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Three quick commands to turn on/off and check BitLocker on Windows 10 Professional and Enterprise. You have to run the following commands in an Administrative terminal. To turn on BitLokcer against volume C: manage-bde -on C: -RecoveryPassword -skiphardwaretest -UsedSpaceOnly To turn off BitLocker against volume C: manage-bde -off C: To check BitLocker against volume C: … Continue reading BitLocker on Windows 10
It took me some time to get this one work, here are a couple of gotchas I learned. If the Fingerprint option is greyed out with a note '*Some settings are hidden or managed by your organization'. The fix is to update the registry key - [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] "AllowDomainPINLogon"=dword:00000001 If the fingerprint sensor is not responding during … Continue reading Enable Fingerprint login on Windows 10
If you are trying to run Virtualbox on Windows, and received the error 'VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX)'. Normally, the first thing is to check if the processor supports VT-x. If yes, then to see whether it has been enabled in BIOS? If yes, but you are still seeing this error. Then another possible reason … Continue reading VT-x is not available caused by Docker for Windows
As mentioned earlier, I have been a Ubuntu and Mac user in the past a few years, but now I am using Windows 10 which is the standard OS of my new job. I like the package managers in *nix world, e.g. apt in Ubuntu, yum in CentOS/RHEL, and homebrew in Mac, and I would … Continue reading Chocolatey – Package Manager for Windows
I just started a new job this week, and the standard machine is HP EliteBook with touchscreen and Windows 10. I have been a Ubuntu and Mac user in the past couple of years, may be it is a good time for me to familiarise with the new Windows OS. I was told by many … Continue reading 3 steps to run Ubuntu in Windows 10
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