Category: Windows 10

This post will help you with a unique feature of Windows 10 hyper-V, where you can very conveniently undo the changes made to a Virtual machine. It’s something like system restore, but deals with a rather different model, known as standard checkpoints & Production checkpoints. A standard checkpoint saves the VM state with all open & unsaved applications. In a production checkpoint the system state is saved & no application data is saved. Below is the method to create checkpoints.

• Go to Start menu | Start screen
• Type Hyper-V manager

• Click on the server name in the left hand pane
• Select the VM you wish to make a checkpoint on
• Click on Action menu at the top
• Click on Checkpoint
• Now, Windows will ask you for a name
• Give any convenient name
• Click on Yes

• After the Completion, you will het a message as shown below

This post will help you setup Hyper-V in Windows 10 Technical Preview | Insider Preview. In the last post I wrote, I outlined the steps to enable Hyper-V in Windows 10 TP. Now after you have enabled Hyper-V, its time to use the Hyper-V manager to setup Hyper-V and personalize it to match your settings. Remember, First thing to check is that your Computer BIOS settings for Hardware Virtualization are set to enabled.

Now, to launch Hyper-V manager:

• Type Hyper-V in the start screen | Start Menu
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• Select, Hyper-V manager from the listed options.
• Now, Click on the Machine ( server ) name in the left hand pane, as indicated in the screenshot below
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• This will list all the associated options of this particular server within your server list.
• Now, if in case, there are no servers listed in the left hand
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• Click on, Connect to a server
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• Click on Local Computer,
• Click Ok
• Now,
• Look at the options displayed on the right hand side pane.
• To change a setting, click on any one of them
• To start with, Click on Hyper-V settings
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• Here, You can easily set the Paths for your VHD ( Virtual Hard disk files ) & VM ( Virtual machines )
• Change them to your necessity or liking.
• After this, Add your Old VMs or setup a new one.
• Follow this Post ( How to add a new VM in Windows 10 )

This post will help you enable Hyper-V in Windows 10 Technical Preview / Insider Preview. Hyper-V is a well known virtualization service offered by Microsoft in its Operating system software. Hyper-V continues to provide its feature enriched and stable virtualization platform in Windows 10 as well. Follow the steps below to enable Hyper-V in Windows 10.

Check the Basics

Note: Make sure that Virtualization is Enabled In your computer’s BIOS.

• Go to the Start menu or start screen
• Type Programs & features
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• Click on Turn Windows Features on or off
• Now, Check the box saying Hyper-V as indicated in the screenshot below
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• Press OK
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• Windows will install Hyper-V & at the end will ask you to Restart your PC
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• Once you restart your PC, Windows will setup Hyper-V for you.

Hope this helps. Please use the comment section below to share your thoughts & feedback.

Continuum, as the name somewhat suggests, provides you with an always handy & continued Windows Experience. Continuum started or was introduced as an answer to touchscreen & desktop experiences in Windows. Earlier with Windows 8, it was very much a universal computing experience, be it a tablet or a desktop | laptop.

With Continuum, Windows now has the capability to switch between tablet & desktop mode based on either the hardware you are using ( touchscreen setup ) or if your device supports a flip to tablet experience. You connect a keyboard | Mouse to your touchscreen setup, Windows detects it and goes into the normal PC | Desktop mode, where you get your usual Windows desktop & your apps go in to the mode where they can be easily resized or dragged, changed with Mouse & Keyboard.

Similarly, if you go into tablet mode, all your apps go full screen & are optimized for touchscreen & gesture support. This makes the new Continuum feature an amazing addition to Windows 10.

Now, that’s not all. With every new build, continuum is getting more polished & feature enriched. A recent blog post for Build conference showcases a video that shows how continuum can prove to be the next paradigm shift in always handy & always on computing.

Check out the video below:

After reading this post you will be able to remove or roll back the Windows 10 Technical preview installed on your PC. I have been testing the Windows 10 TP from early stages & I always install any beta ( preview ) OS as multi boot & another copy as a Virtual Machine. Now, removing a VM is a fairly easy task, but uninstalling a dedicated OS is not to easy. To solve this issue, Microsoft came up with an easier solution that enables the testers / users, to uninstall or rollback the Technical Preview / Insider preview. They now have a dedicated entry on the boot selection menu that lets you remove or rollback the preview without much hassle. So, follow the steps below to rollback or uninstall the Insider preview.

• Startup your Computer
• On the boot selection menu
• Select Windows Rollback.
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• Keep the system running & your Technical preview will be removed.

Hope this helps.

Recently, the Windows 10 build 10061 was released to the “Fast ring” testers. This build is  was pushed via the windows update process. Here is what’s new in this build.

