Windows Tips, Tricks and Notes

Disable this annoying splash screen thusly:

• Start → Settings → System → Notifications & actions
• Uncheck the “Show me the Windows welcome experience after updates…”, “Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device…” and “Get tips, tricks and suggestions…” items under Notifications.

Open the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)
Navigate to the following path:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update

Change the following 3 settings:

Configure Automatic Updates → Enabled, 4 - Auto download and schedule the install
Configure auto-restart required notification for updates → Enabled, 2 - User Action
No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations → Enabled

=== Require username to be specified at logon (disable user listing) Open the Local Policy app (secpol)
Navigate to Security Settings → Local Policies → Interactive Logon: Don’t display last signed-in and set to Enabled.

Open a command window in Administrator mode and enter the following command:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMP Allow incoming V4 echo request" protocol=icmpv4:8,any dir=in action=allow

Windows attempts to download a file from a dedicated Web server. Depending on which version of Windows, it’s http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt or http://www.msftconnecttest.com/connecttest.txt. If the download is successful and contains the correct contents, then Windows concludes that you have full Internet access.

If something goes wrong, Windows will report either limited or no Internet access, depending on what exactly went wrong.

More details on this are available here.

Open the Registry Editor app and locate the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

On the right, create the new 32-Bit DWORD value NoTaskGrouping
Set the value of the newly created key to decimal 1.
Restart the computer.

Open the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)
Navigate to Local Computer Policy → User Configuration → Administrative Templates → Desktop → Desktop
Select 'Desktop Wallpaper'
Select 'Enabled', then supply the wallpaper name (directory\filename).
Choose Wallpaper Style
Click OK

Wallpaper modification will take effect on the next login.

Open the Registry Editor app.
Navigate to Policies in HKCU.
Right-click on Policies > New > Key.
Name it as System.
Right-click on System > New > String Value.
Name it as Wallpaper.
Double-click on it and enter the wallpaper path.
Right-click on System > New > String Value.
Name it as WallpaperStyle.
Double-click on it to set a Value data; the values below are valid:

0 - Center
1 - Tile
2 - Stretch
3 - Fit
4 - Fill
5 - Span

Click OK to save the change.

Wallpaper modification will take effect on the next login.

In case you want to remove this wallpaper, navigate to the following path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

And right-click on Policies > Delete. Then, confirm the change by clicking the Delete button again.

7z a -p <zipfile name> <file(s) to add>

7z a -rp <zipfile name> <file(s) to add>

7z x <zipfile name>

Connect your flash drive to the computer at first, and make sure it can be detected.

1. Click “start” and type “command prompt”.

2. Then, right click “command prompt” and select “run as administrator”.

3. After that, type “diskpart” and press “Enter”. Then execute the below commands in turn:

  list disk
  select disk n
  clean
  create partition primary
  format fs=fat32 quick: If you want to format to NTFS, type “format fs=ntfs quick”.

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