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I have recently come into possession of 2 second hand Fujitsu RX series servers, and this issue is driving me nuts! When I got them neither had disks, so I popped some disks in and installed a Win Server 2019 hyper-v service. So both servers have entirely clean and activated …

I am having a problem printing on a home network. The printer (Epson Stylus Color D68 inkjet) is connected by USB to a desktop and is also installed as a shared printer on a laptop. The network is set up and running properly - the laptop can connect to the …

After the latest MS update (22) My bluetooth quit functioning. The icon is there and it is available in settings. The problem is it will not pair with any external bluetooth devices. It will search but never connects with anything ie; keyboards, mice, earphones. Microsoft support could not fix it. …

I’m trying to find a way, either with Excel or another program, to find out what combination of numbers will equal a predetermined sum. I’ve tried Excel Help and the internet, and it appears possible, but all the examples are far more complicated than what I’m trying to do and …

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Hello I have moved Windows 10 default created folders like "Documents", "Music", "Pictures" etc. to my E partition, and would like to know whether I can safely format the C partition and reinstall Windows without losing data in these folders, or do I need to backup all these folders again …

Hello. I'm tring to burn an ISO to a DVD (Windows 10 installation disc). But all the burning programs tell me that somethingis wrong, for example "Mediadetectie mislukt" which means "Media detection failed" and other programs keep the "burn" button gray. Is there something I can do?

How to make more than one change in windows registry with this code? How to add more DWORD keys and values? #include <Windows.h> #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() LONG IReg; HKEY hKey; DWORD dwData = 6; IReg = RegCreateKeyEx ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, L"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Multimedia\\SystemProfile\\Tasks\\Games", 0, NULL, REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE, KEY_ALL_ACCESS | …

I've been trying to find a way to filter the Event Viewer in Windows by the description instead of the event type/source etc. I figure that i need to use the XML tab to customise it as there is no option in the basic filtering for what I want. One …

I want to make a reg file to automatically change the key KMD_EnableBrightnessInterface2 from 1 to 0 in the following string. This way I can use it on another computer. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ ControlSet001 \ Control\Class \ {4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318} \ 0000 \KMD_EnableBrightnessInterface2 The folder 0000 contains many key values. I …

Can anyone recommend a free flv to avi converter? There is a lot of free software out there so I have choices but can anyone recommend one that is free of trojans, viruses, malware, etc.? I've already got the DivX codec and converter but the DivX converter will not do …

So I have this 1TB external hard drive that I use for my games. It was working fine uptill about a week ago. I opened my laptop like normal, it did its startup stuff and everything was looking good untill I went to play DOOM Eternal. An error poped up …

Ok this is a weird one and its been ongoing for many months, wondering if anyone has any ideas. We have 10-15 office 365 exchange email accounts and they all work perfectly fine apart from one account on one device. This particular account has intermittent issues with sending and emails …

Ok. This might be a little long winded but i will try to give as much information as possilbe. I started with Office 2003 and then tried the 2007 Student trial version. When it expired I could not get it to uninstall so I dealt with the annoying problem until …

why, on windows 10, some touchpad drivers(even updated by windows) don't activate the vertical\horizontal scrool move.... i have them activated, but don't work.... when i use the finger, instead scrool, the move moves.. yes i have seen the scrool area. how can i fix the problem?

I have a 4 GB Transcend pen drive. I want to install the OS windows XP in the hard disk. In BIOS settings i set to first boot from usb. I want to use my pendrive to install XP. How can i make my pendrive botable? So that i can …

My wife got a VeryfitPro fitness monitor for Christmas. I have the app loaded on my Android (6) phone and was hoping to install a companion app on my Windows 10 laptop but the only thing available is to install an Android emulator on Windows 10 then load the phone …

I am working on my company's ledger and my accounts department need a search ledger by COA id with from date to date. I am able to find the record from date to date but when I write the code for COA ID, then it ignore the date formula. Below …

I bought two refurbished (?) HP SFF computers from Amazon. They were older computers fitted with Win10 Pro. I have been pleased with my purchases. I developed a problem with one of the computers that I could not correct. A system restore would have corrected the problem, but I could …

My workaday laptop is now an Acer Predator which while being very nice and all started to boot up with Windows Sticky Keys enabled. Now being a long time Windows user I went to the usual control panel, turned it off but it turned back on if the machine was …

What is the best/easiest way to add a directory to 'Path' when starting a CMD (MS-DOS) window? It used to be possible to do this with an AUTOEXEC.BAT file in XP.

I have a small application written using javascript (NodeJS). How can I run it as an executable file?

Hi, I am using Windows 10 and there is a lot of space in my system. But still its working too slow. Any app could take several minutes to open and even any website. also while I was try using any app it shows me message that, "App not responding". …

Can not create a dvd dl in windows 10 only a dvd or cd since the april 2018 windows update

Hello, I have a PC at the office, which was by default a Windows 8 Pro OEM licensed one (not 8.1), but for some unknown reasons, it was downgraded to Windows 7 Pro, which is again showing "OEM" in the activation Product ID. I would like to format and perform …

Recently Thunderbird asked me to login again for Gmail. It presents me a form in which I have to insert the password. It is the same form as when I login to my Google account via my browser. Only the NEXT button does not work. Do you have an idea …

Hi I have a question? If you dump the RAM "internal memory" with dd to an image file, you get everything in memory or Will something be missing?

