A number of environments need to disable the Notification Center and Action Center features in Windows 10. This can be done using the registry editor or using a Group Policy Object (GPO). First let’s look at doing so with the registry. As with any mucking around with the registry, when editing, I strongly recommend backing up the registry and/or creating a restore point first. Once done, click Run, enter regedit and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor. Next, right-click on the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer registry key and create a new DWORD (32-bit) key. Call the key DisableNotificationCenter and provide the number 1 as the value. Then quit the Registry Editor and…
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Package Manager Like apt-get For Windows 10
In Windows 10, Microsoft has finally baked a package manager called OneGet into Windows. It works similarly to apt-get and other package managers that have been around for decades in the Linux world; just works in PowerShell, rather than bash. So let’s take a quick peak. First, import it as a module from a PowerShell prompt: Import-Module -Name OneGet Next, use Get-Command to see the options for the OneGet Module: Get-Command -Module OneGet This will show you the following options: Find-Package Get-Package Get-PackageProvider Get-PackageSource Install-Package Register-PackageSource Save-Package Set-PackageSource Uninstall-Package Unregister-PackageSource Next, look at the repositories of package sources you have: Get-PackageSource You can then add a repo to look at,…