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Here's how to configure Xmonad to work with KDE.

You've heard about the wonders of Xmonad, and you want to try it out. But you're a KDE user, and you want to stay with KDE because of:

  • Ability to browse all programs and utilities with desktop bar (kicker).
  • Easy integration of Xmonad on a system using kdm for logins.
  • Easier system monitoring on laptops with the KDE networking widget.
  • Best environment for running GUI applications developed with Qt.
  • Consistent user interface and shared system services for the vast collection of KDE applications.
  • You're just used to it.

Then this page is for you.

Related reading

The GNOME/xmonad page. Read that, really. Much of what is written there also applies to KDE and is not repeated here.

But if all you want is to get started quickly with Xmonad in KDE, read on.

The following instructions are optimized and tested (so far) for xmonad 0.7 and KDE 3.5.

Before you begin

Make sure that xmonad is installed. On most systems, you can just install the xmonad package using KPackage, or your favorite package manager. For a list of systems with pre-built xmonad binaries, see the ports and distributions list. Or you can build xmonad from source.

Make sure that KDE is not configured for multiple desktops. To configure that, open the KDE Control Center, select Desktop > Multiple desktops, and set the number of desktops to 1.

Read the guided tour of xmonad, so that you'll know what to do once xmonad starts up. (Ignore the "Starting xmonad" section, though. These instructions replace that for KDE.) The xmonad man page has a nice summary of the default key bindings for xmonad.

Sample xmonad configuration for KDE

As usual, place xmonad configuration in ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs.

The following sample configuration sets up xmonad to cooperate with the KDE desktop and panel; for more details about how this works, see the Gnome page.

This configuration also does the following:

  • uses the Windows key instead of the Alt key as "mod" for xmonad (freeing up Alt for common emacs-style key bindings in applications)
  • causes certain applications to launch as floating windows
  • automatically sends certain applications to a specific desktop when they launch.
import XMonad
import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
import XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops
import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W

main = xmonad $ defaultConfig

 { manageHook            = manageHook defaultConfig <+> myManageHook
 , logHook               = ewmhDesktopsLogHook
 , layoutHook            = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig
 , modMask               = mod4Mask -- use the Windows button as mod
   myManageHook = composeAll . concat $
     [ [manageDocks]
     , [ className   =? c --> doFloat           | c <- myFloats]
     , [ title       =? t --> doFloat           | t <- myOtherFloats]
     , [ className   =? c --> doF (W.shift "2") | c <- webApps]
     , [ className   =? c --> doF (W.shift "3") | c <- ircApps]
   myFloats      = ["MPlayer", "Gimp"]
   myOtherFloats = ["alsamixer"]
   webApps       = ["Firefox-bin", "Opera"] -- open on desktop 2
   ircApps       = ["Ksirc"]                -- open on desktop 3

Note: To get the class name of an application for use in the above:

  1. Open the application.
  2. Enter the command xprop | grep WM_CLASS in a terminal window on the same desktop.
  3. Click on the application window.
  4. Read the class name in the terminal window. The class name is the second of the two quoted strings displayed, usually capitalized.

Thanks to everyone on #xmonad, especially sjanssen, for all the help in putting together this sample xmonad configuration for KDE.

Make xmonad your window manager in KDE

Create the directory ~/.kde/env if it does not already exist. Create a file there called set_window_manager.sh containing only the following line of text:

where "/path/to/xmonad" is the path to the xmonad binary on your system. For example, on Debian systems this is /usr/bin/xmonad. If you compiled xmonad from source, it may be something like /home/$USER/bin/xmonad.

Restart your KDE session

Now end your current KDE session and start a new one. Welcome to xmonad with KDE!

Tips and issues

  • As in Gnome, you currently cannot switch the focus to a window by clicking on it in the task bar. Use xmonad keys, or use the mouse on the window itself.
  • Also as in Gnome, it is very important not to use the xmonad mod-shift-q key to exit your session. Use the KDE menu or panel applet.

To do: In the sample configuration, show how to bind mod-shift-Q to the command dcop kdesktop default logout to end the KDE session via a dialog, or to the command dcop ksmserver default logout 0 -1 -1 to end the KDE session directly. Then remove the above bullet.


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The main functions of CTDB are:

  • Provide a clustered version of the TDB database with automatic rebuild/recovery of the databases upon node failures.
  • Monitor nodes in the cluster and services running on each node.
  • Manage a pool of public IP addresses that are used to provide services to clients. Alternatively, CTDB can be used with LVS.

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File Content
/etc/ctdb/ctdb.conf Basic configuration
/etc/ctdb/script.options Setting options for event-scripts
/etc/ctdb/nodes All IP-addresses of all nodes
/etc/ctdb/public_addresses Dynamic IP-addresses for all nodes

The ctdb.conf file

The ctdb.conf file has changed a lot from the old configuration style (< Samba 4.9). This file will no longer be used to configure the different services managed by CTDB. At the moment the only setting you have to do inside the file is setting up the recovery lock file. This file is used by all nodes to check if it's possible to lock files inside the cluster for exclusive use. If you don't use a recovery lock file your cluster can run into a split brain situation. By default the 'recovery lock' is NOT set. You should not use CTDB without a recovery lock unless you know what you are doing. The variable must point to a file inside your mounted gluster-volume. To use the recovery lock enter the following line into /etc/ctdb/ctdb.conf} on both nodes:

\begin{lstlisting}[captionpos=b,label=recovery-lock,caption=Defining the recovery lock] recovery lock = /glusterfs/ctdb.lock \end{lstlisting}

The \textit{recovery lock} setting needs to be in the \textit{[cluster]} section.

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Belgian Air Component

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Belgian Air Component
Composante air
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Badge of the Belgian Air Component
Active1909–1915: Company of Aviators
1915–1940: Military Aviation
1946–1949: Military Aviation
1949–2002: Belgian Air Force
2002–present: Air Component
Country Belgium
AllegianceKing Philippe
TypeAir force
RoleAerial warfare
Size4,000 (2019) [1]
104 aircraft and UAV's
Part ofBelgian Armed Forces Edit this at Wikidata
Major General Thierry Dupont
Roundel of Belgium.svg
Fin flash
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Air Force Ensign of Belgium.svg

The Belgian Air Component (Dutch: Luchtcomponent, French: Composante air) is the air arm of the Belgian Armed Forces,[2][3] and until January 2002 it was officially known as the Belgian Air Force (Dutch: Belgische Luchtmacht; French: Force aérienne belge). The Belgian military aviation was founded in 1909 and is one of the world's oldest air services.

The commander is Major General Thierry Dupont, appointed on 17 September 2020.

Foundation and early years

The Belgian military aviation was founded in 1909 as a branch of the Belgian Army, carrying the name Compagnie des Ouvriers et Aérostiers.[4] King Albert's interest in the military use of aircraft was the main impetus for its formation. Coincidentally, in the civil aviation sector, Baron Pierre de Caters earned the first civil pilot's brevet that same year. Caters would promptly establish an aviation school. At approximately the same time, the War Ministry followed the French military's example and had pilots earn a civil pilot's brevet before their military one.[5]

In 1910, three Belgian lieutenants earned their pilot's brevets at the school, paying their own fees. Two of the artillery lieutenants were Baudouin Montens d'Oosterwyck, who earned Brevet No. 19 on 30 September, and Alfred Sarteel, granted No. 23 on 10 November. The third lieutenant, Georges Nelis, was the new force's first aviation candidate, gaining Brevet No. 28 on 21 December. An aircraft was personally purchased for him.[5]

In spring of 1911, the new air force established its military aviation school with five pilots, two mechanics, and a woodworker. It received its first aircraft via Baron Caters, who gave the aircraft to King Albert, who in turn presented it to the school.[5]

On 12 September 1912, pilot Lieutenant Nelis and observer Sous Lieutenant Stellingwerff were the first Europeans to fire a machine gun from an aircraft; while Nelis brought the aircraft low, Stellingwerff put some bullets through a sheet staked out on the ground. They were disciplined for their efforts. Nelis then accompanied Capitaine Commandant Émile Mathieu to England during November 1913 to demonstrate aerial use of the Lewis machine gun at Hendon and Aldershot; as a result, the British adopted the Lewis, although the Belgians did not. Belgium entered World War I with aircraft tasked solely for reconnaissance missions.[6]

