View and Remove Display Languages in Windows

Unnecessary display languages can use a huge chunk of disk space. According to Microsoft, “Having too many affects disk space, and can affect performance, especially while updating and servicing Windows.” In my own experience, language packs can take as much as 20-25GB of disk space. There are a lot of resources about installing and removing […]

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Getting the Model Number from a Command-line

This is a handy way to get the model of your computer from the command line. Should work on most systems: wmic csproduct get name This can be useful in a number of situations: Finding the model number on a remote computer where you can’t physically look for the model You don’t want to open […]

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Enable Remote Registry Access

By default, Windows does not allow remote access to the registry. To access the registry remotely you’ll first need start the Remote Registry service. There are multiple ways to achieve this; we’ll cover three ways here: Manually start the service (good option when building an image, not so good if the device is already remote) […]

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