There are two simple tricks to Boot your Windows device into BIOS/Firmware without the need of smashing F2, F10 or whatever your vendor needs you to. 1 Boot into advanced startup menu Option 1 (s...

Windows (10/11) in-place Upgrades change/overrides Win32_OperatingSystem.InstallDate. (Original Install Date) This makes it hard to find the genuine original installation date or to see the histo...

You may be familiar with the systeminfo command or msinfo32. These commands are useful to get a quick overview of your hardware. But did you know that Windows, even the latest Win11, has another t...

I was testing a PowerShell script on a remote host using trial and error. The process of saving, copying, and rerunning the script on the remote machine became tedious, as remote PowerShell wasn’t ...

Many years back, I picked something up from a presentation, which left me curious. The presenter started a program with Windows Run WIN + R from a subfolder in Windows. I can’t remember, what it wa...

Some email providers allow sub addressing / plus addressing. Using a + and an arbitrary text (tag) before the @ sign, creates a disposable ad-hoc email address. This works at least with gmail and ...

WIN + SHIFT + ENTER If you need to run an application on Windows with elevated rights, there is a useful keyboard shortcut do to so. Search the application in your start menu, make sure it’s high...

waitfor.exe is a windows built-in tool, that lets you send signals and it can wait for signals even over the network. So, that’s 😎 and all, but for what can it be used for. Let’s say you have long...

Yank last argument is a command-line feature that I have been utilizing for some time. It allows you to quickly paste the last argument entered on the command line. This feature is available in mos...

Background I heard of pikvm for a while now. Never got around to buy or make one. Until now 😎. As I had a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 laying around, all I needed was a few cables, an sd card, an IR LED an...