World War I

Belgique, the first Belgian airship
Belgique, the first Belgian airship

By the time of Belgium's entry into the First World War on 4 August 1914, the military aviation branch, now called the Aviation Militaire Belge (Belgische militaire luchtvaart), consisted of four squadrons, each consisting of four 80-horsepower Farman aircraft, although Escadrilles III and IV were still forming. A truck was assigned to each squadron, along with a fifth truck serving as a mobile workshop. Each squadron had a commander, five pilots, and six observers, with all officers seconded from parent units. As a result, most of the new aviators were from the Engineers and Artillery components of the Belgian armed forces. As the war began, a fifth squadron was created, staffed with civilian pilots called to the colors and equipped with Bleriots.[7]

Sous Lieutenant Henri Crombez flew one of the first war patrols, in a Deperdussin racer on 4 August 1914 above Liège.[8] Adjutant Behaeghe was the first to engage an enemy, a few days later. On 26 September, the Belgian air crew of Sous Lieutenant de Petrowski and Sergeant Benselin mortally wounded a German pilot with a rifle bullet and forced his Taube to land at Sint-Agatha-Berchem; if they had submitted a claim for this victory, its approval would have marked history's first air-to-air combat victory.[9]

On 3 January 1915, two machine guns supplied by British were fitted to two Belgian aircraft, making a dual effort against the foe possible; these were Belgium's first dedicated fighter planes. In February, thirteen of the Belgian airmen flew 28 offensive patrols; their first dogfight was fought on the 26th, with ten Albatroses against three Belgian Farmans. On 26 March, Sous Lieutenant Boschmans sent a German two-seater into a steep dive when he seemed to hit the pilot; the German was not seen to either crash or land. This was the Belgian aviators' first victory claim.[10]

In April, Lieutenant Fernand Jacquet mounted a machine gun on his pusher aircraft and sought out the enemy. On the 17th, he and his observer (Lieutenant Henri Vindevoghel) scored Belgium's first confirmed aerial victory, sending an Albatros reconnaissance aircraft down in flames over Roeselare. Apparently at about the same time, Adjutant José Orta and Sous Lieutenant Louis de Burlet were the first to attack an enemy observation balloon when they dropped three small bombs on a gasbag over Houthulst, however they either did not hit, or failed to explode.[10]

Sopwith Camel in the colours of the Belgian 1st Squadron
Sopwith Camel in the colours of the Belgian 1st Squadron

On 18 January 1916, the decision was made to form a dedicated fighter squadron. On 22 February 1916, Escadrille I became the 1ère Escadrille de Chasse. It consisted of newly supplied Nieuport 10s and one obsolete Farman two-seater. In August, the new squadron would upgrade to Nieuport 11s, and Escadrille V was turned into the 5ème Escadrille de Chasse. The new unit was the first to mount an offensive formation for the new air force; on 15 February 1917, they flew an offensive patrol of seven. By this time, the AMB had grown to 44 aircraft, including 21 fighters. At this point, individual aircraft bore personal markings affixed by their pilots, but no unit designations.[11]

In the summer of 1917, the AMB was allotted an active role in Allied aviation operations at the beginning of the Third Battle of Ypres. In March 1918, the AMB matured into a Groupe de Chasse. At this time, the role of the Escadrilles de Chasse was finally focused on their operation strictly as fighter units. There was a sorting out of pilots into fighter or reconnaissance roles. Not all fighter pilots went into the new fighter units; as of 1 May, 22 remained with reconnaissance units to fly escort missions. The King insisted that Jacquet be given the command of the Group. The newly organized fighter wing contained the two fighter escadrilles; however, 1ère Escadrille de Chasse became 9ème Escadrille de Chasse, and 5ème Escadrille de Chasse became 10ème Escadrille de Chasse. The 11ème Escadrille de Chasse was founded on 28 May to join them. By the start of the Allies final offensive in September 1918, the AMB was incorporated in the Allied aviation effort, and could send 40-plus aircraft into the air at one time. In its short span of service, the Groupe fought over 700 aerial combats and was credited with 71 confirmed and 50 probable victories.[12]

Aircraft procurement difficulties

In June 1916 the nascent air force had received newer aircraft from the French in both single and double-seat versions of the Nieuport 10. The Belgians would continue to upgrade their aircraft throughout the war, though through their dependence on French manufacturers they became the stepchildren of the Allied effort from 1916 onwards.[13] The introduction dates of various types, compared to the date of their acquisition by the Belgians, tells the tale. The Franco-American Lafayette Escadrille had Nieuport 16s as early as May 1916;[14] the Belgians got them at the end of the year. The Nieuport 17 came into service with the French as early as June 1916, but the Belgians received so few that in June 1917 they were still operating all their earlier Nieuports. They then contracted for newer Nieuport 23s, which were basically up-engined Nieuport 17s. Spad VIIs had entered French service on 2 September 1916; the Belgians first received them almost an entire year later, with the first one on board on 22 August 1917. In September 1917, Belgium had the Hanriot HD.1 supplied to it the year after it was introduced. Spad XIIIs also came on line that month, but would not show up in Belgian inventory until the next year. Sopwith Camels first went into service in May 1917 and the AMB received its first one on 29 November 1917.[15]

The AMB did make one attempt to design and build its own aircraft. However the Ponnier M1 was not good enough for production, and the ten or so manufactured ended up with clipped wings as powered "Penguin" rollers for training rookie pilots.[16]

Operational summary

One of its flying ace pilots, Willy Coppens, became the top ranking balloon buster of World War I, as well as one of the war's top aces. Four other pilots from the tiny force also became aces with it: Andre de Meulemeester,[17] Edmond Thieffry,[18] Jan Olieslagers,[19] and Fernand Jacquet.[20] A sixth Belgian, Adolphe DuBois d'Aische, became the war's oldest ace while in French service.[21]

The fledgling air force was entrusted with flying both King Albert and Queen Elizabeth over the battle front at times.[22]

Between the world wars

During the interwar period, the Belgian Air Force flew the Breguet 19. Some efforts were made to acquire aircraft from local production, such as those by Stampe et Vertongen and Renard. They also evaluated native designs like the ACAZ C.2 and LACAB GR.8, none of which entered mass production however.

World War II

Belgian Fairey Firefly II, 1931
Belgian Fairey Firefly II, 1931

At the start of World War II, the Army Air Force had three active Air Force Regiments. Aircraft which were used by those regiments were the Renard R-31 and R-32, the Fiat CR.42, the Hawker Hurricane, the Gloster Gladiator, the Fairey Fox, and the Fairey Battle. These were massacred by the much superior German Luftwaffe in the German invasion of May 1940. Before the outbreak of the war Belgium also sought to equip the Aviation Militaire with foreign designs, ordering production licences in Poland and France and aircraft in the USA. However, the acquired licences could not be used until May 1940 and the aircraft produced in the USA were eventually delivered to France and to the United Kingdom.

After the surrender of Belgium on 28 May 1940, a very small Belgian Air Force in exile was created in Great Britain as the Belgian section of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. This small force was active within the British Royal Air Force, and its squadrons were equipped with the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Typhoon.

The Cold War

On 15 October 1946, the Belgian military aviation was turned into an autonomous force, independent of the Belgian Army. From September 1953 to 1960, the Ecole de Pilotage Avancé ("Advanced Pilots' School") operated Harvards from the Kamina military base in the Belgian Congo.[23] Seemingly about 60 Harvards were at the base.

Post-Cold War reforms

Agusta A109 of the Air Component
Agusta A109 of the Air Component

At the beginning of the 1990s, the end of the Cold War caused the Belgian government to restructure the Belgian Armed Forces in order to cope with the changed threats. The Belgian Air Force was hit hard and saw its strength more than halved with the disbanding of the 3rd Tactical Wing in Bierset (1994); the disbanding of the 1st Fighter Wing in Beauvechain; the 9th Training Wing in Sint-Truiden Air Base; and the Elementary Flying School in Goetsenhoven (1996).

