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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/15
About a year and a half ago, JenMsft (Jen Gentleman) pointed me to the cool “Shortcut Guide” part of the Windows PowerToys: [Wayback/Archive] microsoft/PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity.
The PowerToys install is an all or nothing approach which will elevate you as admin during installation:
winget install Microsoft.PowerToys --source winget
From the [Wayback/Archive] PowerToys Shortcut Guide utility for Windows | Microsoft Docs:
Open the shortcut guide with the shortcut key combination: ⊞ Win+Shift+/ (or as we like to think, ⊞ Win+?) or hold down the ⊞ Win for the time as set in the Settings. An overlay will appear showing keyboard shortcuts that use the Windows key, including:
- common Windows shortcuts
- shortcuts for changing the position of the active window
- taskbar shortcuts
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/11
[Wayback/Archive] Frederik Braun �: “Annoyed that a website is doin…” – security.plumbing
Annoyed that a website is doing something custom on right-click?
Did you expect the browser’s context menu (Back, Reload, Save Page As, View Source etc.)?
Just hold the ⇧Shift key while clicking and Firefox will show the built-in context menu.
It reminded me of Windows 11 first crippling the context menu, then allowing shift right-click to show the Windows 10 context menu:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/10
A while ago, Jilles found out why not to use VirtualBox: [Wayback/Archive] Jilles🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “@jpluimers Ik wil op basis van wat de Arch community schreeuwt; “Virtualbox is stom, als je geen hyper-v gebruikt vraag je om problemen”, HYPER-V maar gaan proberen.” / Twitter
The biggest problem is that VirtualBox seems to be developed ant tested for the happy path, not the failing path.
Which means that when you use it for less common scenarios, it will often fail in mysterious ways.
Back in Running ArchiveTeam Warrior version 3.2 on ESXi, I already mentioned this:
Totally agreeing with Kristian Kohntopp, I do not understand why people use VirtualBox at all: I just run in too much issues like [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Hint: Wenn die Installation einer Linux-Distro in Virtualbox mit wechselnden, unbekannten Fehlern scheitert, hilft es, stattdessen einmal VMware Workstation oder kvm zu probieren. In meinem Fall hat es dann *jedes* *einzelne* *Mal* mit *demselben* Iso geklappt.”.
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, ArchiveTeamWarrior, Hyper-V, InternetArchive, Linux, Power User, VirtualBox, Virtualization, VMware, WayBack machine, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/03
Formatting USB sticks in Fat32 on Windows 10 can be a pain, especially when they are larger than 32 gigabyte.
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19043.1081]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\bin>format D: /FS:FAT32
Insert new disk for drive D:
and press ENTER when ready...
The type of the file system is EXFAT.
The new file system is FAT32.
Verifying 239.0 GB
The volume is too big for FAT32.
Format failed.
C:\bin>
This works:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/13
Still need to investigate why every now and then Windows Remote Desktop causes this error:
C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe has been blocked from modifying %userprofile%\Documents\ by Controlled Folder Access.
Related links about EventID numbers 1123, 1124 and 5007:
This is the place in the Settings where you can enable the Controlled Folder Access feature:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/12
TL;DR
I have converted the below PowerShell one-liner into this batch file (the ^| syntax is to ensure the pipe runs within PowerShell, not within the batch file):
PowerShell 'Get-CimInstance -Namespace "Root\cimv2\mdm\dmmap" -ClassName "MDM_EnterpriseModernAppManagement_AppManagement01" ^| Invoke-CimMethod
-MethodName UpdateScanMethod'
The why and how
Since I am a CLI person, and some Windows applications are only available on the Microsoft Store, I wanted to be able to initiate an update cycle from the command-line interface.
So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] microsoft store update all apps from the command-line – Google Search and found these to be valuable:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/08
The internet access for my mentally retarded brother is fully based on whitelists.
It’s a simple reasoning: his mental abilities is basically a fixed box that does not grow. If he gains one part, he loses on another part.
This makes his risks assessments low and unpredictable at best, especially on the rapidly changing internet, hence whitelisting at the router level.
Whitelisting also implicates I need to update the ever changing list of domains that Windows 10 uses to keep newer versions up-to-date.
If you don’t, then you get an error [Wayback] 0xc1900223 while searching for or a applying updates. The description of that error isn’t accurate; what it actually means is that your computer cannot connect to one or more of the many update locations.
These links should help finding the ones for newer Windows versions (at the time of writing, there was no documentation for Windows 10 21H1 or newer):
- [Wayback] Windows 10, version 20H2, connection endpoints for non-Enterprise editions – Windows Privacy | Microsoft Docs
- [Wayback] Windows 10, version 2004, connection endpoints for non-Enterprise editions – Windows Privacy | Microsoft Docs
- [Wayback] Windows 10, version 1909, connection endpoints for non-Enterprise editions – Windows Privacy | Microsoft Docs
- [Wayback] Windows 10, version 1903, connection endpoints for non-Enterprise editions – Windows Privacy | Microsoft Docs
- [Wayback] Windows 10, version 1809, connection endpoints for non-Enterprise editions – Windows Privacy | Microsoft Docs
- [Wayback] Windows 10, version 1803, connection endpoints for non-Enterprise editions – Windows Privacy | Microsoft Docs
- [Wayback] Windows 10, version 1709, connection endpoints for non-Enterprise editions – Windows Privacy | Microsoft Docs
Maybe one day someone makes an overview of these in one big worksheet to easily spot the differences. Until then it is a trial and error process every 6 months or so.
Related: [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Anyone knows when the 21H1 update of these instructions will be available? Need to update the site of my mentally retarded brother. Maybe @shanselman or @JenMsft can help me get in touch with the right people for this?”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/07
I prefer installing applications through the CLI (command-line interface). This way, things can be scripted and installation parameters be stored under version control.
A few months back I published Different ways for installing Windows features on the command line – Peter Hahndorf which wrote way earlier and amended with a few highlights I learned from unsuccessfully trying to Microsoft To Do. Of course that is possible from the GUI by following these links:
- [Wayback/Archive] To Do List and Task Management App | Microsoft To Do
- [Wayback/Archive] Get Microsoft To Do: Lists, Tasks & Reminders – Microsoft Store
But I don’t want GUI, I want CLI as that is way easier to automate than GUI. I knew this should theoretically be possible from my the above winget post.
Putting this to practice however at first failed. Later I found a GUI-based workaround. So this was not possible purely on the CLI.
This post is both a summary of the most important bits and a reminder for myself to check if installing Microsoft Store via [Wayback/Archive] Winget without a Microsoft Store account is still impossible (as when downloading via the GUI from the Microsoft Store site an account is not needed).
winget
First however on how I ended up at winget for anyway were these posts:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 