Windows 10

See also Windows 8

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:

• https://kolbi.cz/blog/2017/11/10/setdefaultbrowser-set-the-default-browser-per-user-on-windows-10-and-server-2016-build-1607/
• https://kolbi.cz/blog/2017/10/25/setuserfta-userchoice-hash-defeated-set-file-type-associations-per-user/

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.