How to Find & View the Files Installed by a Chrome Extension (copy and backup)

 Whether it be because you suspect a Chrome extension is malicious, you want to create a backup of a favorite and discontinued extension, or you just want to see how the extension works, knowing how to find and view the files installed by a Chrome extension can be useful.

When extensions are installed into Chrome they are extracted into the C:\Users\[login_name]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions folder. Each extension will be stored in its own folder named after the ID of the extension.

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How to Find & View the Files Installed by a Chrome Extension

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How to prevent users from adding new profiles in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge is one of the most popular web browsers out there and users love it because of the features it offers.  The browser allows users to create a new profile so everything they search for gets synced and in addition to this, they can get personalized suggestions. While a lot of people find the feature useful, there are some who don’t like it.

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How to prevent users from adding new profiles in Microsoft Edge

Step 1: Bring up Registry Editor on your Computer. To do this, simply click on your search bar and make a search for the term “Registry Editor” or Open it directly from the Start Menu.

Step 2: Once the Registry Editor is running on your Windows 10 system, go to the Microsoft Key in HKLM and right-click on it to create a new key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft

Step 3:  Name your new key as “Edge” and continue with the process.

Step 4: Select the Edge key, right-click on it, and then select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value from the context menu.

Step 5: Name your new key as “BrowserAddProfileEnabled” and once you have done that, restart the Microsoft Edge browser.

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How to Make Edge Always Open with Your Previously Open Tabs

While browsing with Microsoft Edge, you sometimes need to restart your machine or log out while in the middle of an important task or research process. Luckily, there’s a way to tell Edge that you’d like to preserve all your tabs and reopen them the next time you restart. Here’s how to set it up.

How to Make Edge Always Open with Your Previously Open Tabs

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How to Find Your Windows PC’s Serial Number

Windows doesn’t display your PC’s serial number anywhere in its interface, and neither do popular system information tools. But you can often find a PC’s serial number with a simple command, a peek in your BIOS, or on the hardware itself.

Run Command Prompt, type the following command and then press Enter wmic bios get serialnumber

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How to Find Your Windows PC’s Serial Number

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How to disable Task Manager on Windows 10

 On Windows 10, Task Manager is an advanced feature that gives you access to tools to start and stop applications, monitor system performance and running apps and services, and much more.

Although it is a handy tool, sometimes, you may want to disable access to prevent users from restarting specific programs, changing processes priorities, or because you need to comply with your organization's policies.

you may want to disable access to prevent users from restarting specific programs, changing processes priorities, or because you need to comply with your organization's policies. 00:31​ Group Policy Editor - User Configuration :: Administrative Templates :: System :: Ctrl + Alt + Del Options - On the right side, double-click the Remove Task Manager policy. - Select the Enabled option, click apply and OK button. 01:30​ Registry (for windows 10 home/no access to group policy editor) - Browse the following path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies - Create Subfolder System - at System (folder) key, Create DWORD (32-bit) Value DisableTaskMgr - set value 1 - You may need to restart your computer

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How to Disable the Windows 10 Startup Delay

After Windows starts up, it waits about ten seconds before opening your startup programs. This “startup delay” lets your desktop and Windows services finish loading, making everything run a bit smoother. If you have apps you’d rather run immediately, you can do it with a simple Registry hack. Set Value 0 to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Serialize note: - If the Serialize key doesn’t already exist, you’ll need to create it. - If you ever want to re-enable this delay then delete the StartupDelayInMSec key

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How to Disable Web Search / Bing integration in the Windows 10 Start Menu

 Windows 10, by default, sends everything you search for in the Start Menu to their servers to give you results from Bing search—so you better make sure that you don’t type anything private into your own PC’s Start Menu. Or, you could just disable the Bing integration in the Start Menu.

1. Open Local Group Policy Editor 2. Go to the following path: Computer Configuration::Administrative Templates::Windows Components::Search 3. Enable the following Group Policies: - Do not allow web search - Don't search the web or display web results in Search - Don't search the web or display web results in Search over metered connections You may need to restart your computer

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How to Disable Web Search / Bing integration in the Windows 10 Start Menu

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How To Lock/Protect File And Folder Using Command Prompt (CMD) In Windows 10

If we have many more important secret documents in our laptop or PC and by chance we have to share our laptop or PC with another person and we do not want to share our documents with him/her then we can lock our documents by using Command Prompt (Cmd) without using any third-party software.

