I have a Western Digital HDD WD20EZBX 2TB with SMR and one ext4 partition. After a series of file system mounts/unmounts (I cannot provide a more precise background, because I do not remember), I lost an ability to mount it again. For example, when I try sudo mount -v /dev/sda1 […]
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I have a macro-enabled Word document (.docm) which contained a macro that updated all fields upon saving the document. This worked for a while, but then suddenly the updates were no longer executed, and when I checked my code it was completely empty. Is this a known problem? If so, […]
I bought a low configuration laptop less than a month ago with Windows 11 Not planning to install too many softwares, just want to browse, store data and edit files when necessary. Came across this Is it important to partition my hard drive for Windows 10 Pro? – Microsoft Q&A […]
I have an OLD system, and I’ve looked at the Microsoft program Tweak UI several times over the years, but I’ve never actually had the courage to use it. The reason for that is that there are no instructions for its use, so I don’t know: If I change a […]
It’s almost certainly some BIOS settings, with all of that extra(neous) Windows security. I have set TPM 2.0 to enables and SATA to AHCI. Secure boot is enabled. UEFI Boot Path Security is set to Never (but that looks like just a password thing).Secure Boot Mode is Deployed. Are any […]
I have an HP EliteBook 840 G7 with an Intel NVMe SSD (SSDPEMKF512G8, 512 GB). I recently bought a refurbished HP EliteBook 840 G7 from Refurbed. The laptop works normally otherwise, but its boot time seems unusually long. The computer had this slow boot problem before reinstalling Windows, and the […]
IIUC, the windows update active hours setting only affects when the PC is allowed to restart after installing updates. What I’m looking for is a way to tell not to install updates during specified hours. Is there a way?
Assume I have the following table: Row nr Col A Col B Col C 1 Field with Formula – – 2 =A1 – – 3 =A2 – – 4 =A3 – Field to check for “word” 5 =A4 – – 6 =A5 – – 7 =A6 – – 8 Next […]
I have a folder which contains almost 4,000 DDS image files organized in 462 subfolders nested to various depths, and I want to convert all the DDS files into TGA files with the same filenames (aside from the file extension, of course) and in the same places in the folder-structure. […]