My computer is in the lounge and it tends to be left on for most of the day (especially with WFH in full effect). With 4 monitors hooked up, it actually outputs a decent amount of light and if you're trying to watch a movie on the TV it can be distracting. Of course, I … Continue reading Shortcut to turn off monitors on Windows 10
Being able to cast your screen to a device that supports Miracast makes presentations so much easier. However, a recent driver update for Intel Wireless cards seems to set the default scaling of the screen to 80%. This makes the screen have giant black bars around the whole edge of the display and makes the … Continue reading Windows 10 – Fixing miracast / wireless display small screen
So you have a project that will only run/build using an old Node.js version that you can't upgrade but you also do development using the latest version. What do you do? Only build using your CI pipelines? That could work but would make the development process slow. I've run into this problem a few times, … Continue reading Windows – Run multiple node versions
The past few companies I have worked at have used Skype for Business in one form or the other. Some for IM and others for telephony. It's a good communication tool but just like the consumer Skype version it really likes to start every time your PC powers on. This is fine for work computers … Continue reading Windows – Stop Skype for Business from auto starting
Normally when i'm in the middle of coding or looking busy my keyboard layout will randomly change. Meaning that declaring string variables becomes a right pain as the @ symbol and " quotes change places (UK QWERTY layout). Apprantly this is done by a keyboard shortcut that switches between input languages. This is Left Alt … Continue reading Windows 10 – Why does my keyboard layout keep changing?
For the past couple of weeks I've noticed that the OSD volume control on all my Windows 10 computers are now massive and take up a good portion of the screen. However, that's not the worst part it seems to take around 5 seconds for the window to fade all while blocking windows behind it. … Continue reading Windows 10 – Shrink the ‘chrome.exe’ OSD volume control
In most recent versions of Windows 10, PowerShell is the default console. If you open file explorer and shift + right click, you will get the option to Open a PowerShell window here (as below). This is fine (even great) in most cases but recently I've had a few users who want to be able … Continue reading Windows 10 – Add back ‘Open command window here’
Occasionally I'll be running a script on my local machine that may take a few hours to complete. Sometimes i'll need to leave my desk and of course have to lock my machine. Normally I always configure power settings not to put my PC to sleep for 2 hours, however this option doesn't apply if … Continue reading Windows 10 – Stop PC going to sleep after locking machine
