The first Insider Preview of Windows 11 is now available for download on any supported machine. However, the new Windows introduces a slew of new system requirements and only supports a limited number of CPUs. This may be inconvenient for people with older yet powerful computers. After all, Windows is Windows, and it may be installed on systems that aren’t compatible with it. Here’s how to get the Windows 11 Insider Preview on a PC that isn’t supported. TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot functionality for Windows 11 are now required by Microsoft. It also only works with contemporary...
Make Windows Powershell Work Like a Linux Terminal
Windows PowerShell doesn't come with any git command utilities. But we can extend it to a new level where we can utilize git commands efficiently. In this post, we are going to see how to add auto command suggestions on TAB, branch information, and a working directory in Windows PowerShell. To get that look at our default PowerShell, we will install two packages from PowerShell Gallery. To check what that Gallery is about click here. We will install posh-git and oh-my-posh packages as modules. The posh-git will provide prompt with Git status summary information and TAB completion for Git...
Windows sandbox – test before you install anything on your windows system
There are a lot of time that we think before installing an app on our system if it is safe or not. In May 2019, Windows got a system update with Windows Sandbox feature. Basically it lets you use anything before installing it. This feature is available with version 1903. To be more specific, Windows Sandbox is a virtual machine which can be created on-demand using Microsoft‘s hypervisor technology. It’s a very lightweight environment using a resource of 100MB only, and it’s well optimized to boot and run faster. It focuses on security, and it’s an example of efficient usage of integrated...