Windows 10

Tips

Restart in BIOS

Click Restart while holding Shift. This should go to advanced restart menu, and select UEFI thingy.

... this works only from LOGIN screen it seems...

Press Win key, then search for bios. This should prompt for advanced start-up options.

Restart with USB

Click Restart while holding Shift. This should go to advanced restart menu, and select restart in USB thingy.

... this works only from LOGIN screen it seems...

How-to

Disable / remove BitLocker

To remove BitLocker from drive C:

Disable-BitLocker -MountPoint "C:"          # Or: manage-bde -off C:
manage-bde -status
# Wait for completion

To be completed

Shortcut for sleep

Press Win-X, then U, then S [1].
Press Win-D to show the desktop and make sure no windows is in the focus, then Alt-F4. Select sleep.

Manage sleep

References: [2]

Use powercfg commands:

powercfg /requests to show what applications are making requests, that prevents currently the PC to go to sleep.
powercfg -lastwake to show the event that triggered the last wake up.
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed to view which devices are allowed to wake the PC.
powercfg -waketimers to view the wake timers.

To see power related events:

Open event viewer.
Select Event Viewer (Local) > Windows Logs > System.
Right click System, and select Filter Current Log.
In even source, select Power-Troubleshooter.

To prevent a device from waking up the PC:

Go to Device Manager.
Select the devices, then Properties.
In the Power Management tab, uncheck Allow this device to wake the computer.

To disable Wake timer:

Go to Task Scheduler.
Select the task.
Uncheck Wake the computer to run this task.

To disable all wake timers:

Go to power options.
Select Sleep, Allow wake timers, select Disable

To disable wake for maintenance:

Go to Security and Maintenance
Click the up arrow on the right of Maintenance.
This opens up Automatic Maintenance.
Uncheck Allow scheduled maintenance to wake up my computer at the scheduled time.

Set default browser via the Command-line

Reference:

Create a script setbrowser.bat, and save it to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup:

   "C:\Program Files\SetDefaultBrowser\SetDefaultBrowser.exe" HKLM "Google Chrome"

Create a symbolic link

In Power shell

if (Test-Path "C:\Users\$env:UserName\Some\Path") {
    new-item -itemtype symboliclink -path 'C:\Some\' -name SomeName -value "C:\Users\$env:UserName\Some\Path" -force
}

Add application to startup

Win-R, type shell:startup, Enter, this opens up the Startup folder.
Copy-paste the shortcut of the apps to start in that folder.

HDD/SSD to SSD migration (with dual bool)

In Windows:

Disable hibernation (recommended): powercfg -h off (in admin shell).
Make a recover media (mandatory). Better include system files.

In Ubuntu:

# https://superuser.com/questions/1030208/transferring-windows-10-to-new-hard-drive
sudo lsblk  # Find relevant devices
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16M status=progress

Reboot. Get blue screen. Boot in recovery media. Try auto-repair, but it fails. Go to command line:

sfc /SCANNOW /OFFBOOTDIR=C:\ /OFFWINDIR=C:\Windows # can also set a log file, but mostly useless

Exit. Try auto-repair again. Should run a chkdsk, but says it fail to fix. Reboot, it should work now.

Troubleshoot

Search bar not responding in start menu

Reference [3].

Must disable Bing search:

REG ADD HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search /v BingSearchEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
REG ADD HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search /v CortanaConsent /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Microsoft Edge not opening

Error Code: STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_HASH
sysfer.dll

https://textslashplain.com/2019/09/27/aw-snap-every-tab-crashes/.
Update Symantec.
Disable integrity brol. Update shortcut properties: msedge.exe --disable-features=RendererCodeIntegrity

Remove keyboard from Language Bar

Two keyboards appearing in the Language Bar even though only one listed in language preferences

This is a bug [4]
Add the keyboard again, and remove it.

Unpin permanently internet explorer from taskbar

We have the old IE icon in taskbar, and it keeps come back after restart.

Fix

Follow superuser.com
Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\LayoutModification.xml. Remove the line:

 </DefaultLayoutOverride>
   <CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection PinListPlacement="Replace">
   <defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
     <taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
     -- items were here - removed
     </taskbar:TaskbarPinList>
   </defaultlayout:TaskbarLayout>
 </CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection>

Remote desktop fail

When connecting to remote PC (running Windows 7):

An authentication error has occurred.
The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted

Remote computer: zavcwd0042.zav.st.com
This could be due to an expired password.
Please update your password if it has expired.
For assistance, contact your administraor or technical support.