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Sometimes, you want to bypass the OS selection when installing Windows. For example, you want to install the same Windows edition on multiple computers, or you want to install a Windows guest VM automatically.
By default, the Microsoft Store is not available on Windows LTSC editions. You cannot find it from the Windows Search.
When you copy a file from one location to another on your computer, a new file is created with new timestamp. This is quite annoying if you want to manage photos imported from digital camera or mobile phone by taken date.
Netcat is a network security tool that administrators can use for a variety of network operations, such as checking open ports, transferring data over a network connection, and security assessments.
There are three types of Windows licenses: Retail, OEM, or Volume. If you’re wondering what the difference is or which version you have, here’s all you need to know.
Windows 10 and 11 come with many built-in Store apps that may not be useful to you. As you may have known, PowerShell allows you to uninstall individual apps or all apps using a single command.
In early builds of Windows 10, no user interface option was provided in the Settings to remove a preinstalled Store app (UWP). On those builds, the only way was to use PowerShell to remove or reinstall the apps.
The latest version of Windows Terminal comes with a lot of new features. My favorite feature is center on launch. It will open Terminal window at the center of screen every time open a new session.
Windows 10 or Windows 11 ISO files downloaded from Microsoft will have descriptive names, depending upon the variant you downloaded. The file name depicts the language, version, build edition, and the bitness of the Operating System contained in the ISO.
When using OSD ISO files to deploy the operating system to multiple virtual machines without manual intervention, the recurring prompt “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD” became bothersome. Unfortunately, there is no way to bypass this prompt through a parameter or option.