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Windows 11 not refreshing
Recently I installed Windows 11 and hence then my windows doesn't refresh automatically. Every time I have to refresh manually to see any chances both in desktop and in folders. Tried everything found in the net. Nothing working. I run windows update, does some tweaks in the registry, run certain commands in the command prompt... nothing working. Please help.No widgets on the lock screen
I get a few widget choices in the Personalization settings, but none of them work. My lockscreen uses the Windows Spotlight images. I've enabled widgets in the Group Policy editor. (Although I already have widgets, in the left side of the taskbar.) I tried running Vivetool. It reported that the changes were successful, but nothing changed. Any suggestions? This is a fairly trivial matter, but I'd like to be able to fix it.Windows CMD shell and variable expansion with substring (~)
Hi. I am trying to learn about Windows batch files and I am looking for some more complete documentation. I have found coding examples for pulling substrings out of longer strings and saving them in environment variables. See below example which demonstrates the substring syntax to extract the year, day, and month from the date. set my_year=%date:~0,4% set my_day=%date:~8,2% set my_month=%date:~5,2% While this is useful I would like to read and learn more about this syntax but I can't seem to find anything that more fully describes (i.e. what else can is possible with this syntax). Can anyone point me towards a book or Microsoft documentation that goes into more detail about this substring syntax?Checking the UEFI boot sector
Is there any way to check integrity of the boot sector other than booting into recovery mode and running bootrec.exe? Can anything be done from within Windows computer? I just changed NVMe drives on a couple of PCs and ran into boot problems on both even though I had cloned the system drive including boot sector to each. Things finally got worked out when I could boot into safe mode. From there, booting normally worked. But it's still slow. While any remaining problems would likely get fixed with a repair install, I'd like to know if the boot sector really needs that before doing it.Is there any free program to convert mp4 to wav?
Hi, I'm relatively new to audio editing and file conversion, and I’m currently working on a project that requires me to extract high-quality audio from an MP4 video file. Specifically, I need the audio in WAV format because of its uncompressed quality, which is important for the next steps in my workflow. I did some searching online, but there are so many mp4 to wav converter tools and methods available, and not sure which one is the most reliable and easiest for a beginner like me to use. Could anyone recommend a straightforward way to convert an MP4 file to WAV?
