Tag: Windows
All the articles with the tag "Windows".
Installing Windows 11 Home: A Rant
Installing Windows 11 Home for my nephew turned into a fight over a mandatory Microsoft account, a fake choice about advertising, a desktop full of promotional junk, and an idle system already burning through RAM before I'd opened a single app. The Linux install it wasn't.
Recovering a Windows PC With No Password and No Product Key
A family member passed away and left a custom-built Windows PC with no known password and, being custom-built, almost certainly no OEM key sticker either. Here's how to check for a firmware-embedded key, identify the Windows edition offline, clear a forgotten local account password, and understand whether you'll need to buy a new licence at all.
Vagrant and Ansible
Updated:Using Vagrant you can automatically deploy a Virtual Machine on almost any virtual platform, VMware, Virtual Box, and QEMU/KVM (libvirt). It works similarl
Using WireGuard as a non-Administrator on Windows
WireGuard does not work on Windows unless you are an administrator. However, you can enable a regular user to control the service after an admin has instal
Trilium Notes
Excellent note-taking app. Only calling a note-taking app seems to heavily understate what it is. It's like a personal version of a Markdown document repos
Video Conferencing Screen Sharing
Updated:Try installing manjaro-pipwire if you don't have it. The behaviour of my browser seemed to have changed, and no longer lets me share a screen. I end up wit
VS Code Extensions
Updated:I'm an Atom fan and have used it on Linux for ages. I probably still will, but our other developers tend to use VS Code because of their use of MS Windows.
Zeal - Offline Reference
I came across Zeal some time ago, and for some reason never really got to using it. Mainly because I'm always online and always have access to reference so
LINPEAS, PEASS
Updated:How to get an elevated privileged shell the easy way. https://github.com/carlospolop/PEASS-ng
Ventoy - One Stick to Boot them All
Updated:I regularly end up writing a bootable USB to start a different version of Linux or different distro. Then I came across Ventoy . Once a USB stick is instal