win general

This page addresses mainly Windows 10

Locations & Paths

• UUIDs for mounted drives: execute the mountvol command (after the help all drives will be shown)
• Start menu entries
  • ALL Users: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
  • Current User: %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

Prevent all windows from being minimised by mouse gesture (window shaking)

This is probably the most annoying Windows feature in existence. You move a window and accidentally all other windows get minimised. Afterwards you see yourself shaking windows for a few minutes (you want your windows back "unminimised" and in their previous position) since this feature almost never works when it is deliberately wanted.

You can change this by local group policy:

1. Open Edit Group Policy
2. In the tree view go to: User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Desktop
3. Enable Turn off Aero Shake window minimizing mouse gesture

Environment Variables

Update within a PS (PowerShell) and Chocolatey without closing it

If you have Chocolatey installed just type RefreshEnv (NOT choco RefreshEnv).

Get variable

PS > $env:Path

Set variable

PS > $env:Path = "<string containing the PATH variables>"

# Append to env variable
PS > $env:TEAMS = $env:TEAMS + "<new path>"

Delete variable

Assigning an empty string deletes it.

PS > $env:Path = ''