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Rename Tab Title in Windows Terminal in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to rename a tab title in Windows Terminal for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. By default, the tab title is set to the shell's title. If a tab is composed of multiple panes, the tab's title is set to that of the currently focused pane. You can rename a tab for the current terminal session, or set the...
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Resize Panes in Windows Terminal in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to resize panes in Windows Terminal for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. Panes give you the ability to run multiple command-line applications next to each other within the same tab. This minimizes the need to switch between tabs and lets you see multiple prompts at once. You can adjust the size of...
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Open and Close Panes in Windows Terminal in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to open and close panes in Windows Terminal for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. Panes give you the ability to run multiple command-line applications next to each other within the same tab. This minimizes the need to switch between tabs and lets you see multiple prompts at once. You can either create...
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Change Windows Terminal Launch Size in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change Windows Terminal launch column (width) and row (height) size for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. You can change Windows Terminal launch size for the number of rows and columns displayed in the terminal window upon first load. Columns = This is the number of character columns displayed in...
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Change Windows Terminal Tab Width Mode in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change Windows Terminal tab width mode for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. You can change the Tab width mode setting to set the width of the tabs in Windows Terminal to one of the following modes: Equal makes each tab the same width. Title length sizes each tab to the length of its title. Compact...
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Change Windows Terminal New Instance Behavior in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change Windows Terminal new instance behavior for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. You can select a New instance behavior setting below to control how new terminal instances attach to existing terminal windows. Create a new window = Create a new window, always. This is how the terminal always...
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Change Windows Terminal Launch Mode in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change Windows Terminal launch mode for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. Launch mode defines whether the terminal will launch as maximized, full screen, focus, or maximized focus. Setting this to focus is equivalent to launching the terminal in the default mode, but with focus mode enabled...
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Change Behavior when Windows Terminal Starts in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to change what should show when Windows Terminal opens for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. You can set Windows Terminal to either Open a tab with the default profile or Open windows from a previous session when Terminal starts. When set to Open a tab with the default profile, Windows Terminal will...
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Find Motherboard Details in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to find the manufacturer, model, serial number, and version details of the motherboard in Windows 10 and Windows 11. A motherboard is the main printed circuit board (PCB) used to connect all the parts of a computer together. The CPU, memory, hard drives, and other ports and expansion cards all connect to the motherboard directly or via cables. You need to know the brand (manufacturer) and model (product) of the motherboard to look up its specs for which components it supports. Knowing the motherboard version number can be helpful when looking for BIOS firmware updates from the manufacturer's support site. The motherboard serial number allows the manufacturer to identify a product and get additional...
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Add or Remove Recent Files in File Explorer Home in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove showing Recent files in File Explorer Home for your account in Windows 11. Starting with Windows 11 build 22593, Quick access in File Explorer (Win+E) is now called Home. The name Quick access has been repurposed for the pinned/frequent Folders section, and Pinned files is now called Favorites to align with Office and OneDrive. Recent and pinned files (Favorites) displayed in Home are now searchable using the search box in File Explorer even if they are not local files, so you can find Office files recently shared with you. Home in the navigation pane is the default homepage of File Explorer (Win+E) that allows you to quickly access and view your pinned/frequent folders (Quick access)...
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Add or Remove Linux in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove Linux in the navigation pane of File Explorer for your account in Windows 11. The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment -- including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications -- directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dualboot setup. WSL 2 is a new version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux architecture that powers the Windows Subsystem for Linux to run ELF64 Linux binaries on Windows. Its primary goals are to increase file system performance, as well as adding full system call compatibility. This new architecture changes how these Linux binaries interact with Windows and your computer's...
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Find System Memory Size, Speed, and Type in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to find the size (GB), speed (MHz), and type (DDR4) of system memory (RAM) you have on a Windows 11 PC. Sometimes you may need or want to know how much, the speed, and what type of system memory (RAM) you have installed in your PC without having to open the case or install third party software. Windows 11 minimum system requirements for RAM (memory) is 4 GB. Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/memory-limits-for-windows-releases Option One: Find RAM/Memory Size in Settings Option Two: Find RAM/Memory Size and Speed in Task Manager Option Three: Find RAM/Memory Size in System Information Option Four: Find RAM/Memory Size in DirectX Diagnostic Tool Option Five: Find...
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