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The HP Envy series is a line of laptops and other products manufactured and sold by Hewlett-Packard.

The Envy line mainly competes against Acer's Aspire, Dell's Inspiron and XPS, Lenovo's IdeaPad and Toshiba's Satellite.

HP has branded desktops and even printers with the Envy label.

HP Envy's page at Wikipedia has more information.

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Why does WMI Provider Host (WmiPrvSE.exe) keep spiking my CPU?

I generally keep my laptop on 24x7, and at the end of the day it's really annoying to have my thighs burnt because over overheating. The overheating seems to be a result of WMI Provider Host (WmiPrvSE.exe) spiking the CPU utilization to 25% every…
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How to print multiple copies of one page, multiple pages per sheet in Windows 10?

I have a document which will print on a single sheet of A4 paper. I want to produce multiple copies of this at the A5 size. I wish to do this by printing two copies of each page per A4 sheet. Then later I shall manually trim the A4 sheets in half,…
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Laptop wifi card doesn't look like I expect

I've been having intermittent problems with the Internet connection of my HP Envy, which has an Atheros Wifi card. Some googling indicates that this is a fairly common problem with these laptops. I contacted HP, and after an attempt at a software…
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Enabling AMD Catalyst Driver in Windows 8 causes Laptop display to be turned off

I have a 2010 HP Envy 14 which has a hybrid Intel HD IGP/ AMD 5650 Discrete GPU running on Windows 8. Off late, my laptop has had problems overheating, which was a result of the system fan not working. During the process of "verifying" that the…
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windows 10 fingerprint: sorry, something went wrong

I have HP envy with a fingerprint reader. Few months ago, the reader was working fine, but then it suddenly stopped. I went to the settings to set up it again, and the windows showed me the following message: Each time I try to set up the…
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Xorg is using 80% cpu usage

Xorg is constantly using about 80% cpu power, on a single core. And I have no idea how to get it normalised I'm running Linux Mint 10 on an HP Envy 17 laptop with an AMD/ATI card.
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HP Envy screen brightness gets stuck

Once in a while, the screen brightness stops responding to any reason, and stays on full brightness. For those of you that have HP Envy, you know what this means: battery suicide. The FN+* controls don't work. I also tried going in to power settings…
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Windows 10 and Condusiv's expresscache

Has anyone been able to get their ExpressCache working with Windows 10? I've tried to reinstall but ECCMD still says the driver could not be found. I'm using an HP Envy desktop. I've seen some activity about this on the lenovo forum as well as the…
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How to column select in Sublime Text 2 on a HP Envy laptop

I want to be able to column select in Sublime Text 2 on my HP Envy laptop (p/n: J4Z51EA#UUW) using the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+Up or Ctrl+Alt+Down. By default, these shortcuts were used by Intel HD driver but that could be disabled using the…
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HP Envy 17-3070nr locks up

I am running into a troubling problem, and would like to ask if there are any diagnostic tools that might help. My laptop, a HP Envy 17-3070nr, is locking up if left on for long periods of time. I've checked the System Event Viewer, and cannot seem…
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Computer lags an unreasonable amount after recent wipe and load; specs and details inside

Laptop specs: i7 Q720 @ 1.60GHz ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series (this is what device manager lists it at but it should be 5830 to be exact) 6 GB of RAM It's an HP Envy 15-1000se CTO, other specs can be reviewed based on that model. Eliminated…
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Ubuntu 15.10 HP Envy x360 Touchscreen not working after resume from suspend

I've got a HP Envy x360 laptop upon an initial boot the touch screen works. but after suspending the touchscreen no longer functions. Doing some research I believe the module responsible for this is hid_multitouch. Reloading the module via rmmod…
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Fedora 18 severe overheating HP Envy 4 1002tx in Gnome shell

I recently installed Fedora 18 x86_64bit version in dual boot mode on my HP Envy 4 1002tx machine and whenever I log into the Gnome shell I am facing very sever overheating of my laptop base and the there is a very loud sound like a very fast moving…
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Ctrl key is broken on HP Envy is broken, where can I find a replacement

I work as a developer so I have to use key combinations a lot. And I have HP Envy laptop. And the Ctrl key is broken for the second time. First time I just took one from my friend. But I don't have any more friends who are willing to sacrifice…
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HP ENVY Photo 7100 only works through HP Smart

I have an HP ENVY Photo 7100 series printer. My control panel says that it's offline and I can't print documents the regular way (print queue also says offline), but HP Smart says it's online, and I can print PDFs using "Print Documents" in HP…
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