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Fedora 32 Workstation installation screen capture

Just an itch, wanted to see how Fedora 32 Workstation looks like. For other versions see  here .

Get Network Interface Card GUID in Windows

Get Network Interface Card GUID in Windows Method 1 - using netsh PS C:\> netsh lan show interfaces Below shows sample output There is 1 interface on the system: Name : Ethernet Description : Microsoft Hyper-V Network Adapter GUID : 17ab0088-6ca5-4aac-82bb-c533700cda21 Physical Address : 00-15-5D-1C-45-00 State : Connected. Network does not support authentication. Method 2 - using PowerShell WMI PS C:\> Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_NetworkAdapter | Select-Object -Property DeviceID, GUID, Name Below shows sample output DeviceID GUID Name -------- ---- ---- 0 Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter 1 {17AB0088-6CA5-4AAC-82BB-C533700CDA21} Microsoft Hyper-V Network Adapter 2 WAN Miniport (SSTP) 3

Control Panel console command equivalent

There are cases where you might need to run some of the Control Panel applets to perform quick configuration like add user accounts under different user credentials(say administrator account). Anyway below lists the files and equivalent Control Panel applet. Command Description access.cpl Accessibility Options appwiz.cpl Add or REmove Programs bthprops.cpl Bluetooth configuration desk.cpl Display Properties firewall.cpl Windows Firewall hdwwiz.cpl Add Hardware Wizard inetcpl.cpl Internet Properties intl.cpl Regional and Laguage Options irprops.cpl Infrared Properties joy.cpl Game Controllers jpicpl32.cpl Java Control Panel main.cpl Mouse Properties mmsys.cpl