tbudget? 3H perhaps in office. Note 20H is more tcost than a fresh reinstall.

— This is another winUp problem
Life is never perfect, esp. with these new technologies and devices. Spending excessive amount (often poorly defined) of hours on this (or the original winup) problem is worse than accepting nagging popup reminders.

🙂 luckily I spent only $299+$30 on the glue, rather than $1299. An expensive computer will also have similar software problems.

–backup

• Before any change, need to back up all installers in some tarball.
• git push

==== google search
windows 10 license expire soon “already activated”

— https://www.thewindowsclub.com/your-windows-license-will-expire-soon .. published in 2018. offers 6 options. Tried most of them.

— https://howtofixwindows.com/windows-license-will-expire-soon/ .. updated Oct 2020. I followed it. Managed to retrieve and remove existing key.

— https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_licensing/your-windows-license-will-expire-soon-in-windows/a141c27d-b644-4ea0-8c47-2fcb141c7a1f .. an expert advice but too complicated

===== sugg: try living with unlicensed. If unbearable, then ask shop to reactivate for me. If unable then pay $30 and hope for another year without issue? Better go back to the same shop to get original Acer drivers installed on the original OS version.

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–ShowKeyPlus – Windows Product Key Information
Product Name: Windows 10 Pro
Product ID: 00331-10000-00001-AA463
Version: 18363.1198 (64-bit OS)
Installed Key: W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX *
OEM Key: Windows 7 OEM marker present in firmware
* Default key – requires a Digital License for activation

On 18 Mar 2017, I tried the 7+TaskbarTweak no_width_limit option  in my Win7. Worked even after reboot.

Important to small screens.

— (tested on 30 Nov 2020) Use small taskbar buttons to further reduce the width
search “taskbar settings” -> UseSmallTaskbarButtons

— Installation error: On 30 Nov 2020, I hit a problem re-installing 7tt on my win10 A299. Installer was unable to write to a ProgramFilesX86\….

Not a disk space problem. Also the account was the default admin account.

Solution: I created c:\programPortable and installed into a subfolder.

— option: rely on paper calendar, wrist watch etc. Or hover over the system tray clock
I think this requires a bit of adjustment.
— option: rely on wrist watch.. the most important bit of data is the day_of_month
— option: install some applet to always stay on top
— option: taskbarSettings -> smallTaskbarButtons -> off. This puts the date back in the system tray forever:) but the taskbar becomes wider.

The goal is a narrow vertical taskbar (like 7taskbarTweaker) with small button, yet showing the day_of_month and month

On 7 Aug 2021, I followed https://www.maketecheasier.com/customize-time-date-format-windows10/ and able to show a custom short date of 7/8 (i.e. d/M, using “intl.cpl”). As a side effect, many GUIs now show the short date without year 🙁

Somehow I got “English (Singapore)” as the default app language.

I also have English (US) as default input language, so I want to use it as both default-input and default-app. So how do I remove English(Singapore)?

1. in the PreferredLanguages list, click on the desired language to see the new buttons showing up underneath
2. click the up arrow until the English(Singaproe) is forced off the top to become 2nd. Only then can it be removed.
3. click on English(Singapore) to see the “remove” button showing up. Use the button to remove English(Singapore)

Purpose — Basically, instead of 50/50 split, you can drag the boundary to 62/38 or whatever.

You can use this slider feature right after creating the split, not later 🙁

When you do it right, the vertical boundary (being dragged) shows up as a rather thick boundary.

 

Most of my preferred solutions use keyboard only

— to move a window between monitors .. winKey + Shift + left/right arrows .. rotates.

For two-monitor, left vs right keys are equivalent.

• if the focus window is undocked (more common) , the window is “transported” to the same position on the next monitor
• if the focus window is docked, the window is also transported to the same docked position.
• if the focus window is maximized, it is transported maximized

— winKey+up/down arrow .. depends on the context !

Warning: once a focus window loses focus (when you release winKey), you can’t snap it with keyboard !

• if the focus window is not docked, then
  • win+up = maximize
  • win+up = minimize i.e. hide.
• If the focus window is docked to half (or quarter) of the monitor, then win+up/down can
  • can snap to a bigger/smaller portion including maximize
  • can restore it to undocked
  • can minimize it

— winKey+left/right arrow.. depends on the context

• if the focus window is docked to a 25%, then both left/right keys would rotate it non-stop across all monitors
• if the focus window is docked to a 50%, then both left/right keys would also rotate it predictably, but you must try to understand