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I installed Windows 10 on a physically German keyboard, then installed a Window English software keyboard and bought some little stickers to make my keyboard look OK. However, Windows shows 2 keyboards installed & occasionally toggles back to German. Note that I am not talking about removing a language (which is all that I can find when I Google). How do I remove the German keyboard layout? Answer In Windows 10, on the Control Panel, I chose "Languages". There was a rectangle labelled English and next to it was some text saying "keyboard layout: English, German". I clicked on that box and then there was an option to remove each keyboard. I have searched through every possible selection under Language and Region and this is the only way that I found to remove keyboard.

I would like to use 7-zip to backup a directory, but I would like it to exclude all directories named ".svn" (anywhere in the source tree). Does anybody know if this is possible and in that case how? Answer To exclude all .svn directories you need to add the -xr!?svn\* switch For example the following will create a backup of the C:\Project\To\Backup directory excluding any folders that satisfy ?svn : "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -r -tzip -y -xr!?svn\* Project.zip C:\Project\To\Backup\*

This is a version of Windows XP: Can I paste plain text by default for Mac users. This drives me insane as well. Whenever I cut and paste anything from one app to another in OS X it carries formatting with it. The only exception is when using a text editor like TextMate. I don't want text I copied from a website or Pages to paste with formatting in iChat, etc. Does anyone know a way I can turn this off by default, or is there an app that will do it for me? Thanks for your help. Answer Here you go: http://www.tuaw.com/2009/07/07/tuaw-tip-paste-without-formatting-by-default/

I've been having this issue where every time I scroll in a Windows Explorer window using my touchpad the cursor changes to this weird dot. For a lack of better words it just scrolls funny in explorer as if I'm controlling it with a touchscreen (my computer has this option but I disabled it). I circled what the cursor changes to in red. When I scroll all the way to the top the actual window moves down like it's being pulled from a touch control and it's really frustrating. Not to mention the cursor moves to the center of the window as soon as you start scrolling, so you lose the placement there. I heard this could be related to Windows Flicks but I haven't been able to find anything to remove it while in Windows 8.1 since there is no Flicks tab in the Pen & Touch section of the control panel. Any ideas?

When I'm using the English language in MS-Word 2007, it does indeed use a new dictionary, but the automatic caption names are still in my own language (Dutch). For example: If I use insert caption I see Figuur 1 instead of Figure 1 . How can I configure the captions to use the same language as the base language of the spelling checker? Answer MS-Word itself is supposed to use the "Regional" settings of Windows. You can change this setting for Windows here: Control Panel -> Regional and Language If you don't already have any other languages installed (just as I don't on this particular computer, as pictured above), then you'll need to add one, otherwise there should be a list of language choices there for which you can set the default for Windows.

In terminal, I do this: sudo vi /etc/profile But I get a read-only version. I've never not been able to edit anything as a super user- What's going on?

I have an update to Visual Studio 2010 that will NOT update and has failed hundreds of times. Manually installing it also fails, and no source has been found for manually getting this very old patch to install on Windows 10. I believe the problem is that Microsoft simply hasn't re-tested KB2890573 at all and it doesn't install on Win10 ver 1511 at all, anymore. I do not want to use the MS utility that will postpone this update for a while. I want to permanently block it so it does not appear in the windows update list ever again. Answer There is no other official way to permanently block updates except the Troubleshooter from KB3073930 . There is a 3rd party tool called Windows Update MiniTool which allows to select which updates can be installed and allows to block updates like you could in former Windows versions. An alternative to the standard Windows Update What you can do: • Check for updates • Download updates • Installing Updates • Deleting installed updates • Hiding ...

I got a MacBook Air with a limited SSD HD: 128 GB. The largest software I have is XCode (3.2 GB) and I do have 2 versions of this (4.5 and previou). My iPhoto library has 1.3GB of photos. My dropbox folder 4.3 GB and then I got some other files and folders in the computer. I do have 3 users in total but the other two users do not have any large file in their accounts (they only share Applications with the main user). I have only 3/4 GB of memory available on my HD. How can I find out how my memory is being used? Which folder is taking most of the memory? Is there a way to segment/order the folders based on memory usage?

