A windows drive mapping error has ruined my day. Please please please tell me there's some way to recover my data.
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posted by shiu mai baby
on Nov 11, 2011 -
11 answers
I've got a windows vista installation that, as of a few months ago, has stopped letting me write to a bunch of directories or change a bunch of files, and it won't let me make them writeable again.
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posted by rmd1023
on Nov 5, 2011 -
8 answers
What are the best ways to create and deploy Windows 7 images across numbers of often disparate computers?
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posted by chairish
on Oct 30, 2011 -
7 answers
Will be curtain-free for at least two months - any ideas for temporary window coverings for a 7 feet high bay window? Looking for inexpensive options that are more attractive than newspaper...
posted by janecr
on Oct 27, 2011 -
24 answers
An important, newly ISO-9001 standard form in my office is an Outlook template (*.oft) that we have to fill out. I use a Mac with Entourage. How do I fill out this form?
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posted by olinerd
on Oct 25, 2011 -
3 answers
I need to look up the number of employees, number of computers in use at workstations, what type of operating system is used at the workstations, et cetera of a company for a school project. Specifically, I want to calculate the costs/benefits of switching from the presumably Windows OS a company uses to Ubuntu.
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posted by bookman117
on Oct 19, 2011 -
10 answers
What great code/text editors provide a perfectly consistent experience across both Mac and Windows environments?
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posted by Shepherd
on Oct 13, 2011 -
29 answers
Excel 2007 issue: I'm trying to have Excel mark matching data in two columns with some kind of color or formatting.
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posted by lattiboy
on Oct 10, 2011 -
3 answers
We had the aluminum windows replaced in our 1968 brick veneer rambler. The replacement windows are vinyl. In the process we had the storm windows and ceramic tile sills ripped out. Now the original framing and drywall is exposed. What is the best way to finish the sills?
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posted by mecran01
on Oct 9, 2011 -
4 answers
I'm trying to find window security bars that can be opened from the inside in the case of fire but can't seem to find a way to buy them.
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posted by slidell
on Oct 8, 2011 -
5 answers
Completely stumped: I can't boot *any* OS from my laptop's hard drive. What am I doing wrong?
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posted by pinsomniac
on Oct 6, 2011 -
16 answers
I'd like to find a laptop for my son (age 9) so he can play Flight Simulator X to his heart's content this Xmas. Here's the hurdles: I know NOTHING about laptops and I have very little money to spend. Help!
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posted by biddeford
on Oct 3, 2011 -
7 answers
I need a new font-smoothing app for Windows, or a fix to stop fonts in Chrome looking like Zalgo is coming.
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posted by ArmyOfKittens
on Sep 29, 2011 -
4 answers
How can I stream audio from several PCs (or one external-hard-drive-based music library) to my downstairs stereo?
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posted by audiodidactic
on Sep 24, 2011 -
11 answers
I have a brand-new Dell laptop. What's the best way to remove all the bloatware? What things
should I install? (Please no Linux, this is a Windows 7 machine and I need it to stay that way.)
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posted by desjardins
on Sep 23, 2011 -
24 answers
I've 5 HDD and a sixth I'd like to install an image onto in order to install onto another physical computer so it has it's own MBR.
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posted by prodevel
on Sep 20, 2011 -
11 answers
Why might a process not use all available physical memory under Windows Server 2008 r2 standard? I have 32Gb of RAM acknowledged by Resource Monitor, of which 19.4 are allocated to a process (the IBM solver CPLEX running in command line form from Power Shell) that has just thrown a controlled OOM error despite there being another 12 Gb marked as available.
I'm going to assume (to start with) that the program itself isn't the culprit, but is there a per-user limit switch, a per-process limit switch or something similar in 2008 r2? Any other ideas?
posted by cromagnon
on Sep 18, 2011 -
4 answers
I am trying to find Media Center software (preferably for Windows) that has a video buffer so that I can watch HD video over wi-fi.
