How's it going guys
I'm ThioJoe now many of us use Windows 10 every single day and even if you're pretty familiar with it
You obviously don't know everything about it
for example
there's the menu called turn Windows Features on and off and even if you've seen this menu before you might not know what every single
One of them does or if they're worth enabling
So in this video, we're gonna go over seven of these features that are not enabled by default
But still might be useful to you
so even if you don't end up enabling any of these you should at least
Definitely know about them because I do have it on good authority that Bill Gates himself goes around to people's houses
Quizzing them on these very specific features
And if you don't know about them, he will knock you out right in front of all your friends
So it's very important that you know about these now before we get into these a couple points
I need to mention first of all the version of Windows that you're using whether it's home pro or enterprise will
Have an effect on which features actually show up home is gonna have fewer than Pro Pro is purer than Enterprise for example
So if you don't see one of these then that might just mean you don't have the version that supports and also before you enable
Any of these features or really change any major windows settings for that matter always be sure to create a system restore point
Just in case you can do that by going to the Start menu
searching
system restore and then clicking the create system a store point and then in that menu click create and then just go through that and
Then you'll be safe
So let's get into this the first feature you might want to enable is called windows subsystem for linux
And this will basically allow you to install a copy of linux in side windows
So it's not dual booting or anything
It's literally just allowing you to run
Linux applications in Windows and add support for that and also use the bash shell
to run bash Linux commands within windows
so it's kind of like an alternative to the command line or PowerShell in that case now to get this working properly you basically
enable this feature and then restart like you will for all these and then
Go to the Microsoft app store and then search for Ubuntu or whatever other distribution you want
There's a few of them on there
Install that and then when you go to the Start menu and search bash
You'll be able to run the bash shell
and then it'll ask you to set up like a username and password and then
After that, when you run the bash command you'll now have which you can use instead of the command prompt in some cases
So that's just pretty cool
If you wanted to use the Linux command terminal instead of command prompt or whatever you can now do that and run Linux applications
Right inside Windows 10. All right. Now the next feature is called hyper-v, and this is basically Microsoft
all which allows the use of certain virtual machines now for this and some other features to work you will have to enable
Virtualization in your BIOS and your CPU has to support it. Although most do these days
so if you have that option not available, then that's probably why anyway
The hyper-v feature is required for certain types of virtual machines specifically hyper-v virtual machines
So it's the name of the feature and the type of virtual machine, which is from Microsoft
Although you should also note that
hyper-v needs to be disabled for other types of virtual machines that are a third party such as
VirtualBox and VMware Workstation
but if you don't use either of those you probably don't care about that and hyper-v is nice because it's literally
Included in Windows. You don't have to install anything extra you just turn the feature on now. I do want to warn you
This is one that definitely create a system restore point before changing because for whatever reason my computer
Just kind of sucks
and whenever I try to enable hyper-v since one of the most recent major Windows updates my computer goes into a boot loop and
It just hates hyper-v for whatever reason so I can't even use this feature anymore
I didn't really in the past that much but this is one where if you get a boot loop
Then you want to have that system restore point to take you back
So just be aware that it probably won't happen, but I don't know what causes it. I haven't been able to fix it yet
So just be aware of that. All right now the next feature is kind of similar
It's called Windows sandbox
And this is a more recent feature added by Microsoft and it basically lets you create a more
simplified version of a virtual machine where you simply run the sandbox and this will open a
single instance
isolated version of the Windows desktop
basically
So you can drop files into there and then run it
Install it see if it works see if it's a virus or whatever and then when you close the sandbox the whole thing will be
Wiped it can't access the rest of your system. So it's good for testing out files that sort of thing
This feature will also require virtualization to be enabled in the BIOS. And again, this is another one
I guess it uses some type of hyper-v technology where if I try to enable this one my computer won't boot
So again, all these you want to have that system restore point, but before using alright, so moving on though yet another feature
That's kind of similar to the past two is called Windows Defender
Application guard and yes, this one also requires virtualization to be enabled in the BIOS
This is a feature that allows windows to create isolated again virtualized
instances of
Certain applications. So we're a sandbox. You can run multiple stuff in there
This is going to apply to just a certain application specifically now. This is a relatively new feature
