Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed and sold by Microsoft.

As of October 2018, the most recent version of Windows for PCs, tablets, smartphones and embedded devices is Windows 10. The most recent version for server computers is Windows Server.

There are 16 articles tagged with Windows.

PowerShell, Windows

How to bypass company wallpaper as local admin on Windows 11

If you have local administrator access, you may be able to temporarily override a managed Windows 11 wallpaper by updating the registry and refreshing the wallpaper with PowerShell.

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Automation, Git, Installation Notes, Windows

Notes on Git Setup with SSH for Windows (GitHub)

There are many guides on how to install and configure Git on a Windows PC. As I test new developer laptops for Wehkamp, it makes sense to have some notes on how to do it. Most Windows developers use git HTTPS cloning, but this guide shows how to install and configure SSH.

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Git, Installation Notes, Windows

Setup GPG signing for git commits on Windows

Let’s setup commit verification using GPG on Windows. This will prompt us to sign the commit. I will be using a passphrase instead of signing the commits with my SSH token. This gives an extra layer of security to the setup.

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Installation Notes, PowerShell, Windows, WSL

Notes on WSL Tuning

Here I’ll store my notes on WSL tuning. I mainly use WSL to do Dev Containers, so I need it to run as smooth as possible. My main problems include: memory and disk size. Let’s see what we can do to address the problem.

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Installation Notes, PowerShell, Windows

Notes on Windows 11

A living collection of Windows 11 tweaks, PowerShell 7 commands, development tools, WSL 2 and Rancher Desktop setup.

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Automation, Installation Notes, Windows

Notes on Chocolatey

With the Chocolatey Package Manager for Windows, it is super easy to install software from the command-line. This makes your installs scriptable and thus repeatable. In this blog I’ll show you how to render installation instructions from a machine and how to use the Windows Task Scheduler to update your packages regularly.

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AWS, Installation Notes, Windows

Thoughts on AWS Vault config on Windows

I’ve installed and configured AWS Vault in Windows. In this blog I’ll show how to setup MFA, automate token rotation, share AWS Vault with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and how to do an ECR login on Docker.

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Automation, bash, PowerShell, Windows, WSL

Installing Ubuntu to Windows Server 2019 (WSL)

These scripts will help to install Ubuntu to a Windows Server 2019 installation. It will download Ubuntu and activate the Linux Subsystem on Windows (WSL).

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PowerShell, Windows

Finetuning screen brightness with PowerShell

When I work in a low-light environment I like to have fine-grained control over the brightness of my monitor. When I change the brightness using the special function keys on my keyboard, it changes in steps of 10%! That’s a lot. PowerShell to the rescue!

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Automation, PowerShell, Windows

PowerShell snippet: check if software is installed

Some deployment scripts need to check if certain required software is installed on a Windows Machine. You could check if the file is present at a certain location, but there is a better way to check if software is installed: the uninstall database in the Windows Registry. PowerShell makes it really easy to query the registry!

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