How to Install Windows 10 Without Windows Update

Short Bytes : After rolling out the Windows 10 upgrade process, Microsoft has released Windows 10 ISO files. If you don’t want go through the regular upgrade process, you can use these Windows 10 ISO images to upgrade your genuine Windows 7 and 8 PCs. This Microsoft Media Creation Tool could also be used to create bootable media for clean install after the upgrade.

Microsoft has released its best OS up to date and fossBytes has beencovering the Windows 10 to bring the latest information to you. The users who have registered for free Windows 10 upgrade, they are getting Windows 10 upgrades along with the Windows Insiders. If you don’t feel like waiting in the line, you are at the right place, at the right time. Microsoft has released Windows 10 ISO files that could be used for performing a clean install, or upgrading your genuine Windows 7 and Windows 8 to Windows 10.

How to Install Windows 10 Without Windows Update Right Now, Using Microsoft’s Tool

Before you decide to move ahead with the process, there are some things that need to be taken care of. As usual, you need sufficient disk space in your system drive, and your PC must be having an active internet connection to download the setup files.

Note: Your PC must be running genuine and activated Windows 7 or Windows 8. This media creation tool also works if you are running some older preview build of Windows 10 Preview upgraded from genuine Windows 7 or 8.

Now confirming all the requirements, it’s time install Windows 10 on your PC. Head over to Microsoft’s website to download the media creation tool and choose the appropriate 32-bit or 64-bit version. You can download the directly from the links given below.

Windows 10 Download Tool 32-bit

Windows 10 Download Tool 64-bit

How to Install Windows 10 Without Windows Update?

After installing the Windows 10 Media Creation tool, find the file in your PC and click on it to start the installation. After few seconds, you’ll see a new window as shown below. It asks “what do you want to do.” Out of the two given options, you need to select “upgrade this PC now” option and hit “Next.”

Note that during the installation, your PC will restart few times. It’s usual, this isn’t anything to worry about.

The other option to “create installation media for another PC” is for creating bootable USB stick or DVD for performing a fresh install on your already upgraded PC.

After choosing the first option, you’ll be greeted with a new window that will show that your Windows 10 copy is being downloaded. After waiting for few minutes, your download will start and you will notice the progress indicator increasing slowly. You can even minimize this app window and do some background work.

After the download process is completed, you will see the following windows that will show you the message that your Windows 10 installation media is being created. Again, you can minimize this windows to continue your background work. While performing the Windows 10 upgrade, make sure that your PC connected to the power supply.

As Microsoft tool completes the Windows 10 installation media creation, you’ll see a new tiny window in your PC showing that setup is preparing your PC for Windows 10 installation. This process will take a while.

This will be followed by the “Getting updates” step where your PC will download the updates needed to continue the setup.

Now Windows 10 setup will confirm that your PC has enough space for installation. This will just take a moment. If the setup detects that your PC doesn’t have enough space, the setup aborts.

After completing the memory check process, all the pre-requisites and checks are completed. Now your Windows 10 setup is ready to proceed. You’ll be shown a message that this Windows 10 upgrade will keep your files and apps, and you can also select what to leave behind and what to take forward with you.

Click on “Install” to proceed with the Windows 10 upgrade and your PC will restart.

After rebooting, the setup resumes and the installation process moves ahead.

You PC reboots again and you see the “Upgrading Windows” message. This consists of three steps: Copying files, Installing features and drivers, and Configuring Settings.

This is the final step of Windows 10 upgrade and your PC will restart several times during it.

What more? Well, everything is done.

Your PC is upgraded to Windows 10. Just log in to the operating system and you are taken to the next window for configuring settings.

You are shown a window that introduces you the new apps of Windows 10. These include Photos, Microsoft Edge, Music, and Movies and TV. Just click “Next” and your Windows 10 PC is ready to use.

This is what my spare PC looked after upgrade from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro. All the settings, files, and apps that were already installed Windows 10. Even the apps that were pinned in the taskbar, they were imported as it is. By mistake, I forgot to copy some stuff written in sticky notes- they were imported too.

