Questions tagged [windows-10]
For questions specific to Windows 10. Use [windows] instead for questions involving Windows in general.
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How to *disable* automatic reboots in Windows 10?
Windows 10 lets you 'schedule' a reboot for later. I want to disable it.
Evidently Windows scheduled itself for a reboot last night when I wasn't looking and just closed everything I had been working ...
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What is the home directory on Windows Subsystem for Linux?
When I start bash on Windows Subsystem for Linux, it drops me in the directory
/mnt/c/Users/<username>
When I ls this directory, I see the directories Desktop, Documents, etc. that I can see ...
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How can I free up drive space from the Windows installer folder without killing Windows?
On my SSD machine, the C:\Windows\Installer folder is massive and takes up about 15% of my total disk space.
Is there a way to clean up that folder without killing Windows 8.1/10? Tucking away the ...
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How to rename the User folder in Windows 10?
After installing Windows 10 on my Surface Pro 3 it took my user name 'Jeremy' and created a user folder named C:\Users\jerem.
I want to rename the folder C:\Users\Jeremy. The procedure for Windows 8 ...
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Rebooting Ubuntu on Windows without rebooting Windows?
Is it possible to reboot the Ubuntu sub-system without restarting my system?
I tried to use the shutdown command after installing some updates, but that doesn't seem to be an option here.
The ...
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Mouse pointer moving on arrow keys pressed in Windows?
I'm encountering a strange problem on my W10 computer, for a few days my arrow keys have been "driving" my mouse pointer. Pressing the left arrow key will move the pointer a few pixels left, ...
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Keyboard language keeps changing in Windows 10
So I recently did a clean install of Windows 10 English. I configured it to have English UI language but Norwegian keyboard. I have several problems with that setup:
The keyboard language keeps ...
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How to pin either a Shortcut or a Batch file to the new Windows 7, 8 and 10 Taskbar and start menu?
We are having trouble adding our batch scripts to the Windows 7, 8 or 10 taskbar or start menu.
Our batchfiles take some arguments and just execute other application based on those arguments .
To ...
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Conclusively stop wake timers from waking Windows 10 desktop
How do you stop a Windows 10 Desktop waking up from the sleeping/hibernated power state without user intervention?
For lots of users this won't be an issue but, if you sleep in the same room as your ...
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Can I completely disable Cortana on Windows 10?
Windows 10 has Cortana, which I don't like. I disabled it as soon as I could. However, looking in Task Manager, the process for Cortana is still running, and can't be effectively terminated: ending ...
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How to quickly move current window to another Task View / desktop in Windows 10?
Windows 10 introduced Task View - the ability to have multiple virtual desktops. When I am in a window on Desktop 1, what's the quickest way to move it to Desktop 2?
Currently, I need to enter the ...
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How can I reduce the consumption of the `vmmem` process?
I installed docker on windows home which uses WSL2 as a backend. However, since doing this a process called vmmem seems to be consistently consuming a lot of computational resources. I ran docker stop ...
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How do I set system environment variables in Windows 10? [duplicate]
How do I set a system environment variable in Windows 10 (without using the registry editor)?
(Note: Other answers don't specifically address Windows 10 - at least not yet - and they leave off ...
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Typing “python” on Windows 10 (version 1903) command prompt opens Microsoft store
This is strange issue I have observed. I installed Active Python 2.7 on Windows 10 (version 1903).
On typing “python” from search, opens the Python 2.7 prompt but when I type from command prompt ...
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Windows 10 - disable reopening programs after restart/startup
Occasionally, a forced restart is happening on my Windows 10 computer.
When the OS is restarted every program that I've had prior to the restart is reopened at startup. The programs are reopened like ...
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