboard%
I want to add a functionality to Right-Click.
This will be on the text-right-click menu.
This won't be on the folder-right-click-menu.
Nor
This won't be on the file-right-click-menu.
In the ...
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create a single task user in windows
I have a program that I want to run automatically whenever a specific user logs in to their Windows account.
Additionally, I only want my program to run and nothing else, like the desktop or Windows ...
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