My brother has a Windows 10 laptop. I use Linux so I'm a little out of the loop when it comes to Windows. He's having problems and wants me to wipe it out and re-install it. Will I need to load the OS onto a USB drive first? If so …

Yesterday I followed a thread trying to learn to lock file folders using the cacls in the command window. I thought I'd use the temp file folder as my target, thinking that it was the most innocent folder I had. I was able to lock it, but now I can't …

It's just awful... I saved the document 20 minutes ago. Just my CorelDraw X4 took off leaving me no hope of saving. Opened a backup, it was even stupidly empty. Opened the file itself and the worst expectations were met, I returned with my mountain project on several levels ago. …

Hello, Need some suggestions on how to combine 2 Windows 7 ISO files (one is x86 and other is x64), into one single bootable ISO file which can then be burnt on a DVD-R or Dual Layer DVD, and even on USB afterwards. Thanks.

Hi, I am currently facing an issue after upgrading a Windows 7 Pro (OEM Edition) to Windows 10 Pro following updates provided by Microsoft, whereby while checking my activation status, I found the following message: "Connect to the internet to activate Windows" I tried to activate it manually from the …

Hello there :), i have bunch of pictures which the title is like this `Name-LastName-year-category-....` what i want to do is sort them all in folders which will have only their `Name-LastName` and all pics with that name go in that folder. Is there some tool for this job to …

I have a serious problem with my new laptop i have installed clean copy of windows 7 on in and it runs okay but now i cannot connect it to the internet without drivers i tried so many things but no help please if you have any method how i …

Trying to pipe data into FINDSTR, but I'm getting whole lines and not the matching substrings. Have I asked this one before? Let's say the data takes the form of BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH "GOOD UNIQUE DATA" BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH "SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT GOOD UNIQUE DATA" …

I cannot access the serial port, COM1:. I used to be able to but now any app, such as Hyperterminal, that tries to open COM1: puts up a small info window that says "Unable to open COM1. Please check your port settings." Any idea what might be causing this? According …

Hi all, I'm trying to give a user access to a shared calendar (that the rest of her team have access to already) but I can't figure it out. The calendar was originally set up by a staff member that has left so I'm in the dark with it. What …

Hi All, Wife's computer just had a crash. Dell Inspiron N5040. I got the disks from Dell and reinstalled the system on a new HD. Starting the recovery process by putting things back in place. I use FF for her browser. Going into AOL and choosing mail and entering the …

Hello I have a Windows 10 Pro (v.1511 - x64) PC, whereby in the "Update & Security" window it shows that updates are available, for example "Definition update for Windows Defender", "Security update for ASP.NET..." and so on, but it does not download the update at any point in time. …

This is not really an issue, just more of an information gathering. I've read in many places to go to this location to change the Shell Interface icons in Windows XP... ""HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\explorer\Shell Icons"" My main question is though, where is the "Shell Icons" item in the registry? Every time …

Ok folks, I rarely log in to ask questions so forgive me if I'm in the wrong category. Ok, the pc is a laptop (HP Elitebook 8460p, i5-2520m CPU 2.50GHz, 4GB RAM, Crucial 240GB SSD) running Win 7 Pro 64. Now I've scoured the net and can't find a single …

When I quit for the day on my PC I always used "sleep" instead of shutdown. The monitor would go black and after a few seconds the power would shut down. That was normal. Now when I tell it to sleep the monitor goes black, the PC never powers down …

Has anyone used the Stylish extension for FireFox ? I can't get a style to effect an absolute URL and any and all pages within a absolute URL ?

I've tried everything, including running bootrec numerous times and I can't boot into Windows10. It started when I came home and noticed Windows was informing me I was missing my boot master. Everything was working wonderfully yesterday, what happened I have not a clue. Using Windows10 installation disc I was …

Hie i recently updated my Active Directory from 2008 to win server 2012 r2. The challenge i now have is how to edit the group policy object Proxy GPO settings as i would want to add/configure new internet proxy exceptions. How can I easily modify/configure these internet proxy exceptions in …

Hi, Wondering if you lovely people can help me; my career goal is to succeed in IT but due to family issues I had to drop out of my degree. With this being networking and dealing with Microsoft Windows Server I would love to complete the MCSA. However, in a …

I am currently living in California and I periodically RDP to my home computer in NY. I'm not quite sure how this happened, but from the last time I logged in a few days ago, to today, my user account has been mysteriously deleted?! Perhaps Windows Update did something flaky? …

On my wife's laptop I'm trying to stop it using Windows Update by switching on metered connection. But there doesn't appear to be that option. When I go to Settings - Network & Internet - Wi-Fi, there is no advanced settings to click on and find metered connection. Here is …

Hello. I've recently upgraded a Windows 8.1 Pro (OEM) to Windows 10 using the Media Creation tool since I was not getting the GWX icon. Activation has been successful from the OEM key. However, there were some registry issues from the Win 8.1 install itself, and these are still present …

Good day I am experiencing issues with Microsoft Excel 2013 32- bit running on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Whenever I start Excel or switch to it from another program the following error message pops up: "An unexpected error occured: Object reference not set to an instance of an object" To …