Why did my systems reboot into the Recovery Environment and how do I prevent that from happening in the future? September 5, 2017 Sep 5, 2017 09/5/17 Raymond Chen You can disable it in the boot configuration.
Why are hidden files with a leading tilde treated as super-hidden? May 26, 2017 May 26, 2017 05/26/17 Raymond Chen Because in practice they are ultra-temporary.
What do these hard drive icons mean? May 23, 2017 May 23, 2017 05/23/17 Raymond Chen Various kinds of BitLocker, mostly.
Why doesn’t searching my Start menu with Cortana find Internet shortcuts in my All Programs list? May 22, 2017 May 22, 2017 05/22/17 Raymond Chen Because our A/B testing showed that showing them was worse.
There’s a group policy for Action Center, and another one for Action Center May 16, 2017 May 16, 2017 05/16/17 Raymond Chen Two things with the same name, how confusing.
How do I kill a program that hung with an always-on-top fullscreen window? April 25, 2017 Apr 25, 2017 04/25/17 Raymond Chen Hey, look at that desktop over there.
The Windows 8 close gestures, a retrospective April 11, 2017 Apr 11, 2017 04/11/17 Raymond Chen Top to bottom.
How do I create a shortcut in the Send To menu that runs a program with a command line option? April 3, 2017 Apr 3, 2017 04/3/17 Raymond Chen Put the option in the shortcut target.
Explorer is a single-instance application, but you can find other ways to get the effect of running a separate instance March 28, 2017 Mar 28, 2017 03/28/17 Raymond Chen Look for the explorer browser helpers.
Why does the volume control let me set the volume only to even numbers? March 21, 2017 Mar 21, 2017 03/21/17 Raymond Chen Because pressing Volume-Up 100 times would be really annoying.