Questions tagged [windows]
Microsoft's Windows operating system(s). Questions with this tag should relate to Ubuntu to be on-topic for this site. If your issue is with a specific version of Windows, please check windows-8, windows-7, etc.
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Low screen brightness
If I turn on my laptop without charger, my screen brightness is very low, not only in Ubuntu desktop but in Grub too. I've got dual-boot, Windows hasn't got this problem. So can you suggest me any ...
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Ubuntu 15.04 black window border
I just updated to ubuntu 15.04 and all my windows have a black border.
Is there a way to fix this?
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Windows and Linux startup SSD
I want to install windows and linux on SSD as a booting drive.
Both systems will have separate disks for data.
I don't want to store private data on SSD.
How partition table should look like? Will it ...
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I want to download "Download Windows 10 Technical Preview ISO" .ios file in my ubuntu 14.04
I want to download "Download Windows 10 Technical Preview ISO" .ios file in my ubuntu 14.04.So that I can use it in pendrive. Can anyone give me the glimpse to how to do it using terminal ?
I want to ...
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want to Install ubuntu 14.04 in my windows 8 pc and want to remove windows without losing any previous partition and data
I want to install Ubuntu 14.04 on my PC and remove Windows 8 without losing any previous partitions or data. I have booted my pendrive for installing Ubuntu 14.04 but I do not know how to install ...
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HardDrive Partitions to install Ubuntu together with W7
I'm going to install Ubuntu 14 on my laptop. This is now my hardrive config:
C: Windows
D: Music, Photos, Documents, etc
I've two questions. After I get free space from D, which partitions I'll be ...
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Fake Windows desktop environments [duplicate]
Are there any desktop environments designed to look exactly like a Windows machine? Not like Cinnamon or GNOME, but exactly the same?
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Uninstall Ubuntu 15.04 from dual boot on windows 8.1 [duplicate]
I want to uninstall ubuntu 15.04 . I dual booted it with windows 8.1. Please help me step by step, how to safely uninstall it...
I dont want to loose any data. I used 2gb as swap area and 13 gb for ...
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Safely uninstall ubuntu Dual Boot
I can't log into ubuntu anymore after an update, and would like to install linux light or Lubuntu instead. I read I could just delete the partition which I was about to do through windows 8's Disk ...
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Unable to get execute bit on Samba share working with Windows 7 client
I keep most of my files on an Ubuntu 14.04 box in Samba shares and access them from Windows 7 client machines. I had this all working with Ubuntu 11.10 and somehow broke this when moving to 14.04. ...
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Partitions deleted, disk cleared, but boot info still there
I've been trying to set up my ThinkPad T420 to boot Windows 10 Technical Preview on disk 0 (/dev/sda) and Ubuntu on disk 1 (/dev/sdb). I've reinstalled many times, and now I'm having trouble booting ...
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Missing a lot of partitioned hard drive space. (Not worried about losing data) Please help! [closed]
I recently installed windows 8.1, which stopped working and became corrupt. I tried loading linux to clear my hard drive partitions, and it says I only have 24 gigabytes of total hard drive space ...
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How to add Windows to boot menu [duplicate]
I have 2 hard drives, one with Windows and one with Ubuntu.
How can I easily add Windows to the boot menu? I've installed GRUB customizer; can it be done with that program?
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Can I clone a 1TB hard drive with Ubuntu and Windows 8.1 to a sshd on a laptop?
I am using Ubuntu 14.10 and will upgrade to Ubuntu 15.04 this afternoon. I was curious while looking at hard drives and was seeing that SSHD drives are the perfect mix of hard drive and solid state ...
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How to switch between host and guest OSes in virtual box
My host OS is Ubuntu 14.04 and guest OS in VirtualBox is Windows 8.1.
I can switch from host to guest by Alt+Tab, but can't from guest to host by the same method which only switches between windows in ...
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Cant boot OS from USB/DVD after deleting linux partition [duplicate]
After trying in google for almost 2 days I came here to post this.
I had Windows and linux in my hard disk. I tried to format linux but mistakenly deleted the partition. It got hung and forcefully ...
