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Not able to install Windows 10 on oracle virtual box
I have installed ORACLE virtual box in Windows 7 machine and created a VM for windows10 technical preview with the following settings:Guest:iso: Windows10_TechnicalPreview_x64_EN-US_9926Machine...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 missing WinRE.wim in WinPE
I'm trying to pull a Windows 8.1 .wim file down to a laptop (the same laptop that was the source of the .wim), and am following these directions from MS. Everything works until...
View ArticleWindows SSH server refuses key based authentication from client
On Windows 10 1809, I have enabled the in-built SSH server, and have configured it. On another machine, I have used WinSCP and PuTTy generator to generate an authentication key. I copied the public key...
View ArticleHorizontal scrolling shortcut in Windows
In Os X, I can hold Shift while using the scroll wheel on the mouse to scroll horizontally instead of vertically. Is there a way to do something similar in Windows?
View ArticleLibvirt/QEMU using real drive, showing virtual data in VM
I'm using a real drive as my windows 11 VM drive in libvirt using QEMU. This is working fine, however, when I open task manager, the drive shows as "QEMU HARDDISK", and shows up as an HDD (the drive is...
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A blank C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe keeps popping up.. R for windows Front-End
I'm using Windows 10 Pro. Every 20 - 30 seconds I notice a cmd.exe window that pops up briefly, takes focus away from my cursor and then disappears. This starts to happen shortly after I log in and...
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How do I load a local whatsapp backup on my desktop, without interfering with...
How do I load a local whatsapp backup on my desktop, without interfering with Whatsapp? (So e.g. perhaps via a third party program)I made a copy of whatsapp following instructions on this android...
View ArticleWindows: SSL/TLS connection reset after ClientHello (ECONNRESET /...
I'm using Windows Server 2012 as a workstation. The problem is that HTTPS connection initiated by node.js randomly fails. Probably this is system-wide issue and not only node is affected, but it...
View Article'copy' always leaves a blank line at the end of a file. Why?
When I use the DOS Copy command to copy multiple files into one file the result always has an extra blank line (cursor return line feed) at the end. How do I avoid creating this blank line?
View Article" for in DOS / Windows console? (cmd.exe)">What is "2>" for in DOS / Windows console? (cmd.exe)
I've seen the following line in a .cmd file:ren fileA fileB 2> nulI know what ">nul" is for (to prevent any output from appearing), but what is "2> nul" for?
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How do I correctly configure TFTP server tftpd64?
I have followed these instructions for installing tftpd64 on my 64 bit Windows 10 OS: http://www.tricksguide.com/how-to-setup-a-tftp-server-tftpd32-windows.html#comment-84949When I do this I get an...
View ArticleHow to enable the WMI service on many machines to find MS-Office licenses...
I installed the Volume Activation Management Tool 2.0 from Microsoft to scan all the computers on my network to find out how many valid MS Office licenses we have installed on all of the machines....
View ArticleFailed to boot windows 10 after resizing voume
I have a late 2013 iMac dual booting windows bootcamp and iOS 11 with the rEFInd boot manager. I ran out of space in the boot camp partition, so I got gparted live on an USB to resize the volume. Since...
View ArticleMaking switching between Ubuntu and Windows faster
Do you know a way to make switching between Windows and Linux faster?I have a dual boot set-up were I am using Ubuntu as a dev environment and that's great l!But unfortunately I also need Skype for...
View ArticleHigh "System" CPU usage; unaccounted for Memory usage
I fresh reinstalled Windows 11 a couple months back, and for a while now it seems like there's some sort of memory leak (?) that causes high CPU usage by the "System" process, high memory usage, and...
View Articleis there a tool I can use that will show me the size of directories visually?...
Possible Duplicate:How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?I was listening to the StackExchange podcast (either 28 or 29) and Jeff briefly mentioned a tool that you could use to see the...
View ArticleHow to make boot menu always appear without pressing F11
How do I make boot menu appear without pressing f11 every time? I switch between operating systems like few times a day, which makes it annoying having to press it all the time. I have a MSI...
View ArticleService startup issue in windows, how to troubleshoot?
The service is written to start automatically and usually it does so. But at some case service fails to start on machine boot up.What are all the possible cases will this occur?For now, I know I could...
View ArticleHow do I get windows to ignore security level and connect to the internet
Sometimes when I try to connect to hotel wifi, Windows tells me that it is at a lower security level that is due to be phased out. It then cleverly offers me help on what to do but when I click on the...
View ArticleWindows 7 / SMB2 slow network copy performance
Troubleshooting a tricky performance problem and wondering if this behavior is normal/expected.This seems to be related to SMB2, as switching to SMB1 resolves things. The question is whether this is...
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