Category: NZTekonverse -> Windows
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Sharing resources between Windows and Linux computers
Since I have two main computers and one runs Windows while the other runs Linux, there are inevitably going to be some ways in which I will try to share resources between the two computers. Linux of course comes with Samba preinstalled to allow shared folders to be accessible to Windows. One of the key…
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Enable Presentation Mode and Mobility Center on a desktop computer
Presentation Mode is something I am trying out with Windows 10 desktops that are permanently connected to a projector. Microsoft don’t seem to have got their head around the idea that people will use a desktop to do presentations, and so these capabilities are disabled by default on a desktop. But they can be enabled…
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Switching to Linux [4]
Continuing on my series of investigations into switching the most powerful of my computers to Linux. There are now some important questions to be resolved in the area of running a software based RAID 1 array on a pair of disks (a mirror) as this is somewhat of an advanced area of knowledge and unlike…
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MS wants to push Windows 10 onto computers automatically by sending it as a Windows update
A couple of days ago I wrote about how Windows 10 automatically installs updates by default and automatically restarts your computer at a time it dictates – ignoring whether that time is convenient for you or not. It so happens that at the end of October, MS announced that the free update of Windows 10,…
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Presentations on Windows 10
If you are familiar with Windows 10 you will be aware of a number of issues that are material to computers that are used mainly for presentations of content onto a projector. Microsoft has changed these operating systems to be more pushy and intrusive in the areas of Updates Notifications Firstly updates, since Windows 8…