In 2002, the Belgian government decided to emulate Canada and impose a "single structure" on its armed forces in which the independent Belgian Air Force ceased to exist. The Belgian Air Component (COMOPSAIR being the HQ) consists of the 2nd Tactical Wing in Florennes Air Base and the 10th Tactical Wing in Kleine Brogel Air Base, both flying F-16s in four squadrons. Out of the 160 F-16s originally bought by Belgium, only 105 were upgraded; with further reductions to 72 aircraft in 2005; and planned to 60 by 2012. The 1st Wing at Beauvechain Air Base is assigned for the training of pilots, using the piston-powered Aermacchi SF.260 for elementary training, and the Alpha Jet for advanced training. Advanced combat training is done on F-16's at Kleine Brogel.[24] COMOPSAIR still operates the Lockheed C-130 Hercules in the 15th Air Transport Wing based at Melsbroek Air Base, planning to replace them by seven Airbus A400M transport aircraft. VIPs are transported with Embraer 135/145 jets,[25] Dassault 20/900, and the Airbus A321. The Sea King SAR helicopters were phased out in March 2019 after more than 40 years of service and replaced by NH-90s (4 NFH + 4 TTH). The Alouette III helicopters flown for the Belgian Navy in a utility-role and will be phased out in 2021.

In 2004, as part of the unified structure, the Army Aviation units of the Wing Heli were transferred to the COMOPSAIR. These contain the Agusta A109 attack helicopter, and the Alouette II training and recce helicopter. In 2005, the Belgian Alpha Jets moved to Cazaux in France to continue the Initial Operational Training, while the Advanced Jet Training was done on French Alpha Jets at Tours. As from 2013 both Advanced Jet Training as well as Initial Operational Training are completed in Cazaux in France. Within the framework of its commitments within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, Belgium has assigned its 72 F-16s to NATO purposes. Two squadrons with a total of 16 aircraft have been designated for use by the Rapid Reaction Forces. In February 2008, Defense Minister Pieter De Crem announced that due to increasing problems and poor serviceability, the two A310s were to be replaced as soon as possible by two aircraft in the same class. An Airbus A330 was dry-leased to take their place till March 2014 where it was replaced by an Airbus A321. On September 1, 2010, the Wing Heli in Bierset was disbanded and the Agusta A109 helicopters moved to Beauvechain Air Base to become 1st Wing. The SF260 squadrons became part of the Basic Flying Training School. On May 24, 2011, it was reported that the two retired Airbus A310 aircraft have been sold to the Brussels-based company MAD Africa for the amount of 700,000 euros. The company then sold them on to the Dutch Van Vliet transport company, who in their turn will transfer the aircraft to an as yet unspecified Abu Dhabi-based operator.[citation needed]

Retired aircraft

T6 Harvard Mk 4 on display at Ursel Air Base
T6 Harvard Mk 4 on display at Ursel Air Base
A Belgian S-58 on lift off
A Belgian S-58 on lift off
A Belgian Fouga Magister
A Belgian Fouga Magister
The Westland Sea King helicopter
The Westland Sea King helicopter
Aircraft Origin Type Variant In service Notes
Combat aircraft
Fairey Battle United Kingdom Bomber 14[26]
Fairey Fox United Kingdom Light bomber II/III/VI/VIII 115[26]
Fiat CR.42 Italy Fighter 23[26]
Gloster Gladiator United Kingdom Fighter 15[26]
Supermarine Spitfire United Kingdom Fighter FR Mk XIV 53[27]
Gloster Meteor United Kingdom Fighter F.4/NF.11 Served as a night fighter[28]
Hawker Hurricane United Kingdom Fighter Mk I 11[26] License built by SABCA[28]
Avro CF-100 Canuck Canada Interceptor Mk 5 53[29] In service 1957–1964
Republic F-84 United States Fighter-bomber F-84E/G[28] 21/213 In service 1951 – 1955
Republic F-84F[28] United States Fighter-bomber F-84F 197 In service 1955 – 1972
Lockheed F-104 United States Interceptor F-104G 100[30] In service 1963 – 1983, license built by SABCA
Mirage 5 France Bomber BA 63[30] In service 1970 – 1994
Mirage 5 France Reconnaissance BR 27[30] In service 1971 - 1994
Renard R.31 Belgium Observation 19[26]
Auster AOP.6 United Kingdom Observation 22[30] In service 1947 - 1955
Republic RF-84F[28] United States Reconnaissance RF-84F 34 In service 1955 - 1972
Embraer ERJ145 Brazil transport 2 In service 2001 - 2020
Dassault Falcon 900 France Transport Falcon 900B 1[31][32] In service 1995 - 2019
Dassault Falcon 20 French Transport 2 [33] In service 1973 - 2016
Britten Norman Islander United Kingdom Transport BN2A-21 12 In service 1976 - 2005
Douglas C-54[28] United States Transport 2 In service 1950 - 1973
Fairchild C-119[28] United States Transport C-119G 38 In service 1953 - 1973
Boeing 727 United States VIP 100QC 2 Ex-Sabena Airlines, in service 1976 – 1998
Airbus A310 Multi-national Transport A310-222 2 Ex-Singapore Airlines, in service 1998 – 2009
Alouette II France Utility 81 In service 1960–2009
Alouette III France liaison 3[34] flown for the Maritime Component until withdrawn in 2019
Sikorsky S-58 United States SAR 11[30] In service 1961 – 1986. Replaced by the Westland Sea King
Westland Sea King United Kingdom SAR Mk. 48 5[35] In service 1976 - 2019. Replaced by the NH90
Trainer Aircraft
Lockheed T-33 United States Primary trainer T-33A 33 In service 1951 - 1979
Fouga CM.170 France Jet trainer 50 In service 1960 - 2007
Lockheed F-104 United States Conversion trainer TF-104G 12[30] In service 1965 - 1983, license built by SABCA
Mirage 5 France Conversion trainer BD 16[30] In service 1970 - 1994
Alpha Jet France / Germany trainer / light attack 24[36] In service 1978 - 2020
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
IAI B-Hunter United States / Israel reconnaissance 13[37] In service 2004 - 2020 Replaced by 9B SkyGuardian

In January 1991, 18 Mirage 5 aircraft of the 3rd Tactical Wing were deployed to Turkey's Diyarbakır air base. During this operation, Belgian aircraft carried out several flights along the Iraqi border. After this operation the obsolete Mirage 5s were phased out.

On 15 July 1996, a C-130 with serial CH-06 carrying 37 members of the Dutch Army Fanfare Band and four Belgian crew members crashed at Eindhoven after a bird strike while executing a go-around, resulting in the loss of power to two engines. 34 passengers were killed, and only 7 survived. The accident is known in the Netherlands as the Herculesramp.

From October 1996, the Belgian Air Force cooperated with the Dutch Royal Air Force in the "Deployable Air Task Force" in patrolling former Yugoslavian airspace. F-16s of the 2nd and 10th Tactical Wings, operating from the Italian bases of Villafranca and Amendola, were assigned to missions insuring the control of a No-Fly Zone over Yugoslavia, and providing the air support necessary for UN and NATO troops. Between March 24 and June 10, 1999, twelve Belgian F-16s carried out 679 combat sorties – the first time since the second World War that Belgian aircraft took part in active war operations in enemy territory – against Serbia during the Kosovo crisis. The last Belgian F-16 detachment left Italy in August 2001.

On 29 March 2004, four F-16s from Kleine Brogel were transferred under NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission to the Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania for three months, where they were employed in monitoring the Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian skies.

In 2005, the Helicopter Wing (WHeli – HeliW) deployed four A-109 (including one Medevac) in Tuzla, Bosnia. In July, four F-16s deployed to Afghanistan to support the NATO International Security Assistance Force.[38] From June to October 2005, the 80th UAV Squadron deployed its B-Hunter in Tuzla.[39][40]

In 2006, Belgian Hunter unmanned air vehicles deployed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of the EU EUFOR peacekeeping mission. At the same time, the Helicopter Wing (WHeli – HeliW) deployed three A-109 (including 1 Medevac) in Mostar, Bosnia, in Operation Blue Bee.[41]

On 1 December 2006 the Belgian Air Component deployed again under Baltic Air Policing mission four F-16 MLU aircraft to Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania, to defend the airspace of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.[42]

From August 2008, four F-16s were deployed to Kandahar in Afghanistan in support of the Dutch land forces.[43]

In March 2011, Belgium deployed six F-16 fighters to Araxos in Greece, in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn, to support the NATO operations over Libya.[44] The aircraft were already at the base as part of a joint exercise and were transferred to NATO command. Up to June 2011, the aircraft had flown over 1,000 hours over Libya and attacked various military installations and targets.

