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How to remove Microsoft account linked with Windows

When adding Microsoft Email account in Windows Mail application or setting the Microsoft Teams, Windows forcefully associate that account with Windows Account. Unfortunately if you remove the account that email will also disassociate from Mail and Teams application. Below are the steps to remove the email from Windows Account : 1. Open Setting by pressing Windows + i buttons or from the gear icon in Windows menu. 2. Now in new window find and click on Accounts. 3. In new window click on Email & accounts. 4. Under Accounts used by other apps, click on your email and Remove button will appear. 5. Click on Remove. 6. Now click on Your Infor and under profile picture it should be Local Account. All done. Hope this helps.

How to kill a Windows service which is stuck in Stopping status

In Windows service, you stop the service but it returned an error and stuck in "Stopping" status. In this case you need to kill the service so you can start again. There are two solutions for either you can restart the machine but if this machine is a server and it is not possible than you need to kill the service manually. For killing the service process please follow below steps: Get the Service Name: Go into Services and double click on the Service which has stuck in "Stopping" status.  Make a note of the "Service Name". Find out the PID of the service: Open a command prompt and type in: sc queryex [service_name] Replace this [service_name] with the name you copied from previous step. Copy of the PID Kill the PID: In the same command prompt type in: taskkill /f /pid [PID] Replace this [PID] with process number you copied from previous step. If it is successful you should receive the following message: SUCCESS: The process with PID XXXX has been termin...

How to set Language Support for non Unicode Program in Windows 10

  Open Start menu or press windows button. Type Language and open. Language setting window will appear, now press on Location Region setting window will appear, go to Administrative tab and click on Change system locate button. New window will appear with current system locate setting. From drop down select the language which is not appearing properly in programs like outlook, for me it is Arabic. After selecting the language windows will ask for restart. click "Restart now" button. check the issue.

Windows DISM and System File Checker Utility CMD Commands

Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool and sfc utility are used to scans windows 10 for missing corrupted files if found any the utility automatically restores them. 1. Open Command prompt as administrator. 2. Run DISM command dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth 3. Run command sfc /scannow (This will check and restore missing system files.)

Windows 10 Taskbar not working after updating to 1909

After upgrade to Windows 10 1909, taskbar isn’t working (unresponsive) or unable to open taskbar. Temporary Fix: Open Task Manager: Press keyboard shortcut Alt + Ctrl + Del and select task manager or Press Windows + R, type taskmgr.exe and OK. Under processes select Windows Explorer and click on restart button.

Windows Terminal Preview 1.2 Release July 22nd, 2020

Windows Terminal Preview  has new features for version 1.2 which will appear in Windows Terminal in August. You can download Windows Terminal Preview and Windows Terminal from the  Microsoft Store  or from the  GitHub releases page . Let’s dive into what’s new! Focus mode There is a new feature called focus mode that hides the tabs and title bar. This mode will only display the terminal content. To enable focus mode, you can add a key binding for  toggleFocusMode  in your settings.json file. This command is not bound by default. { "command" : "toggleFocusMode" , "keys" : "shift+f11" } Always on top mode In addition to focus mode, you can enable Windows Terminal Preview to always be the topmost window. This can be done with the  alwaysOnTop  global setting as well as a key binding using the  toggleAlwaysOnTop  command. These are not bound by default. // Global setting "alwaysOnTop" : true // Key binding { "co...

What's new in recent Windows 10 updates May 27, 2020

New features in recent Windows updates will help you manage your time, increase security, and get more creative with Windows 10. With this update, it'll be easier to get things done on your PC and across your other devices, including syncing to Android phones (7.0 or later). Go passwordless with Microsoft accounts on your device Keep your device even more secure by removing passwords when signing in to Windows with Microsoft accounts on your device. Go to  Start    >  Settings    >  Accounts    >  Sign-in options  , and then turn on  Require Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts . Have Magnifier read text aloud Magnifier, the screen-magnifying feature that comes with Windows 10, can also read text aloud. To use it, turn on Magnifier by pressing the Windows logo key‌    + Plus sign (+), select  Read from here , t...

