Windows 10 Miscellaneous notes

Other Windows 10 related notes

Windows documentation

Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile

• Windows 10 release information: Microsoft web site and wikipedia
• Updating Windows 10

• UEFI = Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
• ESP = EFI System Partition
• GPT = GUID partition table
• MBR = Master boot record

• Convert MBR partition to GPT
• Configure UEFI/GPT-Based Hard Drive Partitions
  • Partition Configurations
• Configure BIOS/MBR-Based Hard Drive Partitions
  • Partition Configurations
• HP PCs and Tablets - About UEFI and the Startup Menu

• 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
• How to Locate your System Service Tag Using Command Prompt
• Installed Windows 10 version

Note: there are several ways to list the install applications, and they may not display the same information (need to understand the underlying logic)

1. In the search box on the taskbar, type Control Panel and select it from the results.
2. 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

• Windows+I (open Settings) ⇒ Applications
• Windows Store ⇒ … (in the top right corner) ⇒ My library

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)

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:

1. right-click on the VcXsrv executable (or the shortcut on the desktop)
2. click on Properties
3. click on Compatibility
4. click on Change high DPI settings
5. in the top panel (Program DPI) select Use this setting to fix scaling problems for this program and then (when) I open this program

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)
  • Details in What Is “wsappx” and Why Is It Running on My PC?

• Using a PC keyboard on a Macintosh

• 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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