Day: March 2, 2018

Add My PC and other icons on Windows 10 homescreen

Your desktop icons may be hidden. To view them, right-click (or press and hold) the desktop, select View, and select Show desktop icons. To add icons to your desktop such as This PC, Recycle Bin and more:

  • Select Start  > Settings  > Personalization > Themes > Desktop icon settings.

  • Under Desktop Icons, check the boxes next to the icons you would like to have appeared on your desktop.

  • Select Apply and OK.

    Screenshot of the Settings Personalization tab and Desktop Icon Settings menu

Source:
Microsoft Documentation: https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4027090/windows-10-show-desktop-icons

Windows Subsystem for Linux

The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run Linux environments — including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications — directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a virtual machine.

You can:

  1. Choose your favorite Linux distributions from the Windows Store.
  2. Run common command-line utilities such as grep, sed, awk, etc.
  3. Run Bash shell scripts and Linux command-line applications including:
    • Tools: vim, emacs, tmux
    • Languages: Javascript/node.js, Ruby, Python, C/C++, C# & F#, Rust, Go, etc.
    • Services: sshd, MySQL, Apache, lighttpd
  4. Install additional Linux tools using the distribution’s built in package manager (apt-get, for example).
  5. Invoke Windows applications from the Linux console.
  6. Invoke Linux applications on Windows.

More information on installing the windows ubuntu subsystem can be found in the Microsoft documentation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

Uninstall office completely from Microsoft PC

If you run into issues while installing Office 16/ Office 365 on your Windows PC,
Windows provides with a FixTool to remove office from your system and perform a clean install in your system.

The tool can be found at:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/uninstall-office-from-a-pc-9dd49b83-264a-477a-8fcc-2fdf5dbf61d8
(Link as of 3rd March 2018)

Follow the instructions listed on the page and you should have installed Office completely from your system

Windows Product Key

Since Windows 8 Microsoft has made a change in which the product key is delivered to the customer.
Earlier the Product key could have been found on the windows sticker on the windows machine.
Now, most likely you won’t have a product sticker anymore. Instead, they save the Product key in our BIOS/UEFI. This is a pretty nice feature, since now when we reinstall windows it will automatically retrieve Product Key from the BIOS/UEFI.

To retrieve the Product key:

  1. Download RW-EVERYTHING.
    The download can be found here:
    http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/rweverything.html
    Choose the RWPortable. Download it and run the RW.exe
  2. Go to the ACPI button and click on the MSDM. Viola! You have your product key.

 

Snipping Tool and Shortcut in windows

There are many ways to take screenshots in your windows machine:

  1. Method 1:
    Press the PrntScrn button on keyboard, open paint and Ctrl + V to save the picture.
  2. Method 2:
    Open the snipping tool app, click new and save the picture.
  3. Method 3(Snipping tool shortcut):
    Create your own shortcut. Open snipping tool file location and then right click to open properties and add a shortcut.
    Press Ctrl + Alt + S is set as the shortcut, this would open the snipping tools menu. Save the picture as in method 2.
  4. Method 4: ScreenShot
    Press ⊞ Win + PrntScn
  5. Method 5: Windows 10 only
    Press ⊞ Win + Shift + S
    This would copy the image to the clipboard. The users can save it through the tool like paint

Delete Startup entries in Windows

1.

Command Win+R and type in regedit.

      You need to provide administrator permissions in order to make any changes to the registry.

2.  Find the enteries in HKLM(HostKey_LocalMachine) or HKCU(HostKey_CurrentUser). The enteries generally are:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

3. Delete the values that you need to remove.

4. Confirm your changes. Restart your machine to see the changes in effect.