8 posts tagged with "windows"

I work in a UK based company and we've recently been using Microsoft Teams more and more, which for the most part has been great. However, whenever someone edits an Excel workbook within the Teams web (or desktop) app, they realise that datetime values are in the US format (MM/DD/YYYY). This seems to happen even if they have previously set the regional settings to UK in SharePoint / Office 365. If you haven't yet set the regional settings for the Office 365 group's SharePoint site, then you should do that first. If you have then you can skip this step.

So you have a project that will only run/build using an old Node.js version that you can't upgrade but you also do development using the latest version. What do you do? Only build using your CI pipelines? That could work but would make the development process slow.

I've run into this problem a few times, mainly with SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions that only support a particular (old) node version. This is where the Node Version Manager comes in and saves us!

Every command you type into a PowerShell console is recorded in a single file in the current user's app data directory. This is useful when you need to refer back to a command you entered but it can be security risk if you've entered sensitive data in plain text (like passwords or user data). In those cases try to use secure objects like PSCredential for usernames and passwords.

The past few companies I have worked at have used Skype for Business in one form or the other. Some for IM and others for telephony. It's a good communication tool but just like the consumer Skype version it really likes to start every time your PC powers on.

Normally when i'm in the middle of coding or looking busy my keyboard layout will randomly change. Meaning that declaring string variables becomes a right pain as the @ symbol and " quotes change places (UK QWERTY layout).

For the past couple of weeks I've noticed that the OSD volume control on all my Windows 10 computers are now massive and take up a good portion of the screen. However, that's not the worst part it seems to take around 5 seconds for the window to fade all while blocking windows behind it.

In most recent versions of Windows 10, PowerShell is the default console. If you open file explorer and shift + right click, you will get the option to Open a PowerShell window here (as below).

Occasionally I'll be running a script on my local machine that may take a few hours to complete. Sometimes i'll need to leave my desk and of course have to lock my machine.