Does windows ‘reset this pc’ format the drive?
Sorry if this is a stupid question, I tried to find this online but can’t see any answers.When you use windows ‘reset this pc’ does it format the drive, and does it differ if you select the ‘clean the...
View ArticleChanging the size of the audio volume increment of the "volume up" / "volume...
Same as this question but for Windows: How can I adjust by how much the sound volume changes every time I press the volume change keys?I'm on a Windows 7 laptop. It has "volume up" and "volume down"...
View ArticleWhy do Applications Installed through Windows Specific Package Managers seem...
e.g. Vivaldi (WinGet)As shown above --most if not all WinGet apps seem to follow this trend--, certain apps seem to store themselves or their installer|updater as an archive, within themselves. This...
View ArticleOn Windows 10 is it possible to do random wallpaper shuffler at an interval...
I have checked various sites claiming to have instructions on how to set Windows 10 random wallpaper shuffle to a customized time but the instructions never seem to work, and are often a few years...
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Windows 10 - How to reset the network (firewall) permissions for an app so...
Not talking about "how to change my network location".When you first run an app, there is some kind of prompt that has some boxes.How is this managed (is it per app path? what if I rename the path of a...
View ArticleWindows 11 turns screen off instead of going into hibernate
Problem descriptionI've just freshly built a new PC and installed a fresh Windows 11.However I've the problem that when I want it to go into hibernate, it instead keeps everything on (fans, pump, rgb...
View ArticleWindows re-install - striped volume not detected
I've reinstalled Windows (moving from two RAID0 NVMe SSDs to a single NVMe SSD), and I've had two Windows striped volumes (2x 1000 GB SATA SSD, 2x 4000 GB SATA HDD) for data.When reconnecting the disks...
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How to remove WSL directory icon from desktop?
How to remove this?I've tried to remove this icon through WSL. On path /mnt/c/Users there is desktop.ini file, I think that file represents desktop icon of WSL directory. rm -r desktop.ini doesn't work...
View ArticleHow to create iso/image/installation from Windows XP-installation for use VMware
I'm using VMware and want to create a virtual machine with Windows XP. For this I want to use the Windows XP-installation of another computer, I don't have the cd, so I want to create a iso/image (or...
View Articlemake NTFS Junction system hidden on Windows
I'm trying to migrate my user profile to a separate partition, and I've got to the point of adding the compatibility system Junctions to the new profile. However I don't want to see them in my profile...
View ArticleIs an Advapi Logon Process (Event 4624) Always Related to a Web-Based Logon...
I know searching through Event Viewer can be pointless, but I'm seeing a lot of these logons and don't have an IIS server.They're exactly as posted here How to tell which service or task caused a...
View ArticleHow to install windows 11 without recovery partition blocking the way
I wanna fresh install windows 11 and then dualboot it with linux, but when i install windows 11 there's recovery partition automaticaly created and blocking the way of extending volume for linux.How...
View ArticleGetting all the lines containing a specific string from a Text File in windows
I have a text file on my windows machine. I have a matching string. Say "check_time".I need to get all the lines which have these strings and copy them in a separate file. Only the lines matching this...
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When System PID 4 is locking a file or folder, How can I determine what...
(This question is not a duplicate of Find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows I am asking specifically about when PID-4 is locking it (besides the fact that i'm saying without...
View ArticleUncompress bz2 file from command line on Windows
Is there any tool in the Windows command line that allows me to do this? Otherwise, is there any light and portable application that will allow me to?Related question, can I rename .bz2 extension to...
View ArticleTime wrong when dual-booting Windows and Linux
Ever since I started using Linux in dualboot with Windows I noticed that when I rebooted the machine, the time on the other OS was wrong, e.g. it was 12:00 on Linux, then I rebooted and on Windows it...
View ArticleHow do I print a large page on multiple smaller pages?
How can I print a larger page (A3) on multiple (two) smaller pages (A4)?This is sometimes called "poster printing", since the objective is to join the smaller printed pages together to form a larger...
View ArticleTemporarily disabling hardware IO ports for remote connection
I'm using moonlight with sunshine to stream my desktop to my mobile devices for remote access.Is there a way for a script to toggle the all IO ports, except the ethernet, on and off to prevent direct...
View ArticleHow can I change the default shortcut in Windows for closing programs?
I like the close program keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X which is ⌘+Q. Nice and convenient for hand placement. In Windows however, the equivalent shortcut is Alt+F4, a little awkward.Is there a way to...
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How do I make a command line always show in front of another app
let's say I only have one monitor and I open an IDE and a powershell window. I need to type words in the IDE's current tab while watching the conent of the command line.The problem I have is, everytime...
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