I am trying to do a clean install of windows 8.1 or windows 10 (newest updates) on a Sony Vaio SVD13217PAB (UEFI mode, GPT disk type). After the installation restarts for the first time in the process, the windows cannot complete the installation and
Is copying between Windows machines secure (encrypted) by default when using either command line (via mapped network drives) or Windows shared folders? If no, is there better way of securely copying a file other than encrypting it before copying? I g
When i am playing any regular video in VLC from youtube the quality remains the same. But when I put in a url for a livestream youtube link the quality drop down to to 480p. Is there a way to maintain the quality? I am eventually trying to extract fr
A program I use (not developed nor maintained by me) uses a ribbon. The ribbon isn't organized as well as it could be, but luckily by editing the ribbon.xml file in the program's installation folder, I can tweak it so it's easier to work with (I've a
I have an M4A file (with an AAC codec) that is presumably stereo, and that only has sound on the right side, as if all the sound is focused on one side. Is it at all possible to balance the sound out in any way, or to replicate the sound on the right
I have some M4A audio files (with an AAC codec) that I need to perform basic trimming operations on. The problem is that, to my understanding, the few programs that support M4A/AAC files trim the files lossily. Some research came up with a few progra
I have an HP HQ TRE71004 with Windows 10. When I plug the charger in, the light on the side of the computer that shows the computer is plugged in. However, windows will not regonize that the charger is plugged in (just shows its running off of the ba
I am mostly an Ubuntu user, I have a Windows 7 Home partition for nothing except: Steam and GOG games Updating the BIOS (if I have to and cannot do so from Ubuntu) Presumably I do not need to keep an antivirus running. But should I still update Windo
Today I noticed on System logs an entry originating from Ntfs, with id #55 notifying that a corruption was discovered on volume "??" (question marks) and the exact nature of the corruption is unknown. I filtered the logs for event #55 and notice
My pc has 2GB RAM and I am working with windows 8.1. When running little bit larger programs it becomes very harder to work as the less space of RAM. Recently I got an idea that help me to overcome that problem. I am going to make a new user account
We are running an HP ProLiant Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and IIS 7.5 on a dual CPU Xeon system (16 cores per CPU). The web site is a ASP.NET 4.5 running in a App-pool using a a classic managed pipeline. When I load test our application only one CPU i
I have a development server running Mysql 5.1 (together with other services). During an urgent cleanup I found, using SequoiaView, two identical mysql data folders. C:\ProgramData\MySQL\etc.... is the directory referenced by my.ini C:\Users\All Users
I have a PDF file that I downloaded in august last year. At that time, I opened it using Adobe Reader and didn't notice anything suspicious. Only today when I opened it in SumatraPDF did I notice that there was an additional last bookmark called "fol
When we don't use internet on windows, can windows or any Laptop vendor can access our Laptop (similar as connected to internet ). If yes, then How ? --------------Solutions------------- Are we anonymous when not connected to internet on windows? It
I am developing an app which has to communicate over PPPoE. I am looking for a gratis PPPoE server with which my client can communicate. Windows or Android, please. MUST be free for commercial use. If Windows, it should be portable as I don't have ad
My Krita interface is all messed up; the dockers are not where they should be, some of them are closed, some aren't, and I don't know what should go where. I want to completely reset my Krita interface so the correct, default dockers are open, in the
For those who don't use a mac, command ` cycles between windows of the same application just like alt tab. I was wondering if there is a windows 10 equivalent ? --------------Solutions------------- Well you could use CTRL + TAB when the window is in
I have several folders shared on a Windows 10 PC. Each has a different user name and password. I would like to have the clients prompted for credentials when they attempt to open the share in the network explorer. I found that disabling the guest acc
I'm working on a Windows 8.1 machine, fully patched, except for the Get Windows X malware. I have Android's SDK installed at C:\android-sdk, but its not on-path. I'm trying to avoid putting 2 SDK directories and 1 NDK directory on-path since it inclu
I installed zpanel 10.1.0 on win server 2012. Accidentally I installed it on my C: drive instead of space from disk array. Is there a way to move it into another drive? Or can I somehow change in options, that new databases will be placed on differen