Creating Setting up Windows 10 for OF use by Franco Otaola

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Setting up Windows 10 for OF use

In this tutorial some helpful tips for the setting up of a Windows 10 machine will be given. This steps are not essential for the use of OF in Windows but rather an improvement in usability and a speed improvement for the case setups. This tutorial will not touch the installation of OF in windows but rather steps to follow after its installation, for installation of OF in windows please refer to Installing OpenFOAM in Windows 10

Setting up Windows 10

Open linux shell here:

One option that I missed a lot from my linux computer was to navigate with the file explorer to my case and then simply by right click we can open the terminal in that folder location, without the need of "cd path". Once you installed your WSL in Windows 10 exists too, by default, we need to use Shift+right click in the folder, this will give us the “advanced” version of the contextual menu, give us more choices (and having the open linux shell here). For people that really want to use only the right click, we can add this option to the classic contextual menu of windows. For this, we need to install ExectTI (ExectTI) and then follow the steps:

1. Install ExectTi (to be able to modify the registry of windows with the highest privilege)

2. Run regedit.exe -m (this will open the regedit)

3. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\WSL

4. Remove the "Extended" value right click>delete

5. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\WSL

6. Remove the "Extended" value right click>delete

7. Restart your computer if necessary