Sometimes, you may need to execute an external command, command-line tool, or EXE program from a terminal or PowerShell script. This post explores commonly used methods for running external programs…
Some apps or services in Windows don’t use binary Event Viewer logs (*.evtx) to store their logs, but instead save them as plain text log files. When troubleshooting certain issues,…
Administrators sometimes need to pin certain apps or shortcuts to folders and other items in Windows users’ taskbars programmatically. The way pinned apps and items are managed on the taskbar…
When powered on, Windows automatically performs a full disk check using the chkdsk.exe utility on any volumes marked with a dirty bit flag. If a volume has a dirty bit…
This article explains how to manually load network adapter drivers in Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) or WinRE (Recovery Environment), initialize networking, configure a static IP address and preferred DNS server, and map…
By default, Windows Explorer displays standard icons for local, removable, or mapped network drives based on drive type. You can assign custom icon files to each drive to make navigation…
The missing taskbar in Windows 11 leaves you without quick access to apps, the Start menu, and system tray icons. After logging into Windows 11, only the desktop and its…
In Windows, per-user services are special services created for each user when they log on to the system and deleted upon the user’s logoff. They implement personalized tasks (like search…
To help users explore the features of the Windows operating system before purchasing a license, Microsoft offers Windows evaluation versions. These Windows evaluation editions grant users full access to all…
During a clean installation of Windows 11 on a computer with an NVMe drive in an M.2 SSD slot, the OS installer may fail to detect the connected drive. As…