Category: Windows

Microsoft Windows (or simply Windows) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. It consists of several families of operating systems, each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry. Active Windows families include Windows NT, Windows Embedded and Windows Phone; these may encompass subfamilies, e.g. Windows Embedded Compact (Windows CE) or Windows Server. Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x and Windows Mobile.

Windows PowerToys

Windows PowerToys – For Power Users

Open source Utilities developed by Microsoft for For Power Users to get the best out of their windows.

Download: Microsoft PowerToys

Utilities Included (as of 9th July 2021)

  1. Awake – To keep the PC awake on demand.
  2. Color Picker – System-wide color picker.
  3. Fancy Zones – For easily creating windows layouts for multi-tasking.
  4. File Explore Add-ons – To add custom previews(Eg. .svg, .md ) in Windows Explorer
  5. Image Resizer – Quickly resize images by right-clicking on them.
  6. Keyboard Manager – Remap keys and shortcuts.
  7. PowerRename – For Bulk renaming file based on Search and Replace or defined Regex( Right Click –> PowerRename).
  8. PowerToys Run – Quick Launcher ( Alt + Space).
  9. Shortcut Guide – Displays Shortcuts when the Windows key is pressed.

Ubuntu App Filesystem location in Windows

Ubuntu App can be installed in Windows from the windows store.
Different other linux flavours are also available for download here.

To access the file system of this ubuntu system from windows, the following path needs to be looked into:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Packages

The above directory can be accessed in windows file system location:

Run JNLP Program

JNLP

Java Web Start (also known as JavaWS, javaws or JAWS) is a framework developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) that allows users to start application software for the Java Platform directly from the Internet using a web browser. Some key benefits of this technology include seamless version updating for globally distributed applications and greater control of memory allocation to the Java virtual machine.

Run jnlp files

Install the Iced Tea:

sudo apt-get install icedtea-netx icedtea-8-plugin

To run jnlp file, execute it by:

javaws /Directory/xyz.jnlp

Change iced tea settings:

itweb-settings

Known Issues on execution:

java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.io.FilePermission" "/usr/bin/xprop" "execute")

https://dev.openecard.org/boards/2/topics/174

Reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Web_Start

https://askubuntu.com/questions/18792/how-can-i-view-or-start-java-web-start-applications

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.