Improvements to Action Center, Taskbar & Start

With this build, the start menu can be resized and has a transparency effect. The power button has now been moved to the bottom left of the start menu making it better accessible. The start menu now features an automatic color enhancement technique, which is pulled off from the existing desktop background.

With start menu, the taskbar & action also gets the transparency effect & we can now change the color scheme across these by using the settings app & navigating to the personalization settings. This build now features the all new “ Black system” theme across Taskbar, Start menu & Action center. With that, the task view has received several updates, the icons are more refined, the thumbnails and buttons seem to be more polished. The Switch app ( ALT+Tab) and snap assist are also updated with this interface optimization.

New Mail & calendar Apps

The new email app features this new & amazing email authoring experience, which makes you use almost all the features and experience of Microsoft Word, that includes, inserting tables, adding pictures and bullets & giving different colors to your text. The UI functionality on the new email & calendar apps features the three pain UI, which is  very familiar to Windows users & lets you toggles very efficiently within Mail & calendar apps. The mail app supports customizable swipe gestures which are very handy. Office 365 is supported out of the box & these apps also support exchange, outlook & other IMAP & POP accounts.

Thank you for reading this post, more feature reviews coming soon.

After reading this post you will be able to fix a STOP error or better known as BSOD ( Blue screen error ) in Windows 8. The error code is something like Clock Watchdog timeout. Below is the screenshot of this error:

The image above is for reference only.

Note: FOR SSD users : Make sure you are running latest AHCI Drivers & AHCI in BIOS. Also if the problem persists, secure erase your SSD and install Windows 8.

UPDATE: Windows 10 users

If you are facing this error, make sure your Windows is updated & if a BIOS update for Laptop or Desktop PC motherboard is available, update it. Remember BIOS update must be done on your own risk, if done incorrectly, it can make your PC unusable. Refer your system documentation and seek your system /motherboard manufacturer’s support on this.

Fix for Windows 10 – If you are using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), Rebuild your BCD as suggest in this post – Click here

Fix:

Step 1

• Use Windows update to download and install all the necessary updates for your windows PC
• To use Windows update, just start typing windows update on the start screen & choose windows update from the results displayed

Step 2

• Go to your system or motherboard manufacturers support website
• Download the latest SATA / AHCI drivers
• Make sure the downloaded drivers are for Windows 8
• Also, download and install the latest chipset drivers

Step 3

• Go to run ( windows key + R )
• type SFC /SCANNOW
• let the process run and finish
• Restart your computer

Step 4

• Remove any USB storage devices attached to your computer
• If this computer is a desktop make sure your hard disk drive is seated properly
• also make sure that the hard disk data & power cables are connected properly

Step 5

• Go to your BIOS by pressing the key ( refer the documentation that came with your computer / motherboard ( usually it’s DEL , F10 , F2 )
• Locate a setting called AHCI or SATA mode
• make sure it’s set to AHCI or BOTH

This should solve your problem, if not use the comment section to notify me.

Are you looking for an easy guide on how to change the Windows clock format from 24 hours to 12 hours?

In this article, we will take you through the steps to change the Windows clock format from 24 hours to 12 hours, or vice versa, depending on your preference.

How to Change Windows Clock Formatd?

There are different ways to change the Windows Clock Format from 24 hours to 12 hours depending on the version of the Windows operating system that runs on your computer.

However, a common method that you can follow on any Windows version is by changing the clock format using the Control Panel.

We will be following the method to change time format in Windows using the Control Panel, as it’s relatively easy to follow in comparison to other methods.

Moreover, the steps are common across all the Windows versions starting from Windows 7 onwards.

1. The first step is to launch the “Control Panel” on your computer. This can be done by searching for “Control Panel” in the Start menu or by going to the Settings menu and selecting “Control Panel”.
2. Within the Control Panel window, you can see the “Change date, time, or number formats” option under the “Clock and Region” title. Click on this.
3. A new window will now open.
4. In this window, under the “Date and time formats” option, you can see the “Short time” and “Long time” options.
5. The “Short time” and “Long time” options will have drop-down options beside them.
6. Select the option for “hh:mm tt” from this menu. Once you have selected the “hh:mm tt” option, click “OK” to save your changes.

You can make the change as mentioned in step 5 above for the “Short time” or “Long time” clocks as per your need.

All changes will be visible in the same window to verify before making the actual change.

The clock on your Windows computer should now be displayed in the 12-hour format.

To change the clock format from 12 hours to 24 hours, you need to select “HH:mm:ss”

And that’s it. You have now successfully changed the time format on your computer.

Final Words

We have listed the steps above based on the options and titles as seen on the Windows 11 operating system.

If you’re running an older version, the steps are the same.

The only difference will be the actual text that represents the options we have showcased.

In case you have any queries, feel free to reach out to us and we’re more than happy to help.