The display F-16AM arriving at the 2017 RIAT, England
The display F-16AM arriving at the 2017 RIAT, England

On 12 September 2011 a Wikileaks document showed a diplomatic cable from the American ambassador and the Minister of Defence Pieter De Crem that Belgium is interested in buying off-the-shelf Lockheed F-35 Lightnings by 2020.[45][46][47]

In 2013 the Belgian Air Force supported French operations in Mali providing Medevac helicopter support with two A-109 helicopters and two C-130 Hercules in a tactical air transport role.

On 2 September 2013, four F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter-jets of the Royal Belgian Air Force landed at the Šiauliai Air Base to take charge of NATO's Air Policing mission over the Baltic states.[48][49]

Between October 2014 and July 2015 six Lockheed Martin F-16AM Fighting Falcons were deployed under Operation Desert Falcon to Muwaffaq Salti Air Base as part of military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[50]

On 11 October 2018 a Belgian Air Force F-16 caught fire during maintenance works at Florennes Air Base. The fire, reportedly caused by the accidental firing of a cannon, completely destroyed that aircraft. A second F-16 was also damaged.[51][52]

On 25 October 2018, Belgium officially selected the offer for 34 F-35As to replace the current fleet of around 54 F-16s. In the accompanying news conference, government officials stated that the decision to select the F-35 over the Eurofighter Typhoon came down to the price, and later stated that "The offer from the Americans was the best in all our seven valuation criteria". The total purchasing price for the aircraft and its support until 2030 totaled €4 billion, €600 million cheaper than the initially budgeted €4.6 billion. First deliveries are scheduled to take place in 2023.[53][54]

On 19 September 2019, a Belgian Air Force F-16 crashed in France.[55]

Joint air policing

On 4 March 2015, the Belgian and Dutch ministers of defence, along with the ambassador of Luxembourg to the Netherlands, signed an agreement on joint air policing. Starting mid-2017, the Belgian Air Component and the Royal Netherlands Air Force will take turns keeping two F-16s on quick reaction alert (QRA) defending the airspace of all three Benelux countries. The agreement could allow the Belgian minister of defence to order a Dutch aircraft to use lethal force over Belgian airspace, and vice versa. Luxembourg, while currently covered by Belgian QRA, does not allow the use of lethal force over its territory.[56]

Current structure

Current inventory

A Belgian F-16 flies near Kandahar Airfield
A Belgian F-16 flies near Kandahar Airfield
A NH90-NFH on display at Florennes Air Base
A NH90-NFH on display at Florennes Air Base
Aircraft Origin Type Variant In service Notes
Combat Aircraft
F-16 Fighting Falcon United States multirole F-16A 43[34]
F-35 Lighting II United States Multirole F-35A 34 on order,[57] first 4 aircraft for conversion training expected in 2023, first arrival in Belgium in 2025.[58] 14 more aircraft could be ordered in the future.[59]
Airbus A321 Germany VIP transport 1 leased from Hi Fly[60]
Dassault Falcon 7X France VIP transport 2 leased from Abelag Aviation[61]
C-130 Hercules United States tactical airlift C-130H 6
Embraer ERJ135 Brazil transport 2[62]
Airbus A400M Spain Tactical Airlift 1 Total of 7 aircraft on order
NHIndustries NH90 France utility / transport NFH/TTH 4/4[34] 4 NFH's flown for the Maritime Component[63] 4 TTH to be retired by 2024 due to operating cost.
AgustaWestland AW109 Italy scout / light utility 12[64]
Trainer Aircraft
F-16 Fighting Falcon United States conversion trainer F-16B 8[34]
SIAI-Marchetti SF.260 Italy trainer 32[34]
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
9B SkyGuardian United States reconnaissance 4 on order 4[65] First two will be delivered in 2021.

In the strategic defence vision report of the Belgian government it was stated that the Belgian air component will invest in 34 new fighter aircraft being introduced into service 2025–2030 and one aerial refuelling aircraft (A330 MRTT) as part of the Multi National Tanker Transport squadron based at Eindhoven Airport, to be able to deploy the new fighter aircraft in a more independent fashion.[66]

The Belgian government is also planning to purchase four large reconnaissance UAVs with the option to buy eight more which will be able to fly at great height. Their primary goal will be reconnaissance assignments but the option also exists to arm them.[67]

Regarding the replacement of the aging F-16s there was some controversy within the Belgian government. The Flemish socialist party claimed that the government has already chosen the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, ignoring the Eurofighter Typhoon and Dassault Rafale, which were both also part of the tender, because it intended to purchase fighters of a "new generation", and the successor of the F-16s also needed the capability of carrying B61 nuclear warheads, which are supposedly stored at Kleine Brogel. Minister of Defence Steven Vandeput contradicted this and stated that no official choice would be made until 2018 and that all options were still on the table.[68]

The Sea King helicopters were retired in March 2019 after 43 years of service. The Alpha Jet will also be retired by December 2019 and future pilot training is to be conducted in the US at the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) program based at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas.[69]

On 25 October 2018, Belgium officially selected the offer for 34 F-35As to replace the current fleet of around 53 F-16s. In the accompanied news conference, government officials stated that the decision to select the F-35 over the Eurofighter Typhoon came down to the price, and later stated that "The offer from the Americans was the best in all our seven valuation criteria". The total purchasing price for the aircraft and its support until 2030 totaled €4 billion, €600 million cheaper than the initially budgeted €4.6 billion. First deliveries are scheduled to take place in 2023.[53][54]

In 2018 the Belgian Government approved the negotiations to acquire two General Atomics MQ-9B Sky MALE drones. MQ-9B was planned to be operational in 2023.[70]

In 2018 two Hercules aircraft were retired. In 2019 and 2020 additional aircraft were retired prior to the transition to the Airbus A400M starting in 2020. The remaining Hercules will be phased out; three in 2021 and the last four end of 2021.[71]

Belgium contributes one Airbus A330 MRTT tanker aircraft as part of the NATO MRTT Squadron at Eindhoven Air Base, replacing the leased Airbus 321 and will be phased out.[72]

In 2020 the four Embrear ERJ135/145 aircraft will replaced by two leased Dassault Falcon 7X.[61]

in June 2020, it was deemed that the NH90 was too expensive and too few in numbers to be operated effectivly, plans are now to withdraw the 4 TTH-versions by 2024 and focus solely on the NFH's SAR and naval operations. a possible replacement could be the Airbus H145M, up to 15 could be ordered to both replace the NH90-TTH and the remaining Agusta A109BAi's.[73]

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The Holy Qur'an: Al-Fath (Victory, Conquest)

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The Holy Qur'an (Abdullah Yusuf Ali)

Legend: R = Revelational Circumstance | X = Abrogated | C = Commentary
E = Contradiction | Mc = Meccan Surah | Md = Medinan Surah | No. = Chronological Order

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most MercifulR

1 Verily We have granted thee a manifest Victory:R

2 That Allah may forgive thee thy faults of the past and those to follow; fulfil His favour to thee; and guide thee on the Straight Way;

3 And that Allah may help thee with powerful help.

4 It is He Who sent down tranquillity into the hearts of the Believers, that they may add faith to their faith;- for to Allah belong the Forces of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is Full of Knowledge and Wisdom;-

5 That He may admit the men and women who believe, to Gardens beneath which rivers flow, to dwell therein for aye, and remove their ills from them;- and that is, in the sight of Allah, the highest achievement (for man),-R

6 And that He may punish the Hypocrites, men and women, and the Polytheists men and women, who imagine an evil opinion of Allah. On them is a round of Evil: the Wrath of Allah is on them: He has cursed them and got Hell ready for them: and evil is it for a destination.

7 For to Allah belong the Forces of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Full of Wisdom.

8 We have truly sent thee as a witness, as a bringer of Glad Tidings, and as a Warner:

9 In order that ye (O men) may believe in Allah and His Messenger, that ye may assist and honour Him, and celebrate His praise morning and evening.

