I have a Dell Latitude E6540, Windows 7 Pro SP1; installed programs list includes "Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Software for Bluetooth(R) Technology". If I right-click on that in Control Panel / Programs and Features, I get options for "Change" and "Repair". If I choose "Repair", it operates for a coupl...

What I have tried so farI used 7-zip on Windows 10 to create a WIM file containing a bunch of folders in my home directory, and then moved it to an exte al hard drive over a network. When I tried to extract it later with 7-zip, It would only open it as a zip file with the following contents: _rels d...

As the subject line (plea for help) says, my brand new Corsair RM550x power supply will not boot when there are any peripherals connected to it. Not even just one! When it is connected only to the ATX and CPU on the motherboard, I get a blue power light and the fans all start spinning. This is for a...

Just updated Windows 10 to anniversary update and was very excited about new notification badges, only to find out that they only shown on large taskbar buttons...bummer! Anyone know any work around this limitation? At least for the tray notifications icon. That icon doesn't change size (and area it...

Your dates show the 17th of each month, which I'm guessing is an irrelevant complication. Can we assume you're talking about whole months and not subdividing amounts by fractional months? –xa0fixer1234 12 mins ago I'm guessing you were busy re-entering things manually while I was embedding your orig...

Is there a fast and reliable way to use a device's MAC address to determine if it is currently connected to a network from a Windows PC/Server? If not, then from an Ubuntu server? arp -a doesn't work on its own as the items stay in the cache too long. arp -a combined with clearing the cache every 5 ...

I'm trying to create a bulleted list in MS Word; However I'm facing some issues related to text alignment because I want to write in Arabic (use RTL). What I need is to make bullets appear right and the Arabic text appears left, but no matter what, the bullets will always be displayed on left. What ...

I am looking at these memory specifications for an Intel® Core™ i7-4790K Processor. Specifically I am interested in the following which have these tool-tips. The first seems reasonably clear, but the second does not. Max Memory Size Max memory size refers to the maximum memory capacity (in GB) suppo...

I have taken integers from 1 to 100 as my total population set. Now I generated 5 random numbers (using =randbetween() command) and called it my sample 1. Similarly, I created 200 such samples. Now I changed the number of data points in my sample and increased it to 10 in each sample and again creat...

When using Microsoft Excel it frequently happens that when I click on a cell with the intention of editing it multiple cells below that cell are highlighted. If I ignore the fact that multiple cells have been highlighted and edit the data I get the result I want, but if I wish to copy and paste, all...

I was farting around with dpkg on my recently re-installed system, looking for a way to see which packages took up the most space (which had been an issue previously) and discovered the following: $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Installed-Size}t${Package}n' | sort -nr 158443 linux-image-extra-4.4.0-34-generic...

I have a very specific directory tree on my music library. I would like to count all of the albums, excluding all the subdirectories. For instance, given this directory tree: /music/ /music/Davis, Miles/ (<--1. interpret) /music/Davis, Miles/Kind of Blue/ <--1. album /music/Davis, Miles/Tutu/ <--2. ...

Since upgrading to 1607, i have lost the ability to access a few of my USB drives, most spessifically and urgently, my Garmin Forerunner 15 GPS watch. The motherboard is an ASUS Sabertooth 990fx with the AMD 990FX/SB950 chipset. I have tried the watched plugged in to USB2 and USB3 ports. I have the ...

After upgrading to windows 10 I have this annoying problem. When I use two finger scrolling, the icon that appears during the scrolling gets stuck on screen. After 30-60 minutes of browsing I will have a few of those and the only way to get rid of them is to log out of windows. I have an old Dell XP...

A search engine with two options: 1. make some web search results not appear anymore. 2. make some pictures not appear in the search results anymore. When I search Google web or pictures I want some pictures or web results not to appear anymore in the search results. This could make the search easie...

Not sure if I'm asking the correct question but on our company server I have access to a web service located at: http://site09.lab.mycompany.com:300/MainTripInfov1/TripInfov1. I want to search for other web services on that server. What application or process would I use? I tried Microsoft's Disco a...

I have a database of: File Number, Task Description, Date Completed, Who Completed it. Example: File Task Date Who C1023 Examined Property 01/01/2016 Jack C1023 Typed Property Report 01/02/2016 Sally C1023 Reviewed Report 01/02/2016 Jeff C1023 Sent Report to Client 01/03/2016 Mary C1025 Examined Pro...

About this post : [Find Key of Installed and Activated instance Adobe Acrobat Professional without using 3rd party tools I do not understand the way you enter the coded serial number once you have copy/pasted the java script in the javascript "slate" (sorry but I'm french and have a french firefox 4...

Since updating to the windows 10 anniversary I now have these strange lines of pink around every windows that isn't maximised.I found on Reddit that someone else is having the same issue as me, but there have been no replies to their problem, just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same pr...

I have a system that records video to disk, and sometimes the system has an error. I'm trying to recreate the recording system in the lab, without the actual camera (it's expensive and there aren't any spares), to attempt to replicate the usage patte that causes the error. I'm having trouble taming ...