Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/27
Nice html report of your battery state in Windows 8 and 10 where 14 is the number of days:
powercfg /batteryreport /output "%temp%\battery_report.html" /Duration 14
start "View Report" "%temp%\battery_report.html"
Source: Battery history on Windows 10 (and maybe older versions?) I was wondering if I…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/17
If you use everything search from VoidTools, then don’t be surprised that pressing Ctrl-T makes it “Always On Top”:
Ctrl-T sets “Always On Top”
Of course this is not defined in “Tools” -> “Options”.
I forgot in which version this was introduced, as in the past I never stumbled over it on keyboards that have Ctrl and Alt reversed.
–jeroen
via: www.voidtools.com • View topic – Everything window is ‘Always On Top’
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/15
One day I write some scripts based on:
Some starting materials are at:
A thing I learned is that the Microsoft Remote Desktop 8 is basically a rebranded iTap RDP (it looks like Microsoft bought iTap RDP for Mac, as iTap RDP for Mac is now discontinued)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/13
[WayBack] Microsoft Is Spamming Windows 10 File Explorer With Ads For OneDrive Storage – Slashdot… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+ has steps to find and remove the packages you do not want to:
Powershell
Get-AppxPackage > List.txt
...
Get-AppxPackage Advertising | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage bingfinance | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage bingnews | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage bingsports | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage bingweather | Remove-AppxPackage
Background info at [WayBack] Microsoft Is Spamming Windows 10 File Explorer With Ads For OneDrive Storage – Slashdot
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/09
Lets start with the second problem: There are various ways to redirect PowerShell output to a file.
>) to create/overwrite output or two greater than signs (>>) to append output.-FilePath (default, similar to >) or -Append (similar >>).I write “similar” as they are not fully equivalent. That’s where Format-Table [WayBack] with the -AutoSize parameter comes in (with or without a -Wrap parameter).
Apart from Format-Table displaying only 10 columns by default (see below), the -AutoSize will change columns presentation depending not just on the -Wrap parameter but also to the total width it thinks it has available.
Format-Table parametersFirst the representation:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/22
A while ago, I bitched that Microsoft moved away the Windows Update out of the Control panel into a language depended place (in Windows 10 1511 update broke the Hyper-V networking – Fix network connection issues).
Since then I had to maintain too many locales running Windows 10. So here is the batch file:
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('PowerShell -Command "(Get-Culture).Name"') do explorer "%LocalAppData%\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Indexed\Settings\%%A\AAA_SystemSettings_MusUpdate_UpdateActionButton.settingcontent-ms"
It uses these tricks:
It replaced this simple batch-file which has worked for like 10 years:
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler wuapp.exe
–jeroen
via: Windows Update Shortcut – Create in Windows 10 – Windows 10 Forums
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/21
… there’s no need to use WaitForMultipleObjects in Step 2. It’s fairly easy to keep a counter of active threads in the pool (interlocked-incremented when a thread starts, interlocked-decremented when a thread is finished). When the counter reaches zero (no more active threads), signal an event. With only one event to wait for, you can use WaitForSingleObject…
So no more 64-thread (MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS) limits for pools…
Source: Delphi and stuff: The strange limitation of 64 threads
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/30
If you use Windows Search (I don’t: I use Everything by VoidTools), your Windows.edb can grow ridiculously large. It is a single file, though it appears to be in two places because there is a symbolic link from C:\Users\All Users to C:\ProgramData :
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb
C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb
This is how to reduce its size:
How to offline defrag the index
- Change the Windows Search service so that it does not automatically start. To do this, run the following command in cmd.exe:
sc config wsearch start= disabled- Run the following command to stop the Windows Search service:
net stop wsearch- Run the following command to perform offline compaction of the Windows.edb file:
esentutl.exe /d %AllUsersProfile%\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb- Run the following command to change the Windows Search service to delayed start:
sc config wsearch start= delayed-auto- Run the following command to start the service:
net start wsearch
Notes:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Projects\SystemIndex\Indexer\CiFiles\ directory:
Windows Update uses the same database structure and is a single file:
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb
This is how I reduced its size:
net stop wuauserv net stop bits esentutl.exe /d C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb net start bits net start wuauserv
Talking about Windows Update: you might also want to Clean Up the WinSxS Folder
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/02
Via:
Joe C. Hecht – G+
Windows 7 Disk Images – Is it just me I have noticed that my Windows 7 backup disk images fail when Windows update applies security updates, if the images are more than 2 “Monthly RollUps” old. When I click the update webpage for help, Microsoft the server returnes a “page not found”. Is Microsoft trying to tell me something?
I noticed this as well for VMs that I hardly use (and can be dormant for months): updating them takes forever and I could not find the cause.
The cause seems Microsoft changing the locations for updates, but not having the updater update in the old location any more: [WayBack] Changes to Security Update Links – MSRC.
Solution: manually download the update MSU files for your Windows + architecture combination in a directory, copying a batch file there, then run the batch file.
More details at “Solution to the long search for Windows Updates on a newly installed Windows 8.1, 7 SP1 or Vista SP2”:
Yes, you have to fiddle a bit with the WUAUSERV service, but then everything should work out well.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Windows 7 Disk Images – Is it just me I have noticed that my Windows 7 backup…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/01
The difference in changing your primary email of an Apple ID and a Microsoft ID:
Small but important difference…
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 