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How To Lock/Protect File And Folder Using Command Prompt (CMD) In Windows 10

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How to disable registry editor and command prompt on windows

Do you have an intelligent, curious child who knows their way around the Windows registry? Or maybe you want to prevent a guest user on your machine from editing the registry. You can prevent users from making changes to the registry by disabling access to it.

The Registry Editor And Command prompt window in the Windows operating system can be disabled by following the steps below:

1. open gpedit.msc (Group Policy Editor) 2. Configuration\Administrative Templates and highlight the System folder. 3. 00:37 Disable Command Prompt :: "Prevent access to the command prompt." = enabled 4. 02:14 Disable Registry Editor :: "Prevent access to registry editing tools" = enabled 5. Click Apply And OK button ( You may need to restart PC )

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How to disable registry editor and command prompt on windows

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How to prevent users from changing proxy settings on Windows 10

Since there are many reasons to use a proxy, depending on your environment, sometimes you may need to prevent users from changing the proxy settings on Window 10 to properly implement the solution or prevent them from using this feature.

Privacy is perhaps the most important benefit because it allows you to navigate the internet anonymously since the computer will be requesting information to the proxy (not to the website directly). Then the server will retrieve the information for the client, hiding your public network address.

A Proxy Server can also improve internet speeds and reduce bandwidth. For example, if the organization has a proxy in the network, whenever a request is made, the server will also cache the web page in its database, and it will serve it to other users if they request the same information. Also, organizations may use this solution to monitor the websites users access and create an access list to block specific sites.

Here is video tutorial how to do that :

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How to auto shutdown windows 10

 Normal Shutdown

To perform a normal Shutdown, open Run (Start::Run) and type in Shutdown –s . Your PC will shutdown just as it would when you click Shutdown from the Start menu Force Shutdown To perform a Force Shutdown, type in Shutdown –s –f. Notice a new parameter –f? This parameter is responsible for Fore Shutdown. Force Shutdown with Time To perform a Timed Force Shutdown, type in Shutdown –s –f –t 00. This will Force Shutdown your PC in 00 seconds (waiting time). Setting it to 05 will shutdown your PC after 05 seconds i.e after waiting for 5 seconds. Restart To restart, simply replace –s with –r.

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How to disable access to Control Panel

 If you don't want anyone altering the settings on your computer, in Windows 10 you can quickly prevent this by disabling access to the Settings app and the Control Panel using the Local Group Policy Editor and the Registry. This not only ensures your configurations will be preserved all the time, but it also helps stop users from modifying settings accidentally.

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How to disable access to Control Panel

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How to Restrict access to removable storage devices on Windows 10

Disable access to prevent users from connecting foreign devices, which may contain malware that can harm the computer, stop users from trying to make a copy of certain information

• Open Local Group Policy Editor.
  
• Browse the following path: Computer Configuration :: Administrative Templates :: System :: Removable Storage Access
  
• On the right side, double-click the All Removable Storage classes: Deny all access policy. Removable Storage Access Select the Enabled option. All removable storage classes deny all access policy
  
• Click the Apply button.
  
• Click the OK button.
  
• Restart your computer (optional)

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How to Restrict access to removable storage devices on Windows 10

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How to Protect data folder with microsoft defender antivirus On Windows 10

If you want an extra layer of security to safeguard your data, you can enable and customize Controlled folder access using the Windows Security app, Group Policy, and even PowerShell.

"Controlled folder access" is an intrusion-prevention feature available with Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard, which is part of the Microsoft Defender Antivirus. It's been designed primarily to stop ransomware from encrypting and taking your data hostage, but it also protects files from unwanted changes from other malicious applications.

The anti-ransomware feature is optional on Windows 10. When enabled, it uses a mechanism to track the apps (executable files, scripts, and DLLs), trying to make changes to files in the protected folders. If the app is malicious or not recognized, the feature will block the attempt in real-time, and you'll receive a notification of the suspicious activity.

This is the video tutorial how to do it :

How to Protect data folder with microsoft defender antivirus

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How to reset all Local Group Policy settings on Windows 10

 If you made many Group Policy changes, you can revert the settings to their defaults quickly. In this guide, we show you how to complete the task on Windows 10.

