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Brightness settings gone, how do I bring it back?
I have a VAIO CW laptop with Windows 7 x64, and after installing new NVIDIA drivers, my screen brightness controls are no longer available. (Not in the control center, not in the power options, buttons don't work even though VAIO's brightness adjust window pops up, etc.). My display doesn't dim eit…
Windows 7 doesn't recognize second partition on removable disk
I created two partitions on my removable Flash drive, but Windows doesn't recognize the second partition. Both partitions are NTFS and primary partitions. And this image is in disk management on Windows 7. and also with EASEUS Partition Master
How can I get a list of all fonts used in an Adobe Illustrator file?
How can I get a list of all fonts used in an Adobe Illustrator file? Is there a document properties / list of fonts tab that I can access to show all fonts used in an file?
Can a PC be set up not to shut down when unplugged?
I have a laptop now, and I love that when the power goes out accidentally (blackout from a storm, accidentally gets unplugged...), the laptop does not shutdown on me, it just switches to battery supply. I don't lose any unsaved work, don't have to start up again... I am about to buy a new computer …
Windows Firewall: Block everything except one app on port 80
I'd like to block all outgoing port 80 activity except for one particular application. Why? I want to test a piece of software to see if it will fall back to a proxy if a direct connection to the web is not available. I need to allow my proxy to connect, but nothing else. I would have thought this …
Vim configuration slow in Terminal & iTerm2 but not in MacVim
Ideally, I want to use Vim from Terminal or iTerm2. However, it becomes unbearably slow so I had to resort to using MacVim. There is nothing wrong with MacVim, however my workflow would be much smoother if I used only Terminal/iTerm2. When its slow Loading files, in particular Rails files takes abo…
Restore Winamp Window Position
Winamp has again decided to disappear into a position where I cannot move it. It is the only program that ever does this. Normally I can fix it, and I am determined to fix it without the need to reinstall it. I am running Windows 7. I have tried switching themes and back again with no dice, however…
how can I do a Windows file search by file owner
I want to find a particular Excel file created by a past employee. All I know for sure is the file format (Excel 1997-2003) and the file owner's name. How can I search for this file on a Windows network share by file owner?
Increase granularity, range and curvature of the volume control slider
There is a common problem for USB speakers (such as Logitech SBS-150 in my case, for which Logitech provides no solution) and headphones- they are too loud. When you use the Windows volume control slider to put them to 1, they are still too loud (and there is really not much difference between 1 an…
OneNote - export all sections in a notebook to Word? Or other method for same result
I have a OneNote 2010 notebook with a lot of sections (and some of those sections have lots of pages.) What I'd like to do is a get a good, space-saving printout (with minimal whitespace) to take physical notes on when I'm in meetings AFK, or brainstorming old-school. I don't want to just print all…
"tty" option detected in CYGWIN environment variable
I recently reinstalled cygwin on my windows 7 machine, and added the cygwin directory to my path so that it works seamlessly with the windows command line. Every time I execute a command, I get the following above the actual output: How can I get rid of this so that I can use cygwin in my command l…
Can I mirror / duplicate mouse events on both halves of my screen?
If I have two identical applications side-by-side on my desktop, is there software that exists that will mimic what I do on the left half on the right? Basically, if my screen is 1000x1000 and a click event happens at 5,5, I would also like it to fire that event at 505,5 (mirrored on the X-axis). I…
Can I safely use a PSU with an ATX 12v 4-pin for a board that has a EPS 12v 8-pin?
There's many similar questions to this, and because the answers vary depending on the setup, I want to ask for my friend's specific setup. He recently upgraded to a Core i5 gaming build, so he has this leftover build composed of some old parts he has lying around: Intel Core2Duo E8400 stock speed 3…
What is the whole function and effect of "Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device"
In Windows 7, using the Device Manager, bringing up the properties of a disk, and going to the Policies tab, there are 2 switch items. The write cache, which this question it not about. and [X] Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device <--- this one only! Microsoft puts a disclaime…
Is there a way to add a "fade to black" effect to a video, from the command line?
I have a script to encode videos (using mencoder), but is there a way to add a simple "fade out/in to black" from the command line, preferably free (as in open source). It could be either on Windows or Ubuntu Linux.
Make chrome put http:// in the browser
I'm working with a local server that spits out some XML. Whenever I go to change the url, say from to it tries to search google for "myserver.local:8080/servlet?p1=foo&p2=otherblah". I then remember I have to put http:// in the front, and THEN it knows to find it. I don't want to disable google sea…
How can I add an icon to my custom context menu item in Windows 7?
Related: How can I add a program to the context menu of all files? I've created my custom context menu item, and it seems to work on all file types - even through shortcut links. (Selecting my custom option performs the operation on the shortcut target, not the .lnk file.) Now, I'd like to create a…
Alternative to MySQL Workbench?
Is there a free alternative to MySQL Workbench? I really need a visual database designer that doesn't crash every five minutes.
Find all files older than one minute
How can I use to select files that have been written and not modified in the last minute? I know I can do it the other way around, find files modified in the last 60 seconds with , but I want the ones that haven't been modified in the last 60 seconds. I use Linux and get this error if I use seconds:
Crontab deleted?
Instead of typing "crontab -e" I accidentally typed "crontab" and was stuck in the middle of a process so I aborted the process. Now when I go to crontab -e it's entirely blank. This isn't good at all. If I can't get it back I will need to rewrite it. Is there any way to: get my crontab jobs back? …