If you have an external hard drive, then you can use it to take backups of data but you can also use it to transfer data to another machine. This article is written to serve the second purpose. I'm transferring data from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 using my external Toshiba hard drive. Transferring Data ... Read more
To delete a folder using the command prompt of Windows, follow this procedure. Open a command prompt (Press the Windows icon key and R to open the run window). Type cmd and hit enter from the keyboard. On a command prompt, enter the following command and hit enter from the keyboard. Syntax rmdir /s <complete ... Read more
A device driver is a part of the software that permits Windows 10 to communicate with particular hardware (together with a video card, memory driver, network adapter, Bluetooth, and so on) in addition to peripherals for example mouse, keyboards, printers, displays, and so on. Device drivers are often detected and installed spontaneously making use of ... Read more
When you move to a new Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC with shiny hardware (pc to pc file transfer), you may need to transfer your personal files from an old PC. It's a common question about "how to transfer files between computers" that we will cover in this guide. Here are four commonly used ... Read more
This guide gives you an overview of code commenting options in PowerShell. Just like any other programming language, you can comment out code in a PowerShell script for documentation purposes. Single-line comments in PowerShell To comment out a single line, put '#' in the beginning: Multiline Comments in PowerShell To comment out multiple lines, put ... Read more
Modules are collections of cmdlets that are stored in the path %WINDIR%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\. Get a List of Windows PowerShell Modules Now execute the following command to display the location of each directory where these modules are stored at your computer: write-host "$PSModulePath" You can get a list of all available modules on your Windows system by ... Read more
If your machine is in a Windows AD domain and you want to move it to the local workgroup, you can follow these instructions. There are two methods to do this, one via the graphical user interface and the other via PowerShell. We will look at both methods. Unjoin Windows PC Using Graphical User Interface ... Read more
You may know how to change the IP address via the GUI. It's pretty simple. Just go to Control Panel > Network and Internet, select the IPv4 properties and change the IP address. The whole process takes about a minute. But what if you have to do this on multiple systems and repeat all these ... Read more
Powershell scripts can be run on any Windows server or desktop as long as they are run from the ISE by pushing the green play button. As soon as you want to run it from the cmd or the desktop file you'll get this error: script1.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on ... Read more
On your desktop, Windows 10 allows you to create shortcuts to applications, directories, files, and even websites. Although desktop icons are out of style, they are still useful when used as part of a well-organized desktop. We'll walk you through the steps to create desktop shortcuts on Windows 10 in this post. On the Windows ... Read more