Turn off HyperThreading without BIOS
I need to tu off HyperThreading from my i5-3210 notebook since it hinders my IDE performance. My i3 took about 10+ seconds from compile to run in my Android VM, same code runs in my AMD in about 10 seconds, while it took about 6 minutes in i5. I am sure the problem lies on i5's HyperThreading, becau...
Excel (.xlsx) - SUMIF when two conditions need to be met
Say I have countries, values and status of the value and I want to sum the values when they relate to a particular country and are "Approved", what is the formula I would use? Column A-C is the data and E-F is the total/summary. "FORMULA" is where I would like the formula to go. DATA A B C D E 1 Cou...
Windows 10 not releasing Processes
For the past month i have been going crazy as to why my Render systems where crashing, logs looked normal, or, they didn't have any particular errors relating to the crashes. the last week i have been searching for a temporary solution until i swap them to linux, i was looking for a way of automatin...
Notification on the tip of the screen whenever a song changes
After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10, whenever a song starts (or changes if I play a playlist) I get a notification on the top of the screen. This happens only when I use Aimp and Windows 10 (didn't have this issue with Aimp on Windows 7). I have disabled the notification center, but that di...
Creating chart in microsoft word from existing table in it
I have a CRM template word file I have a table in it, which will be dynamically generated How can I draw a chart for particular table column? say Goal status column? Whenever I goto insert and add a chart, it adds a excel sheet and when I try to select the chart and change data, it is not allowing m...
Encrepted file not access
I have Window 7 System in a domain, my user profile having some issue that was i delete my user"chander" before deletion of user i take all documents backup and save it in local driver in E:. After create new profile with same user i try to open backup files folder it show green color named file and...
Only Windows Exlorer will open in Windows 10
Just installed Windows 10 on my Lenovo T500 64 bit. Previous version was Windows 7. After trying to enlarge the desktop and taskbar icons I am now only able to "open" Windows Explorer. I know that the application is ru ing but I only can see the desktop screen. It is very frustrating because I can't...
Easiest progamming language for processing text files containing front matter and amending other text files accordingly?
I am considering writing a program that creates files for uploading to a static website. I'm using Win7Pro. The task breaks down as follows: read a new text file (a new article, containing body text and some front matter) save an amended version (with HTML suffix) in accordance with the front matter...
PC is turning on intermittently
After I tu off my computer (or hibe ate specifically) It tu on sometime later. It seem not to happen regularly. (Or I think so). I tried to disable all scheduled tasks with "Autoruns" program, but it doesn't seem to help. And another thing - I had this problem on my older computer and then I basical...
FFMPEG: Overlaying scaled video over image
I am trying to produce video containing static image and smaller video which would be overlaid on top of it. Dimensions and position of overlay video are dynamically sent to the server script which runs FFMPEG, so I need to scale video before overlaying it. So, numeric values I used are just for tes...
Can't access network PC by name, but can by ip, why?
so i'm currently having a problem where my computers, B and C, can access computer A by name (ie. \computerA), but computer D ca ot. computer D can only access A through its ip (ie. \192.168.0.xxx). this isn't a huge problem, but it's one that has be baffled lol if it makes a difference, computer D ...
Can't stop alarm clock on Windows Mobile 10
I set up the alarm clock on my phone for 7:20 AM on weekdays. Later on I changed the time to 8:00 AM, but it continues to ring at 7:20. I switch it off and deleted the alarm. Still it continues to ring every weekday, though the alarm isn't even in the alarm list, so I can do nothing to stop it. Any ...
How to import a list of phrases to PhraseExpress?
I'm using PhraseExpress v11 and I would like to import a list of 100+ phrases to a folder in the Local Phrase File. My phrases are currently in a .txt file, every word is in a new line. All phrases should get the same settings. Example: Description = Phrase (e.g. StackOverflow) Phrase Content = Phra...
Only the first partition can been seen and accessed under windows after my flahdisk has been partitioned with fdisk
I now have a problem seeing and accessing some partitions on my flash disk after it has been repartitioned with the fdisk utility under the Debian Linux. I repartitioned my 16GB flash disk into two primary partitions with one being 4GiB in size and the other one taking the rest of the available spac...
How to remove all the tiles in the Windows 10 start menu?
A common problem I have is that I have a new PC that I'll be using for a while. And pretty much every Windows 10 PC I've used (even work PCs) have a shit ton of crap I don't want in the start menu in the form of a tile. I don't care much about the stuff in the "all apps" menu because it's out of the...
Converted Windows 7 to UEFI, now fails to do hybrid sleep
I have two hard drives, 3TB and 2TB. 2TB drive uses MBR, 3TB uses GPT. My Windows 7 OS is installed in the 2TB hard drive. I wanted to try out Elementary OS so I installed it on the 3TB drive in UEFI mode. Now I wanted to boot into Windows but the then I saw my Windows 7 boots in legacy BIOS. So I c...
why is audiodg.exe interfering with power management?
I have an Intel Core i3-370M 2.40Ghz, ru ing Windows 7, that is stuck at 2.4ghz. Months ago, the computer was almost completely silent. Today, the clock multiplier is stuck at x18 and the fan runs constantly. Nothing is When idle, the computer uses 0% - 1% CPU. I discovered that if "end task" on aud...