1. Tell Windows to Ignore Touch Input When Using the Pen By Default

   Windows 10 has a setting to ignore touch input when using the pen. This is pretty nice, as I've found Wacom et. al's palm rejection to be not very good. It's simple enough for users to change themselves if they're aware of the setting, but I don't expect students to …

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2. How to Deploy Windows 10 Default Taskbar Settings

   Windows 10 adds quite a few default buttons to the taskbar. Most of my users don't need or want them, so I've taken to hiding them by default. I don't want to use Group Policy for this, as I want users to be able to change it if they want …

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3. How to Deploy Firefox with Bookmarks and Addons

   Unlike Chrome, managing Firefox is a bit of a pain. However, I can't bring myself to pull it from our system images. I like Firefox! Documentation floating around the web is a mix of old, wrong, or doesn't fit my goals. I want to:

   • Bundle company bookmarks
   • Set some settings …

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4. Export-WindowsImage from ESD to WIM can't be mounted

   Today I was converting an ESD to WIM. When mounting the WIM with Mount-WindowsImage, I got an error: an attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

   It seems like a simple Export-WindowsImage from ESD preserves the ESD format instead of actually converting it to WIM. I …

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5. How to create a Compressed DDRescue Image

   As disk sizes explode, I've found myself having to mirror disks which I don't have enough storage for. My tool of choice is ddrescue. However, it doesn't support compression because it needs to be able to seek through the output as it rescues data. A solution I've found is to …

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