Stephan Wibier

Quick tip – default tab in Task Manager

Jan

17

2019

Tweet In Windows 10 you can now select a default tab when you open Task Manager. It’s in ‘Options‘ – ‘Set default tab‘ I prefer ‘Details‘ 😉

Windows 10 Insider Build #18317 Sign-in options crashing (BUG?) – #WindowsInsiders

Jan

17

2019

Tweet Hi! So when testing and playing around with the various Windows Insider Builds, yesterday the new and latest came out. We are at Build #18317! To test I have serveral machines installed, from a couple of Virtual Machines (on Server 2016, 2019 and Windows 10 – 1803) to physical devices like a Lenove Thinkpad ...

Quick tip: No Picture preview in Windows Explorer

Jan

16

2019

Tweet Sometimes when you are working with pictures it can happen that you see no preview of your pictures. Maybe a nice little flower 😉 Well there is an easy fix for that! Goto Windows Explorer and select ‘View‘ and then ‘Options‘, ‘change folder and search options‘ you wil be able to change all sorts ...

Cumulative Update Windows Insider Build #18312 released

Jan

15

2019

Tweet Just hot from the presses, Cumulative Update for Windows Insiders Build #18312, bringing this build to 10.0.18312.1007 It is known as KB4487181

New login experience Windows 10

Jan

15

2019

Tweet So I logged in to my favourite Windows 10 Insider machine yesterday and I was presented a new login experience. Since I do out-of-the-box experiences while creating Windows Insider machines I had not setup anything yet in this machine. So I was very delighted with the new wizard to configure PIN login and the ...

Login experience Windows 10 – version 1809

Jan

12

2019

Tweet Login experience Windows 10 – version 1809 I just wanted to share the login experience for Windows 10 – 1809, with a domain-joined account. Well actually the machine does not get domain-joined during this process, but you get to create a local administrator account! So why it is called like this, I don’t know. ...

Download Windows 10 Insider Program ISO files

Jan

12

2019

Tweet If you are in the Windows Insider Program (you really should be! More info here) then you can switch from a regular Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 installation to a Windows 10 Insider Preview installation. But if you do not want to go that way or if you want to test Deployment for ...

Why does desktop.ini file open in Notepad when I login?

Jan

10

2019

Tweet Normally there is a desktop.ini file on the desktop. This file is hidden! You can see it when you turn on ‘Hidden items’ and turned of ‘Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)’. But when you do this, and then DELETE this desktop.ini file, hmmm well let’s say DON’T. Because now when you login a ...

Expose virtualization extensions to Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Jan

9

2019

Tweet HOW-TO: Expose virtualization extensions to Hyper-V Virtual Machine In the current world of virtualization it is possible to run Virtualization solutions inside a virtual machine. So it is possible to run Hyper-V inside a Hyper-V virtual machine, or maybe you want to play around with one of the competitors like VMware ESX of Citrix Hyperviser ...

HOW-TO: Enroll in the Windows Insider Program!

Jan

8

2019

Tweet HOW-TO: Enroll in the Windows Insider Program! Just a short blog on how to enroll yourself in the Windows Insider Program. At the moment there are 2 Rings in which you can enter, the Slow or Fast ring. In the Fast ring you are at the front edge of the development of the Windows ...