You can go to “Update and Security” option in “Settings” to see that your genuine Windows 7 or 8 is upgraded to Windows 10, and your copy is activated.

Now after installing Windows 10, you can read some of the Windows 10 upgrade myth-busters here. 

How to remove password protection from PDF files

Now a days, we all save our data in a Word file or a PDF file. Some have basic information and some have secret information. To secure those files, you might need to put a password on your PDF files because setting a password on your PDF file is very easy and anyone can do that in no time. But what if you forget the password of your file?, or what if someone sent you a PDF file but it has password on it?

If you forget the password of the PDF file, then there is only one solution and that is to break the password. You could easily get into any password protected PDF file by breaking the password of that file.

So, today I will teach you how to remove password from any password protected PDF file. Just follow the steps mentioned below:-

Step 1) Download the software AnyBizSoft PDF Password Remover by clicking here.

Step 2) Now install the software and open it. A new pop up window will appear.

Step 3) Click on the Add Files button and import your file.

Step 4) Once your file is imported, click on the Start button.

Step 5) Wait for a few seconds. A new popup will appear displaying the message, that the password is removed.

Step 6) Press OK and now open your PDF file, the password is successfully removed.

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Linux Basic Commands

The below commands are important and often used for more checkout the image at the bottom of the article

• mkdir – make directories
  Usage: mkdir [OPTION] DIRECTORY…
  eg. mkdir lhn
• ls – list directory contents
  Usage: ls [OPTION]… [FILE]…
  eg. ls, ls ­l, ls lhn
• cd – changes directories
  Usage: cd [DIRECTORY]
  eg. cd lhn
• pwd ­-  print name of current working directory
  Usage: pwd
• vim – Vi Improved, a programmers text editor
  Usage: vim [OPTION] [file]…
  eg. vim lhn.txt
• cp – copy files and directories
  Usage: cp [OPTION]… SOURCE DEST
  eg. cp sample.txt sample_copy.txt
  cp sample_copy.txt target_dir
• mv – move (rename) files
  Usage: mv [OPTION]… SOURCE DEST
  eg. mv source.txt target_dir
  mv old.txt new.txt
• rm ­ remove files or directories
  Usage: rm [OPTION]… FILE…
  eg. rm file1.txt , rm ­rf some_dir
• find – search for files in a directory hierarchy
  Usage: find [OPTION] [path] [pattern]
  eg. find file1.txt, find ­name file1.txt
• history – prints recently used commands
  Usage: history
• cat – concatenate files and print on the standard output
  Usage: cat [OPTION] [FILE]…
  eg. cat file1.txt file2.txt
  cat ­n file1.txt
• echo – display a line of text
  Usage: echo [OPTION] [string] …
  eg. echo I love India
  echo $HOME
• grep ­- print lines matching a pattern
  Usage: grep [OPTION] PATTERN [FILE]…
  eg. grep ­i apple sample.txt
•  wc ­- print the number of newlines, words, and bytes in files
  Usage: wc [OPTION]… [FILE]…
  eg.  wc file1.txt
  wc ­L file1.txt
• sort – sort lines of text files
  Usage: sort [OPTION]… [FILE]…
  eg. sort file1.txt
  sort ­r file1.txt
• tar – to archive a file
  Usage: tar [OPTION] DEST SOURCE
  eg. tar ­cvf /home/archive.tar /home/original
  tar ­xvf /home/archive.tar
• kill – to kill a process(using signal mechanism)
  Usage: kill [OPTION] pid
  eg. kill ­9 2275
• ps – report a snapshot of the current processes
  Usage: ps [OPTION]
  eg. ps,  ps ­el
• who – show who is logged on
  Usage: who [OPTION]
  eg. who , who ­b , who ­q
• passwd – update  a user’s authentication tokens(s)
  Usage: passwd [OPTION]
