Windows is a family of client, server, and mobile operating systems, developed by Microsoft.
Windows is a family of client, server, and mobile operating systems, developed by Microsoft.
Questions tagged [windows]
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Has Microsoft stopped offering the free Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image for IE 6 testing?
For some time now, Microsoft has made available free, stripped-down, time-limited Virtual PC images for testing web apps in older versions of IE. The most recent version is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575
But the…
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Unknown CSS font-family oddity with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8
I am seeing the following "oddity" with IE7-10 on Windows Vista, 7, 8:
When declaring font-family: serif; I am seeing an old bitmapped serif font that I can't identify (see screenshot below) instead of the expected font Times New Roman. I know it's…
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Huge difference in visits/hits between IIS logs and google analytics
I use google analytics to monitor visitors access, and I am very happy with it, easy to use blabla, you name it :)
Few days ago I copied IIS logs from website and used free/evaluation commercial log parsers on the market to find out what RAW IIS…
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Rendering of Raleway (Google Web Fonts) in Google Chrome browser
I am using Windows 7 and I have a problem with one of Google Fonts: Raleway. I checked and this font looks very good in Firefox (ver. 34) but in Google Chrome (ver. 39) it looks terrible on my computer. Sometimes I cannot read the text.
I downloaded…
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Why do some user agents have spam urls in them (and why are they always Opera/Presto User-Agents)?
If you go to (say) the last 100 entries (visits) to the botsvsbrowsers.com website (exact link, feel free to take a look: http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/recent/listings/index.html ), you'd notice that almost every User Agent that has the keywords…
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prevent IIS from executing scripts in a specific directory
I have a php web application that allows file uploads to a specific directory.
I would like to prevent the execution of any file that is uploaded into that directory whether it is ASP, PHP, or anything else that may be supported by IIS. I'm already…
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How can I get a breakdown of Windows 32 bit vs Windows 64 bit visitors in Google Analytics?
I am trying to find out how many of my website conversions are from users running on 32 bit or 64 bit Windows operating systems. I can't seem to find this in GA no matter how far I drill down.
I can get down to Windows users running 7, 8, 10 etc,…
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What is the cause of page speed performing extremely poorly on Chrome on Windows and Safari on Linux?
I am more interested in the cause of poor page loading speed on Chrome/Windows, since this combo covers the vast majority of our users.
The average page speed in the last month is 55 seconds for Chrome/Windows and 53 seconds for Safari/Linux (!).…
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PHP 5.6.6 loading but not interpreting in Apache2.4 64 bit Windows
I have installed Apache 2.4.12 (Win64) VC11 from Apache Lounge. Typing httpd -M tells me that php5_module is loaded and shared.
I have PHP 5.6.6 win32 VC11 Thread Safe installed.
The Apache server starts just fine, but when I type in the location of…
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How to exclude Windows desktop from Google Ads
I have a macOS desktop application that I am trying to advertise using a Google Ads Search ad. The application does not work on mobile and it does not work on Windows.
After some research, I have made some bid adjustments and have successfully…
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Add Expires headers to Azure Hosted wordpress
Using Azure Hosted WordPress, I was doing some performance testing for my website via gtmetrix. My reports were suggesting to ‘leverage browser caching’ and ‘add expires headers’ to improve my performance grading.
So Even after updating .htaccess it…
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Can't install XAMPP on my Windows XP computer due to httpd.exe and php.exe no being valid win32 applications
Everytime I install Xampp on my computer installation ends with 2 messages.
C:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe is not a valid win32 application;
C:\xampp\php\php.exe is not a valid win32 application.
Tell me please what's the problem?
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How do I get Windows Server 2012 to prompt me for credentials when I go to a restricted subfolder of my site?
The "Users" group has read access to my entire website so the public can browse my site. Now, I have created an "admin" subfolder which I do not want the public to have access to.
So in the security settings for the folder I specifically denied…
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How do I grant security to my site users to be able to upload files in Windows Server 2012
Using Windows Server 2012 and IIS 8, I want my site users to be able to upload pictures and generate eft files and export files etc. All of these tasks require my users to have write permission to the various folders where these files are saved. …
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Publishing Application on Website
I'm a software developer, and I'm trying to publish some open source software on my site. My software is designed for Windows users, so I want to use a single file "setup.exe" or something likewise.
I currently have a test application and I've…
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