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Windows 10 lets you 'schedule' a reboot for later. I want to disable it.
Evidently Windows scheduled itself for a reboot last night when I wasn't looking and just closed everything I had been working on the night before.
I reboot on the regular; I…
On my SSD machine, the C:\Windows\Installer folder is massive and takes up about 15% of my total disk space.
Is there a way to clean up that folder without killing Windows 8.1/10? Tucking away the installers on the OS partition seems wasteful.
When I start bash on Windows Subsystem for Linux, it drops me in the directory
/mnt/c/Users/
When I ls this directory, I see the directories Desktop, Documents, etc. that I can see are in C:\Users\ using the Windows File…
After installing Windows 10 on my Surface Pro 3 it took my user name 'Jeremy' and created a user folder named C:\Users\jerem.
I want to rename the folder C:\Users\Jeremy. The procedure for Windows 8 does not work. There are a couple of…
Is it possible to reboot the Ubuntu sub-system without restarting my system?
I tried to use the shutdown command after installing some updates, but that doesn't seem to be an option here.
The screenshot text :
~$ bin/rcheck.sh
Reboot required.
~$…
So I recently did a clean install of Windows 10 English. I configured it to have English UI language but Norwegian keyboard. I have several problems with that setup:
The keyboard language keeps switching to English constantly
I can't see the…
I'm encountering a strange problem on my W10 computer, for a few days my arrow keys have been "driving" my mouse pointer. Pressing the left arrow key will move the pointer a few pixels left, etc.
The first thing that came to my mind was "Oh well, I…
We are having trouble adding our batch scripts to the Windows 7, 8 or 10 taskbar or start menu.
Our batchfiles take some arguments and just execute other application based on those arguments .
To keep it simple, we created some shortcuts for our…
Windows 10 has Cortana, which I don't like. I disabled it as soon as I could. However, looking in Task Manager, the process for Cortana is still running, and can't be effectively terminated: ending the task simply results in the process respawning a…
How do you stop a Windows 10 Desktop waking up from the sleeping/hibernated power state without user intervention?
For lots of users this won't be an issue but, if you sleep in the same room as your PC, then having your machine wake up at 3:30AM to…
Windows 10 introduced Task View - the ability to have multiple virtual desktops. When I am in a window on Desktop 1, what's the quickest way to move it to Desktop 2?
Currently, I need to enter the task switcher (icon in the Taskbar or Win + Tab),…
How do I set a system environment variable in Windows 10 (without using the registry editor)?
(Note: Other answers don't specifically address Windows 10 - at least not yet - and they leave off important steps - like how to open the control panel -…
Occasionally, a forced restart is happening on my Windows 10 computer.
When the OS is restarted every program that I've had prior to the restart is reopened at startup. The programs are reopened like I would just double-click them.
I usually hold…
This is strange issue I have observed. I installed Active Python 2.7 on Windows 10 (version 1903).
On typing “python” from search, opens the Python 2.7 prompt but when I type from command prompt window, it triggers the Microsoft Store.
Don't know…
Update: this is a lengthy post, you can jump straight to the answer below
Note: The quick language list refers to the list in the screenshot below, accessible throught the shortcut Win + Space bar
I have two languages for windows spell check in my…