I've read online before that if you charge your laptop when it is full, it will eventually "wear out" the battery. Is there a way to stop my laptop from accepting any charge when its battery is over 95% full? Answer Your computer's charger and the computer itself will prevent overcharging of the battery. Depending on how your computer's manufacturer set it up, you may actually see it stop charging after 95% or 98%, but most will show it going to 100% and still say charging, even though it is actually running off of the charger but not adding power to the battery. Even with that, battery wear is an inevitable part of using a battery in any fashion. Modern batteries (Li-Ion, LiPo and NiMH) do not suffer from the "memory effect" that plagued earlier (NiCd) batteries. In fact, most actually function better if recharged more frequently and not allowed to discharge all the way every time. Still, all batteries have a limited number of recharges before they ...

When I am using public WiFi to go to a secured site that uses HTTPS, is my data encrypted? Is it a lot more risky than when I am on a secured network ?

Simplifying another question about merging multiple email accounts : I have two maildirs. How do I get a combined listing of both - either in Mutt or NeoMutt? This means where the messages are sorted together in a single view as if the two maildirs had been merged (but without actually merging them). Apparently this can be done with Notmuch ; I'm looking for a minimal example so I can get my feet wet.

So I am currently using Console2 for my command line stuff, the background shell is just the cmd.exe from windows. My problem is that I have the theme set to 'twilight` in vim, and it works perfectly in gVim, but when I run it through the command line, the colours are all messed up. They remain broken even if I use the default Console2 theme or even the twilight theme for Console2. For illustration: This is what should happen: But these are the colours I end up getting instead: What's wrong and how do I fix it? Answer The Windows shell (and with it, the Console2 wrapper) is limited to 16 colors , whereas GVIM can use the full 24-bit RGB palette. Therefore, even with colorscheme support for consoles, there usually are limitations. The best you can achieve is adapt the shell's / Console2's color palette to the (maximum 16) RGB colors used by the twilight color scheme, and then adapt the ctermfg= and ctermbg= entries in the colorscheme to the corresponding indices....

Is it possible to convert/recompile an already compiled x86 binary into an ARM binary? I'm using a BeagleBoard with a command-line Ubuntu (Maverick) and want to run a Ventrilo server but the x86 executable they supply cannot be run on the hardware as far as I can tell (most likely due to differing architecture). Unfortunately I don't have access to the source to allow me to recompile it natively. If not, is there any other way I can get the binary to run (emulation for example)? Answer You may want to switch to an alternative software available natively on your architecture, murmur and mumble come to mind. murmur and mumble homepage

I've created a new WinXP vitual machine on my win7 using VMware player. The VM is using NAT to share the host's Internet connection and when i put http://192.168.163.2/ in IE on VM, i can easily access the localhost on the win7. It's fine to test sites for cross browser compatibility but when i'm going to test my wordpress blog on VM it doesn't load images. I think to solve the problem i need to access wordpress using http://localhost/wordpress NOT http://192.168.174.2/wordpress . I've added an entry to the Windows hosts file, which is located at C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, to map the IP address to a (virtual) server name but it doesn't work: 192.168.163.2 localhost Then i tried this and it works but still doesn't load images: 192.168.163.2 test.localhost What should i do to solve the problem?

You open cmd and type (for example) cd C:\dragons How can you open C:\dragons in the file explorer? Yes, you can use explorer C:\dragons , but that is kinda lame. Let's say I'm in the folder C:\dragons\Red\WhiteCrests\infants , this way just isn't convenient. Already tried explorer dir and explorer path (both of which opens My Documents for some reason), just explorer (opens the Libraries folder), open which is undefined, explorer dirname which gives me that dirname is undefined, and probably other stuff that I can't remember. Thanks in advance. ...Shamelessly adding to the question with a thought I just had, how can you open a file (say C:\dragons\intro.txt) with a specified program? Like, instead of the default one (like Notepad), open it in Notepad++, without using Notepad++'s (if one exists) command line stuff. Something like: cd C:\dragons intro.txt --Notepad++ Answer explorer . will open an Explorer point to the current directory. notepad intro.txt wi...

I was installing Windows 7 using the CD. I have 3 partitions already, and when creating a new partition using the DVD, it says "You cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains maximum number of partitions." How can I create more partitions? Answer Create an extended partition, then you can create logical partitions. I don't know if Windows 7 will install on a logical partition though Explanation: (from Wikipedia - Disk Partitioning ) This section describes the master boot record (MBR) partitioning scheme, as used in DOS, Microsoft Windows and Linux among others on PC compatible computer systems. For examples of partitioning schemes used in other operating systems, see the general article on partition tables. The total data storage space of a PC hard disk can be divided into at most four primary partitions, or alternatively three primary partitions and an extended partition. These partitions are described by 16-byte entries tha...