  eg. passwd
•  su –  change user ID or become super­user
  Usage: su [OPTION] [LOGIN]
  eg. su remo, su
• chown – change file owner and group
  Usage: chown [OPTION]… OWNER[:[GROUP]] FILE…
  eg. chown remo myfile.txt
• chmod – change file access permissions
  Usage: chmod [OPTION] [MODE] [FILE]
  eg. chmod 744 calculate.sh
• zip – package and compress (archive) files
  Usage: zip [OPTION] DEST SOURSE
  eg. zip original.zip original
• unzip – list, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive
  Usage: unzip filename
  eg. unzip original.zi
• ssh – SSH client (remote login program)
  “ssh is a program for logging into a remote machine and for
  executing commands on a remote machine”
  Usage: ssh [options] [user]@hostname
  eg. ssh ­X guest@10.105.11.20
• scp – secure copy (remote file copy program)
  “scp copies files between hosts on a network”
  Usage: scp [options] [[user]@host1:file1] [[user]@host2:file2]
  eg. scp file1.txt guest@10.105.11.20:~/Desktop/
• fdisk – partition manipulator
  eg. sudo fdisk ­l
• mount – mount a file system
  Usage: mount ­t type device dir
  eg. mount /dev/sda5 /media/target
• umount – unmount file systems
  Usage: umount [OPTIONS] dir | device…
  eg.  umount /media/target
• du – estimate file space usage
  Usage:  du [OPTION]… [FILE]…
  eg. du
• df – report filesystem disk space usage
  Usage: df [OPTION]… [FILE]…
  eg. df
• quota – display disk usage and limits
  Usage: quota [OPTION]
  eg. quota ­v
• reboot – reboot the system
  Usage: reboot [OPTION]
  eg. reboot
• poweroff – power off the system
  Usage: poweroff [OPTION]
  eg. poweroff
• kate – KDE Advanced Text Editor
  Usage:  kate [options][file(s)]
  eg. kate file1.txt file2.txt
• vim – Vi Improved, a programmers text editor
  Usage: vim [OPTION] [file]…
  eg. vi hello.c
• gedit ­ A text Editor. Used to create and edit files.
  Usage: gedit [OPTION] [FILE]…
  eg. gedit
• bg – make a foreground process to run in background
  Usage: type ‘ctrl+z’  and then ‘bg ‘
• fg – to make background process as foreground process
  Usage: fg [jobid]
• jobs – displays the names and ids of background jobs
  Usage: jobs
• sed ­  stream editor for filtering and transforming text
  Usage: sed [OPTION] [input­file]…
  eg. sed ‘s/love/hate/g’ loveletter.txt
• awk ­ pattern scanning and processing language
  eg.  awk ­F: ‘{ print $1 }’ sample_awk.txt
• find ­ search for files in a directory hierarchy
  Usage: find [OPTION] [path] [pattern]
  eg. find ­name file1.txt
• locate – find or locate a file
  Usage: locate [OPTION]… FILE…
  eg. locate file1.txt

Linux File Permissions

• 3 types of file permissions – read, write, execute
• 10 bit format from ‘ls ­l’ command
  1             2 3 4      5 6 7     8 9 10
  file type    owner     group    others
  eg. drwxrw­r­­   means owner has all three permissions,
  group has read and write, others have only read
  permission
• read permission – 4, write – 2, execute ­1
  eg. rwxrw­r­­   = 764
  673    =   rw­rwx­wx

Nice thoughts

My first college business professor was a fanatical Peter Drucker devotee.

He launched our course with a dissection of Drucker’s The Effective Executive and concluded with a thorough reading of The Practice of Management.

Through my professor's tireless evangelism, I developed a keen appetite for the timeless wisdom of this prescient thought leader.

Related: How the Advice of the Past Can Save Us Now

Young entrepreneurs unfamiliar with Drucker would do well to study his insightful commentary on the world of "management." Millennials mired inside a traditional corporate environment and people living life inside lean startups will find his thinking particularly spot on.

