Windows 10

For testing purposes or as a simple stub at the service deployment stage, I regularly need to run a simple web server on Windows. To avoid a full-featured IIS installation,…

This article describes how to update Windows PowerShell to the latest version 5.1 and how to install (upgrade) PowerShell Core 7.3. There are currently two branches of PowerShell: The classic…

Branded computers/laptops that come with Windows pre-installed usually have a hidden hardware manufacturer OEM recovery partition.  This partition usually contains a manufacturer’s Windows reference image, which can be used to…

After deploying a new WSUS server on our corporate network, many Windows clients were unable to receive updates from the server with the error 0x80244010. It turns out that this…

When starting a new service or app on Windows, you may find that the port you want to use is already occupied (listening) by another program (process). This article will…

You can use the Import-CSV PowerShell cmdlet to read the contents of a CSV file. Once you load the contents of the CSV file, you get a PowerShell object in…

When started, some programs require permission elevation (the shield next to the app icon), but actually, they don’t need administrator privileges for their normal operation. For example, you can manually…

In Windows, you can manage the settings for your network adapters not only from the GUI but also from the PowerShell command prompt. In this article, we’ll look at the…

You can use the open-source usbipd-win project to access a computer’s physical USB devices from the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) or Hyper-V virtual machine. This tool allows you to…

To take a screenshot in Windows, use the PrintScreen or Alt + PrintScreen (get the screenshot of the active window). The screenshot is copied to the clipboard and you may…