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Windows 10 Miscellaneous notes
Windows 10 versions
- Windows 10 release information: Microsoft web site and wikipedia
MBR vs GPT, Legacy vs UEFI
- UEFI = Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
- ESP = EFI System Partition
- GPT = GUID partition table
- MBR = Master boot record
Basic system information
- Computer information: machine name (LSCE name), processor, ram, system type (32 or 64bit), …
Windows+I
⇒System
⇒System information
(FR:à propose de
)
- Information at the BIOS level, available at boot time
Accessing the list of installed applications
Note: there are several ways to list the install applications, and they may not display the same information (need to understand the underlying logic)
Using the Windows 7 way
- In the search box on the taskbar, type Control Panel and select it from the results.
- Select
Programs
>Programs and Features
Source: Repair or remove programs in Windows 10 to access the legacy Windows 7 Programs and Features (Programmes et fonctionnalités) panel
Using the Windows 10 way
Windows+I
(open Settings) ⇒ Applications- Windows Store ⇒
…
(in the top right corner) ⇒ My library
Screen resolution and other compatibility problems
The content of some application windows may appear blurry, and the screen size determined by the application may be smaller than the actual screen size. This is because some applications don't use the information supplied by Windows 10 on high resolution screens, and the apparent screen size depends on the scaling factor selected in Display parameters (when you right click on the desktop, the default scaling factor is 150%).
Check the Make older programs compatible with this version of Windows page for help (French version)
VcXsrv X server
In the case of VcXsrv, if the scaling factor is 150%, and the actual screen size is W x H
, VcXsrv thinks that the screen size is only (W/1.5) x (H/1.5)
. Type xdpyinfo | grep dimensions
to get the screen size seen by the X server
Solution:
- right-click on the VcXsrv executable (or the shortcut on the desktop)
- click on
Properties
- click on
Compatibility
- click on
Change high DPI settings
- in the top panel (
Program DPI
) selectUse this setting to fix scaling problems for this program
and then(when) I open this program
Task Manager
Some information about processes you may see running (with high CPU usage) in the Task Manager
wsappx
: this process runs when windows installs programs or check for updates (e.g. updates of programs from the Microsoft Store)
Misc technical info
Resources
- Tips to improve PC performance in Windows 10 (source = Microsoft)
- Windows section of How-To Geek
- Windows 10 section of Windows Central
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