EDIT4 We now have an answer. Thank you for everyone participating in the test, esp Jamie. Since the answer was deleted, here's the short summary: Win10 introduces memory compression, making this kind of testing difficult and partially pointless. If (on Win8 x64) you try to disable pagefile and write a test app to allocate memory, you'll likely run into allocation fail long before the core is exhausted (Out of CC). What Jamie did was write an app to perform millions of small allocations that did in fact succeed of using every last scrap of ram with no low memory warning . So the mechanism simply does not exist on Win 8 anymore, if you disable pagefile, the first warning you will get is a crash. WRT failing "normal size" memory allocation while having plenty of CC left is probably due to fragmentation. With 8GB or 6GB windows 8.1 x64 machine you get a low memory warning if your free RAM drops below about 20% of the total system RAM amount (1.6GB and 1.2GB, respectively...

I have an excel sheet that looks like this: I want a function that will tell me the percentage of each response. So 36% blue, 27% red, etc. I found this article that shows how to do this kind of thing, but only with a yes/no answer. I want to be able to calculate it, so that if I add another row, and the next person's favourite colour is purple, it will include that in the response. Any suggestions? Answer =COUNTIF($B$2:$B$12,E2)/COUNTA($B$2:$B$12) Countif to count colours CountA to count answers Countif / CountA to have the percentage of each colour $B$2:$B$12 the range of colours E2 the unique value of each colour

I commonly have long terminal commands and whenever I try to use the command history (by pressing the up-arrow) the text formatting becomes all garbled and the cursor appears in the wrong place. At this point editing the command becomes impossible and the actual position of the cursor is not properly represented on the screen. If I resize the terminal window to allows the entire command to fit on one line then the formatting gets corrected but sometimes I don't have enough screen real estate to accomplish this. Any ideas?

I was working in RDP the other night when my keyboard quit working. I am not sure what I did, but I can't seem to get it working again. The keyboard works fine when not in Remote Desktop. Please help!

Is there any way to make Vimperator's hints (link numbers displayed after hitting the f / F key) slightly larger?

I created two partitions on my removable Flash drive, but Windows doesn't recognize the second partition. Both partitions are NTFS and primary partitions. And this image is in disk management on Windows 7. and also with EASEUS Partition Master

I have AutoHotkey set up in a way that is recognises Cmd + Left and Cmd + Right keystrokes as Back / Forward navigation in Chrome. Problem is that it also recognises those keys being pressed while I am entering text in text boxes. However when entering text, I'd would like those key combinations to carry out different function - jump to beginning/end of the line, similar to Ctrl + Left / Right . Is there a way to have one mapping working for text boxes and another mapping for everything else in AutoHotkey?

How do you create equations in Word 2010 that are automatically numbered with the equation number centered vertically on the equation and right justified? While a number of references have discussed the use of three column tables, finding a step by step proceedure kicked my but for some time. Answer You can create a template that can be used to automatically generate the table and equation with number to the right: Insert → Table → 3x1. Right click table → Table Properties . In Table Tab, Check Preferred Width → Percent → 100. In Column Tab, set preferred width to 7%, 86% and 7% for 1st 2nd and 3rd column respectively. These values work well for Times New Roman 12pt equation numbers. (Other percentages will work provided they add up to 100%.) Click Ok . Insert → Equation into center column (type in current equation or placeholder). Click References → Insert Caption . Select Label: Equation Position: Above or Below Adjust numbering as desired. Cut and past number from above ...

I have an external 1Tb harddisk which due to some reason was showing following under df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 0 0 0 - /media/Transcend1T But it has lots of free space remaining. So I took its backup and formatted it with disc utility in Ubuntu. But even after that Inodes still remain zero (it shows same output on df -i ). Is this a problem? Can some filesystems always have zero inodes? Below is the output of fdisk -l on formatted disk. Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0ff10b79 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 64 1953520063 976760000 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Formatting screenshot. I first unmount the HDD and th...

Is there a plugin, macro, or some sort of option for placing tags around selected text after I highlight and begin typing? Answer yes use the "Snippet Plus" Plugin. Then create your snippet and use the function "Surround with". It behaves like the Surround With of Visual Studio.

