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I've inherited an old PC from my girlfriend's dad and when setting up the printer I got a bit of a surprise:
Two questions spring to mind here:
Why does Windows think my wireless keyboard is a toaster?
Why does Windows even have an icon for a…
In Windows 7, when I start the Command prompt, is there any command to display the contents of an environment variable (such as the JAVA_HOME or PATH variables)?
I have tried with echo $PATH, echo PATH and $PATH but none of these work.
I installed Windows 7 fresh and installed SP1. Now, when I try to check manually for Windows Updates it just hangs on the Checking for updates screen.
I tried running the tools in How do I reset Windows Update components?, but this did not fix the…
I remembered that I used a tool called as where to find locations for any executable programs like this in a console:
C:\Tmp\Where myTool.exe
C:\Program Files\MyApp\myTools.exe
....
Now I cannot find this tool. Not sure if Windows has a build-in…
I have downloaded and installed the newest virtualbox 4.3.20 for my Windows 7 (64-bit OS), but when I want to install 64-bit Linux, the New->Create Virtual Machine only displays 32-bit option, no 64-bit option. Could anyone give any clues about this…
Periodically when I select a menu command, the label or selected option gets "stuck" on screen and won't go away. I can close all open applications, including whichever one I was using when it got stuck, but it still won't go away.
In the…
We are having trouble adding our batch scripts to the Windows 7, 8 or 10 taskbar or start menu.
Our batchfiles take some arguments and just execute other application based on those arguments .
To keep it simple, we created some shortcuts for our…
Is there a way to make a mouse scroll wheel invert its direction? I'd like to scroll upwards and have that action scroll downwards and vice-versa. There is no setting on the Mouse control panel that makes this possible.
Any pointers to a hack or a…
Ok, so for my PC class I have to find 3 hacks that would mess up the lab's PC. Me and my partner are going to mess up the PC and then another team will try to fix it. The system on it is Windows 7. Anything that would stop the normal use or render…
I'm using windows 7 on a laptop. On the laptop keyboard, for some reason, the quote key (which has both double and single quote on it) is doing some "clever" annoying things:
When I press single-quote (or double-quote), windows doesn't send any…
Is there a command prompt grep equivalent for Windows 7? That is, I want to filter out the results of a command:
Bash use:
ls | grep root
What would it be from a Windows command prompt?
I can open them in browser just OK, but how can I have thumbnails in the Windows Explorer?
Edit: I installed Renesis Player as suggested by this answer, but it does not work for me, probably because I have 64-bit system.
Is there a way to set two different background pictures for my two monitors in Windows 7?
By default the same background picture is used for both displays. I am looking for a solution without installing extra software.