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Unable to access Windows partition from Ubuntu live USB
I have a Meegopad T01 mini PC, which has a 32-bit only UEFI firmware. I booted to my Ubuntu live USB and when I opened Gparted, I saw a lot of mmcblk0p* partitions like this:
All of them have a red ...
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Anyone else having trouble accessing dynamic windows partitions from Ubuntu?
I have been trying to access my striped software raid disk from Ubuntu for at least six months. I know there are guides out there, but they are a bit hard to follow, at least for me.
How can I access ...
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Restore Windows Installation [duplicate]
I've got the following problem: I had a ssd (sda) with windows 8 installed. Now I added another ssd (sdb) and installed ubuntu 14.10 on it, but I didn't create a efi partition and installed to sda.
So ...
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How do i Install Windows now? [duplicate]
i recently bought a new PC and i had no Windows available (my stick broke, had to buy a new one). So i just used a 4 GB Stick to install Ubuntu. Now i though i just can install Windows like normally ...
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Ubuntu 14.10 wants to install along windows 8 i don't have windows 8 i have 7
Like the title says.
I boot from USB and it shows to install alongside of windows 8 the problem is I don't have windows 8 i have windows 7 Why is it telling me I have windows 8 install i only have ...
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Ubuntu can't access the internet
I just installed Ubuntu on my PC and I tried installing my 3G modem USB stick but that didn't work. After days of unending trials and Google searches, I finally found out I could run a Virtual Machine ...
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Altering files kept on Windows through Ubuntu?
My laptop which had Windows 7 on it crashed today. Being unable to access any file kept within, I found about the LiveCD. So I created a LiveUSB with Ubuntu in it, and managed to access my Windows ...
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Is It Safe to Delete My External HDD's Files/Folders That Are Hidden in Windows?
Is it safe to delete the Windows files and folders without having ANY repercussions? I do plan on using the external drive on Windows based computers here and there, but will use it on my Ubuntu based ...
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Grub dont shows after windows 8.1 update [duplicate]
I had ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS installed in dual boot with windows 8 with grub2 as boot manager. The problem arose when the updated windows 8 for windows 8.1, now grub is no longer displayed when starting ...
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.exe compatibility layer?
Is there a piece of software that will let me run .exe files as soon as I install the program, without having to go through a complicated process like Wine or PlayOnLinux makes me do? I would like to ...
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dual boot: windows 8.1 boot failur,stuck with grub screen
Dual boot are working fine till yesterday... until today, when i start my computer and start windows 8.1 from grub menu, windows 8.1 stuck with grub screen, no further progress.
after boot repair, ...
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Netgear WiFi Adapter not picking up wifi on channel 12 or 13
I changed OS from Windows 8 to Ubuntu and was using a Netgear WIFI adapter for my windows machine. I is a WNDA3100 v2 adapter supporting 802.11b/g/n and 5GHz.
I used ndiswrapper and Wine to install ...
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Grub unaccessible after windows 10 and ubuntu 14 install [duplicate]
I would like to be able to dual boot on windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.
First, I tried to install windows 10 after Ubuntu 14. I was not able to dual boot after that. I know that this is not the best way in ...
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create a Windows bootable USB stick with Ubuntu [duplicate]
I am Linux user and currently there is no Windows* PC s available to me .
I just want to experience the Windows 8
I have a Windows 8 Image/files
I have a running Ubuntu PC
I have an 8 GB USB disk
I ...
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Upgrade to 15.04: is it automatic? Is it safe to reinstall alongside windows?
I'm currently using Ubuntu 14.10, together with Windows 8 as a dual-boot.
I installed Ubuntu first, then Windows, so Ubuntu is my "main OS".
When on 23 April 15.04 will be released, will my current ...
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unable to find my hard drives in ubuntu 14.04 in device [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in my old pc by erasing Windows 7. When I opened my files in Ubuntu, I didn't find my hard drives under Device. The only one option available was Computer.
Is there ...
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How to install from two .ISO images? [duplicate]
I mount the first one, run the Setup (it's a Windows program), and when it asks for DISC 2, I try to unmount the ISO, but it says it can't be unmounted because it's busy, which is obvious.
