Would it be possible to write a batch file command to download and install the most recent Visual C++ redistributables onto a users machine during application install? We would prefer not to package them up in our setup file to minimize size, and the easiest solution would be to add on to an existin...

I recently got an e-mail with the title =?utf-8?B? 8J+QtiBZb3UncmUgYSBzdHJvbmcgY2FuZGlkYXRlIGZvciBvdXIgZnV0dXJlLCBQZXRlciDwn4e6 8J+HuA==?= Thinking it might be malware, I ran a check with Malwarebytes, and it came up clean. Is there any legitimate reason for the title to be a nonsensical string of c...

I am considering using TeamViewer to monitor and provide support to a relatively small group of computers. I am a little conce ed with installing any sort of program that would open op our network to the public inte et. Is there a way to make this any safer? It is only going to be used to co ect com...

How can I make every instance of a word, a hyperlink to a file on my computer. I have managed to do it with one instance of the word, but repeating this be time consuming so I am hoping that the program itself can do it. I also would like to use the %windir% and %userprofile% system variables in the...

I've been fiddling around with AWS for the past two days, to see what I can do with it and how it would fit my needs. I've already installed LAMP (I installed WAMP on my own computer a long time ago) and R, Rserver & Shiny server. The instance I ran is Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03.2 (HVM), SSD Volume Ty...

I´m trying to use SpeechRecognition in windows 10 iot RPi3. It recognize commands in English, but now my goal is to make it recognize commands in Spanish. I'm using UWP and actually it executes commands in Spanish in my laptotp, but when I change the language to Spanish in the RPI it doesn´t recogni...

Under settings -> network & inte et I have added a VPN co ection that works on co ect. When I try to disco ect, it disco ects. The problem is trying to reco ect after that. When I click co ect on the Windows 10 VPN entry again it blinks quickly showing "co ecting...", then without error displays the...

If you have Windows 10 installed, there is a good chance that your drive will just workTM with another set of hardware. You can install all drivers that both systems might need. That being said, conflicting drivers might cause unstable system performance. Boot up your system in your new hardware con...

I'm trying to apply conditional formatting to a few hundred rows of data, but I want to keep them separate. Meaning, if I want to coloring cells based on their proximity to the average value, I want that average value to only be computed using data in its particular row. While my data-set was small,...

There is much information here and on the web about merging/combining the data of several spreadsheets into a single one. I want to do something much simpler but ca ot find how. I have several files, say A, B, C, each containing a single Sheet1. I want to group the sheets into a single document, say...

I have four drives in my computer 500 GB HDD ext4 for data 2 TB HDD ntfs for data 250 GB SSD with debian linux 128 GB SSD with windows7 I have windows installed first and later installed debian on the other drive. Grub contains a seperate boot record for windows7 Yesterday I disco ected all drives t...

I today I tried to set google's dns server (8.8.8.8) as my dns but I can't. when I click OK a popup comes out saying "the dns server 8.8.8.8 is not a valid ip address", I'm wondering why, I always used that on other networks. any idea? I'm on windows 10 Let's block ads! (Why?)

i'm trying to figure out how to interpret the the resource and resource<number> files under PCI bus. Let's look at a specific example. Here is what I get when I run lspci -tvvv -[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] +-01.0 Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton ...

I am used to using my windows 10 laptop to co ect to my TV and watch stuff. I do this all the time, however recently the sound has stopped working. To be clear the video works but the sound does not. I have tried another HDMI cable and this does not solve the problem which suggests that its somethin...

I'd like to unsubscribe from one of Microsoft's MCP email feeds, but when I click on "unsubscribe", I'm presented with this this. My first guess is that I just click "Submit" with the checkbox checked, but that's not how most subscription preferences UIs work, and some of my coworkers also disagree....

I've noticed at least 2 of my messaging applications do this, they are not "Metro". But I think the one Metro app I use for messaging also does this, but I can't remember for sure. Problem is simply that I often get notifications many many minutes after they occur. How can I remove this delay? Let's...

Installed Virtual Box then followed this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_DpFhT_euI to install Ubuntu. Everything went smoothly up to 3.15 in the video. Once i ran Ubuntu it would freeze at the logo. After searching for posts with similar issues and attempting to solve the problem as per t...

I am interested to replace my BIOS on my Thinkpad x220, because I want to remove the white list for other wifi cards. At first I was thinking to use a modificated BIOS from one of these russian boards, but I don't trust them. I found out, that it's possible to use coreboot/libreboot. I'm a little bi...

I'm trying to understand the error on Windows 7, "You don't currently have permission to access this folder." The folder is c:windowssystem32tasks, but it could be any system folder. I'm in an Admin account. I open Explorer and check effective permissions on c:windowssystem32tasks for the admin acco...

I've been ru ing into a recurring issue with Gmail where emails are inexplicably deleted, and I can't figure out why. Most of my emails get to my inbox fine (and stay there), but occasionally emails will end up in the trash. For example, I'll be working on my computer and My phone (iPhone) lights up...