Windows 10 - How To

[JohnOne]

Feel free to post your windows 10 how to questions in here if you like.

How to secure Windows 10: The paranoid's guide (external - zdnet)

How to disable web search (within the windows search feature).

How to determine which exact process under Service Host dropdown in task manager, is using the displayed overall network resources? (not a windows 10 feature)

Edited August 6, 2015 by JohnOne

[jvanegmond]

What is the keyboard shortcut to move a window to the other desktop? The mouse process is rather convoluted.

[JLogan3o13]

@manadar I know it used to be WIN + SHIFT + ARROW Key. None of my WIN10 machines are dual monitors yet, so not sure if that carried through.

[jvanegmond]

No, I mean the Windows 10 "other desktop". : ) Press Start + Ctrl + D.

[JohnOne]

I was not aware you could move windows between desktops. I thought the whole point was that they were isolated.

[kaotkbliss]

How do you get the normal about:tabs in edge? The only tabs I can seem to get are Bing suggested sites and Bing news, not my most frequented websites.

[JohnOne]

Not sure I understand the question, you mean open a blank tab?

[kaotkbliss]

With IE and I believe chrome as well, if you set your home page to "about:tabs" then whenever you opened a new web browser or tab, you got a page that had 8-10 tiles of your most visited web pages.

edge only has the option of opening new tabs with top sites and suggested content, top sites, or a blank page. Top sites is close and maybe with more use will adjust to what I'm used to. But right now just has a bunch of sites I've no interest in.

[JohnOne]

Ah I see. I would hope they would arrive gradually, but I would have expected the customize button on the top sites page to allow you to add sites to those spaces where you remove the tiles, or at least allow you to start on a favourites page.

[JohnOne]

Anyone know how to disable web searching in the windows search?

I've tried group policy as per here but I still get results from web, even after forcing update 

EDIT:

Never mind, I missed a big settings icon at the side of the actual search window wherein there is a setting to turn it off. Duh!

Edited August 2, 2015 by JohnOne

[BrewManNH]

To access Windows 10's (and any other version of Windows 7+) system tools menu, you create a folder and give it the name GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} the text before the "." can be anything it doesn't have to be GodMode. Makes it easier to access a lot of system settings that you might have to hunt around for in the new version.

[uncommon]

Will there be a UDF for Microsoft Edge, or is this basically a new name for IE 12?

[JLogan3o13]

Edge is not IE. As to whether there will be a UDF, depends on who decides they want to write one. All UDFs are there because someone found the interest (and the time) to write them.

[Chimaera]

  On 8/6/2015 at 4:01 PM, uncommon said:

Will there be a UDF for Microsoft Edge, or is this basically a new name for IE 12?

And also bear in mind Edge is missing a lot of stuff atmo, a lot of the extra stuff that other browsers have. MS will be updating Edge for a while so i would expect a UDF later rather than sooner

[guinness]

  On 8/7/2015 at 7:09 AM, Chimaera said:

And also bear in mind Edge is missing a lot of stuff atmo, a lot of the extra stuff that other browsers have. MS will be updating Edge for a while so i would expect a UDF later rather than sooner

So you would say it's not at the "cutting edge" of technology! Hahahahaha

[jvanegmond]

  On 8/6/2015 at 4:01 PM, uncommon said:

Will there be a UDF for Microsoft Edge, or is this basically a new name for IE 12?

See https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/174435-microsoft-edge-automation/

[Chimaera]

  On 8/7/2015 at 7:39 AM, guinness said:

So you would say it's not at the "cutting edge" of technology! Hahahahaha

[JLogan3o13]

  On 8/7/2015 at 7:39 AM, guinness said:

So you would say it's not at the "cutting edge" of technology! Hahahahaha

Depends - "cutting edge" for what year

[guinness]

  On 8/7/2015 at 5:12 PM, JLogan3o13 said:

Depends - "cutting edge" for what year

Lets say 2001, when IE 6 was initially released.

http://blog.html5test.com/2015/07/a-eulogy-for-internet-explorer-1995-2015/ << Quite a funny video, but also informative that Microsoft did pave the way for a lot of standards e.g. XMLHttpRequest, which is what we now use for Ajax =)

[kaotkbliss]

Apparently to hide windows updates you don't need (Like my NVidia display drivers which are always older on MS than what NVidia actually has)

You need this tool

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930