10 Verily those who plight their fealty to thee do no less than plight their fealty to Allah. the Hand of Allah is over their hands: then any one who violates his oath, does so to the harm of his own soul, and any one who fulfils what he has covenanted with Allah,- Allah will soon grant him a great Reward.

11 The desert Arabs who lagged behind will say to thee: "We were engaged in (looking after) our flocks and herds, and our families: do thou then ask forgiveness for us." They say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: "Who then has any power at all (to intervene) on your behalf with Allah, if His Will is to give you some loss or to give you some profit? But Allah is well acquainted with all that ye do.

12 "Nay, ye thought that the Messenger and the Believers would never return to their families; this seemed pleasing in your hearts, and ye conceived an evil thought, for ye are a people lost (in wickedness)."

13 And if any believe not in Allah and His Messenger, We have prepared, for those who reject Allah, a Blazing Fire!

14 To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth: He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills: but Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

15 Those who lagged behind (will say), when ye (are free to) march and take booty (in war): "Permit us to follow you." They wish to change Allah's decree: Say: "Not thus will ye follow us: Allah has already declared (this) beforehand": then they will say, "But ye are jealous of us." Nay, but little do they understand (such things).

16 Say to the desert Arabs who lagged behind: "Ye shall be summoned (to fight) against a people given to vehement war: then shall ye fight, or they shall submit. Then if ye show obedience, Allah will grant you a goodly reward, but if ye turn back as ye did before, He will punish you with a grievous Penalty."

17 No blame is there on the blind, nor is there blame on the lame, nor on one ill (if he joins not the war): But he that obeys Allah and his Messenger,- ((Allah)) will admit him to Gardens beneath which rivers flow; and he who turns back, ((Allah)) will punish him with a grievous Penalty.

18 Allah's Good Pleasure was on the Believers when they swore Fealty to thee under the Tree: He knew what was in their hearts, and He sent down Tranquillity to them; and He rewarded them with a speedy Victory;

19 And many gains will they acquire (besides): and Allah is Exalted in Power, Full of Wisdom.

20 Allah has promised you many gains that ye shall acquire, and He has given you these beforehand; and He has restrained the hands of men from you; that it may be a Sign for the Believers, and that He may guide you to a Straight Path;

21 And other gains (there are), which are not within your power, but which Allah has compassed: and Allah has power over all things.

22 If the Unbelievers should fight you, they would certainly turn their backs; then would they find neither protector nor helper.

23 (Such has been) the practice (approved) of Allah already in the past: no change wilt thou find in the practice (approved) of Allah.

24 And it is He Who has restrained their hands from you and your hands from them in the midst of Makka, after that He gave you the victory over them. And Allah sees well all that ye do.R

25 They are the ones who denied Revelation and hindered you from the Sacred Mosque and the sacrificial animals, detained from reaching their place of sacrifice. Had there not been believing men and believing women whom ye did not know that ye were trampling down and on whose account a crime would have accrued to you without (your) knowledge, ((Allah) would have allowed you to force your way, but He held back your hands) that He may admit to His Mercy whom He will. If they had been apart, We should certainly have punished the Unbelievers among them with a grievous Punishment.

26 While the Unbelievers got up in their hearts heat and cant - the heat and cant of ignorance,- Allah sent down His Tranquillity to his Messenger and to the Believers, and made them stick close to the command of self-restraint; and well were they entitled to it and worthy of it. And Allah has full knowledge of all things.

27 Truly did Allah fulfil the vision for His Messenger. ye shall enter the Sacred Mosque, if Allah wills, with minds secure, heads shaved, hair cut short, and without fear. For He knew what ye knew not, and He granted, besides this, a speedy victory.

28 It is He Who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, to proclaim it over all religion: and enough is Allah for a Witness.

29 Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. and those who are with him are strong against Unbelievers, (but) compassionate amongst each other. Thou wilt see them bow and prostrate themselves (in prayer), seeking Grace from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure. On their faces are their marks, (being) the traces of their prostration. This is their similitude in the Taurat; and their similitude in the Gospel is: like a seed which sends forth its blade, then makes it strong; it then becomes thick, and it stands on its own stem, (filling) the sowers with wonder and delight. As a result, it fills the Unbelievers with rage at them. Allah has promised those among them who believe and do righteous deeds forgiveness, and a great Reward.

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Golden Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Project

Have you ever seen Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in the Kicking Horse Canyon?  Have you ever wondered about them? You are not alone!  It is not at all rare to see these sheep on or near the TransCanada Highway #1.  Their presence is a safety hazard: cars slow down to look or try to avoid hitting an animal; drivers stop, honk at, and occasionally hit the sheep.     Watch Here!

Growth in the number or health of a group of living things is potentially limited by limiting factors including: predation, highway mortality, poaching, inbreeding, poor diet, high stress levels, insufficient area, insufficient mineral licks, etc.

Nevertheless, the sheep persist.   The story of the Golden herd of bighorn sheep is an interesting look at survival of wildlife which coexist with a major freeway, live in close proximity to a town, and occupy a relatively small and extremely rugged area. Phase 4 of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s TransCanada highway widening project  is coming soon and the associated disturbance and alterations to sheep habitat could further jeopardize the herd. In hopes of helping the sheep survive, Wildsight Golden began the Golden Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Project in January of 2019.    Wildsight Golden is using non-invasive methods to learn as much as possible about what factors are keeping the number of sheep low while also engaging the public to learn more about wildlife and to share locations of wildlife sighting near highways in the area.

This work has led to a clearer understanding of the factors limiting these sheep and numerous recommendations of what might be changed to alleviate the situation they face.

The project has seven objectives:

• Develop baseline herd health data using noninvasive fecal collection methods to obtain measures of degree of inbreeding, diet quality, parasite loads and stress hormone levels.

• Determine the extent of genetic interchange between Golden herd and other area herds for which genetic data already exists.

• Evaluate lambing success and survival.

• Identify seasonal ranges and critical habitats including lambing areas.

• Assess current range quality and use.

• Determine most effective habitat enhancement sites.

• Engage highway user groups and tourist to share wildlife sighting along Hwy #1 and Hwy #95

Although one might not expect to see Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in the Kicking Horse Canyon, this unique herd has resided there since at least 1986. Their numbers have gone up and down with supplemental feeding for many years and translocations in 2007 and 2009.  Despite being isolated they do not appear to be inbred; however their diet quality is relatively low and they have parasites which could lead to concerns.

Where they came from is not known for certain but sightings in the Blaeberry and north led to the thought that they came over the Continental Divide from Alberta. Our research has shown that the Golden sheep are most closely related to the Radium herd, based on genetic analysis. This makes sense based on their proximity.

The Golden herd has decreased in size over the last several years despite 2 lambs surviving in 2016, one in each of 2017 and 2018, followed by 3 in 2019.  Five lambs were born in May and June, 2020 with 2 still alive. We hope to be able to find out why lambs are dying and what can be done to help this herd survive.

Since 2016, sheep locations and group composition have been recorded frequently by observations from dedicated trips to the 5-mile Bridge and back to Golden.  Numerous other variables have also been recorded on the over 225 trips made since February 2019. This has allowed for knowledge of seasonal ranges, herd size and composition.

Range quality and use were evaluated and determined to be of low quality, especially when human disturbance is considered.  Use of shrubs and forbs in some areas was very high, especially along the TransCanada highway which may serve as a pathway through the area for the sheep.

Habitat enhancement options were considered and recommendations include improving the quality of the current habitat by removing garbage, planting preferred species and creating alternate travel paths to the highway.

To date over 50 sightings have been shared helping us understand the movements of animals relative to highways, useful information for managing traffic and highway mortality and for establishing wildlife travel corridors.  This information will be shared with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to help in their placement of move-able signage to be used in conjunction with redirection of traffic through Radium.

