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Q&A Ought I clone my C Windows drive, from my old SSD to new SSD in new computer?

To save time, rather than installing Windows and programs afresh, I fancy cloning my old C SSD, on to my new SSD in my new computer. But I am getting mixed messages on cloning! Who's correct? Wh...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A In Word's Find and Replace, when to use # vs. (0, 9)? [closed]

I need to remove all the red text below with ‘Find and Replace’, but keep all green text. Input 1:23 Keep this line 1. 4:56 Keep this line 2. Snag Inputting ^#:^#^# removed the red text, b...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  closed 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Does embedding an image, in an email, debauch its appearance or quality?

My bosses and colleagues prefer images to be embedded, rather than attaching an image to an email — not least because attachments can be wrongly flagged as spam, and because it's easier to see embe...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Quintec‭

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Meta {"status":"failed","message":"New users can only comment on their own posts and on answers to them."}

When I tried to comment on this answer, this message popped up. {"status":"failed","message":"New users can only comment on their own posts and on answers to them."} Am I still new? My comment wa...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭

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Meta How to handle crossposts

This isn't really a license issue. You are assuming that the post was written elsewhere first, then copied here. However, since the same user posted all of them, we should assume that user wrote ...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A How can I halt Windows from forthwith switching to Google Chrome, after I click on URLs on Skype?

Whenever I click on an URL in Skype, Windows opens up Google Chrome straightaway with the webpage. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype? I like to click and open URL's — tha...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Cloudflare Captcha - which tests are actually important?

It seems like Cloudflare Captcha (which appears to be using Google reCaptcha) shows two types of challenge: One where it's a single image broken up into tiles, and one where every tile comes from a...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta What should our take be on software recommendation questions?

Requesting recommendations for particular apps is not a good fit for this site. These are essentially "shopping questions", which are disallowed on other Q&A sites for good reasons. These rea...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Connection closed by remote host in Putty with hosting provider says that the problem is not on their side

I use my smartphone as my "router", with dynamic IP addresses, for nearly 3 years and never had any problem SSHing into various shared hosting environments with Putty. I host my website on a CentO...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How can I see old photos, so far down a Facebook page that scrolling down freezes the browser?

I don't know anything about Facebook or Simple Autoscroll, but the first thing to diagnose this would be to remove the plugin. Remove or disable Simple Autoscroll, then see if it still freezes at ...

posted 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Why Convert All Spots to CMYK, rather than RGB? [closed]

Please read mrserge's answer and the question there before reading this question. mrserge answered What we will do: convert everything to CMYK, then replace specific CMYK value with other and we...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  closed 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Meta Closing "unclear" questions

That question seemed to mostly quotes from elsewhere. I can see the point to it having been closed due to being link-only. "Unclear" is probably the nearest handy close reason.

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Distinguish like I'm 9 years old — Bit rate vs. Data rate?

How do **Data rate **and Total bitrate differ? I am untutored in computer science — please explain like I am 9 years old. See below pls. David Vanderschel PhD in Mathematics & Physics from Ri...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Q&A Drag-and-drop webpage layout automation software which can save output in one HTML file

I seek a FOSS content management system agnostic page builder for webpage layout automation with drag-and-drop GUI. A program that would let me create responsive HTML webpages which can also be sa...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Why's "Merge Layers" faded greyed out? Then how can I merge or combine these 3 colored areas?

Hello. Any Photoshop experts here? As practice, I am trying COLOR my black chair BLUE. As you can see from screenshots, I missed 2 spots that I had to color separately. But I don't want 3 separate...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Este‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Ullallulloo‭

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Q&A What is the formal terminology to describe the hierarchy from a screen to a window?

I figure that there are few concepts behind working with modern computer screens and GUI operating system windows. Screen size: The screen's physical size; everything including its physical peri...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How can I command my Lenovo laptop — NOT a ThinkPad — to stop charging the battery, at a maximum cap level of my choice?

Update, after Olin Lathrop's answer. I phoned Lenovo Technical Support to ask why the "Battery Charge Threshold" in Olin Lathrop's answer doesn't appear in my Lenovo Vantage. Their engineer acces...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 2y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A How to concurrently, productively change all gray color in all headings and subheadings in this PDF?

Screen shot of PDF below. Do not ask me to manually change the gray color in each heading and subheading individually — too much time and work! I hanker change to #4DFFFF — CMYK = 70, 0, 0, 0. I ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How can the total size of all frames of a video > that video's size?

I commanded Free Video to JPG converter to convert every frame of some .mp4 into JPGs. One .mp4 of 131 MB got converted into pictures totalling 700 MB! Another .mp4 of 377 MB got converted into pic...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Meta Can I post this question — now REwritten and citing Super User — similar to one deleted by moderator?

Just checking before posting the following. Thanks. Title Can I await Mozilla or Firefox to unearth the awry Add On(s)awry, before attempting myself? How long needs Firefox? Body Does Firef...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A Barring Undo — without reselecting and REcoloring the object — how can I UNcolor these blue tresses?

I can't use Undo, because I noticed these 2 tresses of blue hair LONG AFTER I used the Object Selection Tool. How can I restore the original hair color, without restarting from scratch? Do not ask...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Este‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Este‭

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Q&A Why do you need virtual machines in these examples?

I added the numbering. It's a virtual machine. Basically, it's one or more computers pretending to be one or more computers. Believe it or not, this is incredibly useful. Say you have som...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A How to stop all automatic Windows Update restarts on a Windows 10 Pro machine?

Others have posted some workarounds that directly answer your question, but my own answer to the implied deeper question ("how do I prevent my [currently Windows 10] machine from rebooting during a...

posted 3y ago by Chris Henry‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Users will follow good content. If the content of StackExchange is CC licensed, can't "we" "just" import all (or a selected highest quality subset) of questions and answers from StackExchange? I a...

posted 1y ago by tartley‭  ·  edited 1y ago by tartley‭

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Q&A Is a fanless PC good? [closed]

I would like to buy a fanless PC. Is a fanless PC good?

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mccoy.rameer‭  ·  closed 2y ago by Canina‭

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