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Solved: trouble trying to create a new Microsoft Account looping back to the image/audio puzzle after solving it. Solution: use Firefox.

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/15

Message: "Please solve the puzzle so we know you're not a robot."I had trouble creating a Microsoft Account (so I could hand out on-line Office Licenses to users) where each time after solving the image or audio puzzle, it would shortly display a success, then loop back to the puzzle.

So I wrote a [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App as I got stuck even before trying to add a Microsoft Account on any on m’y devices Windows 11 or Windows 10. It started with

[Wayback/Archive] Hi @MicrosoftHelps, I have a different problem. When creating an account using Edge on Windows 10 (latest version of both; no plugins; Microsoft Defender in default settings), solving the puzzle loops back to “Please solve the puzzle so we know you’re not a robot.”

The odd thing is that it did not work in either Edge or Chrome (both based on Chromium which uses the Blink browser engine) even in the anonymous/private browsing mode (InPrivate for Edge or Incognito Mode for Chrome).

Even Firefox had trouble, despite it being based on a totally different Gecko browser engine: after solving the puzzle it would continue but instead of displaying success, it showed an error page (the error page also occurred in the Firefox Private Browsing mode):

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Task Manager themed dark on dark in Windows 11 version 22H2 is a known issue (thanks @jenmsft)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/13

A known Windows Insider bug has entered the Windows 11 release: Task Manager will show wrong colours (on my stock Dell Windows 11 installs, see below, it will be dark on dark) under certain custom Windows colour settings (“Choose your mode” set to “Custom”).

Edit 20221214: it got fixed

OS Build 22621.963 [Wayback/A] KB5021255 fixed this on Patch Tuesday (which arrived on my machines later than my original publication), see [Wayback/Archive] December 13, 2022—KB5021255 (OS Build 22621.963) – Microsoft Support

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useful commands that can be used after clean installation of Windows 10

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/12

Lot’s of installation tips in [Wayback/Archive] useful commands that can be used after clean installation of Windows 10.

It includes PackageProvider installation for NuGet, Chocolatey, ChocolateyGet (Chocolatey via OneGet), and use of both winget and scoop.

–jeroen

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Windows software glyph inputs: on-screen keyboard,

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/09

  • OSK.exe (on-screen keyboard) has been available for a very long time; it’s just a basic software keyboard (with optional numeric keypad)
  • Emoji input (Windows + . or Windows + ;)
  • Touch keyboard is part of the Notification Area (often called Icon Tray), has various layouts including a “handwriting recognition” one
    • It can be started automatically when you do not have a keyboard attached.

Note that Charmap.exe cannot select and copy Emoji, but it can do accented charcters.

Alternatively, you can install an international keyboard layout, but I have found out the hard way that fails in some combinations or remoting tools (sometimes including RDP).

More on this:

I tried starting the Touch Keyboard through other means (like tabtip.exe), but those failed on the Windows 10 machines I tried.

Via:

–jeroen

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Some links on the Visual Studio Code terminal and known issues

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/08

For my link archive: some links related to the Visual Studio Code built-in terminal and its’ known issues.

All of the above links started when I looked for [Wayback/Archive] vscode terminal wikipedia – Google Search.

–jeroen

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Windows 10 22H2 ISO download hashes

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/02

Since [Wayback/Archive] Download Windows 10 Disc Image (ISO File) hides this only to after you download, below is the complete list of Windows 10 22H2 ISO hashes.

For your convenience, Microsoft did not put it in alphabetic order (for instance, Dutch comes after Norwegian). For a few I downloaded I have added the ISO filenames (which for your convenience too is not included by Microsoft). Oh: note that “English” without any marker means “US English” (which has non-metric defaults, non-ISO page sizes, and odd date formats).

BTW: I wonder if there is a link for Windows 11 Disk Image (ISO File) as https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11ISO gives a 404 error.

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I switched from SysInternals’ TcpView to NirSoft’s CurrPorts (cports)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/18

I was a long time user of SysInternals‘ TcpView, but a while back I switched to NirSoft‘s CurrPorts (cports).

The main reason is that TcpView does not support filtering, which in the long past was not a problem since few Windows applications keep TCP connection open.

But nowadays with so many network dependencies, especially when using cloud services like DropBox/OneDrive/GoogleDrive/backblaze, these clutter the view a lot.

NirSoft’s CurrPorts (actually the executable is called [Wayback/Archive] cports.exe) can filter for both inclusion/exclusion on the open ports list based on many parameters (search for the “Using Filters” section in the cports.exe documentation: it’s a little bit below the version history).

The filtering syntax is extensive, and for ease of use, the context menu of the open ports list allows adding include/exclude filters on various parameters. After doing that, you can inspect the filter list to get an idea of possibilities and syntax.

For me, the easiest way to install CurrPorts is through [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CurrPorts 2.65.

I found CurrPorts when trying to figure out how to use filters in TcpView: [Wayback/Archive] tcpview filter by process – Google Search

–jeroen

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Installing vscode extensions from within the Visual Studio Code terminal was way easier than I anticipated

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/09

Having missed quite a lot of Visual Studio Code releases during my metastasised rectum cancer treatment and recovery, it had become both very mature, but also very reliant of having the right extensions installed.

In that period, the extension marketplace grew remarkably, so I really wanted an easy way to install them from within the inside vscode integrated Windows Terminal.

A while ago I wrote How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? (via: Stack Overflow), which generated a small script with code --install-extension <extension-name> lines so I could executed those from the command-line for Visual Studio installations on new machines.

Boy was I surprised that you can just as well execute them from the [Wayback/Archive] Integrated Terminal in Visual Studio Code as well (:

When doing so, the Visual Studio Code instance around that Integrated Terminal will automatically pick up the new extension.

I found that with a [Wayback/Archive] vscode install extension from within visual studio code console – Google Search and bumping in the video also embedded below the signature: [Archive] VS Code tips — Installing extensions from the command line using –install-extension – YouTube.

The video also showed that the installation syntax can also include the version number like this:

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Reminder to self: check to see the state of winget and if it is possible to install Windows Store applications from the command-line

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/02

While undergoing many treatments against rectum cancer, I saved the below tweets with a marker “The new windows package manager: aka.ms/winget“.

[Wayback/Archive] aka.ms/winget

Well, actually the first tweet is gone, now, but archived as [Wayback/Archive] Stefan Stranger on Twitter: “New Windows Package Manager #MSBuild2020… “

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PowerShell: working around Get-NetFirewallRule not showing all the fields that Set-NetFirewallRule allows you to set

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/10/26

With APIs, you always hope that Get and Set methods mirror each other. More often than not, they don’t.

Take for instance these two:

They are far from symmetric: [Wayback/Archive] Get-NetFirewallRule shows far less than [Wayback/Archive] Set-NetFirewallRule allows you to set (first and foremost the various port related properties). It can be worked around though.

There are a few posts discussing this, of which I think these two are the most important:

Both above posts via [Wayback/Archive] “Get-NetFirewallRule” “LocalPort” – Google Search.

This is what I was after:

PowerShell "Get-NetFirewallRule -Name 'RemoteDesktop-UserMode-In-TCP' | Select-Object Name,DisplayName,Enabled,Direction,@{Name='Protocol';Expression={($PSItem | Get-NetFirewallPortFilter).Protocol}},Action,@{Name='LocalPort';Expression={($PSItem | Get-NetFirewallPortFilter).LocalPort}}"

Or actually:

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