Unanswered Questions
13,309 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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An installed program has been deleted by someone - how to find their identity?
13 days ago I asked about how to uncompress files downloaded from the arXiv math site, and I got the following response:
Downloading from the arXiv site and uncompressing
I downloaded files from the 7-...
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How can I stop Acrobat Reader from giving an error trying to mysteriously access an unloaded removable D: drive?
For a long time now, whenever I cause Acrobat Reader to launch, before it does anything else, it gives me this error message:
Each of the buttons (including the close button) result in simply ...
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Windows 10 - how to force monitor to be recognised as NON PNP
This might be a strange question, but I'm looking for a way to force Windows 10 to recognise a plug-n-play display as a non PNP display...?
It's a long tale, but the TL;DR is I'm working on upgrading ...
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Downloading from the arXiv site and uncompressing
When I want to download a math-paper I put out on the arXiv server, I get a file with filename "arXiv-xxxx.xxxx.tar.gz" and I'm having trouble "uncompressing" this file to get the ...
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A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" after power outage
I am getting "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" after power outage during Gparted (resize/move) process of C partition.
I was trying to resize and move my C ...
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How to solve blue screen issue coming even after using a USB media?
I have an HP-i3-7th bought in 2018. I had dual booted it 4 years ago with Win default and Ubuntu secondary. A year ago it started malfunctioning because the boot would not work properly. If Ubuntu is ...
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Process of automated replacement of existing windows installation with debian
i have a bunch of PCs with windows installed (same Partitions and disk size) and want to switch to debian.
The problem is that all of the PC are not at the same place and can only be accessed via ...
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I am trying to download pictures from an older phone. I have paired it to my laptop via Bluetooth but cannot get the pictures out
WP8990 flip phone. The options to send pictures from the phone is by picture message or to online album. The phone is no longer useable as a phone. The album no longer exists. It is obsolete and ...
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Can't access HDD External
So I have 2 HDD external that can't be accessed
Both showing at devices and printer
But doesn't show at computer
In devices and printer it says BUP portable and expansion but I can't access both
Light ...
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14GB 100% free Healthy (Primary Parition) after Windows 7 install
I recently bought a new SSD to put in a really old laptop and installed Windows 7 on it. It's just for some very old software and hardware that I still want to use that are not supported in Windows 10 ...
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Changing screen brightness after disabling GPU from Device Manager
I am in a scenario where I need to disable my GPU to work on something. I want to be able to change screen brightness after disabling the GPU from device manager. Though, after disabling the GPU, I ...
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Windows 7 - Block Wallpaper Change BUT allow Selected Slideshow Wallpapers
System: Windows 7 Pro with SP2
Please can you help me find a solution to Allow Wallpaper Slideshow using a preselected folder BUT block anyone from changing the wallpaper.
The issue I am coming up ...
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How can I change the desktop background on Windows using a script?
On X Windows I had a cool 'silent-alarm" reminder script that would change my root window (background) color to solid red, just for a few seconds a few moments before changing it back. Is there a ...
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Can't load Nobara installed alongside Windows and Ububtu
I had windows and Ubuntu installed and tried to install Nobara. After installation I restarted the device and couldn't see Nobara in dual load window. These are the only options:
Ubuntu
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I need serious help this Windows 7 computer: How do I get to advanced boot options?
I need to go to 'advanced boot options' because I have a problem with my Windows 7 computer that doesn't let me log into my computer.
I saw a video how to fix it, and I have to go to advanced boot ...
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Dell Optiplex 980 Mini-Form Factor will not boot to Windows 7
I'm getting CMOS battery errors so I replaced the CMOS battery twice with new ones, loaded the BIOS defaults, cleared CMOS using the jumper (explained in the user manual) and put the hard drive into ...
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Batch file running in one account but not another
I wrote a batch file to run a schtasks for a Windows 7 Home machine. When I tested it in my account (standard user), the script runs correctly, but when I migrated the script to the account (also ...
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How to fix CISCO Anyconnect 12 seconds timeout bug?
In reference to this thread: https://help.duo.com/s/article/1146?language=en_US, is there a way to increase the 12 seconds default timeout in Cisco Anyconnect <= 4.7 without establishing a first ...
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Drive boots on physical machine but doesn't on any virtual machine
Some time ago I got a request of making a fairly old (Windows 7 64bit) machine into a virtual machine. I was given a hdd clone of the machine in question however when this drive is used in VirtualBox ...
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Can't get Windows VHD file to boot
I had a setup where I has 2 windows options on startup. Basically originally I had 1 hard drive with Windows 7 Pro, then I added another hard drive where I setup Windows 10 Pro. Somehow automatically ...
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Windows cannot automatically detect network proxy settings
Using Windows 7 lost my connection to the internet. Received notice, Windows could not automatically detect this network's proxy settings. How do I fix?
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Unable to get Win 7 on a Dell 5820 precision with Power ISO
Hello we have legacy applications that must be installed on Windows 7 but as the Dell 5820 has NVME drives the operating system cannot see it just after we get to the language selection screen. I have ...
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Strange Ethernet adapter reproducible malfunction that impacts across dual boot Windows setup
The behavior is pretty confusing. The story is about my Ethernet adapter on my retro computing ASUS laptop (2011 model). It currently has Windows 7 and Windows XP on two HDDs respectively. The ...
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Windows 10 22h2 Processor Compatibility
My employer has a number of PC that still run Windows 7 (let's not get into why...), it will be necessary for us to upgrade each of these PCs to Windows 10 22H2 very soon. If I reference Microsoft's &...
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Windows 7 wanting to write various files to a blank disk. But where are they coming from?
I just bought some DVDs from a shop, and I guess they are blank.
From the cmd prompt, I do D: (and if that were to work i'd do DIR). And when I do D: it won't work it says "incorrect function&...
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Uneraseable file in Windows 7
We have an old Windows 7 machine that needs to be returned to a client and as such, I need to make sure the free space has been erased. There is single deleted file that is never overwritten. It is a ...
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Regarding to change the installation folder from %LocalAppData% to %ProgramFiles%
I didn't notice until I looked for Chrome that all my recently installed programs are being installed within %LocalAppData%, which is temporarily hidden by default, and when I tried to install a ...
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BCD error - Windows doesn't start
I have an old Dell Insparion with Windows 7 64bit, with some important files on it.
(I have also access to the current laptop with Windows 11 from which i'm writing).
I was tring to unistall from the ...
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New self-signed TLS certificate on IIS 7.5 and Windows 7 not recognized
TL;DR: I have Win7 and IIS 7.5 with only one website on my PC, which is a dev copy of a site I am developing for a friend. The site has an admin module that requires HTTPS. Pre-Covid, everything ...
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Windows 7 nVidia drivers either don't install, or don't have audio
I am running Windows 7 64 Bit, and currently have no audio. I do not have an audio device named "nVidia High Definition HDMI Output" in device manager, but when I installed drivers for what ...
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