The key recommendations of the study follow:

1.      Improve winter and spring range quality by cultivating highly digestible and high-protein shrubs, forbs and grasses and removing invasive weeds and garbage

2.      Document sources of required minerals within the study area and ensure access to mineral licks without interaction with highway

3.      Ensure lambing area immediately west of Yoho bridge experiences limited to no disturbance from May 10 to July 30, annually

4.      Alter fencing to encourage use of wildlife overpass, critical spring ranges and areas away from the TCH1

5.      Alter one-way gates to impede two-way use and/or replace one-way gates with jump outs where appropriate

6.      Create level to slightly sloping travel routes for sheep and other wildlife to use to move east to west through the canyon

7.      Install speeding cameras and lighted signage in the canyon near areas of high use by wildlife

8.      Place movable signage used during traffic diversion periods based on wildlife locations data

9.      Determine species of dorsal spine larvae present using molecular techniques

 Check out the complete Golden Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Project Report here.

Bighorn sheep often use the same areas all of their lives and usually have one lamb at a time.
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep prefer open areas with access to escape terrain. The Kicking Horse Canyon offers good escape terrain but not many open, grassy areas.

Wildsight Golden is looking for volunteers to help with this project! You can help us know where animals are and where they cross the roads by learning to recognize different ungulates (animals with hooves) and sharing locations on your smart phone. download the free app “GAIA GPS Hiking, Offroad Maps” onto your smart phone and make a folder.

 Learn more about Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in B.C here!

Behaviours and indicators you might see:

Bighorn sheep are gregarious and like to be in a group, usually divided by gender.
Fecal material (poop) can be used to learn about the health of bighorn sheep.  The indicators we have been able to assess are inbreeding/genetic diversity, parasites, pregnancy, stress hormone and  intake of protein, fiber plus digestibility levels.

Bighorn sheep can see clearly up to 1 km away but they can’t smell well.

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February 26, 2015

It’s funny how performers and audiences are in such awe of composers of the past. That wasn’t necessarily the case in their own time. A case in point is related by Dutch musicologist Emmanuel Overbeeke in the notes to a new recording of music for cello and orchestra by Tchaikovsky.  He explains that Wilhelm Fitzenhagan, the cellist for whom Tchaikovsky wrote his famous Variations on a Rococo Theme, significantly reworked the composition in spite of the composer’s objections. The story is told that Fitzenhagen wanted to re-arrange the variations so that the most heroic and virtuostic would come at the end of the work and generate maximum applause.  Fitzenhagen gave Tchaikovsky’s publisher the impression that the composer had given his blessing. Tchaikovsky was out of the country at the time and most upset when he returned and learned of the changes. Yet we’re told that he was powerless to do anything at that point. Fitzenhagen had commissioned the work from Tchaikovsky. It wasn’t until 1956 that Tchaikovsky’s original version was published. Fitzenhagen’s was published in 1889. Tchaikovsky died in 1893.

The new recording seems to bring about a little reconciliation. It includes both versions of the Variations on a Rococo Theme.  We’re reminded that Fitzenhagen, one of Tchaikovsky’s colleagues at the Moscow Conservatory, was the cellist in the premiere performance of Tchaikovsky’s first string quartet. That’s the one with the lovely song-like movement (Andante cantabile).  Tchaikovsky later arranged the quartet movement for string orchestra. Knowing that Fitzenhagen was the first to play that lovely melody, which is “sung” by the cello in the quartet and the orchestral arrangement, suddenly makes him very special.

Hungarian cellist István Vardai is the soloist on the new recording.  We were introduced to him a couple of years ago on a CD that featured a cello concerto and 2 symphonies by the 18th century composer Johann Baptist Vanhal (CPO 777612). On the Tchaikovsky recording (Brilliant Classics 94876), Vardai gets to be a musical diplomat of sorts, with the help of the Pannon Philharmonic from Pécs, Hungary led by Tibor Bogányi. Vardai performs the Andante cantabile, Tchaikovsky’s orchestration for cello and orchestra of one of his piano nocturnes and both versions of the Variations. We’re left with the impression that Fitzenhagen altered the recipe, but not the basic musical creation. Still, it’s nice to be able to enjoy Tchaikovsky’s original.

Years ago, Randy Newman had a hit with an original song called "Short People". Recently, Randy Newman wrote some short pieces for pianist Gloria Cheng. They’re part of a suite titled: Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman. It reminds us that Randy Newman is a member of a legendary film music family. The playful Newman gives us cartoon-like portraits of his uncles. That might be expected from a composer who has won Academy Awards for Best Original Song for both Monsters, Inc and Toy Story 3. The final piece in the suite is titled: “Outdoors But Not the Red River Valley.” Newman says he remembers his uncle Alfred saying that in every film, director John Ford wanted to hear "Red River Valley", “which is a great tune, but you don’t want to hear it in every picture.” Randy Newman’s piece is a “Moment Musicaux” inspired by that memory. There’s even a reference to Alfred Newman’s famous 20th Century Fox fanfare in the piece. It’s on a CD titled Montage, which features piano music written for Gloria Cheng by several film music composers, from which we heard a bit of Newman’s suite. (Harmonia Mundi 907635)

A little fanfare for Christoph Eschenbach. The day after it was announced that he would not be renewing his contract as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra and Kennedy Center, I announced on February 20th  that it was his 75th birthday. We celebrated Eschenbach the conductor, pianist and chamber music player – all in the finale of a reconstructed Mozart concerto for violin, piano and orchestra featuring Eschenbach and violinist Midori. There are moments when the 2 instruments, playing without orchestral accompaniment, remind you of the sonata from which it comes. It was recorded about 15 years ago. (Sony 89488)  More recently, Eschenbach the conductor was in town in early 2010 to conduct the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra in a program with pianist Lang Lang. The performance of Beethoven 7th Symphony, which concluded the concert, was most exciting!

Pianist Aldo Ciccolini passed away on February 1st, 6 months shy of his 90th birthday. Those paying tribute online were sure to remember that the Naples-born pianist was a champion of the French piano repertoire. On our Classic Morning Prelude tribute, I wanted to be sure to play an excerpt from one of the 2 piano concertos by Antonio Salieri, which Ciccolini recorded with the ensemble I Solisti Veneti years ago. I’ve been playing it for years for listeners – noticing that it’s one of those recordings that’s no longer available.

February 15th marked the 100th anniversary of the death of a famous French composer of dance music.  His family was a sort of French counterpart to the Viennese Strausses. I was prompted to alter a famous quote for the occasion. I suggested, given the never-ending popularity of Emil Waldteufel’s famous waltz Les Patineurs, that some old composers never die, they just skate away.

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How to turn off driver updates in Windows Update in Windows 10

With the recently released Windows 10 build 14328, Microsoft added a new option to Windows 10. Now it is possible to stop Windows 10 from updating your drivers. By default, Windows 10 automatically installs drivers from Windows Update when they become available along with security patches.

A new option starting with build 14328 and above, will allow the user to turn off driver updates in Windows Update in Windows 10. Users who have the operating system edition with Group Policy can use it to configure the appropriate option. If your Windows 10 edition comes without Group Policy, you can apply a simple Registry tweakor use Winaero Tweaker.

Turn off driver updates in Windows Update in Windows 10 using Winaero Tweaker

Just you the following option in Winaero Tweaker to disable driver updates in Windows Update with one click.
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Get Winaero Tweaker here: Download Winaero Tweaker.

Turn off driver updates in Windows Update in Windows 10 using Group Policy

  1. Press Win + R keys together on your keyboard and type:

    Press Enter.Windows 10 run gpedit

  2. Group Policy Editor will open. Go to Local Computer Policy → Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → Windows Components → Windows Update.
  3. There, double click the option Do not include drivers with Windows Update.Windows 10 block driver updates
  4. In the next dialog, enable this option and you are done:Windows 10 disable driver updates in Windows Update

If you are running a Windows 10 Edition without Group Policy, you need to apply a tweak as described below.

Turn off driver updates in Windows Update in Windows 10 using a Registry tweak

  1. Open Registry Editor.
  2. Go to the following Registry key:

    Tip: You can access the desired Registry key with one click.
    If you don't have such a key, then just create it.

  3. On the right side, create a new 32-bit DWORD value named ExcludeWUDriversInQualityUpdate. Set its value data to 1.
    Note: Even if you are running 64-bit Windows, you still need to create a 32-bit DWORD value. See the following screenshot:Windows 10 block driver updates
  4. Restart Windows 10.

That's it. You just made Windows 10 Anniversary Update not install drivers from Windows Update.

13 thoughts on “How to turn off driver updates in Windows Update in Windows 10

  1. Phil

    awesome thanks!

