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Why can’t I kill a process under Windows 11?
My friend has a Windows 11 laptop with a stuck process. It survives powering off the system. The name of the process is SETUP.EXE, and apparently it came from something he previously installed and ...
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How to restore one-off search behaviour in the search bar in Firefox 149?
Firefox recently updated to version 149 and now it is missing the one-off search buttons that can be seen at the bottom here:
(image from the Mozilla Support pages)
Instead, the search bar now has a ...
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Format a LibreOffice Calc cell to display an improper ("top-heavy") fraction
Normally, when entering =7/4 into a cell, it displays as "1 3/4". I would like it to display as "7/4", while still maintaining the ability to be used in calculations - I don't want ...
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Why can’t I copy and paste on the xrdp login screen on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS?
I can’t copy and paste the password into the textboxes of the xrdp login screen. However, copy and paste works once logged in. I am using Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS.
Is this normal behaviour?
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Why can’t Windows see Ubuntu Linux shares? It has worked in the past
ESXi 6.5
Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
I set up the Ubuntu Server a few years ago.
I was able to work with the files through Explorer and edit them, which was amazing, as Linux does not have the best text ...
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How to change the default viewer for Outlook 2024 Email HTML Source
The default program for "View Source" has been set to the Windows notepad by accident, Notepad++ should be instead the default program. How can be changed/reset this setting - see the below ...
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Why am I experiencing different ping times on WiFi with two devices at the same location?
Have an issue I'm trying to troubleshoot where I have a PC where the PING to router was constantly going to 2000, this was solved by reinstalling the WiFi drivers. However now it fluctuates between 2-...
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Does UEFI support at least 1 EFI partition per drive?
I have a system that has Windows on one internal NVME stick, and Linux on another internal NVME stick, but they're both on separate EFI's on their respective stick. One EFI partition per stick.
Is ...
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Can I force alphabetic sort of subfolders in Thunderbird?
I've just discovered that one subfolder out of a couple of dozen, all within one folder, is not in alphabetical order. The rest of them are. I've seen references to 'types' of subfolders, but have not ...
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Why is a UGREEN USB 2.5G adapter limited to 1G speed?
I have deployed an N150 based Proxmox 9.1.6. home server. To speed up my NAS VM I bought a UGREEN 2.5G USB ethernet adapter. However it only connects at 1G. To my surprise both the interface and the ...
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How to convert years of differential backups to incremental backups?
For several years, I have been backing up a Minecraft server running on Fedora Linux using 7-Zip by creating differential backups based on a full backup from the first of the month. That is to say, on ...
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Why does my Dell Latitude 7430 lose BIOS settings when unused for 2 years?
I have a Dell Latitude 7430 laptop computer. About two years ago, I installed Windows 11 on it with disk encryption enabled. Then I stored it without connecting the charge for a 2-year long duration.
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Why am I getting 10 plus network attacks when playing a game?
So I load up EA to play Madden and within about 5 minutes I have gotten 20+ network attack block notifications from my router and it is showing something unusual and I am unable to find where its ...
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Multi-directional interval reset between event log
Sorry for this fuzzy question, it just came into my mind, I don't know whether there's a correct term for this kind of question.
Let say we have a table of timeline recording types of events:
Event ...
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Why can’t I connect to localhost in Windows 11?
I have Windows 11.
I have problems connecting to local servers.
Python HTTP server
If I run
uv run python -m http.server
Serving HTTP on :: port 8000 (http://[::]:8000/) ...
And then I connect to ...