Tag: windows
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How to install Windows 11 with a local account
It is very difficult to persuade Windows 11 to install with a local account. If you don’t connect wifi – choose and option like “I don’t have internet/wifi” then it will allow it but if you do connect wifi then Microsoft forces you to have a Microsoft account. To disconnect wifi I used the Accessibility…
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Why you should use a Windows 10 PIN
Windows 10 suggests that you use a PIN to login to your computer and says that this is more secure than a password. These seems odd because obviously there are fewer possible values. This article explains the reasoning about PINs. In short, your Microsoft Account credentials are the crown jewels that you want to protect.…
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How to connect to your Outlook.com contacts and calendar on an Android phone
As a freelancer I like to use the powerful Desktop Outlook client to manage my calendar and contacts. Unfortunately this stores all its data in .pst files which are very unreliable. It is far better to use web based calendaring and contact management. To do this but still use Desktop Outlook I am in the…
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List files, directories and sizes at the command prompt
Any Windows system administrator frequently has to find out why a disk is full and my favourite tool for this is Windirstat. Unfortunately Windirstat does not easily allow you to export the results to a CSV file for analysis. I intend to import the CSV file into Excel and then create a pivot table that…
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Turn your laptop into a WiFi hotspot
I travel to client’s offices and sometimes I might have a wired network connection but no WiFi connection. This sometimes happens when the WiFi is strongly secured or no-one knows the password. In this case it is really useful to be able to turn my laptop into a WiFi hotspot so I can use my…
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“copy as path” on the right-click menu in Windows Explorer
How many thousands of time have I copied the directory of a file onto the clipboard and then manually typed in the file name. Amazingly if you simply “shift” + “right click” on a file in Windows Explorer then the option “Copy as path” appears. It’s that simple. If you need further guidance look here.…
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The future of Windows
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/j34uJD7Eoiw/ This is a very insightful article that shows how Microsoft could be planning to reconcile the different needs of consumers and businesses and reduce the licensing and support burden. Some key points: There will only be Windows, not Windows 9, 10, 11 … which will all require different support cycles This will be possible because…
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Better than Apple Time Machine but for a PC
— Update 2016-01-03 read about my new approach to backup — Over the last month I’ve learnt a lot about backup. There had been significant structural changes over the last few years, disc is cheap, bandwidth is inexpensive and remote storage is coming down in price dramatically. It is necessary to address two different issues,…
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Tiny 64GB usb stick is like another laptop hard drive
One problem with laptops is that that only have one drive. This limits space and data redundancy. This tiny USB drive is designed to be installed permanently in your laptop. An added bonus is that it could be bootable. Thus giving you access either to a linux machine or recovery media for the laptop while…
Dr James Bayley 