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Installing and Running Mentor Graphics PADS & Cadence OrCAD Capture on the same machine

In the past I’ve always used separate machines or dual booted a machine to ensure my environments were working when I needed them to, but I’m finally using both tools enough that it was time to spend the 5 minutes asking the ‘Google IT Engineer’ for help installing and simultaneously using both tools on one…

How do I figure out what the randomly appearing command windows are doing on Windows 10????

The best way: In an admin PowerShell, execute this command: This shows a nice window: Alternative: provides text file for storing: Open a command window, type the command above, then open Notepad and paste it there to see the history of command. I learned this from this site: https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/find-unknown-program-open-and-close-immediately/

Change Permissions on Win10 HDD

Link for basis on how I changed permissions to access files from the SSD of my dead laptop: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/take-ownership-folder-windows-10-using-file-explorer It isn’t exactly clear and there are some extra steps that I didn’t need to follow.

Reduce the cognitive load of Windows 10

How NOT to do it: https://betanews.com/2016/06/03/disable-windows-10-live-tiles/ This one seems to get rid of some of the annoyance, but doesn’t fully remove the tiles like I wanted to: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3051121/remove-live-tiles-from-the-windows-10-start-menu.html And if you want to reload the files, this might reinstall them: https://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/windows-10/has-your-windows-10-start-menu-stopped-working-here-are-four-ways-to-fix-it-11364000314532 This command was used in Powershell: I probably shouldn’t have used it – it…