So, I believe it only applies to Microsoft edge at this point the browser
So what would happen is you enable this feature? And then whenever you run edge you'll have a new option to create a new
Virtualized window and what you'll see specifically is it will say new
Application guard window and then that will be able to browse the internet
Again, kind of like a sandbox where it doesn't access the rest of the system
This is mostly used in like enterprise situations like in a corporation where maybe there is trusted sites and untrusted sites
It'll force the computer to use this virtualized window on untrusted sites, for example, but even at home
This might come in handy if you're going on sites that you don't trust because that way it doesn't allow
access to the rest of the system
So if there's like a virus that comes through and it's trying to do a drive-by attack
Theoretically it can't affect anything on the system
all right up next we have a feature that's under legacy components and then it's called direct play and direct play is basically an
Obsolete game API that used to be used in certain games running on Windows now, it's not really used anymore
However, there are some very old games that may require it and if you try to run it
It won't work now Windows when you install these old games that do require it probably will prompt you automatically to enable this feature
But I've seen some posts where people say, it doesn't work when you try to enable it from the prompt
So if you just enable it now then any time you do install an old game like pre 2008 or so
Then it should run no problem, or at least that won't be the problem that running there might other compatibility issues
But that's just one less to worry about so you can probably just enable this feature and then forget about it
All right
So we got a couple more to talk about the next one is called
services for NFS now NFS stands for network file system
And it's basically just a network file sharing
Protocol for connecting with remote devices now by default Windows uses a different protocol called
SMB which stands for server message block and you'll use that for things like connecting to an as
File server or something when you like mount drive. That's what it's using SMB
However, NFS is another one that's usually used more in Linux side of things
However, a lot of nas servers support NFS as well and in some cases it might be faster
So if you are just using the built in Windows connection, you know
You never thought about this other protocol at all, and you are not happy with the performance of your nas
well
maybe you could enable this and then look up how to use NFS instead or
Alternatively perhaps whatever nas you're running or maybe a server requires NFS to be used like if it is on Linux
Then you might have to enable this feature and maybe if you weren't able to connect to it before you're like why isn't it working?
Or if it's a linux server again NFS probably will work better with that
But I don't know you can try and both see what works. Alright, so finally we're up to number seven
Although I do have a bonus one at the end
So this last one is the feature called telnet
Client now telnet is basically an ancient network protocol for just sending text-based commands between servers
I believe that internet pretty much used to run on that completely now, it's completely unused for the most part
However, you might occasionally come across certain hardware devices like maybe smart home devices that do still use it
for example
I actually have a little smart home device
Called a Lutron hub for my Lutron smart lightbulbs or whatever and that does actually require to be
Configured through telnet for whatever reason that's what they picked so it's dead simple
It's easy and old and I guess you could say reliable just not very secure to use over the Internet
So this is just want to know about if you ever have to use telnet for whatever reason now
You know how to enable it. All right now finally, we got a couple bonus ones
I just thought these ones look even though they're probably not gonna be very useful to you
Well even less useful than the ones we talked about for many of you. However, these are called device lockdown
There's multiple under here and two of these that I thought were cool and worth mentioning
The first one is called
Unbranded boot which basically allows you to hide the windows logo and status and stuff when the computer is booting up
this would probably typically be used in like a I don't know like a mall kiosk or something where there's like a screen and
You don't want to really show windows booting up or crashing and stuff like that
It kind of suppresses those statuses, you know, there's always a joke where I don't know like in an airport
You see the blue screen of death, it's hilarious or I guess this would just show like a black screen or something like that
So it's like people don't kind of laugh at it or whatever
And another similar one is called custom login and this basically just lets you remove certain UI elements from the login
So you can even like brand it to use your own custom logo if you want to get really advanced stuff like that
so those were just a couple that I were wondering what they did when I saw them and now
You know if you were wondering so anyway
Those are just some features that you might not known about before but now you do
so if you guys want to keep watching another video I recommend is a fun one where I
Test it out to see what would happen
If you delete the windows folder while windows is running that was real fun
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So thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one