Windows Android Desktop Home screen Start menu App drawer Task bar Status and navigation bar Control panel Settings Window App
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Systemd commands (Overview)
System management $ systemctl show $ systemctl status $ systemctl reboot $ systemctl suspend $ systemctl hibernate $ systemctl poweroff
Continue readingSignals (POSIX)
It’s a mechanism, which allows the operating system to inform processes about defined events. Events (selection) Signal Number * Description
Continue readingEn-/Disable web search (Windows Explorer)
That feature comes with the new Windows Explorer, which now bases on WebView2. Enable Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]
Continue readingNative webapps
Dis-/Advantages – Pro: Only one UI/App for native and web necessary. – Con: Less performant and requires more resources. Details
Continue readingModify the context menu (Windows)
Switch between old and new context menu Old context menu reg.exe add “HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32” /f /ve New context menu reg.exe delete
Continue readingContainers vs. Virtual Machines
Containers Virtual Machines Representative Docker1 VirtualBox Shared HW + OS HW Daemon Engine Hypervisor Persistence Image2 (+ Volume3) Image Instance
Continue readingPlug and Play
Have you ever asked yourself why you can use your newly connected devices directly these days? Plug and Play (PnP)
Continue readingWindows won’t sleep anymore?
Possible reason After the last LAN party, my PC would wake up straight again after going to sleep mode. I
Continue readingSymlink to switch between SW versions
I was building Node.js v16 which uses a fork of GYP (meta-build tool written in python). The setup script contains
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