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Windows 10 – How to disable News and Interests on taskbar

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If you recently perform Windows Update, you will noticed that News and Interests widget installed on the taskbar.

For those who like it, this widget is useful. You will see a weather forecast in a small box next to the clock and notification area. Selecting the widget opens a panel with more weather info, stocks, sports scores, news, and more. But if you don’t like it, you can disable it.

For those who want to disable News and Interests appear on taskbar, just follow below steps:-

  1. Mouse over to taskbar, and right click
  2. From the menu, select “News and Interests” and then click “Turn Off” from the submenu.

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Windows Server 2016: How to enable flash in IE

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Some when you work with legacy system such as vcenter 6.0, you need to have flash player to run the application.

In Windows Server 2016, flash player already included in Internet Explorer, but it not enable by default. If you wish to use the flash player, you may enable it by enter following command in command line

dism /online /add-package /packagepath:”C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Adobe-Flash-For-Windows-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.14393.0.mum”

Once done, close the Internet Explorer and open it again. Now you should able to use flash. 🙂

Windows: How to add static route

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Generally, your computer will have a default gateway and all the packets are sent through default gateway when no other routes to the destination are known.

But did you know what each computer have a local routing tables which allow your to perform routing from the computer itself instead of doing routing at router. The routing table is used by TCP/IP to make decisions on whether to send the packet to a computer on the same segment, or to forward it to the default gateway.

To add a route we use the route ADD command to tell Windows which Network to add and then we enter the Subnet mask and Gateway.

For example, we’re on the 32.35.11.0 network and the default gateway is 32.25.11.254 and we want to add static route to our management server 10.10.8.28

Add route

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Delete route

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