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Super User Weekly Newsletter - Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Super User Weekly Newsletter

Top new questions this week:

Stop MS Word from selecting more than I want

I would like to just select (¬Q) without word selecting both brackets. I know if I move my cursor back to the same position word will select correctly, but it's annoying to have to do that ...

microsoft-word  
asked by Dave Chen 128 votes
answered by Aganju 123 votes

How can a file's size on disk be 0 bytes when there's data in it?

I have a file in Windows 10 with 362 bytes of data, but the "size on disk" is just 0 bytes. It's a simple "Hello world" program written in assembly, and saved in Notepad++. How is it possible that ...

ntfs  
asked by Coder88 57 votes
answered by Ben N 91 votes

Is there a faster way to open a process as Administrator (With UAC enabled)?

Currently (In Windows 10) - if I want to open a CMD prompt, I'll hit the Windows key, type CMD and hit Enter. If I want it open as an administrator, I have to right click the item and click Run As ...

windows-10 administrator  
asked by Jonno 43 votes
answered by Jonno 72 votes

Does task manager run as administrator by default on Windows 10?

I was trying to close a non-responsive process, and after the first time I clicked "End Process", nothing happened. So I did it again and this time a window popped up saying "Access is Denied". ...

windows-10 task-manager  
asked by Insane 25 votes
answered by qasdfdsaq 31 votes

What do different types of LAN IP addresses mean?

I have seen LAN IP addresses in the following ways: 10.0.0.* 192.168.0.* 192.168.1.* 192.168.2.* 127.0.0.* (This one is normally with a 1, and I'm not sure if it is LAN, since I see it normally ...

networking router ip lan  
asked by Flare Cat 14 votes
answered by Abraxas 23 votes

Is the origin of a file traceable? If it is how can I sanitise it?

If I copied a file from my PC to a newly formatted USB flash drive, took the file to a public PC and public Internet connection, created from there a new email, created a new account on an uploading ...

file-sharing metadata alternate-data-stream  
asked by Edd 7 votes
answered by DavidPostill 12 votes

Is my OpenSSL version 0.9.8 affected by heartbleed?

I am reading the OpenSSL cookbook, and here what I see there openssl version OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012 And this my the version of mu Ubuntu 14.04 server openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.8w 23 Apr ...

openssl version  
asked by Edik Mkoyan 4 votes
answered by Leśny Rumcajs 7 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

How to view WIFI's password or forget this network in Windows 8.1

In Windows 8.1, when I right click a WIFI connection, nothing happens. In Windows 8, there will be a menu and I can view its properties by clicking the "View Properties" menu item and then I can see ...

windows-8 windows-8.1  
asked by imgen 41 votes
answered by Ben 42 votes

Where to download Flash Player for offline installation?

I can't find Flash Player download link which will give me the full EXE/MSI file, not the tiny downloader which downloads data from the internet. What's the proper download site for this?

flash-player  
asked by jakub.g 64 votes
answered by jakub.g 79 votes

Can you answer these?

Windows 10 upgrade OK but asks for password

I have allowed my laptop to upgrade to windows 10 using the automatic unattended method, When I returned to the machine it seemed to be finished Ok but it immediatly asked me for a password in the ...

password-recovery  
asked by Malcolm 2 votes

Find and Replace Number Names with Digits

I have a long section of code that has number names, which I'd like to replace with just number symbols. What I have: PartOne PartTwo PartThree PartFour PartFive ... PartOneHundred What I want: ...

notepad++ text-editors  
asked by tomysshadow 1 vote

blank/flashing Windows user interface

I've got a strange behaviour that happens randomly on my Wind 7 64-bits. Basically at random moments, some stuff that uses the Windows UI starts to get blank or flashing. Below there's an image ...

windows-7 gui user-interface  
asked by Henri Augusto 3 votes
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