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How can I install Internet Explorer 7 on Windows 7?
Possible Duplicate: How do you install MSIE7 in Windows 7? I need to install Internet Explorer 7 on my Windows 7 machine. How can this be done?
How can I keep multiple live/bootable ISO images on a single USB drive?
I am looking to create a USB flash drive that I can put multiple live CD ISO images on and select which boots from startup. The ideal candidate supports Linux and Windows-based ISO images, and is relatively simple. It also must have some reasonable process for adding and removing an ISO image from …
Prevent elevation (UAC) for an application that doesn't need it
Having recently migrated from Vista 32bit to Windows 7 64bit, one of my programs now requires admin rights. I use a rather exotic text editor (Crimson Editor). Although not designed for Vist/Win7 it worked well with Vista. But under Windows 7, the program executable gets this UAC shield added to it…
How to join two CSV files?
Suppose you have one CSV file with 2 fields: ID and email. You have another file with 2 fields: email and name. How can you produce a file with all three fields joined on email?
Vim to replace Vi
Guys, anyone know how to change linux console editor from vi into vim everytime we execute vi? I'm using Ubuntu and Fedora Core
What does the svchost.exe process do?
On all Windows machines there seem to be a number of svchost.exe processes running. What do this processes do and why are so many running?
How do I manage multiple audio playback devices on Windows Vista/7?
I've got speakers (audio in) and headphones (USB headset with it's own soundcard) connected to my desktop computer. Under Windows 7, I can right-click the Audio Mixer and select Playback Devices and toggle between my these devices. Is there an easier way, perhaps a keyboard shortcut, that would mak…
How many files can you put in a Windows folder without a noticable performance degradation?
I'm guessing there's no hard limit, but I know that performance degrades when you put too many files into a single Windows folder. Does anybody have any good rules of thumb for when it becomes noticeably slow to open a file?
Multi-monitor Usage
How many different applications do you use with a 2, 3, 4, 5 or more monitor setup? What's the most sophisticated multi-monitor setup you've seen? To be more specific, I would like to know exactly how you use your multi-monitor setup and how can I make better use of my own. How does someone take fu…
What zsh features do you use?
I do a lot of work in the terminal so I have learned a lot about my shell of choice, zsh. What features of zsh do you use to make yourself that much more productive at work? One of my favorites is the multi-dir autocomplete. So instead of typing I can just do and save that many keystrokes!
Should I enable Intel Virtualization and VT-d?
I have an Intel Core Duo P8600 and use Virtualbox. Virtual box some settings about virtualization. My question is should I enable Intel Virtualization and VT-d? I found that they were both disabled. Is there any harm in enabling them? I have nothing called VT-x in my BIOS (which is what I was looki…
Can I turn off Google Chrome's new prerendering?
According to the Google Chrome Blog for Thursday, January 5, 2012, Chrome had added a beta feature where it sometimes loads a web page in the background before you finish typing the URL. When you do finish and press enter, it can just display it. I can confirm that as of version 17, this feature is…
How to remove duplicated files in a directory?
I downloaded a lot of images in a directory. Downloader renamed files which already exist. I also renamed some of the files manually. How to remove duplicated ones? The result should be: note: name doesn't matter. I just want uniq files.
How to "undo" unzip command?
I used "unzip XXX.zip" to extract a zip file, unfortunaly, i make a mistake. Now i want to delete all the file and directorys generated by "unzip". How can I undo it?
Connecting to github using PuTTY generated SSH key in Windows
On an otherwise pristine Windows 7 Enterprise install: Install PuTTY 0.62 Create public/private key pair with puttygen.exe Add public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys to github account Add private key to pageant Install msysgit 1.7.8 with the following options: Use Git from Windows Comm…
Mac - Convert from Case-Sensitive to Case-Insensitive File System
So I just got my first Mac. After getting everything set up just the way I wanted it I decided to install Steam. When I opened Steam it said something about not supporting case-sensitive file systems... I did some googling and found that Steam won't be the only application that gives me this troubl…
How do I stop Image Capture from opening whenever I connect my iPhone?
Whenever I connect my iPhone to my Mac (Lion), the Image capture app starts. How do I stop this? Image capture doesn't have any preferences.
Can I change the default password profile in KeePass?
I'd like my default to be 256-bit hex key. Is there a way to configure KeePass with this default?
Mapping Caps Lock to Escape and Control on Windows 7
I want to be able to map the Caps Lock Key to Escape if it is not pressed with any other key and Control if it is. How can I do that on Windows 7?
make: Interrupt/Exception caught
I'm using Make from the MinGW distribution. It has always worked, but recently I've gotten the following error: And the respective part looks like this: I have no idea what causes this. Especially because it always has worked perfectly fine.