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When the ssh daemon starts up, it reads the config file for the interfaces it should bind to (listen on) and the port number(s). The default interface is "all" and the default port number is 22. T...
I need to free up hard drive space. What happens if I delete this folder? This Reddit thread has no definitive answer.
Multiple sources point to yes. It just seems to be files used by Windows Update to update your computer. After the updates have been installed, the files should be auto deleted after a while - how...
In macOS 11 the font colour of the menu bar automatically adapts to the darkness of the background image. On a light background it will show the text in black and on a dark background it will show ...
My Display 2 is an old LCD monitor, Samsung SyncMaster 913V. This website lists its "Native Resolution" as 1280 x 1024. It fails to maximize programs perfectly. You can see below this problem with ...
I'm asking just for Windows. My old laptop died, and I removed its hard drive ("HD"). Now I'm using this as a backup HD. I partitioned it into C and D, because C contains all the "Program Files" an...
When I use my Firefox-family browser to connect to Google Meet: Update your browser to use visual effects You're using an older browser version that doesn't work with Meet's visual effects I...
I noticed when arriving on the Power User site that my mouse cursor looks very similar in size, shape, and colour to the one in the logo: This doesn't present a problem for me personally (apart ...
My old backup email account never receives incoming emails. In Microsoft Outlook, I deleted at least 50 emails in the Inbox and Sent Items, then emptied "Deleted Items", but the .ost for this email...
Dell Latitude 5580 (laptop) Intel Core i7-7820HQ 16GB DDR4 Nvidia Gforce 940MX 512GB SSD Windows 10 Home Surprisingly, I am having trouble running Diablo 2 Resurrected with pretty much the...
A Microsoft T3 Support Engineer confirmed that this .msi for a third party program, not Microsoft, because it doesn't appear in the Roaming > Microsoft folder. What's this .msi for? Can I safel...
My shared hosting provider suffices (at least on contract) daily, weekly, and monthly automatic backups; besides that, I also routinely backup my website's filetree and database not automatically i...
My string of numbers is 32, 29, 10, 30, 40, 39, 48, 12, 42, 41, 38, 18. How can I sort this from smallest to largest most readily? I clicked OK as pictured below, but nothing happened. Then I pick...
A frustrating situation is when a mod decides that a question is "unclear" and closes it, and yet the question is not actually unclear. Unfortunately, the close prevents anyone else from posting an...
I don't know any type of document like that, but I've been using both for 10 years now. I'm by no means a poweruser at windows, maybe in linux. The best advice I can give you is, that the flow is ...
Please, correct me if you think I'm wrong! What you're asking is at cross purposes with the Linux movement. Linux is fundamentally different from Windows because its development model is diffe...
Cloning is fine provided you do a proper clone. Something I used to do with Win7 is to actually clone the partition with a partition manager, and then boot from the new one. After everything is fin...
The blues screen of death appears whenever I attempt to boot into Windows. The information displayed says "kmode_exception_not_handled." I am tech savvy however I have not been able to find a solut...
The problem has been fixed in macOS 14.0. After upgrading to macOS Sonoma, one can again use sips to convert pdfs to pngs
One of the new features of macOS 14 Sonoma are Safari web apps which allow to treat webpages like an application. Is there a way to set the zoom level persistently in such apps? I can zoom in and ...
If IP address is a unique identifier of a computing device in a network (LAN and/or WAN) and MAC is a unique identifier for a network card and/or modem, what would be a unique identifier for a comp...
I have a raster logo image with transparent background which I edit with GIMP and which is comprised of two primary elements: A drawing A text under the drawing The text is "justified" under...
These steps from UC Davis don't picture or mention the number pad on the far right hand side of computer keyboards. If Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator can't edit numeric keypads, please recommen...
This answer is to the question as originally asked, not what it was edited to several days after this answer was written. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype? Don't clic...
I've used Firefox for approximately 10 years, but I've never seen this before! Please see below. I was working under the premise (very unlikely true, but still) that interacting with that ico...
