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To remove the “Office is included with this PC. Redeem the product key now” activation prompt, follow the steps below 1. Close the MS Office package 2. Press Windows Key +R and type regedit to open Registry Editor 3. Now go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\OEM 4. Right click on OEM and export to same the file in your desired location 5. Next delete the OEM file 6. Again go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\OEM 7. Export and then delete OEM as in setp 4 and 5. Now if you open the office application, the activation prompt should be gone.

When the preloaded office package does not show in the Program and Features list, how do we uninstall it.  Here are the steps to remove preloaded office in Windows 10. 1. Go to setting 2. Click on Apps 3. Click on Apps & Features 4. Search for Office 5. Click on Microsoft Office Desktop Apps and click Uninstall

Earlier when we have DNS resolving issue, we open up /etc/resolv.conf file to add the dns entry and it works. Now with Ubuntu 18.04 and later, it doesn't. Every time we reboot the system, the dns entry gets changet to its default ip 127.0.0.53.  So how do we stop the dns entry from getting changed to its default value. Please try the following steps: Image below shows the default content of the /etc/resolv.conf file 1. First install the resolvconf package   #sudo apt-get install resolvconf 2. Open the file /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head and add your nameservers detail       # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)       # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN       # 127.0.0.53 is the systemd-resolved stub resolver.       # run "systemd-resolve --status" to see details about the actual nameservers. nameserver 192.168.255.227...

When you create a bootable USB with Rufus, default setting does not work. So what you do is change the default Partition Scheme and target system type from MBR partition scheme for BIOS or UEFI to  MBR partition scheme for  UEFI. This should solve your issue. Rufus setting is shown in the image below