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How do I run as a different user on a shortcut in Windows 7? On Windows XP, I had the ability to mark a shortcut as being run by a different user, so that every time I ran it it would prompt me for a username/password. This let me have two shortcuts for things like…
I’m working on my systems without admin rights, but I’d like to start sysinternals process explorer as full admin to have some debug access on my machine. Right now I run procexp.exe with parameter /e, which prompts me for admin credentials. Of course I could use runas, but for this I would need to put…
I use Powerpoint 2010 on Windows 7. My keyboard layout is German, but I write my presentations in English. Now I created a presentation with Default Language set to English, and I want it to use English for proofing. When I create a new slide/textbox/… the language is indeed English. However as soon as I…
Possible Duplicate: How do I troubleshoot hardware issues related to a computer freeze/crash? I built a gaming computer last summer and it has been working just great until now.It has started hanging for about half a second at a time every few seconds, like a video that won’t buffer fast enough. Needless to…
I have been feeling this way for a while, looking at task manager mentally ballparking how much physical memory should be in use, and noticing a large disparity. I finally got around to measuring it. Taking the results of tasklist and adding, gave about 3.87 GB. Task manager told me I was using 4.6 GB…
Looking for a tool to change a file’s modified date which works from inside File Explorer context menu. I am aware of external tools like BulkFileChanger but I want to right click on a file and make the change. Solution: This one is freeware, and will change what you need plus various attributes that users…
I have 2 monitors connected to a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660: Left is 1920×1080 via DVI (Samsung SyncMaster 2443BW) Right is 2560×1440 via DisplayPort and is set to Primary (Samsung SyncMaster SA850) I often leave my computer running overnight (working on long render job, doing backups, etc) so I only power off my monitors manually….
There’s something funky going on with my Visual Studio installation and when I went to uninstall it so I could make a fresh install, I ran into problems with the uninstaller as well. When I select uninstall and run the setup wizard it attempts to uninstall for a few minutes before throwing an error and…
I did a dumb thing and now need to undelete some files. In fact, I have already recovered the files using Glary Undelete, which has served me well on the other rare occasions where this has been necessary. So I have the files. The problem is that Glary and the other undelete options I’ve…
I have noticed for a few months that my mouse will randomly jerk across the screen. I’m super paranoid about security. But this is just silly! Has anyone else experienced this, and found out what causes it? It happens to me every couple of days. The cursor will jump across the screen about 1000+ pixels….
