Use Windows 10 Anniversary’s Connect App to Cast Your Smartphone Screen to Your PC

The Connect app in Windows 10 Anniversary Update gives smartphone users the ability to “cast” their screens to a PC or laptop running Microsoft’s latest version of its ever-evolving operating system. Let’s call this feature the “poor-man’s Continuum.” But, more importantly, it gives Android users something that has been solely constrained to Windows devices – the ability to mirror smartphone and tablet screens to Windows 10. Notably, this feature doesn’t work for iOS and the host device must support Miracast.

Source  : SuperSite for Windows

How To: Activate Limited Periodic Scanning in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Although Microsoft provides Windows Defender as an integrated part of Windows 10 they do not mandate that as your only option.



Once you install your favorite third party anti-virus/malware solution Windows Defender gets out of the way and is turned off so it does not cause any conflicts with your scanning/protection software of choice.



In the recently released Windows 10 Anniversary Update there is a new option for those of you using third party security software that allows you to take advantage of the years worth of research Microsoft has invested into protecting systems from viruses and malware.

Source : SuperSite for Windows

Improving Windows 10 logon time

One of the most noticeable things about Windows 10, as compared to previous iterations of the Microsoft operating system, is the amount of time it takes for the first logon—that is, the logon time when a user doesn’t have a profile on the local machine.

Source : 4sysops

Offline Files and Continuous Availability: the monstrous union you should not consecrate

Hi all, Ned here again with a quick chat about mixing Continuous Availability and Offline Files. As you know, we have severalpublic docs recommending against combining CA and Client Side Caching (aka CSC aka Offline Files) because when users attempt to go offline, it will take up to six minutes. This usually leads to unhappy humans and applications. Today I’ll explain more and give you some options.

Source : Server Storage at Microsoft

When it comes to Windows 10 privacy, don't trust amateur analysts

Another day, another sensational report from Forbes. Oh my goodness, is Windows 10 really "phoning home" thousands of times a day? Nope. in fact, anyone who has even a basic understanding of how networks work should cringe at this shoddy report.

Source : ZDNet

Windows 10 Tip: Disable Fast Startup - Petri

Fast startup was introduced in Windows 8 and uses session 0 hibernation to save the kernel state to disk. Reading the kernel state from disk is 30 to 70 percent faster than a full system initialization on most systems. 

While fast startup should be beneficial in most cases, especially in combination with UEFI, it can also be problematic. For example, I’ve come across systems that refuse to connect to wireless networks without a cold boot, assumedly due to a problem with the reinitialized driver. But if an updated driver doesn’t solve the problem, you might want to disable fast startup.

Source : Petri

Microsoft Finally Offers Windows 10 Update Information

After months of complaints, Microsoft has finally opened a Windows 10 Update History web site that will document the changes it makes to its flagship OS.

Source : Thurrott.com

Windows 10 Tip: Easily Filter Search Results And Power Search Features

If you have ever used the search feature in Windows 10, and there is a good chance you have, there is a new way to filter search results that should help you find what you are looking for, faster. It looks like this feature was added in a recent update and if you haven’t tried it yet, here’s how it works ...

Source : Thurrott.com

Concurrent Remote Desktop (CRDP) for Windows 10

Concurrent Remote Desktop allows you (the administrator) to simultaneously use a client computer while a standard user is still interactively using it. For IT, this is huge! Imagine never having to kick a person off of their computer because you need to work on it. Concurrent Remote Desktop (CRDP) makes this possible. This guide will cover CRDP setup for Windows 10.

Source : DeployHappiness

Offline activate the built-in administrator on Windows 10 without signing in

A must read article by 4sysops on how to active the administrator account or change the password of any account without logging in !

Offline activate the built-in administrator on Windows 10 without signing in - 4sysops

How to get the most from the Windows 10 command prompt

If you tried out the previews of Windows 10, you may have seen the experimental options in the command prompt. Now that it's released, the Experimental tab in the Properties dialog is gone, but the key features are still there – just slotted into the other tabs.

To see what's available, right-click on the title bar of a command prompt window and choose Properties if you want to only change the current command window, or Defaults if you want to change every command window you open.

Source : www.techradar.com

Windows 10 Enterprise vs. Windows 10 Pro - 4sysops

Windows 10 Enterprise comes with quite a few interesting features that Windows 10 Pro lacks. In this post, I summarize these additional features and link to further information.

Source : 4sysops

Windows Update Delivery Optimization (WUDO) in Windows 10

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of reading these sensational headlines: “Windows 10 is Stealing Your Bandwidth!” and “Windows 10 is Costing You Extra Money!” and so forth. By the end of this article, you’ll understand a thing or two about Windows Update Delivery Optimization (WUDO), how to control its behavior, and what you can do to minimize the likelihood of running over your ISP account’s bandwidth limit.

Source  : 4sysops

Reducing Windows Deployment time using Power Management

While studying up on Windows 10, I came across a technique that has been shown to reduce the time it takes to apply an OS WIM to disk by 20 – 50%*.  That’s a fairly significant savings in time and the implementation of this technique is relatively easy and does not require you to change how you deploy Windows.  Believe it or not, the savings come from adjusting the OS power management settings during a deployment.  While there are multiple ways to implement these power management settings, below I’ve outlined what I consider the most non-intrusive to existing deployment methods.

Source : Reducing Windows Deployment time using Power Management - The Deployment Guys