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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

Windows 11 22H2 unable to connect to some Windows 10 via RDP I have one machine that got pushed an upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 22H2. Before the upgrade remote desktop was working to all of my Windows machines.  After the upgrade to Windows 11 22H2 RDP only works for certain machines. It was working for domain joined machines and machines that were using default local/domain policies related to RDP.  Below was the error message I am getting from RDP client (Microsoft Windows 11 Version 22H2 [Version 10.0.22621.1344]) [Window Title] Remote Desktop Connection [Content] An internal error has occurred. [^] Hide details  [OK] [Expanded Information] Error code: 0x4 Extended error code: 0x0 Timestamp (UTC): 03/04/23 04:00:05 AM Press Ctrl+C to copy.   As a workaround, on the target machine (RDP server), change the following policy using gpedit.msc . Local Computer Policy | Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Remote Desktop Services | Remote Deskto