Earlier I faced issue with windows 10 start menu but after updating operating system, It was resolved.
Now again some user complains about windows 10 start menu and taskbar not working .Users complains that “My Taskbar functions only work with right click. The Start button does not work. The volume for my speakers was not working.”
Second one is “The Taskbar and all other functions including the Start and Cortana work with a standard user, however they do not work under the administrator.”
4. Right-click in the Powershell window to Paste and then press Enter.
5. There is no need to restart. The fix should implement right away.
If you have previously disabled Windows Firewall or do not have it running, the above steps will result in errors. Use the steps below to enable Windows Firewall and the reverse if you wish to turn it off again afterwards.
1. Right-click the Start button -> Click Run
2. Type Services.msc and press Enter
3. Scroll down to find Windows Firewall
4. Right-click then click Properties
5. Under Startup Type dropdown -> Select Manual. Click Apply
6. In the top left portion of the Services Window, Click Start this service.
7. Now follow the steps in the first section, and it should work.
These steps worked for me. They have no guarantee to work for you. Just trying to spread some help/love. Best of luck to all in your troubleshooting.
May be you have a another solution that works for you ! Let us know in comment box, is this solve your windows 10 start menu and taskbar issue or not ?
All our computer, mobile, television devices emit blue light, which really have a negative impact on our sleep.
Some mobiles do have the blue light filtering & Windows 10 has an inbuilt functionality to use warmer colors to prevent this issue.
How to Set Your Display for Night Time in Windows 10
Your display emits blue light—the kind of light you see during the day—which can keep you up at night.
To help you get to sleep, turn on the night light and your display will show warmer colors at night that are easier on your eyes.
Night light isn’t available if your device uses certain drivers (Display Link or Basic Display).
To schedule night light so it turns on automatically:
Select Start Windows logo Start button > Settings Gear-shaped Settings icon > System > Display > Night light settings.
If your night light toggle above the link is grayed out, you may need to update your display driver. See Update drivers in Windows 10
Under Schedule, toggle Schedule night light to on.
Then, either select Sunset to sunrise, or select Set hours and enter custom times for the night light to turn on and off.
Is it better to have blue light on or off?
The Blue light filter decreases the amount of blue light displayed on the screen of the device.
Blue light can suppress the production of melatonin (sleep-inducing hormone), so filtering it out can help you sleep better.
It will also reduce digital eye strain, so your eyes won’t feel so tired by the end of the day.
Is blue light from screens harmful?
The short answer to this common question is no.
The amount of blue light from electronic devices, including smartphones, tablets, LCD TVs, and laptop computers, is not harmful to the retina or any other part of the eye
Servicing stack updates provide fixes to the servicing stack, the component that installs Windows updates.
Additionally, it contains the “component-based servicing stack” (CBS), which is a key underlying component for several elements of Windows deployment, such as DISM, SFC, changing Windows features or roles, and repairing components.
The CBS is a small component that typically does not have updates released every month.
Why should servicing stack updates be installed and kept up to date?
Servicing stack updates improve the reliability of the update process to mitigate potential issues while installing the latest quality updates and feature updates.
If you don’t install the latest servicing stack update, there’s a risk that your device can’t be updated with the latest Microsoft security fixes.
Servicing stack update are released depending on new issues or vulnerabilities.
In rare occasions a servicing stack update may need to be released on demand to address an issue impacting systems installing the monthly security update.
Starting in November 2018 new servicing stack updates will be classified as “Security” with a severity rating of “Critical.”
Robocopy also is known as Robust File Copy Command. By using Robocopy Windows Command Line utility we can copy files, directories and even drives too from one location to another location.
Robocopy is a Windows command-line tool used for file and folder Replication.
Robocopy is one of the most-used command-line utilities to copy/sync large volumes of data in Windows.
It’s such a well-liked tool due to how powerful it’s. But it is complex as much as it’s power
Robocopy helps to maintain identical copies of a directory structure on a single PC or in a separate network location.
In this tutorial-Article, we’re going to make it simpler as much as it’s complexity. After reading this complete and ultimate Robocopy guide, You will be able to use Robocopy Command with ease
It’s a replacement to the less versatile xcopy utility.
It allows you to specify a drive path or server path to copy/move files to a command prompt.
Robocopy command is able to classify files by whether they exist in the source directory or in the destination directory, or in both
Robocopy Versions
The versions of Robocopy are as below.
Several versions of Robocopy do not report the version number when executing robocopy /? on the command line.
However, their version is stored inside the executable itself and can be queried with PowerShell for example (gcm robocopy | fl *) or inside Windows Explorer by right-clicking on Robocopy.exe, selecting Properties, then clicking on the Details tab.
Robocopy Features
Robocopy Commandline utility can
Robocopy command line utility can copy files over a network with resume capabilities ( I personally have used in between India-USA office over VPN and working fine to sync svn repo)
Robocopy command can copy file and directory attributes preserving timestamps
Robocopy command can copy NTFS permissions, owners and auditing info
Robocopy command Can copy directory timestamps
Robocopy Can copy files in ‘backup’ mode to ensure files are copied even those rights have been denied to the administrator
Robocopy command can make Automatic retries,Can sync two folders,Is smart enough to skip files already copied,Can copy paths larger than the 256 character path limit,Perform asynchronous copies using it’s multithreading ability.
