Window and sliding door tracks attract dirt, grime, bugs, and more. Especially the patio door. It seems like people track things into the track! I use BKF MORE Spray + Foam cleaner to clean away the grime of time that builds up on tracks. If it goes too long it can even interfere with the operation of the window or door.
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The third option, Something else, allows you to delete existing partitions, create new partitions, and format partitions. This could be a choice for you as well, if you want a little more control over your disk.
You are now in the place that I was in about a year ago! It can be a bit tough at times but stick with it - it's worth it. But start with a plan, even if it's just a simple one in your head. List what you need from your Windows disk, for example:
Next, decide where are you going to put them. Depending on the space required, you could use a free account with dropbox - 2+GB. Another 15GB with Google drive; 1TB (yes, that's 1000GB or 1000000MB) for your photos with flickr. If required/preferred, use an external USB drive, as they are cheap enough now. Boot from a Linux DVD and do the copying under Linux. You will be able to scan the files for viruses under Linux later. Then follow Mitch's instructions to Replace Windows.
You will experience niggles and doubts but stick with an LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu so you don't get the recently-added-but-not-thoroughly-tested enhancements and additions. Find alternative programs to allow you to what you do with Windows. There's a lot to choose from sometimes but you can ask advice on the forums like these. Good luck!
In other words, choose Install Ubuntu alongside Windows when asked, since you surely have some documents, music, photos &c. in your Windows install that you'd like to save. Once you have successfully installed Ubuntu, you can copy over anything you want to save from your Windows partition into your ext4 partition. (Ext4 is the filesystem used by Ubuntu; Windows uses NTFS, a proprietary Microsoft filesystem.)
After you've finished moving the files you want to save, you can remove your Windows partition and enlarge the ext4 space by booting from a live USB or DVD and using the gParted tool, which comes with the Ubuntu live system by default.
You may need to update your GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) after resizing your ext4 partition. I've used instructions for doing so from this post on Ubuntu forums with unqualified success. I also migrated to Ubuntu 12.04 after having used Windows exclusively my entire life, and I cannot express how much more satisfied I am with Ubuntu's performance.
If CSM is not disabled, then if your boot disk is MBR then you are just getting legacy BIOS compatibility rather than actually using UEFI. And disabling CSM means it won't boot at all, and you're just kicked back into the UEFI setup screen.
You can run diskmgmt.msc as Administrator to see if your disk is MBR. See the image in the first link below: right click on the boot disk (it might be Disk 0), then select Properties / Volumes and look at the Partition style.
If it's MBR, you can run the MBR2GPT.EXE command line tool (with the /allowFullOS option) to convert it to GPT without data loss. The DISKPART.EXE utility, by contrast, only works if the disk is empty, with no partitions or volumes.
I ran MBR2GPT to convert to GPT, this created an additional EFI system partition that used up 100 MB. Then after rebooting and entering the UEFI setup screen, I was able to enable UEFI and disable CSM and save those settings, and after that it successfully rebooted into Windows without getting stuck in the UEFI setup screen like it was doing before.
Developers can access the power of both Windows and Linux at the same time on a Windows machine. The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets developers install a Linux distribution (such as Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Kali, Debian, Arch Linux, etc) and use Linux applications, utilities, and Bash command-line tools directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dualboot setup.
You can now install everything you need to run WSL with a single command. Open PowerShell or Windows Command Prompt in administrator mode by right-clicking and selecting "Run as administrator", enter the wsl --install command, then restart your machine.
The first time you launch a newly installed Linux distribution, a console window will open and you'll be asked to wait for files to de-compress and be stored on your machine. All future launches should take less than a second.
The above command only works if WSL is not installed at all. If you run wsl --install and see the WSL help text, please try running wsl --list --online to see a list of available distros and run wsl --install -d to install a distro.To uninstall WSL, see Uninstall legacy version of WSL or unregister or uninstall a Linux distribution.
If you want to install additional distributions from inside a Linux/Bash command line (rather than from PowerShell or Command Prompt), you must use .exe in the command: wsl.exe --install -d or to list available distributions: wsl.exe -l -o.
To install a Linux distribution that is not listed as available, you can import any Linux distribution using a TAR file. Or in some cases, as with Arch Linux, you can install using an .appx file. You can also create your own custom Linux distribution to use with WSL.
Once you have installed WSL, you will need to create a user account and password for your newly installed Linux distribution. See the Best practices for setting up a WSL development environment guide to learn more.
We recommend following our Best practices for setting up a WSL development environment guide for a step-by-step walk-through of how to set up a user name and password for your installed Linux distribution(s), using basic WSL commands, installing and customizing Windows Terminal, set up for Git version control, code editing and debugging using the VS Code remote server, good practices for file storage, setting up a database, mounting an external drive, setting up GPU acceleration, and more.
To set the default Linux distribution used with the wsl command, enter: wsl -s or wsl --set-default , replacing with the name of the Linux distribution you would like to use. For example, from PowerShell/CMD, enter: wsl -s Debian to set the default distribution to Debian. Now running wsl npm init from Powershell will run the npm init command in Debian.
To run a specific wsl distribution from within PowerShell or Windows Command Prompt without changing your default distribution, use the command: wsl -d , replacing with the name of the distribution you want to use.
To change versions, use the command: wsl --set-version 2 replacing with the name of the Linux distribution that you want to update. For example, wsl --set-version Ubuntu-20.04 2 will set your Ubuntu 20.04 distribution to use WSL 2.
If you manually installed WSL prior to the wsl --install command being available, you may also need to enable the virtual machine optional component used by WSL 2 and install the kernel package if you haven't already done so.
To learn more, see the Command reference for WSL for a list of WSL commands, Comparing WSL 1 and WSL 2 for guidance on which to use for your work scenario, or Best practices for setting up a WSL development environment for general guidance on setting up a good development workflow with WSL.
WSL supports running as many different Linux distributions as you would like to install. This can include choosing distributions from the Microsoft Store, importing a custom distribution, or building your own custom distribution.
Try the most recent features or updates to WSL by joining the Windows Insiders Program. Once you have joined Windows Insiders, you can choose the channel you would like to receive preview builds from inside the Windows settings menu to automatically receive any WSL updates or preview features associated with that build. You can choose from:
I have a very strange problem trying to make the OpenSSH server that ships with Windows 10 working fine. Basically, if I start the service manually by running C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\sshd.exe, everything works fine, but when I start the service through the Windows GUI or Start-service sshd from Powershell, I am not able to connect (I get a publickey denied - I have disabled password logging in the configuration file, so the problem might be a permission issue when trying to read the authorized_keys file).
I would like to understand better what is going on by reading the debug messages of the sshd daemon, i.e. what you get by starting manually with -d, but even if I add the -d option to the Windows GUI which allows to specify startup parameters for a service, I am not sure where I should be reading those messages (i.e. the event viewer does not contain those messages). It would be good if there was a way to add startup parameters to the Start-service sshd powershell command and read those messages in the Powershell session... Any idea?
The Windows OpenSSH server logs to the event log by default. You should look in the Event Log Viewer under Applications and Services Logs -> OpenSSH. The Admin log shows errors, the Operational log shows Informational messages.
The event log may miss some extra lines that would otherwise be shown in a log file (e.g. the reason why authorized_keys is ignored). To see them, edit C:\ProgramData\ssh\sshd_config (e.g. with notepad.exe run as an administrator), then set:
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