  2. eightcore

    I don’t have this option in the administrative Templates on Win 10 Enterprise 10586.218.

    1. eightcore

      Sorry, i didn’t read the article accurately.

    2. Sergey Tkachenko Post author

      The option made its appearance with the recently released Windows 10 build 14328.

  3. Jose_49

    This is what I’ve been waiting for since a year ago. I tried once your Group Policy trick but that didn’t stop this blasphemy from updating everything! Hopefully this will make a final stop to it!!

    1. Sergey Tkachenko Post author

      Yeah, definitely nice change.

    2. Bob

      So we already had gold in Windows 7. Don’t get excited that they removed and added it back. Windows 10 is still several times worse than Windows 7.

  4. Ken

    I have tried this trick on a Windows 10 Enterprise 64 Build 14393.rs1_release.161220-1747 and is does not work! Not via the software, not manually !
    I need to update windows but NOT the graphic driver but not only this keep happening: the update also install themselves automatically. PLEASE HELP ME.

    The only option that actually works is “disable windows update” for now.

    Please i need my system to keep old NVIDIA driver cause they are the only that let me work with my 3 different monitor without any issue, let me know if someone is aware of this problem!

    P.S. I hate this anniversary update.

    1. Julio

      Try in video driver properties, and Rolling back to previous driver, and give it a reason I usually chose “it worked better with previos driver” then OK and reboot
      Then reinstall your driver over the existent (uninstall any newer utilites first if present)

    2. Don

      I’m already trying for months to make working correct again my configurating; a Dell laptop E6510 (with or without using my dockingstation) and an external screen. If you find a solution I hope you’ll publish the ‘secret’ because the internet is full about the same problem. The screen output is ok while booting but the moment Windows is taking over controlling the screen output (showing the turning small circle in the middle of the screen) and should send output to the correct port the screen goes black. Login ‘in the blind’ is possible and afterwards playing with Windows+P can help sometimes. I did disable updating drivers as discribed in the artikel on Also I tried installing the software as mentioned in but the driver doesn’t show up in the update list.
      Now I’ll try this registry option allthough this – if it works – only will re-enable multiple screens but with low resulotion. But at least then my screen output will be back on my laptop screen in stead of only on my external screen.

      By the way: even disabling of the screen adapter causing the problem does not prevent installing the NVIDIA drivers after enabling internet connection. After 10 or 15 minutes suddenly the drivers will be installed by Windows. I did install several (old) versions of the Windows drivers as well from Nvidia as from Nvidia. Nothing helped. Even restoring full backups or restoring old system state or returning to previous Windows versions did not solve the problem!

  5. Armond

    Thanks, a lot:
    1. For this awesome and lightweight tweaking software.
    2. For making it accessible to those using screen readers. (I think it still needs some works, but it’s perfectly usable.)
    3. Finally, for helping me getting rid of drivers in Windows Updates! Keep up to date work!

  6. Cheryl Anne

    Microsoft made damn sure of that.

  7. throkr

    Hi Sergey,

    In the tutorial above, under the section with the registry tweak, you should add that, for 64-bit Windows, the value should also be created under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate .
    I’m using Winaero Tweaker on 64-bit systems and the tool does it perfectly (creates the 2 keys) ! ;-)

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Discovery certificate for object 2016egk
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 3782 [ 2016TNSTR.483....1C ]

Date Received (UTC): 2016-07-24 00:22:42
Sender: Dr. David Young
Reporting Group: Pan-STARRS1     Discovery Data Source: Pan-STARRS1

K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, H. Flewelling, E. A. Magnier, N. Primak, A. Schultz, (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, (Queen's University Belfast), J. Tonry, C. Waters, (IfA, University of Hawaii) D. E. Wright, D. R. Young (Queen's University Belfast) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2016egk
Discoverer internal name: PS16dly
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:44:22.714 (236.094640731) DEC = +28:18:15.62 (28.3043388513)
Discovery date: 2016-07-22 07:56:36.000 (JD=2457591.8309722)

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2016-07-22 07:56:36.000
Flux: 20.06 ABMag
Filter: i-Sloan
Instrument: GPC1
Telescope: Pan-STARRS

Last non-detection:
Archival info: SDSS

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Niagara County Announces Bridge Work and Road Closures in Hartland

The Niagara County Department of Public Works today announced that two bridge projects on roads over Eighteen Mile Creek in the Town of Hartland are slated to begin next week, necessitating some traffic changes.

According to DPW Commissioner Garret Meal, Orangeport Road between Ridge Road and Wheeler Road will be closed to all except local traffic beginning on Monday, September 21st for a bridge deck repair.  The road is expected to reopen about six weeks later on October 30th

The Quaker Road bridge located north of Slayton Settlement Road will be reduced to one lane of traffic for bridge deck repair beginning Tuesday, September 22nd.  That work should also completed, and two-traffic restored, by October 30th.


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Silence in London

Just back from London, where the hugeness of space and history were hard to ignore.

But the experience was always deepest in the smallest space, where something sacred, or just something simply old, could be apprehended intimately, in silence.

So that it was not Westminster Abbey, despite its beauty as a space and the unnerving realization that one is walking by the actual tombs of early kings and queens, including Elizabeth I. It was not this, but Westminster’s cloister:

And it was Westminster’s Chapter House, with its original 13th-century tile, 14th-century paintings on the wall, and nearby the oldest door in England, supposedly used by Edward the Confessor, c. 1050:

And it was, most of all, Westminster’s Pyx Chamber, also dating to shortly after 1066. It is hard to say why this room struck me, but I could have stayed there for days:

It was also not the Tower of London, the only time where the idea of royalty truly stank of excess and arrogance and blood, especially at the exhibit of the crown jewels. It was not here, but nearby, at the church of All Hallows by the Tower, a place gutted during the Blitz, the damage revealing a c. 775 Saxon Arch from the earliest version of the church, as well as c. 200 Roman pavement in the crypt below, and of course, crypt chapels for silence:

And it wasn’t even London, really, so much as it was a side-trip to Salisbury, an hour or so west by train. We constantly compared London’s transport system to New York’s (having endured the latter for four years) and always found London’s easier to use, and London in general more friendly, with maps everywhere on the street. There was also much more walking space in London than New York–walking as in ambling and relaxing, not NYC sidewalks that are merely pathways to rush from one place to the next. The sidewalks were always wider than you would expect, there was always a park or a garden nearby, there was always a sense of nature being near. And in Salisbury, nature was always near, such as the River Avon, and the city’s wide streets:

And while I would take Salisbury Cathedral over Westminster Abbey any day, I would take its Chantry Chapel, c. 1520, over the entire Cathedral–in fact, over most of what I saw and have seen of religious or political architecture. Just a small room a man had built in the middle of the cathedral. On this trip there were a dozen of these small places that, had I stopped to kneel or just to think too long, I’m sure I would have broken down. The Chantry Chapel was the most powerful of them:

Or, actually on par with it, was Stonehenge. Yet even here, it was still intimacy over the hugeness of space. It strikes me that a large city, large buildings, a large cathedral, even a large city garden, is only trying to convey what nature does on its own, and this is seen on the Salisbury Plain where Stonehenge sits. You think the stones are huge, and get distracted by the logistics of how they did it and start arguing about it, rather than being pleased that people did it at all, and for sacred purposes, and that it was placed consciously in a huge landscape made intimate by its placement there. I mean, that the landscape was intimate already, and the people knew it, and placed something there not to surpass nature, but to be with it. It is impossible to take a bad photo of something that is already filled with rhythm, and which cooperates with everything around it:

And it didn’t hurt to have contemporaneous burial mounds nearby, either:

There were also London’s Roman remains. Yet even the statue, apparently of the emperor Trajan, and the remains of the Roman wall (with medieval additions) behind him, seemed intimate and begging silence, surrounded as they were by the London tube, crowds of tourists, and the nearby Tower of London. Trajan and the wall look pretty lonely and sad, Ozymandias-like, a hand raised and a wall raised for a Rome that isn’t here anymore–and which, by world standards, wasn’t here for very long anyway:

