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Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit suddenly randomly waking up

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​Hi everyone -- Over the past few years, I ​would ​put my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit computer to sleep, ​and ​it would remain in that state until I moved my mouse or used my keyboard. Over the last three weeks, my computer has suddenly started waking up. ​​M​y Logitech MK270 mouse ​&​ keyboard ​are both wireless, using the same USB receiver.​ ​What's weird is both have on/off switches, and...

Solved Windows 7 Login “The user name or password is incorrect”

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When I login to windows if I have a password assigned the opening screen before I entry the password it states “The user name or password is incorrect” I then have to click OK and then I can go to the login screen. How do I eliminate that?

Need help for a dark theme. Please help me to locate 3 more colors.

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Hello good people. Laurentiu is my name. I've been working on a dark theme to protect my eyes. I did it with Vista Style Builder that works in Windows 7 well, simple, yet a bit more stylish them High Contrast integrated themes. However there are 3 more colors that I can not find in my Dark.msstyles file. Please help me to locate them as I worked for dozens of hour at this project and I want...

Looking for program to remove icon shortcuts

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Tried the registry hack to remove the desktop icon shortcut arrows but ended up with the little black boxes. I remember there was a little program that did this as well. Anyone know where it is? Image: https://www.sevenforums.com/moz-extension://fdbffb69-f74b-4a96-a8fa-4ed2b2035cd3/informenter-marker.png

HELP nearly up-to-date w7 system went into System Restore

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Should I be worried? Recent restore point but no backup (new-to-me machine, noticed that WinUpd was trying to run even though I have it set to NOT apply updates without my OK (not the exact wording but you know what I mean) ... looks like it may have been updating anyway?? What was in WU in the last 2 days? Hmm... restored back to 8am this morning. Looks OK, but... why?? (Only recent...

How do I activate the Wireless Autofig service

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Want to turn on the wireless autoconfig service on my Win 7 Home machine but can't find the setting. A search say's the folowing: 1. Click the Windows logo button. 2. Type *services* in the Start Menu's Search box and press Enter. Scroll to the bottom of the list and locate WLAN *AutoConfig*'. ... 3. Click the General tab of WLAN *AutoConfig service*. ... 4. Click the Windows logo...

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SSH Tunnel Linux > Windows rdp

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Hello all , i want to be able to rdp my lan hosts from any public address thorough my Linux machine. I have do the following steps: 1] installed open ssh on windows 7 . tested and was able to connect. 2] Local port forwarding : ssh -L 3389:localhost:3389 admin@192.168.1.100 3] Port forwarding from my router to inside linux machine on port 3389. The connection established from linux to...

Mastercard and Microsoft join forces to advance digital ID innovations

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---Quote--- Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) today announced a strategic collaboration to improve how people manage and use their digital identity. Currently, verifying your identity online is still dependent on physical or digital proof managed by a central party, whether it’s your passport number, your proof of address, driver’s license, user credentials...

Chrome won't open

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Double clicking the Chrome icon in toobar,there is a slight attempt to open it (with the app opening clock spinning for a second), but nothing happens; also tried rebooting and even downloaded a new installation file, but a Google "unknown installer box" appears. Also started in "safe mode", and also did scannow. I rather not delete my current browser as I...

Best games that define Windows 7?

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What are the games out there that define Windows 7?

Intel Looks beyond CMOS to the Future of MESO Logic Devices

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---Quote--- *What’s New:* Today, “Nature” published a research paper on the next generation of logic devices authored by researchers from Intel, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The paper describes a magneto-electric spin-orbit (MESO) logic device, invented by Intel. MESO devices have the potential to lower voltage by 5 times and energy by...

NVIDIA Reveals the Titan of Turing: TITAN RTX

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---Quote--- Image: https://news.developer.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/PHOTO-2018-12-03-08-17-31.jpg NVIDIA today introduced *NVIDIA® TITAN RTX (http://www.nvidia.com/titan-rtx)*™, the world’s most powerful desktop GPU, providing massive performance for AI research, data science and creative applications. Driven by the new *NVIDIA Turing...

Introducing live captions and subtitles in Skype

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---Quote--- Today, Skype joins the world in celebrating the *United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities-3-december/idpd18.html)* with the launch of call captioning with live captions & subtitles. This new feature works on the latest version of *Skype...

Is there a tool to check the HDD usage?

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Hello, since yesterday, my hdd makes a little more noises that usual on idle and i can't seem to know why :( I tried using the ressrouce monitor ( in ctrl+alt+suppr) to check what are the things that make the hdd writes and read and the strange things is that there is some activity that doesn't appear in it. like sometimes i see the E/S disk going from 0 to 120k but if i list everything that...

LogMeIn PITA

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Hey guys, recently I was working with a software company that used LogMeIn to do a remote Video chat and presentation with me. It allowed them to show me their software on my screen to walk me through fixing some stuff. To do this I got an email from them with the LogMeIn software link and download. Now that I have it on my pc I would like to keep it in case I need it again. The problem is I...

How to change pre-existing default Windows hotkeys?

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Like a great many others, my new keyboard includes hotkey icons for doing things like launching my default browser (Firefox), email client (Thunderbird), multimedia operations, and starting a local file search. I want to change that default search application from the normal Windows search to a different application. It appears that most hotkeys are configured through the Default Programs...

Back begging for your help.

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Hi. Some time ago I came here to ask about drivers so that I could get online with my Acer Aspire One D257. Your instructions got me online. {https://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/414719-drivers-needed-acer-aspire-one-aod257.html} I must again ask for your direction. My notebook somehow dumped its drivers when I booted it after the weekend. I followed previous instructions and downloaded...

Why does my disc drive eject when I close out of iTunes?

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I've had this issue for about two months now in which whenever I close out of iTunes my disc tray ejects. I took my computer apart and made sure the cd drive plugs were in tight. I am not sure why this keeps happening. Any thoughts?

BSOD What is causing it?

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Today I had a BSOD out of nowhere. This is the second time its happened in the past cpl of weeks. I think the culprite might be the psu. I've done a /sfc scannow and nothing had to be repaired. all the hard drives except one are less than a year old and just about everything is less then 2 yrs old. dmp file attached. I hope.Attachment 406146...
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