What is HAL or hardware abstraction layer l

* HAL hardware abstraction layer is used by the operating system to interact with the hardware.

* It is simply a dll call HAL.dll.

* What does HAL.dll does is that it provides the necessary drivers for your operating system to interact with hardware.

* The problem with a HAl.dll is that when you restore your operating system you need to use identical hardware for successful restore this was huge drawback with HAL.dll

* In new your operating system such as Windows 10 this dependency on HAL.dll is removed.

* Now when you restore your operating system the BIOS will detect the existing hardware or the new hardware on which the operating system is being restored.

* To configure this dynamic HAL you need to use a tool call BCDedit.

Bcdedit /set {current} detecthal yes

Windows 10 Upgrade failed with error 0x80073712 while deploying from SCCM 2012 R2

Windows 10 Upgrade failed with error 0x80073712 while deploying from SCCM 2012 R2

• Windows 10 Upgrade is giving lot of issues.
• There are also lot of complains. One error i see while Deployement fails is with error code "0x80073712"
• This error indicates that there is issue with the file which is needed is damaged or missing.
• Mostly your ISO that you created is missing some files or is damaged.
• So make a fresh copy of ISO from Install media and try again
• This time it succeded without any errors.

New ALT TAB Button in Windows 10

New ALT TAB Button in Windows 10

• Earlier to Jump Between different Application we have to Minimize one and maximize one. 
• Then we started using ALT+TAB button to switch between different Application windows
• Now Microsoft has given a button next to Search Box in Windows 10
• If you Click on it You can jump between various windows.
• This has been done to make compaitable with Windows Tab (Surface) and Windows Phone

New Search Box in Windows 10

New Search Box in Windows 10

• Earlier version of Windows You have to click on Start to Search.
• But In Windows 10 this has been moved next to Start in Launch Bar itself
• So you can SEARCH for Notepad and Word and it will show up

Where is All Programs in Windows 10. Its now called All Apps

Where is All Prgrams in Windows 10. Its now called All Apps

• Lot of Things have Changed in Windows 10.
• One Such important thing that change is All Programs.
• Earlier we use to Click Start-->All Programs to Find our Application.
• But with Windows 10, this has been Changed to Start -->All Apps
• This is Done so that its compatible with Windows Phone.
• So hope you get used to it :)