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How can I disable flashing icons on Windows 7 taskbar?
I set my Windows 7 taskbar to auto-hide. However, sometimes when a program changes or something new happens in a program, the taskbar will show its self, and its respective taskbar icon will begin flashing orange. Here's what I'm talking about: To make the taskbar hide again, I have click on the program before I can go back to what I was doing. Anyways, I personally find this very annoying, and would love to find a way to either: Prevent the taskbar from having such alerts. Prevent the taskbar from showing its self when it has such alerts. I've searched around quite a bit, and really only found answers to this for XP. I've also found another Stack Exchange Question looking for the same thing for Windows 7. However, none of the answers to the question were really what I'm looking for. I'm not looking to hide the taskbar, or control the number of flashes. However, this answer seems to be what I'm looking for, so I downloaded and tried out the program. It works perfectly, other than the …
How to know if a site is gzipped?
I am accessing some web sites which are really really slow, and I would like to know if those sites are gzipped. Is there an easy way to find this out?
Excel Auto-Fill a Series Without Mouse (Keyboard Only)
When I want to extend a series or something along those lines, I can highlight a group of cells, then click on the bottom right corner of the highlighting box and drag down. Excel will then attempt to automatically extend the contents as well as it can. Is there a keyboard function that will allow me to do this? I like to use the keyboard to avoid repetitive mouse motions. I can use the shift key and arrow keys to make a selection, but I don't know what (if any) key can trigger this function. I also don't really know what this function is actually called.
Chrome keyboard shortcut to pause script execution
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Google Chrome which will break script execution? (Equivalent to pressing the "Pause script execution" button in the Developer Tools Scripts panel.) I'd like to use the Dev Tools to inspect an element in its mouseover state; the code will obviously run if I try to actually click the pause button!
How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7?
I know it existed as sort of a folder in Windows Explorer in at least Windows XP, but I just can't seem to find it in Windows 7... How can I take a picture with my webcam in Windows 7 without using any 3rd party tools?
How to completely uninstall/remove cygwin from Windows 7
How can I completely uninstall/remove cygwin? I don't think it is as simple as deleting C:\cygwin. Maybe alter registry?
Why are home networks prefixed with 192.168?
Why are home networks prefixed with 192.168 ? Why those numbers? For some historical reasons?
Where are my icons in Windows 7?
In previous versions of Windows when I right click on a shortcut and dived in to change the icon the initial list populated with a whole catalog of default icons. On Windows 7 (RTM) here is what I see: I found those icons useful when making shortcuts to web applications. Any idea where I can find them?! I had a little "Browse..." but couldn't find much. Edit: You've all so far provided excellent answers, thanks - unfortunately I can't pick you all as the right one! :( Three of the files you mentioned have had equally useful sets of DLLs:
Remap Copy and Paste shortcuts on a Mac
I use Windows at work and a Mac at home. One of the biggest issues is the difference between the copy paste shortcuts on Windows vs the Mac i.e. Ctrl + C & Ctrl + V on Windows and on the Mac its Command + C and Command + V. Invariably its hard because of learnt motor skills where my hand always shapes itself to the Windows Ctrl + C configuration(I have been using Windows longer) I would like to remap the Copy and Paste to the Fn + C and Fn + V on the Mac. Why? Because the Fn key is actually the key that corresponds to where the Ctrl key is on Windows keyboards and since its the last edge key its easy to find. I have tried Double Command but it doesn't seem to have an option of turning Fn to the Command key.
What are hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys files, and can I safely delete them?
I noticed two big (~ 2GB) files (hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys) at the root of my C: drive and wondered what they were. I searched on google and found some interesting links, but did not find any answer on this site. I guess it would be good to have this question answered here for future reference. Here are my questions: What is the file hiberfil.sys for? What is the file pagefile.sys for? Can I safely delete these files?
How can I change the comment field of an RSA key (SSH)?
I know I can simply open up the pubkey and change the comment after the s, but is the comment field decided upon at creation stored in the private key as well? If so, how can I change that field without generating an entirely new key from scratch?
Disable "ding" sound when changing volume on Windows
Every time I change the audio level via Windows 7 Professional x64's Task Bar's audio control to up or down, Windows does a ding sound, which is quite annoying. How do you disable this?
How do I set the priority of network connections in Ubuntu?
If a Ubuntu 11.04 machine is connected to WiFi and 3G simultaneously, how do I set the priority to let the applications (browser etc.) to use WiFi first? If that's not available, it should use the 3G. Basically, I would like to set the order in which the network connections are used. Edit: I am looking for an easier approach which would be useful for those who are just comfortable and not experts in Ubuntu/Linux.
Is it possible to run Windows without GUI?
I'm just wondering if it is possible to run Windows without its GUI like Linux—with just the virtual terminal (tty) The reason behind this is that my Windows 7 box often freezes whenever some random application hangs up, such as Firefox (ya even Firefox, Chrome doesn't do that), MSN, Microsoft Office, etc. (I reinstalled countless times and Windows has been like that for every version I used, I think it's really just being like Windows D: ) However, I noticed that although when a program hangs up and thus freezes almost my entire desktop, if I happened to have a console window up (I have SUA, Unix layer built into Windows, installed), just use the kill command, it shuts down that unresponsive application in a blink and returns me a responsive desktop again. So I'm wondering: is it possible to switch to some text-only interface when the desktop hangs up, just like I sometimes do on Linux?
Slight delay when switching modes in vim using tmux or screen
Switching to and from insert mode in Vim is no longer instantaneous since I use tmux. After pressing Esc in insert mode, it takes a noticeable amount of time to actually get out of insert mode. After pressing Esc and any other key afterwards the switch is immediate, and the command for the key pressed after Esc is executed. Any idea what might cause this? The Vim configuration is not the problem as the delay does not occur when I run Vim outside tmux, so this is probably related to tmux somehow. I use gnome-terminal btw. Also worth noting, it seems I can not define key bindings in tmux for Esc, my plan was to bind Esc to: Alas, it seems binding anything to Esc for tmux does not work. The same problem occurs in screen as well.
How to use different network interfaces for different processes?
I have two network interfaces on a Linux PC, and I need to manually set the interface that a given process will use. The program (Twinkle softphone) does not have a similar option, so I believe that it must be set externally. How can I do it? Edit: I'm not trying to make a server process bind to a specific interface, but rather to make a client program contact a server using a specific interface.
CURL to download a directory
I am trying to download a full website directory using CURL. The following command does not work: It returns an error: . But when I do this: it works. Any idea how to download all files in the specified directory? Thanks.
Windows Explorer sorts files and folders separately
When Windows Explorer sorts files, it first sorts files from directories and only then sorts each group using the sort specified (My default is ). I don't like this as the default behavior. I would like it to be a simple sort (without separating files from folders). Is it possible to change, and if so how?
Converting from EPS to SVG format
What is the best way to convert from an EPS formatted vector graphic to an SVG formatted graphic using only freely available tools?
How can I clean up my MacPorts installation?
Which command should I run to delete all old port versions delete downloaded files temp files created during build all other stuff which I don't need when I am sure that updated version works fine I got a suggestion to use but it tries to clean ports I don't have, though I tried but it did not delete old inactive versions, then but it got stuck saying that (which is active) depends on (which is inactive).