As announced back in January, the Windows Insider builds have a new “News & Interests” item that shows the current weather on the task bar, and if you click that, it shows […]
Turn off the (Insider) News & Interests page
Turn off the “Meet now” button
One more item that you might want to hide is the new “Meet now” button present in the latest Windows 10 release (20H2), and apparently also added to older Windows 10 releases […]
Turn off the (new) Edge welcome page
It seems like every time Microsoft adds something that shows up the first time you sign into Windows on a newly-deployed clean OS, you then have to search around for “how do […]
Tanium 101
It’s now been over three months since I left Microsoft and joined Tanium as a Global Technology Specialist. During that time, I’ve been through a lot of training, as well as hands-on […]
Digging into the Windows Feature Experience Pack
If you’ve not heard of the Windows Feature Experience Pack, here’s some catch-up reading for you: Releasing Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.2020.0 to the Beta Channel Microsoft is testing out this new […]
UEFI Secure Boot: Yes, again
Last week, I posted about UEFI Secure Boot, showing how to look at the Secure Boot “db” on a UEFI device. To summarize, the certificates in the UEFI “db” variable are used […]
Scripting languages on Windows: a broader view
If you spent your career in a Windows- and Microsoft-focused bubble, you probably worked with scripting languages like those I mentioned in my previous blog post. But those that worked in cross-platform […]
Scripting languages on Windows: A brief history
Those that have been focused on Windows for any decent amount of time will recognize that Windows has built-in support for multiple scripting languages (not including batch files, which I don’t consider […]
UEFI Secure Boot: Who controls what can run?
The idea behind the UEFI Secure Boot feature is to ensure that the device will only be able to run trusted code, at least until an operating system is up and running […]
Booting your own Windows PE image
My previous blog talked about how to create a Windows PE boot image. Next you need to know how to boot it. And there are plenty different ways to do that. These […]
