How to get an old PC or laptop to run Windows 11 If you have an old laptop which is running Windows 10 very nicely, but when you tried to upgrade it to Windows 11 you got a message telling you your PC was too old and not supported by Windows 11, it’s quite likely that your PC is perfectly able to run Windows 11, but Microsoft have put some artificial limits in place to prevent older PCs and …
Clean up WinSxS folder using DISM /cleanup-image How to enable the built-in Administrator account SYSPREP fails: ‘reserved storage in use’ Disable Wi-Fi from the command line Windows kernel versions Topic Various handy tips and shortcuts
Shift-F10 : (during OOBE) open a Command Window Control-Shift-F3 : (during OOBE ) logs you in as Administrator Control-Shift-Win-B : Windows desktop …
Since I mainly use Debian-based Linux flavours, I have had to get used to the apt package manager which Debian uses. I find it a bit unintuitive to use, as there seem to be several different programs to do basic things.
Note: many of the apt commands shown below need to run as root, so you should prefix each command with ‘sudo’ if running as a normal user.
# apt update - this downloads package …
M.2 SSDs come in 3 different physical sizes :
‘2230’ : 22mm wide, 30mm long ‘2242’ : 22mm wide, 42mm long ‘2280’ : 22mm wide, 80mm long An M.2 SSD’s connector has one of two shapes : ‘M key’ or ‘B+M key’ :
M k e y M B B + M k e y M M-key are normally NVMe SSDs, which use PCIe x2 or PCIe x4 .
B+M are normally older/slower SATA devices(600 MB/sec) , but you occasionally see NVMe SSDs (usually PCIe …
Handy reminders of some of the many useful things you can do with keyboard combinations on a Mac.
Note: if you’re using a PC keyboard, ‘Option’ is the Alt key , and ‘Command’ is the Windows key Key combination what it does Command-Shift-4 Take a screen capture (selected area) Command-Shift-3 Take a screen capture (whole screen, saved straight to your desktop) Option-# print the £ sign (if you have …