Imagine a keyboard that lacks Win key. That's easy to emulate - you just press Ctrl Esc . However, on the keyboard I have now, there's no "right mouse" key (or "context menu" key or whatever it might be called - it's usually placed close to AltGr and bears the sign of three horizontal bars or something). I'm very used to pressing that key and not having it around slows me down (not to mention the annoyance aspect). How can I emulate it on this limited keyboard? Answer I think you're looking for Shift + F10 . EDIT: Some smaller keyboards require you to use the Fn key in combination with F1 - F12 to use them. Most of the time you can 'function lock' with Fn + CapsLock or change the default behavior of the F keys in the BIOS.

I'm having a problem where I select a window but it won't come to the foreground. This mostly happens with Chrome, but I've also had it happen with folder windows and other programs. Example . I can fix it for a short while by restarting my computer. At first I thought it was a Chrome problem, so I uninstalled and reinstalled it. However, I'm now noticing it between multiple programs. Anyone have an idea of what's going on? I was able to find some information about this happening on Windows 7. I tried all of those suggestions I could find (most involved editing a registery value. No luck. Answer Are you using Synergy? Update for Microsoft Windows (KB3031432) seems to be the culprit in combination with Synergy... http://synergy.askbot.com/question/838/windows-81-window-focus-problem/

I have a string of text containing item names and artist titles etc. I also have a seperate list of artist names. I am trying to find out how to search the cell to match text from within the list, and then return the specific matched text. As the data is from different sources the formats are different so splitting cells is messy, and I can only seem to return True or False or a specific set text. As I need to understand what has been matched, how can I return that value? Many thanks. Answer With phrases in column A and artists names in column C from C1 through C6 , in B1 enter the Array Formula : =TEXTJOIN(",",TRUE,IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($C$1:$C$6,A1)),$C$1:$C$6,"")) and copy downward. For example: As you see, the artist name is extracted. If there is more than one name in the phrase, then all are extracted. Array formulas must be entered with Ctrl + Shift + Enter rather than just the Enter key. If this is done correctly, the formula will appear with curly b...

I have a VirtualBox instance (running under Mac OS X 10.5) and Windows 7 running in VirtualBox. Everything is otherwise fine, but I cannot understand how to use shared folders. I have added a shared folder in the VM configuration in VirtualBox, but I cannot for the world of me understand how do I access the shared folder in Windows 7. Other instructions seem to talk about the network, and that my VirtualBox should somehow show up in the network and expose shared folders there. But I do not see anything that looks like VirtualBox in the Network in Windows Explorer. What do I look for? Answer Typically it just shows up a fake-virtual-server on the network - you can access it as though you would a file share on some real server. The name is VBOXSVR. \\Vboxsvr\share_name I haven't tested Win7 yet, but I have used this functionality on everything from Win200 through 2003. Do you have the guest additions installed?

When a file is executed, how does Unix search for it? If there are multiple executable files in PATH with the same name, which one is preferred? Is the current directory included in the search when a file is executed? Suppose there is a file with name executable.sh in the current directory. Would that work if it is executed $ executed and . is not part of the PATH ?

When you click on a link in Chrome to go from page x to page y, for a split-second it displays a white empty page. I want to make that page black so it won't hurt my eyes. Now, I'm a fresh graduate of this question: Hack Chrome to show its internal pages with black background As the accepted answer suggests, I've customized my C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets\Custom.css file. It turns out that this file is able to target the split-second loading page! Yay! I was able to make that page black by putting a simple html {background: black} in Custom.css . Problem is... The Custom.css file is applied to all web pages. This means that now I get a black background on all pages, which is something I don't want! (Because I already have an extension that flips the colors, and black flipped becomes white.) My question is: How do I write CSS in Custom.css that targets only the white page that Chrome shows for a split-secon...

Given that the WannaCry ransomware exploit is going around I wanted to check if my computer has the specific security update that should stop the vulnerability - apparently, MS17-010, assuming I'm understanding the vulnerability and that is indeed the right patch. How would one check that detail? Microsoft tries to give some detail but it's gibberish to someone who's not well versed with registry keys (I think I touched them once before to dig out a stubborn virus back when XP was still a thing - that's it.) Other searches give some clues regard command line options but they're not all that clear and I don't like running commands I don't understand. Answer Here is a way to check this for windows 10 (Version 1607): As noted here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4013389/title in section "Windows 10 (all editions)", the security update file name for MS17-010 must be Windows10.0-KB4013429-x64.msu , so the kb number for this patch will be K...

