Windows allows you to temporarily pause updates or defer updates by a certain number of days. The defer option allows you to defer only feature updates; you will continue to receive security updates and bug fixes. It is possible to defer security updates as well for up to 30 days. But deferring security updates is probably not a good idea. warning: Windows Home edition supports only temporary update pauses. The more convenient defer option is available only in Windows Pro.

Most of the media player software lack the option to create playlists with relative paths. Absolute paths make it difficult to move and organize media folders without breaking playlists. Let us see how to create playlists with relative paths using Bash, Powershell, and Python. I am not sure how many media players support relative paths in a playlist. The three which I tested: VLC, Media Player Classic, and mpv seem to support it.

Natural Sort is a hazy concept; it basically means something like human-friendly sort; it could be useful if the strings being sorted are going to be visible to the user. Difference between normal sort and natural sort Let us look at an example, we consider the list [1, 2, 10] to be an ascending order list, and sorting algorithms would not disagree. But if the list happened to be a list of strings most sorting libraries would sort it like this [ “1”, “10”, “2”].

You have probably heard of the Quiet Hours feature in Windows 10. In the April 2018 update, Microsoft has enhanced this feature significantly and has given it a new and weird name; Focus Assist is the replacement for Quiet Hours. It works similar to the do not disturb mode you find in smartphones. Using Focus Assist you can silence notifications temporarily. The notifications will still show up in the Action Center, but those sliding pop up boxes which appear next to the notification icon will not be shown when Focus Assist is active.

The primary focus of Windows Firewall is managing inbound connections. The initial versions of Windows Firewall did not support outbound packet filtering at all. Over the years Microsoft added a large number of features to Windows Firewall; one of them being outbound packet filtering. Windows Firewall still has some limitations when it comes to managing outbound connections. This is reasonable enough since inbound connections pose the real threat. While Windows Firewall is lacking in terms of convenience when it comes to outbound packet filtering, it does not lack power.

Starting with Windows 8, Windows shows notifications in the Action Center. Action center also contains Quick Actions. To configure the Action Center, press the start button and search for notifications. You can also use: Start ➾ Settings ➾ System ➾ notification & actions. As you can see from the screenshot, this window contains global settings and application-specific settings. Application-specific options If all you want to do is to prevent an app from showing notifications, just click on the on/off toggle for the app.

The Notification Area, also known as System Tray, is primarily meant for showing status information and notifications. By default, only some Windows system icons are displayed in the notification area, the other icons are hidden in the overflow area. You can customize which icons appear in the Notification area. Using drag and drop The easiest way to customize the notification area is to use drag and drop. To show an icon in the notification area, just drag it from the overflow area into the notification area.

By default, VirtualDub shows only the current time in its status bar. info: Please note that by current time or current-frame, I mean the current-time and current-frame as determined by the position of VirtualDub’s play head VirtualDub’s status bar can be configured using a format string. You can set it to show the end time of the video as well. It can also show where the current frame lies in the full uncut source video.

System Restore resets the PC to an earlier point in time using a system restore point. A restore point is a snapshot of the Windows Registry, Windows settings, and some system files. System Restore tries to keep track of all those files whose modification or deletion could potentially cause problems for the system. It takes periodic snapshots of these files. During a System Restore only these files are restored. Whether you have Restore Points available for a reset depend on whether System Restore is enabled on your PC.

Startup Repair tries to diagnose and fix some common boot problems automatically. It is the easiest and the safest of the built-in Windows recovery options. It is usually considered the first resort in solving boot problems. Startup Repair is not something you usually need to start manually. Windows sets a status flag at the time of startup to indicate that the boot process has started, this flag is cleared after a successful boot.