Problem I have some USB Flash Memory drives that I had used on a non-Windows system (ie a TV) so it is using another file system than Windows’ NTFS, FAT or FAT32. When I insert them into my Windows 10 laptop they are connected, ie they are found by Windows and show up under “Safely Remove Hardware and… Continue reading Solution: USB Memory stick not showing in File explorer
Category: Windows
Windows cannot connect to iPhone Personal Hotspot
I have ran into this a few times so I thougt I’d write down the solution as I seem to keep forgetting it. There are probably tons of other problems you can have with iPhone Personal Hotspot and Windows Wifi but this is the solution to one I keep running into. Problem I turn on… Continue reading Windows cannot connect to iPhone Personal Hotspot
Windows 10 international support lacking
I have noticed a couple of things where Windows 10 does not support international the way I would expect a 2015 operating system to do. I have not found any solutions yet so any more info on these issues would be appreciated. Compressed (zipped) folder I tried to zip a folder in Windows 10 by right… Continue reading Windows 10 international support lacking
Batch rename files in Windows from Command Line
This is an easy way to add a prefix to any set of files in a Windows folder, from a command prompt type this [code]for %a in (*.*) do ren "%a" "prefix – %a"[/code] Tried in Windows 10. Thanks to ofer.sheffer in this Stackoverflow post where there is also an example on how to… Continue reading Batch rename files in Windows from Command Line
Solution: Windows 10 upgrade: “Couldn’t update the system reserved partition”
Problem When trying to update my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit to Windows 10 the other day using Windows Update I got this error “Something went wrong” and “We couldn’t update the system reserved partition”. After some searching it seems this is related to not enough disk space on update partition, needs to be 50MB… Continue reading Solution: Windows 10 upgrade: “Couldn’t update the system reserved partition”