Category Archives: Windows 10

Windows Terminal

Posted on Saturday 22 June 2019 by richardsiddaway

Microsoft have released the first preview of the new Windows Terminal to the Windows store – https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-microsoft-store-preview-release/ Its currently only available for Windows 10 v18362 or later. The terminal is a replacement for the very elderly Windows console – used … Continue reading →

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WSL improvements

Posted on Sunday 19 May 2019 by richardsiddaway

Windows Subsystem fro Linux – WSL improvements have been recently announced – https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/ WSL 2 is on the way which will allow more Linux apps in WSL including Docker A Linux kernel will ship with Windows especially tuned for WSL … Continue reading →

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Windows sandbox

Posted on Saturday 5 January 2019 by richardsiddaway

The recent Windows 10 Insider builds (18305) have introduced a Windows sandbox feature. This is a new light weight desktop environment for testing software. A new sandbox is created every time you need one and EVERYTHING in the sandbox is … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 install wasting my time

Posted on Friday 2 November 2018 by richardsiddaway

I’ve just made the mistake of installing Windows 10 Insider preview build 18272 from the iso. The only thing I can say is that Windows 10 install wasting my time. The install proceeds as you would expect but then once … Continue reading →

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Birthday present from Microsoft

Posted on Wednesday 3 October 2018 by richardsiddaway

I’ve had an early birthday present from Microsoft. They named the latest Windows version after my birthday – Windows 10 October 2018 https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/10/02/find-out-whats-new-in-windows-and-office-in-october/ Thank you. The install media is available on MSDN and the update should start to be available … Continue reading →

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Set active hours

Posted on Thursday 15 March 2018 by richardsiddaway

Last time time you saw how to get the current active hours. This is how you set the active hours. $sb = {   Set-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\Settings -Name ActiveHoursStart -Value 10 -PassThru   Set-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\Settings -Name ActiveHoursEnd -Value 22 -PassThru } … Continue reading →

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Get Active Hours

Posted on Wednesday 14 March 2018 by richardsiddaway

Windows 10 and Server 2016 (and later) have the concept of active hours. These are the hours you define as working hours in effect. This is how you get active hours for a system $sb = {   param([string]$computerName)      $ahs … Continue reading →

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Windows update module

Posted on Tuesday 28 November 2017 by richardsiddaway

A Windows Update module is available on Windows versions 1709 and later. This includes Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Windows Server 1709 and Windows Insider previews (Server and Client) post the 1709 release. The module supplies the following cmdlets Get-WUAVersion … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Posted on Thursday 26 October 2017 by richardsiddaway

The Windows 10 fall Creators Update arrived this morning. After the usual long download, install and then updating bits after I first log on (that last bit is really irritating – thought it was going away) I got into the … Continue reading →

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You have to laugh

Posted on Thursday 27 July 2017 by richardsiddaway

Sometimes things just happen and you have to laugh. So I decided I wanted to get back to working with the Windows 10 Insider previews (and Windows Server previews). This time I decided to use VMs rather than my working … Continue reading →

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