Robocopy command can Returns standardized exit codes for use in scripts
A continuously updated command-line progress indicator.
A “mirror” mode, which keeps trees synchronized by also deleting files in the destination that are not present in the source.
Ability to tolerate network interruptions and resume copy (incomplete files are marked with a date stamp of 1980-01-01 and contain a recovery record so Robocopy knows where to continue from).
Ability to copy file data and attributes correctly, and to preserve original timestamps, as well as NTFS ACLs, owner information, and audit information using the /COPYALL or /COPY: command line switches.
Beginning with the XP026 version, the ability to copy folder (or directory) date and timestamps (/DCOPY:T), even with the ability to update folder timestamps (copied from existing folders) on folders already created from previous versions (that did not copy the folder date and timestamps).
Ability to assert the Windows NT “backup right” (/B) so an administrator may copy an entire directory, including files denied readability to the administrator.
Ability to copy paths exceeding 259 characters — up to a theoretical limit of about 32,000 characters — without errors.
Multithreaded copying introduced with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.[2]
Return code on program termination for batch file usage.
Usefile names, wildcard characters,paths,or file attributes to include or exclude source files as candidates for copying.
exclude directories by name of by path
delete source files and directories after copying(that is,move rather than copy them) Delete destination files and directories that no longer exist in the source. Control the number of times the program retries an operation after encountering a recoverable network error.
Schedule copy jobs to run automatically
Specify when copying is to be performed Monitor a directory tree for changes.
Download Robocopy
Robocopy is a command line utility for copying files. This command is available in Vista and Windows 7 by default. For Windows XP and Server 2003 this tool can be downloaded as part of Server 2003 Windows Resource Kit tools. This package is available in the below location.
Specifies the file or files to be copied. You can use wildcard characters (* or ?), if you want. If the File parameter is not specified, *.* is used as the default value.
<Options>
Specifies options to be used with the robocopy command.
Copy Option
Option
Description
/s
Copies subdirectories. Note that this option excludes empty directories.
/e
Copies subdirectories. Note that this option includes empty directories.
/lev:<N>
Copies only the top N levels of the source directory tree.
/z
Copies files in restartable mode.
/b
Copies files in Backup mode.
/zb
Uses restartable mode. If access is denied, this option uses Backup mode.
/efsraw
Copies all encrypted files in EFS RAW mode.
/copy:<CopyFlags>
Specifies the file properties to be copied. The following are the valid values for this option: D Data A Attributes T Time stamps S NTFS access control list (ACL) O Owner information U Auditing information The default value for CopyFlags is DAT (data, attributes, and time stamps).
/dcopy:<copyflags>
Defines what to copy for directories. Default is DA. Options are D = data, A = attributes, and T = timestamps.
/sec
Copies files with security (equivalent to /copy:DATS).
/copyall
Copies all file information (equivalent to /copy:DATSOU).
/nocopy
Copies no file information (useful with /purge).
/secfix
Fixes file security on all files, even skipped ones.
/timfix
Fixes file times on all files, even skipped ones.
/purge
Deletes destination files and directories that no longer exist in the source.
/mir
Mirrors a directory tree (equivalent to /e plus /purge).
/mov
Moves files, and deletes them from the source after they are copied.
/move
Moves files and directories, and deletes them from the source after they are copied.
/a+:[RASHCNET]
Adds the specified attributes to copied files.
/a-:[RASHCNET]
Removes the specified attributes from copied files.
/create
Creates a directory tree and zero-length files only.
/fat
Creates destination files by using 8.3 character-length FAT file names only.
/256
Turns off support for very long paths (longer than 256 characters).
/mon:<N>
Monitors the source, and runs again when more than N changes are detected.
/mot:<M>
Monitors source, and runs again in M minutes if changes are detected.
/MT[:N]
Creates multi-threaded copies with N threads. N must be an integer between 1 and 128. The default value for N is 8. The /MT parameter cannot be used with the /IPG and /EFSRAW parameters. Redirect output using /LOG option for better performance. Note: The /MT parameter applies to Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.
/rh:hhmm-hhmm
Specifies run times when new copies may be started.
/pf
Checks run times on a per-file (not per-pass) basis.
/ipg:n
Specifies the inter-packet gap to free bandwidth on slow lines.
/sl
Don’t follow symbolic links and instead create a copy of the link.
File Selection Options
Option
Description
/a
Copies only files for which the Archive attribute is set.
/m
Copies only files for which the Archive attribute is set, and resets the Archive attribute.
/ia:[RASHCNETO]
Includes only files for which any of the specified attributes are set.
/xa:[RASHCNETO]
Excludes files for which any of the specified attributes are set.
