Windows 11 Enter Product Key

[Kimberly Ballas]

Doesit matter? Had it been a standard keyboard shortcut (like Copy or Paste), you'd know the windows equivalent. Seeing it is not, how many people work on both Windows and Mac and expect an heuristic for keyboard shortcut mapping?

Having said that, and from my experience only, the command key on a mac is mapped to control on windows. It is somewhat uncommon to have on a mac a keyboard shortcut with control as the only modifier.

Issue: Sometimes on my Windows 11 PC, especially after a reboot, when I open the 1Password app and enter my account password, it rejects my password as being incorrect with the message: You need to enter your account password before you can use Windows Hello.

Hi @WilburPost! It sounds as if you may have the Unlock using Windows Hello setting enabled in the 1Password 8 desktop app. This setting allows you to unlock the 1Password app and extensions using your Windows Hello credentials, such as face, fingerprint or PIN code.

The larger concern is that Windows 11 is so problematic that I'm reluctant to set up a Windows Hello account because I'm afraid it will just be another avenue for Microsoft to mess things up. Thanks again for your response.

When you say that you've already contacted support about this, was this via email? If so, could you let me know your support ID number here so I can connect the dots? It should look something like #ABC-12345-678. Thanks!

@WilburPost Windows Hello is a function that provides biometrics authentication in general, and a PIN is the most simple one, available everywhere, even without hardware. It's meant to be a more simple password than your real Windows account password for daily use, for just login and unlocking. The scope of the PIN is also local only, never synced with some cloud (in case you use a Microsoft account to login).

For example, I use a Microsoft account and I have a very long very cryptic generated Windows password. It's unpleasant to enter. But my PC is stationary and my home is secure, so I established a short Hello PIN of 6 digits, and whenever I log in to Windows or unlock the desktop, I only need to enter that pin.

1Password is able to use this convenience and use an established Hello PIN as well. You can avoid entering some long 1Password account password all the time - instead, you use the short Hello pin. If you also activate TPM usage in 1Password, you can extend the time between being asked for the full account password even more.

It helps with convenience (more easy to enter) and increases security (you can choose a more complex account password, because you need to enter it much less).

@Tertius3 thank you for your explanation. I get what Windows Hello does, but again, I've found Windows 11 so buggy that I don't trust Microsoft to add another security layer to an already unreliable operating system (I'm jaded). Obviously, something is already amiss when 1Password occasionally thinks I have Windows Hello enabled when I don't.

@WilburPost If you don't trust Microsoft with Windows if it comes to security, you should probably not be using Windows. How can you use an operating system whose creator you don't trust with security? The creator could do anything! This would get me the creeps.

On the other hand, it may be it's not trust in security you're lacking in Windows but perhaps in understanding how Windows operates. It may be Windows does things you don't understand, and you fear you break something if you use a feature. In this case, you can perhaps seek for courses to get a deeper understanding of Windows. Not just a course for switching on the PC, copying and deleting files, and start apps, but really more about configuring and administering a PC. Get a deeper view on how the several modules of Windows work.

My whole view on Windows changed, once I got Microsoft certification courses for administering workstations and servers, and designing corporate setups - called "Microsoft certified system engineer" at the time. These courses, at the time for Windows 2000, made it totally clear every single item in Windows has a purpose and not a single item is acting randomly. It's deterministic everywhere. If something doesn't work as expected, you can always find an explanation. And a fix, if Windows is designed to work that other way. Always. No, this is no joke. I mean this seriously. Of course, such certification courses are over the top for just a PC user, however there also exist lower level courses for ordinary users to get them better into PC understanding.

I'm new to vim, and I find using to enter normal mode to be slow. I'm on Windows. I seldom use the keys (left and right) when I'm editing text. It should be convenient to use to enter normal mode instead. What should I enter into my vimrc use instead of to enter normal mode ?