Move or scroll through a worksheet in MS Excel

Excel for Microsoft 365 Excel 2019 Excel 2016 Excel 2013 Excel 2010 Excel 2007 There are different ways to scroll through a worksheet. You can use the arrow keys, the scroll bars, or the mouse to move between cells and to move quickly to different areas of the worksheet. In Excel, you can take advantage of increased scroll speeds, easy scrolling to the end of ranges, and ScreenTips that let you know where you are in the worksheet. You can also use the mouse to scroll in dialog boxes that have drop-down lists with scroll bars. When SCROLL LOCK is on, Scroll Lock is displayed on the status bar in Excel. Pressing an arrow key while SCROLL LOCK is on will scroll one row up or down or one column left or right. To use the arrow keys to move between cells, you must turn SCROLL LOCK off. To do that, press the Scroll Lock key (labeled as ScrLk) on your keyboard. If your keyboard doesn't include this key, you can turn off SCROLL LOCK by using the On-Screen Keyboard. To open the O...

How to Clear Your Windows Clipboard

Either you can open cmd and type below and press enter for clearing your clipboard. echo off | clip Or you can create shortcut. Right click on desktop go to New and then Shortcut. Copy and Paste the below into "location of the item" field: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "echo off | clip" Click Next and type a name for this shortcut and click on Finish. Just double click on this shortcut whenever you need to clear your clipboard. Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/echo https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/clip

What is the difference between TS and MP4

MP4 MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, it allows streaming over the Internet. TS TS stands for Transport Stream TS files are specified for MPEG-2 part 1 systems MPEG transport stream (transport stream, MPEG-TS, MTS or TS) is a standard digital container format for transmission and storage of audio, video, and Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) data.[3] It is used in broadcast systems such as DVB, ATSC and IPTV. The video quality of MP4 and TS files are the same. The primary difference between TS and MP4 files is that TS files are flat while MP4 files have an index at the beginning of the MP4 file. Otherwise, the video bits inside the files are the same and therefore the video quality of TS, M2TS and MP4 files are the same. Sources: wikipedia_mp4 wikipedia_ts digitalfaq ...

How to combine TS video and audio (tsMuxer) and convert into MP4 video file

To add audio with .ts video file and convert into mp4 you can use FFmpeg. Check below link for installation steps of FFmpeg: How to setup, install, configure, use ffmpeg on Windows 10 Follow below steps to achieve above target: Open CMD and set the path where your audio and ts video files are placed: Now use below command to add audio to ts file and convert into mp4. ffmpeg -i audio_file_name.audio_ext -i video_file_name.video_ext -async 1 -c copy output_video_name.encoding_extension ffmpeg -i 01_audio.aac -i 01.ts -async 1 -c copy 01.mp4 I have done this because my download manager didn't able to download audio in TS file, I got audio and TS file separately. If you have video data only in TS files, and audio data only in another TS files. You can use tsMuxer to add the audio stream from one .ts file into the .ts file containing the video or vice versa. This is called muxing and doesn't affect the quality of the audio or video in any way. ...

How to setup, install, configure, use ffmpeg on Windows 10

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play. It is a command line tool and open source project and available for Linux, Windows and MAC OS. OS Requirement: All builds require at least Windows 7 or Mac OS X 10.10. Nightly git builds are licensed as GPL 3.0, and release build are licensed as GPL 3.0 and LGPL 3.0. Download Documentation Setup: After the download of ffmpeg****static.zip extract and place in desired folder. On Windows 10 I have used below path: Now go to your system properties: Click on Advanced system settings: Click on Environment Variables button: Under system variables select Path and click on edit button, now press New and add the path where you have placed the files, make sure to add bin folder as well because exes are available under bin folder: Now Windows will recognize ffmpeg command and you can use it in cmd now. Check below link for learning how t...