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Category: Windows 🠪 Issues Enhanced Copy and Paste | November 30, 2023 | https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/improved-copy-and-paste-of-urls-in-microsoft-edge-d3bd3956-603a-0033-1fbc-9588a30645b4
Copying a link from Edge will use the enhanced clipboard. To paste just the link, use CTRL-SHIFT-V.
When pasting, CTRL-V will paste using
Keywords: Chrome, Edge, Copy, Paste, Clipboard, Title, Subject, URL, Wrong |
Category: Windows 🠪 Issues Find Windows 10 version from command line, or offline | December 1, 2023 | Check this file, or from a command line, type:
type C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Diagnosis\osver.txt
10.0.10240 Windows 10, Version 1507 7/29/2015
10.0.10586 Windows 10, Version 1511 11/10/2015
10.0.14393 Windows 10, Version 1607 8/2/2016
10.0.14393 Windows Server 2016, Version 1607 10/15/2016
10.0.15063 Windows 10, Version 1703 4/5/2017
10.0.16299 Windows 10, Version 1709 10/17/2017
10.0.17134 Windows 10, Version 1803 4/30/2018
10.0.17763 Windows Server 2019, Version 1809 11/13/2018
10.0.17763 Wind...<Too long, click to read the rest> |
Category: Windows 🠪 Issues Graphics glitch when window is maximized | November 29, 2023 | Press CTRL + Shift + Windows Key + B keys together from your keyboard to reload your Graphics driver.
https://thegeekpage.com/fix-maximized-window-blank-empty-space-on-top-of-screen-in-windows-10/
Keywords: Full Screen, Maximized, Empty Space, Glitch, weird, Picture, Screen, Display Driver, Crash, reload, restart, reinitialize, black, flash, video, reset |
Category: Windows 🠪 Issues Restore Windows 10/11 Health | December 1, 2023 | Run chkdsk first
Run System File Checker:
sfc /scannow
Check for issues:
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
Check more thoroughly for issues:
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
Repair Windows image:
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
If you are performing this recovery while not booted into the running Windows, use this syntax. This assumes C: is the Windows drive to be repaired, and E: is the Windows Install USB...<Too long, click to read the rest> |
Category: Windows 🠪 Issues Show Wifi Settings/Issues | November 30, 2023 | Run from admin command prompt:
netsh wlan show wlanreport
After it is done, view the report: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WlanReport\wlan-report-latest.html
keywords: Wireless, wi-fi, 802.11b, profiles |
Category: Windows 🠪 Issues Windows 10 forgets passwords - October 2010 | November 29, 2023 | The symptoms of this are that Windows forgets and re-asks for passwords frequently. This seems to happen in multiple applications, including Outlook, Chrome, Outlook.com.
1: Start an elevated Windows PowerShell prompt.
2: Run the command:
Get-ScheduledTask | foreach { If (([xml](Export-ScheduledTask -TaskName $_.TaskName -TaskPath $_.TaskPath)).GetElementsByTagName("LogonType").'#text' -eq "S4U") { $_.TaskName } }
3: Note tasks listed by the command.
4: Open the Windows Task Scheduler.
5: L...<Too long, click to read the rest> |
Category: Windows 🠪 Issues Windows 10 Update Failure Analysis | November 25, 2023 | Known fixes:
"The system registry contains invalid file paths. Installation cannot proceed. This system image was applied without guaranteeing that drive-letter assignment would match across computers."
Set Environment Variable Path to: %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
Remove 'Windows_Tracing_Flags' and 'Windows_Tracing_Logfile'
These tools let you do some diagnosis:
Setupdiag allows you to try to determine why a Windows...<Too long, click to read the rest> |
Category: Windows 🠪 Issues Windows 7 Media Creation Tool - 0X80072F8F - 0X20000 | November 28, 2023 | MediaCreationTool22H2.exe. It says to reference the error code 0X80072F8F - 0X20000.
My fix was to install using Win10 USB instead of Media Creation Tool. The below fix did not work in this case, but I'm keeping in here for future reference.
Some server that the MediaCreationTool21H2.exe tries to talk to apparently no longer speaks the old TLS 1.0 security protocol, but Windows 7 SP1 still has the newer TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 disabled by default, resulting in this error code right at the start. So I ha...<Too long, click to read the rest> |
Category: Windows 🠪 Issues Windows VPN times out saying "Connecting..." | December 1, 2023 | Sometimes you can't connect to a VPN using the network icon in the Taskbar, it gets stuck while trying to connect.
The workaround is to open Settings, Network & Internet, then VPN, and connect from here.
https://blog.techinline.com/2018/06/01/vpn-stuck-on-connecting-windows-10/
keywords: VPN, PPTP, L2TP, Freeze, Stuck, Slow |
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