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Windows 11, 64-bit, Firefox certutil.exe [closed]
I’m trying to get Windows 11, 64-bit, Firefox certutil.exe to programmatically import my cert into Firefox. I’ve tried Windows Visual Studio, Ubuntu, MSYS2_MINGW64 with varying degrees of success. I ...
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Setting a window as wallpaper [closed]
So I am trying to make my own wallpaper engine (for Windows 11) to render OpenGL shaders on my desktop wallpaper. However, I am facing a problem. I found out that I need to get a WorkerW window and ...
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VSCode stuck in "Opening remote" / "No WSL distros found" error
It was working fine a couple of days ago, now it's stuck in "Opening remote".
An error is shown on a toast saying: "No WSL distros found. New distros can be installed from the Microsoft ...
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How accurate does the WIN32_FIND_DATA returned by IFileSystemBindData have to be?
I want to convert from using SHFileOperation to IFileOperation, but IFileOperation requires an IShellItem for each file. I don't want to create actual IShellItems, because I want the shell to handle ...
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Can't debug Javascript in WebView2 in a Windows c# app in VS2022
In Visual Studio 2022, I would like to set breakpoints, watch variables, and log output from the Javascript of a WebView2 component used in a Windows app written in C#.
This should be possible, ...
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How can I emulate Linux secure delete (shred, dd, wipe) on Windows? [closed]
On Linux, tools like shred, dd, or wipe can securely delete files or even overwrite an entire disk to make data unrecoverable.
On Windows, the normal delete just removes file references, and the data ...
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RuntimeException: System.Management.Automation.CmdletInvocationException: Illegal characters in path. ---> System.ArgumentException: [closed]
I have a windows service which is running as expected. It runs a powershell script on the machine. It was working fine before 3 days, but not it has started giving the runtime excption on windows 11 ...
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ida pro produced asm.file
I'm using IDA PRO for disassembling certain retro games and I have encountered a problem I can't fix anyhow.
I can export the .asm file with the disassembled code but it seems like I can't export the ...
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RDP "console session in progress" error when connecting via loopback IPs [closed]
I’m encountering an issue with the Remote Desktop Connection app on Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025.
When attempting to connect to RDP through any IP that resolves to the loopback adapter (e.g., ...
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What exactly happens on --user-mode-networking on WSL2? [closed]
When I create a podman machine with
podman machine init --user-mode-networking myvm
it creates a new network interface called podman-usermode.
From the podman documentation we know:
Since WSL shares ...
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ftell() no more returning the correct offset on a text file with Windows 11 Enterprise
A few weeks ago (August 7th, 2025) an old C program started corrupting its output file and after investigation, I found the ftell() function is no more returning the correct offset in a text file.
I ...
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FTDI Communication Problem with Pylibftdi on a Windows Machine
I have a Digilent Nexys Video Artix-7 FPGA development board. This board has two Micro USB ports. One is used for UART-USB communication, and the other one for uploading bitstreams(as a JTAG). I ...
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How to read and collect event log files from different operating systems using Python? [closed]
I am developing an agent (like a lightweight EDR/log collector) in Python.
My goal is to collect system/application/security/network logs across different operating systems:
Windows: Event Viewer ...
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Are filesystem operations thread safe? [closed]
If I write to the filesystem from multiple threads or separate processes, are the operations atomic/guaranteed to be free from race issues?
For example, I write application logic where a program ...
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How to specify x64 emulation flag (EC_CODE) for shared memory sections for ARM64 Windows?
I'm working on an application that uses shared memory sections between processes on Windows (for an IPC mechanism between processes, where one process generates code that is executed by another ...
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