Windows Task Scheduler is great for running background tasks, but a little confusing. If you just want to trigger a Windows batch file periodically you don’t need this guide. This guide will explain how to run any software without using…
You can set up a local installation of an FTP server in order to transfer media to and from a folder on your computer. This is great for devices that support FTP, for instance, digital cameras or mobile phones. Note…
Setting up file shares in Windows 10 can be a little tricky sometimes. Here is a checklist you can go through if it fails. Remember you don’t need Network discovery or HomeGroup activated. 1. Make sure both computers are connected…
What is iTunes metadata Music purchased from the iTunes store can be downloaded as m4a files. These files are encoded MPEG-4. The files include metadata such as artist, track number, album, and so on, but they also include personally identifiable…
Want to update Windows 10 without connecting a computer to the internet? Let’s start with a clean installation of Windows 10 Pro on a virtual machine without an internet connection. Let’s run winver.exe to see which version we have first.…
Files On-Demand is a feature in Windows OneDrive that lets you see all your files in OneDrive as they appear to be on your computer when they are actually stored in the cloud. This allows you to save space on…
If you want to enable or disable programs from starting with Windows, there are a couple of places to look. This post will show you all the places you can look for startup items in Windows 10. Startup items in…
Since rotating images in Windows causes images to loose quality, I decided to use ImageMagick to rotate images instead. ImageMagick is a small command-line tool for image processing. Rotating images with ImageMagick is fairly simple: Rotate right magick convert -rotate…
Rotating pictures using the context menu in Windows will degrade the quality of pictures. ⛔ One would think that Microsoft had thought of this, right? 🤔 It turns out that this has been an issue ever since Windows XP. Back…
Often, when I write about command line-based software or scripting I will tell you to “add a software to PATH“. But what does exactly that mean? PATH is one of Windows environment variables. If you want to run scripts or…
Since Windows 10 version 1809 (a.k.a Redstone 5) came out in October 2018 RSAT is no longer installed from Microsoft Download Center. The installation file used to be available here, but it is now a lot easier to download RSAT.…
There are three ways you can view your Windows license key, that I know of (without third-party software). Computer with preinstalled Windows (BIOS license) If you have a consumer computer shipped with a built-in Windows key it is likely that…