This tutorial will show you different ways on how to open an elevated command prompt that will run as administrator in Windows 11.
The Command shell is an entry point for typing commands in the Command Prompt console window. By typing commands at the command prompt, you can perform tasks on your computer without using the Windows GUI.
In Windows 11, Windows Terminal (Admin) is the default console to open installed shells elevated like the Command Prompt (Admin) in by default now.
If you wanted, you can still directly open an elevated Command Prompt (Admin) in Windows 11.
You must be signed in as an administrator to open an elevated command prompt.
Option One: Open Elevated Command Prompt in Windows Terminal (Admin)
Option Two...
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This tutorial will show you different ways on how to hibernate your Windows 11 computer.
Hibernate was designed for laptops and might not be available for all PCs. (For example, PCs with Modern Standby may not have the hibernate option.) Hibernate uses less power than sleep and when you start up the PC again, you’re back to where you left off (though not as fast as sleep).
While sleep puts your work and settings in memory and draws a small amount of power, hibernate puts your open documents and programs on your hard disk to the hiberfile (C:\hiberfil.sys), and then turns off your computer.
You can use hibernation when you know that you won't use your laptop or tablet for an extended period and won't have an opportunity to charge the...
This tutorial will show you different ways on how to shut down your Windows 11 computer.
If you don't plan to use your PC for a while, then you could shut down (turn off) the PC to save energy.
A shut down closes all apps, signs out all users, and turn your PC off completely.
When shutting down your PC, any open supported apps are registered for application restart. After restart, these apps will re-open automatically when you sign in.
The feature to restore applications that have registered for application restart after you restart or shutdown has been set to only occur for users that have turned on (default) Automatically save my restartable apps and restart them when I sign back in.
Option One: Shut Down Computer by Closing...
This tutorial will show you how to change the maximum size of a Recycle Bin location in Windows 11 and Windows 10.
The Recycle Bin provides a safety net when deleting files or folders. When you delete any of these items from a hard disk, Windows places it in the Recycle Bin and the Recycle Bin icon changes from empty to full.
If you have multiple hard drives, partitions, or an external hard drive connected to your PC, each drive will have its own hidden $Recycle.Bin system folder and Recycle Bin settings.
Removable drives, such as USB flash drives and memory cards, do not have a Recycle Bin by default. Files deleted from removable drives are permanently deleted since they do not go to the Recycle Bin. You can enable the Recycle Bin...
This tutorial will show you how to hide or unhide files and folders in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Hidden files, folders, and drives do not show by default in Windows.
Hidden files, folders, and drives are marked with the hidden attribute.
Protected operating system files are marked with the hidden and system attributes.
When you Show hidden files, folders, and drives, their icons will appear dimmed (faded) in File Explorer to indicate they are hidden items.
When you Don't show hidden files, folders, or drives, hidden items will now appear in File Explorer.
Option One: Hide and Unhide File(s) in Properties
Option Two: Hide and Unhide Folder(s) in Properties
Option Three: Hide and Unhide File using Command
Option Four: Hide and...
This tutorial will show you how to hide or show hidden files, folders, and drives and protected operating system files for your account in Windows 11.
Hidden files, folders, and drives do not show by default in Windows.
Hidden files, folders, and drives are marked with the hidden attribute.
Protected operating system files are marked with the hidden and system attributes.
When you set to show hidden files, folders, and drives and protected operating system files, their icons will appear dimmed (faded) to indicate that they are hidden items.
If you turn on Show all folders in the navigation pane, then hidden folders will show in the navigation pane even if you set Don't show hidden files, folders, or drives in this tutorial...
This tutorial will show you how to see the Last BIOS time in Windows 11.
UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a standard firmware interface for PCs, designed to replace BIOS (basic input/output system). This standard was created by over 140 technology companies as part of the UEFI consortium, including Microsoft. It's designed to improve software interoperability and address limitations of BIOS.
Windows utilizes the UEFI to support the handoff of system control from the SoC firmware boot loader to the OS. The UEFI environment is a minimal boot OS upon which Windows devices are booted and the OS runs.
The Last BIOS time is the amount of time in seconds it took the UEFI BIOS firmware to identify and initialize hardware...
This tutorial will show you how to apply view settings of a folder to all folders of the same template type for your account in Windows 11.
You can change the folder view settings in Windows 11 to what you want for each separate folder.
View settings for a folder include the template, columns, column width, Group by, Sort by, and layout view.
If you like, you can apply the view settings of a folder to all folders of the same template type all at once without needing to manually apply one by one.
Here's How:
1 Open File Explorer (Win+E).
2 Open a folder using a template (ex: "General items") type you want to apply its view settings to all folders of the same same type.
Be sure to close all other folder windows before continuing...
This tutorial will show you how to assign a keyboard shortcut to open a shortcut on your desktop, taskbar, or Start menu for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
A shortcut is a link to an item (such as a file, folder, or app) on your PC.
You can assign a shortcut key (aka: keyboard shortcut) to use to open a shortcut on your desktop, taskbar, and Start menu.
If you assign the same shortcut key to a shortcut (B) that was already assigned to another shortcut (A), the shortcut key will no longer work for the other shortcut (A) and will now only work for the current shortcut (B).
If you move a shortcut that you assigned a shortcut key to another location, the shortcut key will no longer work to open the shortcut.
Option One...
This tutorial will show you how to hide or show all desktop icons for your account, specific users, or all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
The desktop (Win+D) is your home screen and working space in Windows that contains the taskbar and any icons (ex: shortcuts, files, folders, etc...) you add to and arrange on the desktop.
Reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hide-or-resize-desktop-icons-2b9334e6-f8dc-7098-094f-7e681a87dd97
When you hide desktop icons, the icons are still on your desktop, but just do not display.
Your desktop icons will still always show and be available in your %UserProfile%\Desktop and shell:desktop folders.
Option One: Hide or Show Desktop Icons for Current User using Context Menu...
When making a PowerShell script to do multiple, optional tasks, it is practical to use a menu to let user to select what to do.
There are several methods to create a PS menu. In this tutorial, I will show how to create a simple menu using a so called Do - While loop, which performs tasks until user selects to quit script. In this sample, I will create a menu to either export (backup), delete, start or stop (shut down) one or more virtual machines using grid view table selection (see tutorial).
You can view and download the sample script on my OneDrive. Line numbers used in this tutorial refer to line numbers shown in OneDrive Preview.
View and Download: SampleMenu.ps1
1. To start with, we create a menu, and store it to variable...
Out-Gridview is in my opinion one of the most practical PowerShell cmdlets. As all PS cmdlets, it has the same verb-noun syntax: do this (verb) with that (noun). Out-GridView simply tells PS to send command output to a grid view table.
The power of Out-GridView cmdlet comes from its optional -PassThru switch, which lets user to select items from table, then passing them as parameters to another cmdlet. Out-GridView without -PassThru only lists command output in a table.
The syntax with -PassThru switch is as follows:
first cmdlet | Out-GridView -PassThru | another cmdlet
In this tutorial, I will show just a few practical examples about using Out-GridView with -PassThru, to let you see and understand how it works. See official...
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