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How to set up Wake-On-LAN on Windows 10/11 Wake-on-LAN allows you to remotely power on computers which have been shut down, but are still connected to mains power. It will also wake them up if they are in sleep or hibernate mode. Step 1. go into the BIOS/Setup of your PC/laptop and find the Wake-On-LAN setting, and make sure it is enabled. See Appendix A below for some screenshots of where to find …

If you ever need to move a Windows Recovery partition, here’s some tools that may be useful. The normal use-case for moving a Recovery partition is when you have unused disk space ‘beyond’ it, which you want to use to expand an existing partition, for example , see the screenshot below : Step 1. Save the contents of the current Recovery partition into the C: drive : Open an Elevated Command window …

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 …

Bitlocker commands 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 Various handy 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 …

Locked out of your PC ? If you forget the password of the account on your Windows 10/11 PC/laptop, and you’re not able to log into it, here’s how you can reset your password. Note: this method probably won’t work if you have BitLocker encryption set up on your PC/laptop. find a USB stick or CD/DVD which can be used to boot your PC. This could be a USB stick or DVD which was used to install …