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posted by Bonky Moon
on Sep 14, 2011 -
12 answers
I'd like to be able to select my Linux box as my audio out device in my Windows 7 box. Is there a way to make that happen?
posted by jsturgill
on Sep 10, 2011 -
9 answers
I'm just starting my undergraduate thesis, and would like a backup method a bit more reliable then my standard 'ThesisV3.tex' + emailing it to myself method. I've never worked with version control before, though I'm sure I can figure that out. I am however worried about *where* to have my offline backup sync too.
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posted by Canageek
on Sep 8, 2011 -
25 answers
I "don't have permission" to go into the desktop XP folders on my network from my Windows 7 laptop, but the reverse is fine. Help me?
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posted by droplet
on Sep 1, 2011 -
13 answers
On a Win7 desktop, how can I open and read a 1.61 GB CSV file containing text (kind of an archive of e-mails) without freezing up the system?
posted by vidur
on Sep 1, 2011 -
12 answers
Has anyone made a solid, stable, fancier, and Windows 7 compatible version of the awesome old Windows XP "Starfield" screensaver?
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posted by Esefa
on Aug 26, 2011 -
9 answers
Are there like curtain engineers or something? My house has a very tall vaulted ceiling with windows going all the way up and in the late afternoon the room is completely not usable because of sun.
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posted by cmm
on Aug 26, 2011 -
14 answers
Is there a program that will let me keep a bunch of windows open but pushed out of sight, so I can work with a relatively blank taskbar but not have to re-open everything when I'm done working?
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posted by threeants
on Aug 24, 2011 -
8 answers
Looking for tips and resources around using a SSD for a Windows XP Pro boot drive, cloned from my existing XP installation.
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posted by schmoppa
on Aug 18, 2011 -
11 answers
How can I configure WiFi and iTunes on a Windows 7 machine, when not only don't I know much about Windows 7, but the entire user interface is in Russian?
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posted by amtho
on Aug 12, 2011 -
7 answers
Looking into building a house near Golden/Boulder CO area. Planning on using ICF's. Looking for suggestions of almost any kind. Would like the house to be about 2000sqft. Am a teacher and worked construction for several summers (but only w/ stick built houses) a few years ago so I will have some time and rudimentary knowledge. Trying to keep the house as simple as possible to keep costs down. Simple rectangular shape and roof and trying to avoid the need to any custom building supplies. If we keep it under $300,000ish we won't need financing. Is it possible?
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posted by no bueno
on Aug 10, 2011 -
4 answers
Is there any windows program that allows to see the desktop or allow programs to be seen and password protect if any modification is needed.
posted by radsqd
on Aug 4, 2011 -
5 answers
Need help from Sys Admins. You've never steered me wrong here... :) Need to know how to automatically have old data be deleted from Windows Server 2008, as well as have certain file types be automatically killed....Please see explanation...
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posted by stevyb
on Aug 2, 2011 -
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Is there a program that would allow me to display an animated .gif on a Windows desktop? I envision it as looking similar to Windows' Slide Show widget, with a simple border, but with the ability to display the animated image file.
posted by SpacemanStix
on Jul 30, 2011 -
5 answers
I'm a Windows systems administrator and power user and an enthusiastic user of Unix/Linux-based operating systems. I have hand edited make files and recompiled linux kernels manually. I know how to do administrative scripting and am a Microsoft products (SharePoint, if it matters) support professional/systems engineer in my job. I am certainly not the geekiest person I know but I'm in the top 5 percent.
I am switching to a Mac Mini (Lion Server, specs maxed toward storage) after decades of using Windows laptops/desktops and some Linux machines. I'm prepared for the lack of physical mobility, but I don't feel prepared for not being a power user. What methods/resources would you suggest I could use to get up to speed with being a Mac Mini and OSX Lion power user?
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posted by kalessin
on Jul 29, 2011 -
18 answers
In the Windows 7 explorer context menu, I'd like to add an item under 'new' that's like "New Folder" but instead creates a folder named e.g. 2011-07-26. I have no idea where I'd start; any approaches or software I should look into?
posted by the mad poster!
on Jul 26, 2011 -
11 answers