Can someone confirm how entry is managed? I don't care if it directly from the keyboard or application-assisted. (The default Windows "Character Map" application only supports characters in the BMP, so I need suggestions -- preferably to an application supporting at least Unicode Version 5, if not 6.)

In Java, these characters are managed using "surrogate pairs" in UTF-16. I'm concerned that Windows may also have some of the old "Unicode is 16 bit" legacy, causing to have a similar issue. Even getting confirmation that I need to punch in surrogate pair numbers would be an answer.

Using the UnicodeInput program, you can enter a character by pressing Alt++ and then entering the Unicode number. It supports non-BMP too, but with an odd restriction, due to a program bug: it does not work for non-BMP characters if the fourth digit from the right is a letter (e.g., U+1B000).

I will shamelessly plug a little tool I wrote for entering symbols in Windows as I find any solution usually presented too cumbersome for daily frequent use. My personal use case is typing the Swedish for example on an international US keyboard without having to switch layouts.

The Enter-PSSession cmdlet starts an interactive session with a single remote computer. During thesession, the commands that you type run on the remote computer, just as if you were typing directlyon the remote computer. You can have only one interactive session at a time.

Typically, you use the ComputerName parameter to specify the name of the remote computer.However, you can also use a session that you create by using the New-PSSession cmdlet for theinteractive session. However, you can't use the Disconnect-PSSession, Connect-PSSession, orReceive-PSSession cmdlets to disconnect from or re-connect to an interactive session.

Starting with PowerShell 6.0 you can use Secure Shell (SSH) to establish a connection to a remotecomputer. You must have SSH on the local computer and the remote computer must be configured with aPowerShell SSH endpoint. The benefit an SSH based PowerShell remote session is that it works acrossmultiple platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS). For SSH based remoting you use the HostNameparameter set to specify the remote computer and relevant connection information. For moreinformation about how to set up PowerShell SSH remoting, seePowerShell Remoting Over SSH.

Enter-PSSession is designed to substitute the current interactive session with a new interactiveremote session. You shouldn't call it from within a function or script or by passing it as acommand to the pwsh executable.

The third command uses the Exit keyword to end the interactive session and close the connection.The fourth command confirms that the Process.txt file is on the remote computer. A Get-ChildItem("dir") command on the local computer can't find the file.

This command starts an interactive session with the Server01 computer. It uses the Portparameter to specify the port and the Credential parameter to specify the account of a user whohas permission to connect to the remote computer.

The second command uses the Exit-PSSession cmdlet to end the session. You can also use theExit keyword to end the interactive session. Exit-PSSession and Exit have the same effect.

This example shows how to start an interactive session using Secure Shell (SSH). If SSH isconfigured on the remote computer to use passwords then you are prompted to enter a password.Otherwise, you must use key-based user authentication.

This example shows how to start an interactive session using SSH. The username and SSH port numberare specified as parts of the value of the HostName parameter. The KeyFilePath parameterspecifies the location of an RSA key used to authenticate the user on the remote computer.

This example shows how to start an interactive session using SSH. The Options parameter takes ahashtable of values that are passed as options to the underlying ssh command the established theconnection to the remote system.

When you use the ConnectionURI parameter, the remote destination can return an instruction toredirect to a different URI. By default, PowerShell doesn't redirect connections, but you can usethis parameter to allow it to redirect the connection.

You can also limit the number of times the connection is redirected by changing theMaximumConnectionRedirectionCount session option value. Use the MaximumRedirection parameterof the New-PSSessionOption cmdlet or set the MaximumConnectionRedirectionCount property of the$PSSessionOption preference variable. The default value is 5.

The default value is the value of the $PSSessionApplicationName preference variable on the localcomputer. If this preference variable isn't defined, the default value is WSMAN. This value isappropriate for most uses. For more information, seeabout_Preference_Variables.

The WinRM service uses the application name to select a listener to service the connectionrequest. The value of this parameter should match the value of the URLPrefix property of alistener on the remote computer.

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