This isn't so much a technical question as it is conceptual. I understand the cryptography used in an SSH key is far stronger than a regular password, but I don't understand why it is considered more secure. Most tutorials I read suggest using SSH key authentication rather than password authentication. But my understanding is that anyone who then has access to a pre-approved client machine will then be able to connect to the server, meaning that the level of security provided by the SSH key is only as strong as the level of security of the physical client machine. For example, if I setup an SSH key on my phone to connect to my home machine, should I lose my phone and someone manages to unlock it, they will be able to connect to my home machine. I know I can then remove the key for my phone from my home machine, but I'm vulnerable until I realise the client device has been lost/breached. Have I misunderstood something, or are those valid concerns? Answer If your SSH servic...

I have a Macro that I found on this site to copy hyperlinks inserted through the ribbon to a different column in another sheet. However, the macro is only working on the first row. I added Do until because i = 7 to 1007 was not making it go to the next . Now it is timing out and it still doesn't work. I'd just use a function for this but it is giving another user problems in Mac, so I'm trying to get around Mac being difficult. I should state that some of the rows on the first sheet are blank. Sub SwapIt() Dim i As Integer i = 7 Do Until i > 1007 Dim newLink As String If Worksheets("Directory").Active = True Then newLink = Worksheets("Modeling Tracker").Range("S" & i).Hyperlinks(1).Address ' Get the old horrible link :) Worksheets("Directory").Range("B" & i).Hyperlinks.Add anchor:=Worksheets("Directory").Range("B" & i), Address:=Worksheets(...

After a recent kernel panic & restart, Spotlight no longer seems to know anything about the files under my /Applications folder. I used to launch Safari.app, Opera.app, Textedit.app, etc via Spotlight as a matter of routine. Now, I get "No results found" for all of them (except Textedit.app, which launches a demo text editor from a Qt installation). The programs are still there & still launch directly from Finder. I've already run disk utility & verified the disk, no issues. I repaired disk permissions, which made several changes, but to no effect. Is there anything else I can do, short of re-installing MacOS? Update: I already verified that "Applications" was still checked in my Spotlight preferences. It was still returning applications located elsewhere (the Qt textedit sample app), so that shouldn't have been the issue. A few hours later it resolved itself; I guess there's a background process running on some interval. Answer To complete...

I am trying get an unused server up and running, it booted fine but i was greeted with the login window and none of the known passwords seem to work. The server I am trying to get to work is not a Domain Controller and has not been used in a long time. OS: Windows 2003 Server R2 Enterprise Edition I tried Ophcrack XP (there is no WinServer version of Ophcrack) - it couldn't locate the partitions with hashes. I tried mounting the partitions myself (#mount /dev/hda*x* /mnt/ntfs) , but it gave me an error saying /dev/hda*x* didn't exist. Next I tried booting into a Ubuntu 10.04.3 LiveCD so that I could install and use chntpw - no go, Ubuntu Live wouldn't boot. Based on what I've read up the following tools may be of help: Windows Password recovery Petter Nordahl-Hagen's Offline NT Password & Registry Editor Openwall's John the Ripper EBCD – Emergency Boot CD - Bootable CD (R)ecovery (I)s (P)ossible Linux rescue system I am hoping that someone here has prior ex...

I have a list of email addresses and names that I'd like to send a mass email to. I would like the email to look something like: From: me@gmail.com To: email@example.com Body: Hi [name], I'm contacting you because... I've gotten emails like this before, but I've never known how to do it. What programs can I use to send an email like this? Preferably, I'd like to somehow use my gmail account. Answer Gmail allows your to create 'groups' of emails. You can then send an email to people within this group. To ensure that each recipient sees only their email address in the To field, add the group only to Bcc when sending the email. Also, put your own address in the To box as if this is left blank some receiving servers (not gmail addresses) will reveal the other addresses.

I seem to be having some odd results when running netdiscover on my home network. From the cable modem to my scanner (skipping a few peripherals), here's the basic layout: The cable modem is connected to our router, which also serves as DHCP server and primary Wi-Fi AP. From there (again, skipping peripherals) the connection goes to a LAN port on another router, which has been stripped of its router roles (DHCP, etc) and acts only as a secondary Wi-Fi AP. My laptop is connected to the secondary AP, running Windows 7 x64. I'm running netdiscover from a virtual machine on my laptop, which is running Backtrack Linux. The virtual machine is connected to my network via a VirtualBox adapter, running in "bridged" mode. The network's addresses are in the 10.0.0.0/8 range of RFC 1918 address space. So, I ran netdiscover on the Backtrack VM. Most of the addresses returned were pretty much as expected, except for two. IP At MAC Address Count Len MAC ...

