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Windows 8.1

How to Fix “the operation could not be completed (error 0x00000709)”

October 3, 2020 by Stefan
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There are times when you may have encountered problems with your printer, in which you were unable to set a printer as default, and it throws an error: “The operation could not be completed” with an error code 0x00000709. In …

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Make Validity Fingerprint Sensor (5011) Work on Windows 8.1 [How to]

May 29, 2020October 19, 2014 by Gayan
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Validity Fingerprint Sensor 5011 that came with my Dell Vostro V131, stopped working after I switched to Windows 8.1. I actually never quite used it that much (even in Windows 7 that came pre-installed), and as a result, was only aware …

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Windows 8 vs. Ubuntu 12.10: File Copy Performance Comparison

May 29, 2020November 1, 2012 by Gayan
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I remember the days where GNU/Linux took like forever to finish checking a disk, which was not more than a couple of Gigabytes in size, where the same task in Windows would be done a few times faster, and how …

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Shutdown Windows 8 Easily Using ‘Quick Shutdown’

May 29, 2020October 30, 2012 by Gayan
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In the newly released Windows 8, due its new user interface design, among other things, locating the shutdown (plus’ reboot’ and ‘sleep’) button can also be a little bit difficult. There are many ways to do it. But the easiest …

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