I am using VPN and I don't want my local time info to be accessible. I am using windows 10 and chrome broswer. I can change the local system time but I am looking for another alte ative.

I have a directory of videos that I need to fit within 29.3GB. The videos take up 34.4GB. How can I use ffmpeg to decrease the size of all videos by 15%? I looked at the options and it provides an option for setting the bit rate, but they are different qualities. I wouldn't want a low quality video ...

I have 3 virtual machines on Virtualbox co ected to three different host-only networks in one Host, and 3 virtual machines on Virtualbox on another host with same configuration host-only networks. How can I co ect two hosts host only networks such that all VMs should communicate? Let's block ads! (W...

I am looking for a way to tu my screensaver on immediately, or tu off the screen, either when I lock the screen (CTRL-L) or by clicking on something on the desktop. I have located MonitorES as a possible solution, but it appears to be somewhat out of date and I am conce ed it does not support Window...

Today I was browsing the inte et on my 2012 MacBook pro, and it suddenly tu ed off. I then noticed the co er of a small plastic baggie (from a RadioShack part) sticking out of the split between the screen hinge and metal chassis. The baggie co er had somehow found its way through the slit on the bot...

I'm attempting to forward port 9000 (custom SSH port) to one of my machines. I've set up a static local IP address and a port forwarding rule in the router settings, but I'm just getting "co ection timed out" every time. I can login to SSH on the local network so I know that's fine. I've rebooted th...

I have here an experimental Windows7 system which interco ects two ethe et segments with network bridging. It works like charm, but... it substitutes the MAC addresses of the forwarded packets with its own. This is not a bridge function, looks much more like an arp proxying router. More exactly: seg...

I have two excel sheets, both are linked. one is input sheet and another one is output sheet. the data entered in input sheet updates on output sheet automatically as both are linked (both sheets are in same folder on same computer). What I want is input sheet should be in one computer and output sh...

There is a nice dialog that helps to search for Active Directory groups in Windows called Find Users, Contacts, and Groups. Unfortunately, I only know how to open it with this command: Rundll32 dsquery.dll OpenQueryWindow. Is this dialog available from the Start Menu or Control Panel? I ca ot find i...

I'm asking this question because I got curious about an email I'm sending from the office with Outlook using the Delay delivery option. When I searched for that mail at home to modify it on Outlook, I couldn't find it. Are emails stuck inside the Outbox folder (as is the case of a Delay delivery ema...

I am going on to Spain for three weeks, during my stay there I have responsibilities I will have to remote to my computer at the office for. Is this possible? Also can I remote in from public inte et? I have no contacts in Spain that would be able to answer this question. Can you help answer? Thank ...

So converting a new extension into a mode office, going to have speaker in ceiling and what not, but my question is this, how to plan the LAN network installation within my walls. Here is the background info- Virgin Media UK fibre optic cable going under my living room floor boards to the office rea...

This might be a bit of weird question but maybe someone can help me out here. My phone was stolen and I am trying to investigate. I have gathered a little bit of information and I am wondering if I can make any meaningful conclusions based on what I know. Shortly after my phone was stolen, the thief...

If you have no extensions installed in Firefox or no other plug-in that may increase Firefox's load time, you probably will not notice this. However, with my approximately two-dozen extensions, there's significant load time — at least relative to loading with none. I have an AHK script that includes...

I'm having trouble with an operation that I believe is limited by the shear size of the data - the operation is a merge and filtration of two Excel workbooks, each with over 1 million rows. Perhaps there's someone willing exercise some mastery here to help me understand the route I should take here....

I have a legacy application that when ported to this new HP desktop exhibits performance errors. I need to disable hyper-threading on this desktop. It has an Intel I5-4095 quad core processor. The BIOS that I'm getting into actually seems like some sort of set up tool. There are no processor or perf...

So I am creating a Master Template Document for my business for all of their documents they have to fill out for a Project. The idea is simple, each document has header information such as author, date, project name etc. I want all this header information on the first page of the template so that wh...

I would like to use multiple network profiles, with their own cookies, history, etc. The goal is to use easily different network logins for different sites simultaneously. How is it possible? P.s. Doing that on the Stackexchange is officially allowed. Let's block ads! (Why?)

I'm setting up a flash drive that someone else has to use for both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04. Both contain programs for each OS. However, I ca ot set the execute flag on Linux, so I ca ot run any programs from the flash drive on Linux. I'll check the option only for it to uncheck itself a second l...

I have access to my account through live login and my Windows 10 pin but I need to log in from safe mode to reinstall my video drivers in a clean ma er. To access this account in safe mode I would need to use a proper local password. Between using pins to log into my devices and Microsoft's constant...