We've got one single site (intranet site) that doesn't play well with Internet Explorer 10 unless we add it to Internet Explorer's "Compatibility View Settings" . So if you open Internet Explorer and go to the menu Tools -> Compatibility View settings you get a pop up menu like so: If I add the intranet site all is well. However, we need to add this site to everyone's machine in the company. What is the registry key / value I can use so I can add it to our startup script? If you can point me to the registry key then this would save so much time rather than going to each end user PC and doing this. Answer URL’s can be added to Compatibility View List in IE 10 by using the following group policy, User Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Internet Explorer->Compatibility View->Use Policy List of Internet Explorer 7 sites. If you want to enter this information directly in the registry, Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\So...

When typing on the keyboard of my Dell laptop, my palm occasionally slips over the trackpad, moving the cursor to another position in the text or putting focus on another window. I'd like to find a way to automatically disable the trackpad when a mouse plugged in. I tried that : Disable trackpad when mouse is plugged in - Windows 7 Macbook Pro but it doesn't work with my computer. Answer If you can see the Dell TouchPad icon in the System Tray, click on it. In the Dell TouchPad application/control panel, select "Device Select". At the bottom of the window will be a checkbox to disable the touch pad & control stick when an external mouse is present.

I'm running Windows 7 x64. I was looking to add PDF indexing to Windows search and found that when I look at Control Panel, Indexing Options, Advanced, File Types - the file types listing is empty. The condition is referenced in this question , but the solution seems a bit draconian. Any ideas on how to fix this? Answer I am using a PC joined to a domain. The behavior described above happens when I am logged in as a domain user (even onoe with local admin privileged. I found that if I login with a local account I am able to see and manage the indexed file types.

I have the following MOBO https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/RAMPAGE_IV_EXTREME/ and the hardware configuration: Main SSD disk #1 with Ubuntu 18.04 x64 on 6G SATA connector. Main SSD disk #2 with Windows 7 Pro x64 on 6G SATA connector. I use grub bootloader to do dual booting. Four additional identical disks connected to the 3G SATA connectors. I'd like to setup a RAID-10 for the four identical disks so I switch the BIOS from SATA mode AHIC -> RAID (RST) . This triggers the Intel RAID utility that let's me configure the RAID-10 np. However, the result is that Windows 7 crashes and won't boot anymore, the switch from AHIC -> RAID (RST) provokes this. I realize it doesn't have the drivers installed but it won't let me install the drivers beforehand because at that time the drivers don't find the hardware ... like the chicken and the egg problem ... lovely Windows. I have tried installing these drivers before and during the Windows crash without success: ...

I would like to know if it is possible, (not from a legality standpoint, but from a technical standpoint), to run Mac OS X on a Hyper-V VM. This would make testing so much easier as I would not have to go dig up and old Mac or find someone and borrow their laptop. Answer No. Hyper-V is very specific about supported OS's and the generic drivers are very Microsoft specific.

How can I know when my computer running Windows 7 was last restarted? I prefer a solution that doesn't involve searching the event log, but something like wmic or maybe cmd commands. Answer systeminfo command is almost right what you need. On English Windows 7 you can also do: systeminfo | find /i "Boot Time" Or with the help of WMIC : wmic os get lastbootuptime The main difference between Windows 7 and Windows XP that in Windows 7 Microsoft can show only last boot up time. Also in Task Manager:

I recently burned a few cd's and dvd's, mostly documents for clients. So you always get to choose the burning speed, ranging from 2x to 48x normally. So how does this influence the integrity of the data? Also, will it affect documents like excel files more at higher speeds than say a movie? Then you get the 'verify data' function as optional - doesn't it makes sense to verify the data anyway? It should be by default to check or compare. Lastly, does the writing speed in any way, affect the reading speed after the disc was burned? Answer The burning speed affects the integrity of the data quite a lot. It could happen that a disc burnt with 48x speed is not readable properly, or is not readable in some readers, but readable in others, whereas the same data burnt to the same disc with slower speed would be readable everywhere. Other than this effect, there is no difference (so the reading speed will not be affected) - either you can read it or not. Running a verify...

I'm having trouble with my outlook addin x64 for multi user. The installation process works fine, and the addin works correctly, but when I try to uninstall it, I got those three messages box : (english translation: Permission denied on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\WwanSvc) And the addin does not want to unistall. Basically, my problem is the same than this one ( http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4EB922D9.1090903%40mistoll.de&forum_name=wix-users ). The explanation, apparently, comes from a registry key that refers [TARGETDIR], but I need it ! The guilty key content is : [TARGETDIR]/myaddin.vsto|vstolocal. I tried adding 'file:///' (as suggested here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13070586/create-registry-in-both-wow6432node-and-normal-hive ), but then : the addin does not work the uninstallation process "works", but still shows another message box (the same than the first one, but on another registry key)...

