Contents tagged with windows 10
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Resetting your password via the command line
If, like me, you're working remotely at the moment you might be spending a non-trivial amount of time using Remote Desktop to hop on and off various machines. It might be that, also like me, you …
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How to force Windows 10 / Server 201x to scan for updates
One of the irritations of Windows 10 and its accompanying server editions is that there's no user interface surfaced to re-scan for available updates. The ability to do this comes in handy if, say, …
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Refreshing the Windows icon cache
I just updated to the latest and greatest version of Visual Studio Code, but alas my taskbar was still showing the old icon:
From this GitHub comment, here's a quick way to force the shell to …
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Facial Recognition using the UWP APIs in Windows 10 via Windows Forms on .NET Core 3.0
NOTE: The full code for the app built in this post is available on GitHub: https://github.com/robertwray/FacesOfUWP
In a recent post I talked about using the Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Contracts NuGet …
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Using Windows 10 UWP APIs from a .NET Core application
One of the things that Microsoft talked about at Build 2019 was how they intended to broaden availability of UWP APIs so that they can be consumed by non-UWP (in the "store only / sideload only" …
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Running Redis on Ubuntu on Windows
Whilst there's a Windows port of Redis server, the last stable release that was produced was 3.0.504 in July 2016. There's plenty of options for running later versions of Redis as a Windows …
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Edge not working for you in Windows 10 (1809)? Try Fiddler
If you've upgraded to the latest version of Windows 10 (1809) and are having problems browsing the web, try running Fiddler. Having this sat between the interweb and Edge seemed to kick it straight …
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When is ALT-D not ALT-D, when it's en-gb :-(
I've been banging my head against the desk for the past week or so as the most recent Windows 10 Insider builds, 16278 if not before, have had the most frustrating (yes, first world problems!) bug. …
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2017-08 update for Windows 10 Anniversary Update ("1607") breaks WSUS - WSUS gets a fix as well!
It looks like Microsoft are going all out to fix the issues introduced in the 2017-08 update for Windows 10 as an update to WUS has been released to resolve a single solitary issue (as well as the …
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2017-08 update for Windows 10 Anniversary Update ("1607") breaks WSUS - FIXED
NOTE (Updated 30/08): Microsoft appear to have resolved this issue with a new update for WSUS as well, see here for details.
I previously blogged about how the 2017-08 update to Windows 10 ("1607" / …