/xf <FileName>[ …]
Excludes files that match the specified names or paths. Note that FileName can include wildcard characters (* and ?).
/xd <Directory>[ …]
Excludes directories that match the specified names and paths.
/xc
Excludes changed files.
/xn
Excludes newer files.
/xo
Excludes older files.
/xx
Excludes extra files and directories.
/xl
Excludes “lonely” files and directories.
/is
Includes the same files.
/it
Includes “tweaked” files.
/max:<N>
Specifies the maximum file size (to exclude files bigger than N bytes).
/min:<N>
Specifies the minimum file size (to exclude files smaller than N bytes).
/maxage:<N>
Specifies the maximum file age (to exclude files older than N days or date).
/minage:<N>
Specifies the minimum file age (exclude files newer than N days or date).
/maxlad:<N>
Specifies the maximum last access date (excludes files unused since N).
/minlad:<N>
Specifies the minimum last access date (excludes files used since N) If N is less than 1900, N specifies the number of days. Otherwise, N specifies a date in the format YYYYMMDD.
/xj
Excludes junction points, which are normally included by default.
/fft
Assumes FAT file times (two-second precision).
/dst
Compensates for one-hour DST time differences.
/xjd
Excludes junction points for directories.
/xjf
Excludes junction points for files.
Retry Options
Option
Description
/r:<N>
Specifies the number of retries on failed copies. The default value of N is 1,000,000 (one million retries).
/w:<N>
Specifies the wait time between retries, in seconds. The default value of N is 30 (wait time 30 seconds).
/reg
Saves the values specified in the /r and /w options as default settings in the registry.
/tbd
Specifies that the system will wait for share names to be defined (retry error 67).
Logging options
Option
Description
/l
Specifies that files are to be listed only (and not copied, deleted, or time stamped).
/x
Reports all extra files, not just those that are selected.
/v
Produces verbose output, and shows all skipped files.
/ts
Includes source file time stamps in the output.
/fp
Includes the full path names of the files in the output.
/bytes
Prints sizes, as bytes.
/ns
Specifies that file sizes are not to be logged.
/nc
Specifies that file classes are not to be logged.
/nfl
Specifies that file names are not to be logged.
/ndl
Specifies that directory names are not to be logged.
/np
Specifies that the progress of the copying operation (the number of files or directories copied so far) will not be displayed.
/eta
Shows the estimated time of arrival (ETA) of the copied files.
/log:<LogFile>
Writes the status output to the log file (overwrites the existing log file).
/log+:<LogFile>
Writes the status output to the log file (appends the output to the existing log file).
/unicode
Displays the status output as Unicode text.
/unilog:<LogFile>
Writes the status output to the log file as Unicode text (overwrites the existing log file).
/unilog+:<LogFile>
Writes the status output to the log file as Unicode text (appends the output to the existing log file).
/tee
Writes the status output to the console window, as well as to the log file.
/njh
Specifies that there is no job header.
/njs
Specifies that there is no job summary.
Job Options
Option
Description
/job:<JobName>
Specifies that parameters are to be derived from the named job file.
/save:<JobName>
Specifies that parameters are to be saved to the named job file.
/quit
Quits after processing command line (to view parameters).
/nosd
Indicates that no source directory is specified.
/nodd
Indicates that no destination directory is specified.
/if
Includes the specified files.
Exit (return) codes
Value
Description
0
No files were copied. No failure was encountered. No files were mismatched. The files already exist in the destination directory; therefore, the copy operation was skipped.
1
All files were copied successfully.
2
There are some additional files in the destination directory that are not present in the source directory. No files were copied.
3
Some files were copied. Additional files were present. No failure was encountered.
5
Some files were copied. Some files were mismatched. No failure was encountered.
6
Additional files and mismatched files exist. No files were copied and no failures were encountered. This means that the files already exist in the destination directory.
7
Files were copied, a file mismatch was present, and additional files were present.
8
Several files did not copy.
Note: Any value greater than 8 indicates that there was at least one failure during the copy operation.
Example 1
To copy two files from folder c:\xyz to c:\xyz, the following syntax is used:
robocopy c:\xyz c:\xyz test1.txt test2.db
Example 2
Copy All PDFs
robocopy c:\xyz c:\xyz *.pdf
Example 3
To copy all files (not directories) in the “xyz” directory to the “xyz2” directory
robocopy c:\xyz c:\xyz2
Example 4
Robocopy Command to copy all files and folders (including empty ones) will be copied from the “xyz” directory to the “xyz2” directory
robocopy c:\xyz c:\xyz2 /e
Example 5
Robocopy command to mirror what is in c:\xyz into c:\xyz2 and purge any files in the xyz2 directory that do not exist in the XYZ directory. Becareful when yoou use /mir switch since it is deleting files that do not match in the destination directory.
I have tried to cover Robocopy command in depth. I hope It will be useful to my readers. Comments and suggestions are always appreciated! I want to add Robocopy GUI and some useful ROBOCOPY Scripts too. But it will become more lengthy. So I will write and share later.
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