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Install Windows Terminal using winget Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability, theming & styling, and more. To install Windows Terminal using winget , do: PS C:\>winget install Microsoft.WindowsTerminal Note: To install winget on Windows 2022 follow this link .

(Formerly PowerShell Core) PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation solution made up of a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a configuration management framework. PowerShell runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. To install PowerShell on Windows using winget , do: PS C:\>winget install Microsoft.PowerShell Note: To install winget on Windows 2022 follow this link .

Getting "Store is not available in your country or region" in Microsoft Store When I open Microsoft Store I am getting the following error message on Windows 10 20H2 Store is not available in your country or region Code: 0x87e10002 CV: SGmLmAU6/UWYL9FO To fix this, open Control Panel | Clock and Region | Region , check if it shows the following: Format: English (United States) Match Windows display language (recommended) If yes, then change it to: Format: English (United States) Click on Apply and then close and open Microsoft Store .

PS Quick Tip: Get Windows OS country code PS C:\>Get-ItemProperty 'HKCU:\Control Panel\International\Geo\' | select -exp Name

Install Winget on Windows 2022 This is not working anymore on Windows 10 LTSC as of 10/14/2023 Use this post for an updated instructions - https://8thstring.blogspot.com/2023/10/install-winget-on-windows-2022-or.html Install Pre-reqs Install Microsoft.UI.Xaml/2.7.3 Navigate to https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.UI.Xaml/2.7.3 , on the left side look for Download Package button to download microsoft.ui.xaml.2.7.3.nupkg. Using 7-zip, extract microsoft.ui.xaml.2.7.3.nupkg\microsoft.ui.xaml.2.7.3.nupkg\tools\AppX\x64\Release\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7.appx Install PS C:\>Add-AppxPackage .\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.7.appx Install Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop Download https://aka.ms/Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx Install PS C:\>Add-AppxPackage .\Microsoft.VCLibs.x64.14.00.Desktop.appx Install Winget Download Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle or any recent versions (tested using 1.4.10173) from Github Download license file 3463f...

Kali Linux(2023.1) randomly hard freezes on Dell Latitude 7490. This can happen immediately or after few minutes. This is  likely caused by a bug in integrated Intel GPU (i915) driver, see the following links for more information: Bug 102586 - System freeze with Kernels > 4.11.x (freeze on 4.12.x and 4.13.x)   Fix for Intel i915 GPU Freeze on Recent Linux Kernels Linux 5.x random kernel panic workaround Workaround: Touch /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf Add this line options i915 enable_psr=0 Reboot //end