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Prevent Windows 10 Professional from rebooting my computer in the middle of the night

Posted 19 September, 2016 at 10:37pm by Michael Chu
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Since upgrading to Windows 10 on all my home machines, I have found my computers restarted in the middle of night due to Microsoft's highly aggressive automatic updates. I wasn't able to find a way to do anything except manually delay a reboot. This is bad news for my servers which I do not want restarted randomly and also bad news for my desktop since I often leave work unfinished and work at random hours. I finally found a setting in the Local Group Policy Editor that appears to be what I need: "No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations"

No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations

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Windows 10 Shortcut/Hotkeys

Posted 2 August, 2016 at 4:54am by Michael Chu
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Here are the Windows 10 shortcut keys that I'm aware aware of.

Window Toggle Start menu
Window+[1 to 0] Run 1st app in taskbar (or nth app where 0 is the tenth app)
Window+A Open action center
Window+B Highlight notification area
Window+C Cortana listening mode
Window+D Toggle show Desktop
Window+E Launch Explorer
Window+H Open Share pane
Window+I Open Settings app
Window+K Open Connect pane (connect to wireless displays and audio devices)
Window+L Lock screen
Window+M Switch to desktop and minimize all open windows
Window+O Lock device orientation
Window+P Open Project (connect to external displays/projectors)
Window+R Display Run dialog box
Window+S Launch Cortana search
Window+T Cycle through apps on the taskbar
Window+U Launch Ease of Access Center
Window+V Cycle through notifications
Window+X Open advanced menu in the lower-left corner of the screen
Window+Z Open app-specific command bar
Window+Enter Launch Narrator
Window+Spacebar Switch input language and keyboard layout
Window+Tab Open Task view
Window+[,] Peek at desktop
Window+[+] Zoom in
Window+[-] Zoom out
Window+Esc Close Magnifier
Window+Left Dock active window to the left half of the monitor
Window+Right Dock active window to the right half of the monitor
Window+Up Maximize active window vertically and horizontally
Window+Down Minimize/restore active window
Window+Shift+Up Maximize active window vertically
Window+Shift+Down Minimize/restore active window vertically
Window+Shift+Left Move active window to the monitor on the left. (Multiple monitors.)
Window+Shift+Right Move active window to the monitor on the right. (Multiple monitors.)
Window+Home Minimize/restore all nonactive windows
Window+PrintScreen Take a picture of the screen and place it in the Computer->Pictures->Screenshots folder
Window+Ctrl+Left/Right/td> Switch to the next / previous virtual desktop
Window+Ctrl+D Create new virtual desktop
Window+Ctrl+F4 Close current virtual desktop
Window+? Launch Windows Feedback app

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Windows 10 and OneNote 2010 (Window+S Shortcut/Hotkey Not Working - FIXED!)

Posted 2 August, 2016 at 4:29am by Michael Chu
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I use OneNote 2010's screen clipping feature a lot. It's a lot faster for me to hit the Window+S keys and immediately start a freeform rectangle clipping than to use the Windows Screen Clipper utility. However, with Windows 10 (and Windows 8 apparently), pressing Window+S loads Cortana's search bar instead.

My workaround (for now) is to disable the shortcut for Cortana Search by editing the registry and adding a String Value of "DisabledHotKeys" = "S" to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.

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