One line (or very brief) helpers

[Arthur]

Windows key and full stop to invoke a drop-down (clickable) emoji menu. 😜 👌

Windows 10 also lets you rename your PC with emojis. 😀

 

 

[DJ-1701]

Windows 10 also lets you rename your PC with emojis. 😀

 

I wonder if you could ping an emoji name though?

[DrBeaker]

I wonder if you could ping an emoji name though?

 

Is it not the friendly name or Computer Description like "Dave's Laptop" instead of the NetBIOS/Computer Hostname?

[DJ-1701]

In PowerShell, Ctrl + Space after a dash reveals all possible cmdlet parameters without having to tab through them one at a time.

 

 

Credit:

 

To add to the coolness of that... you can do that at any point of typing a cmdlet too... so say Get-NetA and Ctrl-Space will bring up the cmdlets starting with those characters.

[Arthur]

I wonder if you could ping an emoji name though?

It is actually possible to ping a computer with an emoji name, although neither PowerShell or the Command Prompt display the emoji(s) correctly. I think I will wait a bit longer before renaming all of my domain PCs with emojis. 😵

 

 

 

Mapped drives containing emojis display correctly though. 👍

 

 

Is it not the friendly name or Computer Description like "Dave's Laptop" instead of the NetBIOS/Computer Hostname?

Nope.

 

 

Edited February 17, 2019 by Arthur

[southhamster]

Windows 10 also lets you rename your PC with emojis. [emoji3]

 

 

Oh no. I dare not let staff know about this.

Let alone the children!

[3s-gtech]

So. Many. Possibilities. 🧐

[Arthur]

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1091843595894693889

 

{"*":{"blocked_install_message":"\n\nCONTOSO CORP EMPLOYEE: Please contact IT to have this extension added to the Chrome management Group Policy."}}

 

 

[Cthulhu]

Windows 10 also lets you rename your PC with emojis. 😀

 

 

 

 

I'm curious to know how that works with AD.

[Guest mrtems1]

Shift + Right-Click on an item in Explorer provides additional options, including Copy as path and Run as different user

[Guest mrtems1]

Create a new folder and call it GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

 

 

This will create a folder with a bunch of convenient links to all sorts of settings.

[HarryMonkey]

Crashes my Windows Explorer

[jthompson]

Something to go on our techie drive then!

[Arthur]

Press Alt + V at the sign-in screen of a Chrome OS device to display the serial number, asset tag and OS version.

 

[6Foot2]

ChromeOS: Chromebooks lack a dedicated 'Delete' button: Hold down 'Alt' and press 'Backspace'

[mb2k01]

ChromeOS: Chromebooks lack a dedicated 'Delete' button: Hold down 'Alt' and press 'Backspace'

 

This one has reminded me of a neat trick on Windows machines (may work on others, but haven't tried)

Instead of highlighting a word or pushing backspace multiple times (or holding it down and no doubt deleting part of the word before it!)....

 

Push CTRL + Backspace to delete the entirety of a word.

[jthompson]

ChromeOS: Chromebooks lack a dedicated 'Delete' button: Hold down 'Alt' and press 'Backspace'

 

Mac has an equivalent in Fn+Backspace.

[Arthur]

Check Windows application runtime dependencies with PowerShell.

 

$Programs = Get-WMIObject Win32_InstalledWin32Program | Select-Object Name,ProgramID
$Result = ForEach ($Program in $Programs) {

   $Name = $Program.Name
   $ProgramID = $Program.ProgramID
   $FMapp = Get-WMIObject Win32_InstalledProgramFramework -Filter "ProgramID = '$ProgramID'"

   ForEach ($FM in $FMapp) {
       [PSCustomObject]@{
           'Name'               = $Name
           'ProgramID'          = $ProgramID
           'FrameworkPublisher' = $FM.FrameworkPublisher
           'FrameworkName'      = $FM.FrameworkName
           'FrameworkVersion'   = $FM.FrameworkVersion
       }
   }
}

$Result | Out-GridView

 

 

Credit: www.theexperienceblog.com/2017/03/17/checking-win32-application-runtime-dependencies-in-windows-10/

[3s-gtech]

Check if an IR remote is working by looking at it through your phone camera (doesn't work on iPhones, does work on most webcams) - it should show the flickering of the transmitter.

[HarryMonkey]

It works on my iPhone. You have to use the front facing camera.

[6Foot2]

Check if an IR remote is working by looking at it through your phone camera (doesn't work on iPhones, does work on most webcams) - it should show the flickering of the transmitter.

My forward facing camera on my phone doesn't work ('selfie' camera does)

 

 

Edit: Alcatel (Android)

Edited March 18, 2019 by 6Foot2

[mikeprice]

never worked on any phone I have tried it on - Samsung phones and Alcatel tablet

 

nice if it would work but I guess you need to try it out and know of a camer that it works on - then it can be used to test them

[6Foot2]

never worked on any phone I have tried it on - Samsung phones and Alcatel tablet

 

nice if it would work but I guess you need to try it out and know of a camer that it works on - then it can be used to test them

 

My Alcatel's selfie camera and our TV remote:

 

 

(I also found that my forward facing camera works! I must have been thinking of my previous phone...)

[Danp]

systeminfo at a command prompt will tell you when a PC booted up and when it was first installed, along with a whole host of other useful stuff.

 

Annoyingly, this now shows when the last feature update was installed.

 

To find the original build date, this normal does the trick

 

Open your Program Files folder: (C:\Program Files (x86)),

In the Program Files window, select View from the menu ribbon.

In the View menu, inside the 'current view' group, click Add Columns.

Select 'Date Created'

[Arthur]

This one-liner will be useful for anyone who has to deploy software.

 

strings.exe -accepteula -n 4  | sls '^[-/][a-z]+$'

 

Download strings.exe from here.

 

https://twitter.com/guyrleech/status/1110440063945588736

 

 

Edited March 27, 2019 by Arthur