Even after all these years, 10 Peter Drucker quotes still bounce around in my head constantly:

1. “Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.”

2. “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”

3. “There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.”

4. “What gets measured gets improved.”

5. “Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”

Related: Getting Diversity and Inclusion Right in Your Company

6. “So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.”

7. “People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

8. “Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.”

9. “Long-range planning does not deal with the future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.”

10. "Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things"

My cynical side (and my short attention span!) feels especially drawn to number eight on that list.

But the quotes that really excite and ignite my entrepreneurial imagination are numbers two and five.

7 Interview Questions That Determine Emotional Intelligence

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Determining who you hire for a job plays a big part in forming yourcompany’s culture and ensuring its future success. Selecting informative interview questions can be a key factor in finding the right employees -- as well as weeding out the ones that won’t fit. A candidate’s answers can be telling.

While different companies embody various values and cultures, success in the workplace is strongly influenced by a person’s emotional intelligence, a quality that should be a non-negotiable when vetting job candidates, says Mariah DeLeon, vice-president of people at workplace ratings and review site Glassdoor.

Here are seven interview questions that can draw revealing answers from the job candidates you interview -- and get you on your way to finding employees with stellar emotional intelligence.

Related: 8 Revealing Interview Questions to Hire Standout Staff

1. Who inspires you and why?

The job candidate’s answer often gives the interviewer a peek into who the interviewee models him or herself after. The response can also highlight the sorts of behavioral patterns the interviewee respects, saysCraig Cincotta, chief of staff and vice-president of communications at online home improvement marketplace Porch, where he’s heavily involved in team expansion and hiring.  

2. If you were starting a company tomorrow, what would be its top three values?

Every good relationship starts with trust and aligned values. Insight into a person’s priorities -- as well as honesty and integrity -- can emerge in the candidate’s answer, explains Robert Alvarez, the CFO of ecommerce platform Bigcommerce.

3. If business priorities change, describe how you would help your team understand and carry out the shifted goals?

Shifting priorities happen in every company, and every job, so look for candidates who are flexible and possess the skills to help carry out change. Hire employees who are self-aware, motivated and display empathy advises DeLeon. “These skills will help employees better work in teams.”

Related: The 5 Must-Ask Interview Questions to Determine if Someone's a Fit

4. Did you build lasting friendships while working at another job?  

It takes a while for people to build relationships -- and being able to do so is a sign of solid emotional intelligence, Alvarez says. “[A lasting friendship] tells you that relationships and caring about people are important to the person.”  

5. What skill or expertise do you feel like you’re still missing?

Curiosity and the desire to learn are vital signs that a prospective employee wants to get better at something. “People who struggle with this question are the people who think they already know it all,” warns Alvarez. “These are the people you want to steer away from.”

6. Can you teach me something, as if I’ve never heard of it before? (It can be anything: A skill, a lesson or a puzzle.)

A job candidate's answer to this question can reveal several qualities:

• Whether the person is willing to take the time to think before speaking.
• If the candidate has the technical ability to explain something to a person who is less knowledgeable in the subject.
• Whether the candidate asks empathetic questions to the person being taught, such as, “Is this making sense?” 

7. What are the top three factors you would attribute to your success?

The answer to this question can determine whether a person is selfless or selfish, Alvarez says. “When people talk about their own success, listen to whether someone talks about ‘me-me-me’ or ‘I-I-I.’ Or whether they talk about ‘the team,’ ‘we’ or ‘us.’”

“Look for a team player who brings something positive to the company,” Cincotta shares. “Someone can be the smartest person in the room, but if they are not someone you enjoy working with -- because they are more concerned with their own success over that of the company -- they won’t be a fit.”

10 Skills That Are Hard to Learn But Pay Off Forever

The best things in life may be free, but that doesn't mean they won't take time, sweat, and perseverance to acquire.

That's especially the case when it comes to learning important life skills.

In an effort to ascertain which talents are worth the investment, one Quora reader posed the question: What are the hardest and most useful skills to learn?