When it comes to changing advanced system configurations, you usually switch to the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc). 

The reason is that the Local Group Policy Editor is a console that makes available virtually all the settings (such as personalization, system, and networking) you can configure on Windows in a single interface.

The only caveat to using the console is that over time you can end up enabling and disabling too many policies or editing the wrong settings, which can cause unwanted system behaviors. And unless you remember the objects you modified, it can be difficult to undo the changes. However, it's possible to reset all the Local Group Policy objects to revert the settings quickly to their original default values using the Editor or Command Prompt.

1. Open Elevated Command Prompt(Run Administrator) 2. Type this command RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers" && RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy" 3. type this command gpupdate /force 4. Restart Your Computer

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How to reset all Local Group Policy settings on Windows 10

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Microsoft Edge - How to save a web page as PDF

Microsoft Edge makes it easy to save web pages as PDF documents, I will show you the steps to complete the task.

On Windows 10, the Chromium version of Microsoft Edge also works as a PDF tool that, in addition to viewing and editing documents, it also includes an option to save a copy of a web page as a .pdf file extension.

Usually, this feature will come in handy when you need to save content (such as an online form) for future reference, or you need to print an important document (for example, an invoice), but you're not near a printer.

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Microsoft Edge - How to save a web page as PDF

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How to ditch Microsoft Edge as your default PDF reader on Windows 10

 On Windows 10, the Chromium version of Microsoft Edge is the new default web browsing experience, which also functions as the system default PDF reader on every installation.

Although the ability to view and edit PDF documents is a convenient feature, the experience offers limited functionalities. However, if you prefer a more capable software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, Xodo, or SumatraPDF, you can always change the Windows 10 settings to disable Microsoft Edge and set another application as the default PDF reader every time you open this kind of file format on your computer.

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Windows 10 - How to ditch Microsoft Edge as your default PDF reader

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manage disk write caching for external storage on Windows 10

On Windows 10, disk write caching is a feature that uses the faster system memory to temporarily queue write commands until the storage device is ready to commit them to disk. This approach improves performance since the application doesn't have to wait for the drive to continue operating.

While it's a useful feature, the downside is that a system failure, power outage, or accidental removal can result in data loss or corruption. Also, some third-party applications do not support this feature, causing errors and other problems.

Windows 10 includes 2 different policies to manage storage devices, including "Quick removal" and "Better performance." Quick removal is the default setting for external storage, and it does not store any data in memory, making the storage always ready to be disconnected. This means that you can remove the drive skipping the Safely Remove Hardware option without the risk of losing data, but there's a performance trade-off.

The Better performance option is the default option for internal drives, and it's the option that enables the disk write caching feature to improve the overall performance of the drive. If the option is enabled, the system will queue temporary data in memory, and later the drive will automatically commit it to disk. However, to prevent data loss, you'll need to use the Safely Remove Hardware notification icon before disconnecting the external storage.

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How to Use Windows 10’s New Sandbox (to Safely Test Apps) And How to Fix the Win­dows Sand­box No Hyper­vi­sor Was Found Error

How to Use Windows 10’s New Sandbox (to Safely Test Apps) And How to Fix the Win­dows Sand­box No Hyper­vi­sor Was Found Error

1. Make Sure Virtualization is Enabled 2. Enable the Windows Sandbox Feature 3. Restart Windows 4. Fire It Up 5. Run OK : Done, no need to next step 6. Enable Windows Feature - Virtual Machine Platform - Windows Hypervisor Platform 7. Restart Windows 8. Run OK : Done, no need to next step 9. ADD BCD ENTRY - BCDEDIT /Set {current} hypervisorlaunchtype auto 10. Restart Windows 11. check BCDEDIT in elevated prompt console, check hypervisorlaunchtype = auto 12. Done.

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How to install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 10

On Windows 10, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature that creates a lightweight environment that allows you to install and run supported versions of Linux (such as Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Debian, etc.) without the complexity of setting up a virtual machine or different computer.

If you want to run distros of Linux on Windows 10, you must first enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux feature before you can download and install the flavor of Linux that you want to use.

Here is video tutorial How to install WSL on Windows 10

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