What is the command line for Indexing Options? I very much enjoyed reading all five pages of Useful Commandline Commands on Windows . But I still cannot find the console command for Indexing Options. I have this little, free system tray app called UriTree that stores these things in an OPML file---so having as many of these command-line tricks as possible helps me personally. Anyway, here is the screenshot of the applet that I cannot call from the command-line: Answer Type Windows + R , the then run the command: rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL srchadmin.dll I have only tried this on Windows Vista.

Brief Intro : Computer, one fine day, started randomly restarting. No pattern seen. Occurs anywhere between 1 to 8-9 times a day, usually 2-5. Can go 2-3 days between occurrences. Restart does not involve BSOD. Event logs offer no hints. Temps aren't high - has happened during idle load. Details below, and in my first Q. This Q follows up Computer irregularly restarts - what should service centre look for? As of now, the motherboard has just been replaced by Gigabyte. CPU has been replaced, RAM has been replaced, but the problem of random reboots continues. Below is a crude graphical guide to the permutations in which restarts have occurred. Key : WP = Main or Wall Power source IP = Intermediate Power Source a.k.a UPS PSU = Computer Power Supply Unit - Corsair 550M Cs = Computer case/cabinet MB = Motherboard GA-H97-D3H RAM - RC = 2x Corsair 4GB DDR3 1333 RK1 = 1x Kingston 8GB DDR3 1600 RK2 = 2x Kingston 8GB DDR3 1866 CPU = i5-4440 HDDs = WD 1TB Win 7 + Seagate 2TB Open...

On the Windows platform, most large applications come with their own installer which sets up folders under C:\Program Files , possibly some other places, and perhaps adding some registry keys, etc. But there's still quite a few tools around that consist of just an .exe or maybe also a README and a .dll or two. How should I install such tools? Directly in C:\Program Files ? All in one subfolder under C:\Program Files ? Somewhere under C:\Users\Me ? Somewhere totally different? Or maybe different approaches for the tools with just an .exe to those that also have other files, or maybe only the ones with .dll s need to be treated differenty ... Is there any standard accepted way to do this? A "best practice"? If the answer depends on the Windows version, I'm using Windows 7. In particular, what might strike people as the obvious answer seems to have a catch: I had tried to manually create new subfolders under C:\Program Files . In fact I thought I had done so before, ...

A background process/program steals focus from my currently active application. It disturbs me a lot when I type in an app or control an app using keyboard or play online flash games in full-screen. I want to remove this program from my PC, but I'm unable to detect it. I've analyzed all processes & scanned for viruses. All things are right from this side. I don't want to change focus behavior using registry tweak. Please, help me detecting that app.. Answer The problem has been fixed. At a time of focus stealing, I pressed Alt + F4 and instantly spotted exiting process from Process Explorer . Note: Windows Process Explorer can be downloaded as part of Windows Sysinternals library. update: theres's any nice pogramm showing/logging, what process has focus: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/dee98b15-0540-4975-b38d-ce3d2ee87c30/figuring-out-whats-stealing-window-focus may this helps as well http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windowsxp/ht/stealingfocu...

I have a 13" laptop that I want to connect to my new samsung smart station. Earlier today, it worked and the monitor were found by the windows7 control panel called "set up computer to multiple monitor". Then a screenshot would like like this But now, having plugged in and out the cables on my smart station, the "set up computer to multiple monitor" did not find my samsung screen. As a consequence, now I can see a mirror of my laptops screen, previously the laptop was blank. More importantly, the screen is blurry. Here is a screen shot https://www.dropbox.com/s/ywlkmxt6h5yusze/Screenshot%202014-05-06%2016.40.34.png As a side note, the mouse is not recognized by the samsung. I also see now, if you compare the first and second screen shot, that the menu bar has changed. It's supposed to be black. I guess some software made it blue. Edit: no it's back to normal again, it was some intel sofware causing it. EDIT I got the error message called blueScreen P...

How can I get Skype 7.x to work on Windows 10? It's currently disabled and will not work anymore, forcing me to "downgrade" to 8.x or the "Modern" Windows app. If I do this, I will no longer be able to reliably maintain a great history, or use an external database app to easily query past messages.

