{"id":14202,"date":"2017-12-21T16:42:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T21:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=14202"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:42:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T21:42:48","slug":"3-rather-rare-windows-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/3-rather-rare-windows-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Rather Rare Windows Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

3 Rather Rare Windows Tips<\/strong><\/h1>\n

These tips work in\u00a0 Windows 7, Windows 8x, and Windows 10<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The tips below should work in any version of Windows from Windows 7 through Windows 10. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

1. Taskkill<\/h2>\n

Windows borrows a feature from Linux. Taskkill allows you to terminate a running process (program) from the command line. Here\u2019s how you use it:<\/p>\n

Hold down the Windows key and tap the R key. In the run box type CMD and press Enter. A Command prompt will open.<\/p>\n

Type Tasklist at the prompt. You\u2019ll see a list of running processes. Next to each process you\u2019ll see a PID number. To kill any running task, type Taskkill \/PID xxx (where xxx represents the PID number of the task you want to terminate).<\/p>\n

Why would you want to use this? Because you can? Or maybe your computer is frozen and you can\u2019t access Task Manager. Or maybe just for fun?<\/p>\n

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2. Edit user accounts using the command line<\/h2>\n

Hold down the Windows key and tap the R key. In the run box type CMD and press Enter. Now type control userpasswords2<\/span> at the prompt, and press Enter.<\/p>\n

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3. Create a shortcut for easy access to Task Manger<\/strong><\/h2>\n

You can access Task Manager by right-clicking on your taskbar and choosing Task Manager, you can use CTRL+SHIFT+ESC, or you can use the three-finger salute (CTRL+ALT+DELETE) and click “Task Manager” on the menu which appears.<\/p>\n

Did you know that you can also create a shortcut to Task Manager and leave it on your desktop, drag it to your quick launch toolbar, or taskbar (Windows 7 & newer) or put in on your start menu? You can, and it\u2019s easy to do.<\/p>\n

Right-click on your desktop and choose \u201cNew\u201d \u201cShortcut\u201d and copy and paste the following (in bold) into the \u201ctype location of the item\u201d field:<\/p>\n

%windir%\\system32\\taskmgr.exe<\/p>\n

Once you\u2019re created your shortcut, you can drag its icon to your start menu, quick launch bar, taskbar (Windows 7, Windows 8.x, Windows 10) or simply leave it on your desktop. The next time you need to launch Task Manager, just click your new shortcut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

3 Rather Rare Windows Tips These tips work in\u00a0 Windows 7, Windows 8x, and Windows 10 The tips below should work in any version of Windows from Windows 7 through Windows 10. Enjoy! 1. Taskkill Windows borrows a feature from Linux. Taskkill allows you to terminate a running process (program) from the command line. Here\u2019s how you use\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2043,2042,2044,1684,1700,70,1789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14203,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14202\/revisions\/14203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}