In Windows, ...
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Do Windows mice work with Ubuntu? [closed]
I want to buy a mouse for my PC, but as I was searching I saw in the product details that it had to have Windows as the OS. I have a Ubuntu/Windows duel boot and I was wondering if mice for Windows ...
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Bootable pendrive for Windows 10 Technical Preview [duplicate]
I want to install Windows 10 Technical Preview. I have downloaded its .iso file. Now I want to make a flash drive bootable. How can I do that?
I already have tried these 2 options.
Making a bootable ...
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Unable to go back to Windows 8.1 after installing Ubuntu for dual boot
I own a Lenovo G500s touch laptop that originally came with Windows 8.1
I followed an online tutorial on how to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu.
As of now, Ubuntu 14.04 loads up just fine after ...
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playing a playlist created in windows
I had created a playlist in windows 8 which was in .wpl format.
I later converted it to .m3u format.
But i am not being able to play from either of the two on my ubuntu 14.04 which is on the same ...
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Cant get back to windows after uninstalling ubuntu
I have a surface pro 3 so I thought about dual booting it with Ubuntu, every thing went fine but I didn't like it because it had some bugs and I couldn't get the type cover to work so I decided to ...
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Can't boot into Ubuntu with Windows 8.1 installed
So you've probably seen this all before, but I have searched around a can't find a fix anywhere.
I installed Ubuntu 14.10 on a 10GB partition of my SSD, said SSD has a much larger partition with ...
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Theoretical question: removing the wrong entry with efibootmgr?
Efibootmgr lists Ubuntu and Windows Boot Manager, as well as two other things that say UEFI (I'll update this with better info later, I'm on mobile). If I were to accidentally remove windows or the ...
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Is it possible to update Ubuntu 14.04 Wubi to 14.10 without having to reinstall? [duplicate]
I know that Wubi is buggy, dead, etc. However, I do not have a spare partition space lying around, ready to use on the computer (running Windows 7, using BIOS not UEFI, was bought way before Win8 was ...
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I want to install Windows 7 alongside Ubuntu 14.04 but I have a problem
I am trying to install Windows 7 alongside my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I went through some answered questions and basically got the idea how to do it from here.
First step is as follows:
First, you have ...
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How to reduce the size of my Ubuntu main partition to be able to install a new OS in dual-boot [duplicate]
I would like to install windows on my system on which I have installed Ubuntu already.I went through a couple of previous answers but I understand that the first thing is to create a partition on the ...
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Ubuntu prompts me for a username and password when i didn't make one for Ubuntu [duplicate]
When I burned Ubuntu to a disc and tried it without installing it prompts me for a username and password when I didn't make one for Ubuntu. Do I keep them blank or do I use my Windows username and ...
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Encrypt USB stick and be able to mount it everywhere
I wonder if there's any way to encrypt the data in my USB stick with a password and be able to access to it once I plug the USB on any computer with Windows/Linux.
I've been trying with VeraCrypt but ...
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adding linux client to windows active directory domain [duplicate]
We have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as client in virtual manager. I have to join it in a network with a system running Windows server 2008.
How can I join a Windows Active Directory?
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Is it safe to access files from Windows 7 partition on Ubuntu partition (all on same HDD)
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS alongside my W7 drive so they're on separate partitions (I let it do the paritioning automatically from the disc). On the launcher in Ubuntu it created a shortcut ...
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Trying to make a Windows 7 USB with UNetBootin, getting error "Failed to load COM32 file menu.c32"
Pretty much what it says on the tin.
I looked around a bit, someone told me to press "Tab" to see a list of options, this is what it yielded.
Verifying DMI Pool Data ....................
Failed to ...
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How to make all file shares without passwords?
New to ubuntu. I'm trying to access it from windows. Shares I created from the desktop worked fine but trying to share my ext hdd using the same method didn't work. I researched it and found you need ...
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If I resize a windows partition for install will that cause data loss?
I have a 40GB hard drive with 26GB free with a single partition with an ntfs file system that I want to install Ubuntu 14.04.2 on.
If I resize the windows partition for the installation, will the ...
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