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Windows Stuff

Solutions to Misc. Windows System Issues:

• Windows 10 keeps sleeping every 2 minutes of inactivity until you reboot.

  Found the answer to this one here.

  I've preserved it below, just in case the original disappears.

  1. Click on the windows icon
  2. Type regedit
  3. Right-click on regedit icon, click Run as administrator
  4. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0
  5. Double click on Attributes
  6. Enter number 2.
  7. Go to Advanced power settings (click on Windows button, write power options, click on Power Options, in the selected plan click on the Change plan settings, click on the Change advanced power settings).
  8. Click on the Change settings that are currently unavailable.
  9. Click Sleep, then System unattended sleep timeout, then change these settings from 2 Minutes to 20 for example.
  That's it!
  

• When upgrading a Windows 7 computer to Windows 10, you get the "Setup has failed to validate the product key" message you can do this.
  

  Go to start and open cmd.exe.
  Using cmd, go to the directory with the Windows 10 setup.exe program.
  Type "setup /pkey xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx" using the product key of the Windows 10 you purchased.

  • How to Fix - the trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed

  Solutions to Misc. Windows Program Issues:

  • USB Driver for Samsung Kies does not load properly in Windows 7. You can't connect to your phone at all.

  Windows tweaks:

  • How to have command line completion like in Unix/Linux.

    This may look like a trivial addition to Windows, but if you do any amount of command line stuff during your day you will appreciate this one.

  • Batch file to determine Windows OS version.

    (I'm not sure who to attribute this to since it shows up in so many places online.)