Super User Weekly Newsletter - Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Top new questions this week: How smart is my network? There is an argument within my office about how smart/efficient the network we have set up really is. We have a fibre line and a cable line running into a load balancing router, which has a hardware ... networking routing switching   asked by bizzehdee 18 votes answered by Ben N 42 votes How to open Command Prompt in a specific folder as Administrator? I made a shortcut to cmd.exe and specified the folder that I want to start in. I then went to Advanced and ticked Run as administrator. When I double-click on the shortcut, it always starts in ... windows command-line windows-8.1 runas file-shortcut   asked by AngryHacker 10 votes answered by barlop 10 votes Will a 100 Mbit/s wired router slow down my internal network speeds? (See diagram) Now I understand that my Internet speed is determined by my weakest link, which in general is based on what speed I pay for. I am looking at purchasing a new wired router and the one I want is only ... networking internet wired-networking   asked by Eric F 7 votes answered by prateek61 16 votes Time synchronization of two computers I like to synchronize the timing of two computers that are connected via Ethernet (with no router in between) and apart from each other 100 or so meters. There are several protocols that does time ... timing sync   asked by user4749 5 votes answered by Dmitry Grigoryev 14 votes MS Word goes into read-only mode when trying to save document I just installed a clean copy of MS Word 2016 for Mac today. I opened and started writing a essay, but I can't save it. When I try to save, either with ⌘+S, ⌘+⇧+S, the save option under the file ... osx microsoft-word keyboard-shortcuts microsoft-office read-only   asked by Easterly Irk 4 votes answered by D Schlachter 2 votes Size on disk way bigger than expected I have read Why is there such a big difference between "Size" and "Size on disk"? but why is mine so different? My RAID5 is set at 128kb stripe, the volume is formatted at 64kb NTFS. I would expect ... hard-drive raid ntfs   asked by adampski 4 votes How to remove all the tiles in the Windows 10 start menu? A common problem I have is that I have a new PC that I'll be using for a while. And pretty much every Windows 10 PC I've used (even work PCs) have a shit ton of crap I don't want in the start menu in ... windows-10 start-menu   asked by Kat 4 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How do I get different background images on my dual monitors? Is there a way to set two different background pictures for my two monitors in Windows 7? By default the same background picture is used for both displays. I am looking for a solution without ... windows-7 multiple-monitors desktop-customization   asked by balint 227 votes answered by Travis 145 votes How do I change the default font of Sticky Notes? How can the default font be changed for the Windows 7 Sticky Notes application? I can't stand that faux handwriting font it uses. windows-7 fonts sticky-notes   asked by Steve Crane 105 votes answered by keyvan 27 votes Can you answer these? Virtual Network adaptor which is always online I'm not exactly sure how to word this, so please forgive me for lame wording. My situation is this: I have 2 identical docking stations, one at home and one at work. I run VMware Workstation 12, and ... windows networking windows-8.1 vmware   asked by Brendan Gooden 1 vote Is this a ransomware? I just got this window on my main computer: Apparently, it's from Windows. I checked, the process EXE file is the original one (efsui.exe or something like that). But the thing is, I don't use EFS ... encryption malware efs malware-detection   asked by zdimension 3 votes Clonezilla disk to image speed decreasing over time I am actually backing my whole 2tb disk using Clonezilla disk-to-image option. I don't use any encryption or anything that I know that could slow down the process, and yet, Clonezilla tells me that ... hard-drive performance clonezilla   asked by Redleouf 2 votes

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