Little basic hacks

Starting with Windows 10’s  Fall Creators Update , the Windows Subsystem for Linux now allows you to manually mount drives. It still automatically mounts all internal NTFS drives. However, now you can manually mount external drives and network folders using the Linux  mount command. How to Mount External Devices The Windows Subsystem for Linux  still automatically mounts fixed NTFS drives. So, if you have an internal C: drive and let's say an E: or a D: drive, you’ll see them at  /mnt/c and /mnt/d  in the Linux environment. DrvFs now allows you to mount external drives like USB sticks, CDs, and DVDs. These devices must use a Windows file system like NTFS, ReFS, or FAT. However, you still can’t mount devices formatted with a Linux file system like ext3 or ext4. Like with internal drives, these external drives will still remain accessible in Windows after you’ve mounted them in the Linux environment. Mounting them also makes the...

At times it so happens that you email someone a copy of your Word document or PowerPoint presentation and they don’t have a font installed. In such cases, Microsoft Office shows that document with the default font. This can mess up the whole layout and make the document look completely different, but you can actually fix this by embedding fonts into your documents and let the recipient of your file see it just as you want them to. How The Thing Works? When you enable this option, Office takes the font file from your system and embeds a copy of it into the Office document. Though this increases the size of the document, anyone who opens the document will be able to see the document with its intended font. Note: You can only do this in the Windows versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Publisher. This doesn’t work in the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, or web version of Word or PowerPoint. This also works only if the font you’re trying to embed actually allows embedding. T...