We've highlighted our favorite takeaways.

1. Time management

Effective time management is one of the most highly valued skills by employers. While there is no one right way, it's important to find a system that works for you and stick to it, Alina Grzegorzewska explains. 

"The hardest thing to learn for me was how to plan," she writes. "Not to execute what I have planned, but to make so epic a to-do list and to schedule it so thoroughly that I'm really capable of completing all the tasks on the scheduled date."

2. Empathy

"You can be the most disciplined, brilliant, and even wealthy individual in the world, but if you don't care for or empathize with other people, then you are basically nothing but a sociopath," writes Kamia Taylor.

Empathy, as business owner Jane Wurdwand explains, is a fundamental human ability that has too readily been forsworn by modern business.

"Empathy — the ability to feel what others feel — is what makes good sales and service people truly great. Empathy as in team spirit — esprit d'corps — motivates people to try harder. Empathy drives employees to push beyond their own apathy, to go bigger, because they feel something bigger than just a paycheck," she writes.

3. Mastering your sleep

There are so many prescribed sleep hacks out there it's often hard to keep track. But regardless of what you choose, establishing a ritual can help ensure you have restful nights.

Numerous studies show that being consistent with your sleep schedule makes it easier to fall asleep and wake up, and it helps promote better sleep in general.

4. Positive self-talk

"Ultimately it doesn't matter what others think of you," writes Shobhit Singhal, "but what you think of yourself certainly does, and it takes time to build that level of confidence and ability to believe in yourself when nobody else does."

On the other side of positive self-talk is negative self-talk, which Betsy Myers, founding director of The Center for Women and Business at Bentley University, believes can slowly chip away at your confidence.

5. Consistency

Whether you're trying a new exercise routine, studying for the LSATs, or working on an important project, Khaleel Syed writes that consistency is vital to maintaining any kind of success.

People often stop working hard when they reach the top, he explains, but to maintain that top position, they have to work harder and be more consistent in their work.

6. Asking for help

"I once was told in a job interview, 'You can't have this job if you can't ask for help when you need it,'" Louise Christy writes. "Naturally, I said I could. Later, I found out that the previous person with that job had screwed up big-time because he was in over his head but couldn't admit it and didn't ask for help."

She explains that knowing when you need help and then asking for it is surprisingly difficult to learn and do because no one wants to be perceived as weak or incompetent.

But a recent study from the Harvard Business School suggests doing so makes you look more, not less, capable. According to the study authors, when you ask people for advice, you validate their intelligence or expertise, which makes you more likely to win them over.

7. Knowing when to shut up — and actually doing it

"You can't go around whining about every other thing that seems not-so-right to you in this world," writes Roshna Nazir. "Sometimes you just need to shut up."

There are many instances when keeping to yourself is the best course. "When we are angry, upset, agitated, or vexed," writes Anwesha Jana, "we blurt out anything and everything that comes to our mind." And later, you tend to regret it.

Keeping your mouth shut when you're agitated is one of the most valuable skills to learn, and of course, one of the most difficult.

8. Listening

Along with shutting up comes listening, says Richard Careaga.

"Most of us in the workplace are so overwhelmed with things to do — instant messaging, phones ringing. I mean, our brain can only tolerate so much information before it snaps," Nicole Lipkin, author of "What Keeps Leaders Up At Night," previously told Business Insider.

One tip for active listening is repeating back what you heard to the other person. "It makes things so much easier when everyone is on the same page," she said.

9. Minding your business

"It takes ages to learn and master this," writes Aarushi Ruddra.

Sticking your nose into other people's work isn't helpful and wastes time and resources, she says. "You have no right to put forth your two or four cents, even if you are the last righteous person standing."

10. Mastering your thoughts

To do what you want to do and accomplish what you want to accomplish, you need to consciously direct your thinking, writes Mark Givert.

"The challenge is that we are the product of our past experience and all of our thinking is the result of this," he says. "However, the past does not equal the future."