Tag archive for: Windows 10

Making sure that the password of your user account does not expire on Windows 10 IoT

Once upon a time, I was developing an IoT prototype on a Windows 10 IoT device that does not have any display port. Therefore, the only way to work with that device is to use Microsoft Remote Desktop. After using it for some time, I switched to another Raspberry Pi project of higher priority.

When I came back to this Windows based device, the password of the user account had expired. As a result of that, Windows Remote Desktop Connection Manager denied access to the device. Since that was the only user account for me to access the device, I had to start all over again with another device.

After this incident, I make it a point to configure my user account with a password that never expires.

In order to have a reference in the future, I created this post to document the steps to do so on Windows 10 IoT.

How to create a Python 3 virtual environment in Windows 10

When you need each Python 3 application that you are building to run in its own isolated environment, you can turn to virtual environments.

Since Python 3 is a versatile language, you can run it on Windows 10 as well.

In case you need to run your Python 3 application in its own virtual environment in Windows 10, this post is for you.

How to determine if your Windows 10 IOT operating system is 32 bit or 64 bit

Before installing anything to the version of Windows 10 IOT operating system on your device, you will need to figure out whether it is 32 bit or 64 bit.

In case you need it, this post shows how to determine whether your Windows 10 is 32 bit or 64 bit.

Setting up Nginx server on Windows 10

Recently, I got my wife an Asus ROG GL552VW-DH74 15-Inch Gaming laptop as a development machine (so that I can have a machine to use when I feel like gaming). Since the nginx server is one of my favorite servers for building web applications, it is something that I will always setup first when I get a new development machine.

I will set up my nginx server to listen on port 80 and serve as a reverse proxy to web applications listening on other port numbers. And since the ROG GL552VW-DH74 15-Inch Gaming laptop came with Windows 10, this post documents the steps that I went through to set up nginx server on Windows 10.