How to View Power Usage for Apps on Task Manager

In the plethora of new features and improvements in Windows 10 October 20180 Update (aka v1809) here’s one that comes with Task Manager.
You can now view the power usage for each app and also it’s trend.

To do so, follow this steps:

1. Open Task Manager (right-click taskbar or ctrl+shift+esc)
2. Click the Processes tab
3. Right-click any available column header and select the Power usage option and, if you want, select the Power Usage Trend also.
   
   

How to Install Intel Graphics Windows DCH Drivers

With Windows 10 October 2018 Update (aka v1809), introduced a new way for device drivers to work with the Universal Windows Drivers architecture.

One of the major differences with the new architecture is that streamlines the work for drivers developers which can create a single driver package that can run across different device types, for example, the sam package can run in desktops, laptops or embedded systems.

In this transition, Intel is already making available new drivers called Windows DCH Drivers or Windows Modern Drivers and they’re meant to take use of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and replace the old/legacy drivers.
This is particularly important since the future Windows Core OS will not support Win32 applications natively (they will run in some kind of virtual sandbox).

So, if you want to try the new drivers, follow this steps:

1. Check if your Intel Graphics card is supported:
• Open Device Manager
• Expand Display Adapters
• Check if you have one of the following supported adapters
• UHD Graphics 600/605
• UHD Graphics 620/630
• HD Graphics 500/505
• HD Graphics 510/515/520/530
• HD Graphics 610/615
• HD Graphics 620/630
• Iris Graphics 540
• Iris Pro Graphics 580
• Iris Plus Graphics 640/650
• Iris Plus Graphics 655
  
  
2. Installing the new Intel Graphics DCH Drivers:
• Using Intel Driver and Support Assistant (iDSA) tool:
• Go to Intel Support website
• Click the Intel Driver and Support Assistant Installer
• Install the tool and restart your computer
• Next, you’ll get the iDSA tool icon on the systray
• Right-click and select “Che For New Drivers”
• The tool will scan and install the new DCH drivers
• Using the Intel Graphics driver installer:
• Go to Intel Support website
• Under “Available Downloads”, click the “dch_win64_xx.xx.xxx.xxxx.exe” button
• After download completes, just execute the *.exe file and follow the steps for installing the DCH driver.

And you’re done, and the new DCH drivers are installed.
If you wan to make sure, just go to Device Manager again and verify that your display adapter driver version is higher than 25.20.100.6444.

Access 2016 – Could not find installable ISAM [Solved]

Here’s a quick tip for everyone that uses Microsoft Access with dBase queries and it’s getting the error “Could not find installable ISAM” after upgrading to Access 2016.

To solve this you need to install 2 hotfixes for Access 2016:
KB4018338 (Microsoft Catalog)
KB4011143 (Microsoft Catalog)

After installing both updates, restart the machine and you’re done!

How to Create a Visual Studio Community Offline Install

Following other Microsoft products, Visual Studio Community it’s all about downloading just what you need to use.
Although this is great for end users, not so good if you’re a sysadmin that need to create installation packages.

So, today for Microsoft Visual Studio Community, here’s what you’ll need to do:

1. First of all download the setup wrapper here:
   https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/express/
   
   
2. And…now comes the tricky part. You can download only what you need to install, and it’s all based in “layouts”. The main command it’s this one:
   vs_Community.exe --lang en-us --layout f:\vs2017c –all

The above command will download ALL the “layouts”, but you may want do download only the necessary files to install for .NET development. So you should take a look at the link below to select just want you want to download/install:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/workload-component-id-vs-community?view=vs-2017#net-desktop-development

How to create a package with Wireshark and WinPcap

As some of you may know, unfortunately isn’t possible to install Wireshark silently with WinPcap.
Well, at least, isn’t possible to do it, just using the Wireshark package alone, although you can install it if you’re running the “normal” user interface.

If you need to create a package to install Wireshark and WinPcap, follow these steps:

1. Download the latest version of Wireshark here
2. Now, you need to download Nmap (zip format) that includes WinPcap
• Don’t know if it will include WinPcap in all versions so, here’s the direct link for 7.12 version
  https://nmap.org/dist/nmap-7.12-win32.zip
3. So, now that you have both Wireshark and WinPcap, you just need to create a package with your favorite packaging software to install both.

Just a little more info.

To install Wireshark silently:

• /S runs the installer or uninstaller silently with default values. The silent installer will not install WinPCap.
• /desktopicon installation of the desktop icon, =yes - force installation, =no - don’t install, otherwise use default settings. This option can be useful for a silent installer.
• /quicklaunchicon installation of the quick launch icon, =yes - force installation, =no - don’t install, otherwise use default settings.
• /D sets the default installation directory ($INSTDIR), overriding InstallDir and InstallDirRegKey. It must be the last parameter used in the command line and must not contain any quotes even if the path contains spaces.
• /NCRC disables the CRC check. We recommend against using this flag.

To install WinPcap silently:

• /S runs the installer in silent mode

And…that’s it!