IS there a download manager for Mac OS X that allows me to interrupt and resume large downloads? (I'm trying to download the Apple Developer Tools update, but a 3+ GB file size seldom plays nicely with my internet connection. EDIT: I prefer a free solution if possible. EDIT2: I need it to be able to download from the Apple Developer site, which requires authentication. The downloads there are huge - my bandwidth isn't. Using Folx and authentication, I successfully downloaded ... drumroll please ... an intermediate HTML file. Answer I highly recommended using iGetter it was much better than other one. But also you can use Besides, if you using terminal and install package I recommended that go for AXEL I myself use this one. after installation is complete you can use blow commend to do what you want. axel -n 100 -s 5242880 "your download link" The -n 100 show the number of your connection to the server and the -s 5242880 use for limiting the speed,-s 5242880 in abo...

I've been over this more than 10 times now, but I still can't seem to get the .p12 file I need to publish my app. On the developer platform from Apple, I already have a development certificate. I'd download that and have it in my finder: I'd double click to open it and this would open my keychain access to show me the certificate: I noticed that I can't collapse the certificate to find the private key. Also did I notice that my certificate is located in the Certificates folder and not in the My Certificates folder. So whenever I rightclick the certificate and try to export it, I'll only get the option to export a .cer, .pem or .p7b file. What am I doing wrong here and how can I get my .p12 file? Answer You need the private key corresponding to the certificate; without that, you cannot create a .p12 file or use the certificate to sign your app. The private key is not included in a .cer file, and it's impractical to compute it from anything in the .cer file....

I'm in RHEL 6 with bash as my default shell. I have a script called startServers I made a startServers.desktop file which I put on my desktop so I can have the convenience of clicking on an icon to start the script. It works fine. Some friends want to use my script. They too are on RHEL 6, but their default shell is CSH. When I click on "properties" for startServers.desktop I have a text field called "Commands" that is just /pathtofile/startServers Can I alter that field so that double clicking on the icon sends the command to bash instead of CSH ? Something like bash /pathtofile/startServers ? Thanks

I have a desktop that I don't use that much (mostly for burning CD's and stuff). I logged on and wanted to search for a program only to realize that the W S A and D keys are swapped with the arrow keys. For example: If I'm in Notepad, and I press the Left Arrow key, it's going to type 'D'. If I press the D key, it's going to scroll right and whatnot. How can I solve this?

I have problem with Windows 10 start up menu. I visited this page https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12385/windows-10-troubleshoot-problems-opening-start-menu-cortana and tried the troubleshooter. It says Required applications are not installed correctly. "Microsoft.Windows.ShellExperienceHost" and "Microsoft.Windows.Cortana" applications need to be installed correctly. Troubleshooter did not fix these problems. Can someone tell me how to install these applications manually?

What steps do you take to find missing mystery drivers? I.e. You have new machine, and after installing a new OS, the audio or video or memory card reader doesn't work. How do you find the correct drivers?

In all windowses before 10 I could just pull the taskbar up and I could see which day it is: But when doing that in Windows 10 it doesn't work: How can I get my weekday back without having to hover over the clock? Answer You can use https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock for this, it provides many other options beside custom formats for the clock

I have installed Office 2010 Professional Plus Beta trial (x64 version) from MSFT site. Every thing worked fine initially. But after I rebooted machine (Win7 x64), and started Outlook 2010, i see an error dialog that I am not in a "corporate network" and the product could not be activated. I am not in a corporate network. I would like to use Office 2010 on my home network. How do I get around the Product Activation issue?

My ffmpeg comes with some ffpreset files: $ ls /usr/share/ffmpeg libvpx-1080p.ffpreset libvpx-360p.ffpreset libvpx-720p50_60.ffpreset libvpx-1080p50_60.ffpreset libvpx-720p.ffpreset I'm wondering how can I use them, i.e., specifying different preset files from the command line, and if I can customize them at all? In https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FFmpeg , it says, For "using preset files, enable the -vpre option after declaring the desired -vcodec ". I don't quite understand what it is saying, and what exactly to do. But somewhere above it, at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FFmpeg#x265 , using the preset is like this instead: ffmpeg -i input -c:v libx265 -aspect 1920:1080 -preset veryslow -x265-params crf 20 output Where can I find the meaning of this veryslow , and other similar options as such? Thanks Answer Instead of reading the Arch Wiki, rather check the ffmpeg documentation on the preset options . All should be explained there. Note that ...