Another image of Roman London struck me the same way–this one near Westminster Abbey, across the street from Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, and perpetually looking down on the Thames, on traffic, and crowds of tourists who probably don’t notice her. I mean a statue to Boudica, the woman who led an unsuccessful revolt against Rome, and burned Roman London down. It is odd to see Britain, a Christian nation and seat of a once great empire, embrace this pagan woman (this “barbarian” woman, they would probably say of anybody else) who revolted against the empire that subjected her:

We also came to London to see about writers. The only one we actually met was Donald Rumbelow, a former London policeman, crime historian, and author of a few books on Jack the Ripper. We took the Jack the Ripper walking tour he gives,  and followed him and the tiny plastic stool he stood upon at each stop. His talk lasted about two hours, and there was nothing theatrical about it, not one moment that was merely supposed to be shocking, or gory. It was better than any other “entertainment” we could have sought on a Friday night in London, and it just goes to show that the human voice alone, eloquently and succinctly tuned, can be as riveting as anything–and it reminded me of why I bother writing at all. Even more to Rumbelow’s credit, he ended his tour saying he didn’t know who the Ripper was, and even said that one of his older theories had been disproved. He could have left a bunch of tourists who didn’t know any better with a theatrical certainty, but instead left it as it probably is, an unknown. Here he is with us at Spitalfields Market, near where one of the victims, Annie Chapman, was last seen:

There was also a T. S. Eliot pilgrimages of sorts. We found his early address at 18 Crawford Mansions, where he lived from 1916 to 1920, and at nearby 9 Clarence Gate Gardens, where he lived shortly after. The streets around these addresses are beautiful, especially the chimney tops:

We also found, on our last full day there, St. Stephens Church, where Eliot was baptized into the Anglican faith in 1927, and where he worshiped for the rest of his life. It was something to think of him, after and amid so much inner turmoil, finding at least some sustenance and peace there. For twenty-five years he was also a church warden, and it was equally nice to think of him, simply tidying up the place. (A small orchestra was using most of the church to practice when we walked in, so most of the photos were taken outside, except the dark one of me standing by a memorial plaque set up to him)

Finally, there were two graves in Highgate Cemetery East. The first for Peter Ucko, an archeologist I had read from his work in Egyptology, with an Egyptian prayer to Nut on the front of his stone, and a predynastic Egyptian statue carved on its back:

And then the grave of Douglas Adams. A simple stone and some pens (to which we added one of our own) is enough:


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Minute By Minute

You see a lapse of time as wasted, but what you don’t ‘see’ is what is happening all around you. The stage is being set for your future, all about you, and yet you continue unaware.

You think nothing will change and yet every minute changes your life.

Your focus is narrow and you see with your eyes. I want you to ‘see’ with vision. See possibility in every circumstance, no matter how mundane. And those that you thought, affected you not–those I want you to re-claim.

“Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see!” Isaiah 42:18

You see every minute has a purpose–an action in your life; carving and shaping your destiny.

The things that you fight–serve as insight, of growth that’s yours to be gained.

Value every minute of your life!

“Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the Lord? He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious. But this is a people robbed and plundered, they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with none to rescue, a spoil with none to say, ‘Restore!’

Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?” Isaiah 42:19-23

“Lord, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is! Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in they sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath!” Psalms 39:4-5

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.” II Corinthians 3:17-18

“By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A wise man is mightier than a strong man, and a man of knowledge than he who has strength; for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.” Proverbs 24:3-6

“Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future. Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.” Proverbs 19:20-21

“Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.” Psalms 84:5

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Workspace Solutions Announces Opening of Premier Coworking Space in Fort Wayne

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Fort Wayne, IN – Co-llaborate, co-create, co-mingle, and co-work at Ft. Wayne’s newest Coworking Space by Workspace Solutions!

For over 40 years Workspace Solutions has been helping businesses in and around Northeast Indiana create and furnish office spaces. Owners Brent Stoller and Mike Hunter know what furniture businesses need to be productive and how to design a space where people want to work. Keeping in line with their motto, ‘We Create Spaces,’ they’ve designed and furnished thousands of office spaces from private offices and collaborative areas to conference rooms and lobbies. Now, they’re excited to announce the opening of their newest creation, Fort Wayne’s newest coworking space on May 1, 2019.

Optimally located on the north side of the city, just off the I-69 corridor, this new space offers 2,000 square feet of well-designed workspace filled with some of the best office furniture in the industry. The new shared office space will give entrepreneurs, students, engineers, freelancers, and startups a place to do business as well as a dedicated business address.

If you’re an entrepreneurial nomad or freelancer in search of a dedicated workspace without a long-term lease or if working from home or a local coffee shop isn’t working, Fort Wayne’s newest coworking space has just what you need.

The new shared office space offers members open seating, free parking and WIFI, a free coffee bar, a conference room, collaborative areas, and phone booth rooms for private conversations. They also offer dedicated spaces and a limited number of two-person offices.

“Fort Wayne is a hotbed of creative thinkers, innovators, and futurists,” says Hunter. “We not only want to give these local entrepreneurs and startups a low-cost place to work, we want to give them a place to connect, collaborate, and grow their business.”

  • Monthly rates start as low as $100, and there is no long-term commitment.
  • Premium membership at $150/mo offer a dedicated chair, desk, and locking cabinet
  • A two-person office is only $450/mo and provides a dedicated chair, desk, & locking cabinet, separate locking door to space, a sign with your company name, and a 3’x4’ glass-marker board.

Workspace Solutions’ Coworking Space opens May 1, 2019 at 2208 Production Road. Schedule a tour or reserve your space at or by calling (260) 422-8529.


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But Schumacher’s son Mick, who races in F2, has revealed what his father would think about Hamilton’s efforts.

“One sentence my dad always used to say was records are there to be broken,” said the 21-year-old.

“It’s everybody’s aim in the sport to do that. I think Lewis had a very, very good run – he had a very consecutive and positive run.”

Hamilton said: “It’s been the best eight years of my life but there was still a lot of success before that with McLaren and that was a great period of my life also – a lot of learning, a lot of success together, which was awesome.”

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Mileage Displacement Number of seats Size of the trunk
15.8km/L 1,599cc 5 (Recommended number of people 4) ×4
Vehicle Equipment
Air bag　ABS　Accessory socket　Car navigation system　ETC device　Traction Control System　CD player　Portable audio connection code (USB / Earphone jack)

About the vehicle

Car model name　 Maker Trim Level　　 Length×Width×Height(cm) Car Colors Equipped with 4WD
XV SUBARU 1.6i-L EyeSight and etc. 446x180x155 Black, Pearl White, cool gray khaki and etc.

※Information as of July 2020. May vary depending on vehicle purchase status.
※Please note that vehicle models, vehicle colors, etc. cannot be specified or guaranteed.

Under the concept of "Fun Adventure," it is a crossover SUV that combines urban and refined design with Subaru's running performance and world-class safety performance.
The trim, 1.6i-L EyeSignt is an attractive vehicle with X-MODE, with brake assist when reversing, for increased drivability, safety and comfort.

The exterior is suitable for everyone and has a stylish design.

he interior is based on black.
The leather steering wheel has a stylish design and practicality that does not slip easily.

To start the vehicle's engine, step down on the brake while simultaneous pressing the push button on the right side of the steering wheel with the smart key inside of a car.

With an easy-to-see analog type instrument cluster.
It's in a position that's easy to see with less visual movement.
A 4.2-inch LCD in the center of the instrument panel displays a variety of vehicle information and supports safer drives in a contextual display.

There is a multi-function display above the GPS.
Various information on the vehicle, such as the operation status of the headlamp, advanced safety functions, and fuel efficiency information, is displayed on a 6.3-inch large display.
Visibility is good while driving, and the graphics-oriented display enables intuitive visibility of information.

The ETC device can be found to the instrument panel, which is located to the top right side of the driver's seat.

There is a USB / AUX cable in the glove box on the passenger seat, so it will be convenient for charging your smartphones that are often consumed during travel.

There is a USB port under the air conditioner, it can be used for charging smartphones, etc.
This USB port cannot be used for playing music by connecting to the GPS.

If you are not planning on carrying large-sized luggage, there is enough space in the rear seat for 4 people.

There is plenty of space even with a child safety seat in place.

The car boot space have enough space to put 2 pieces of carry on luggage, and it can be used more spacious by folding rear seats.

By folding down the rear seats, boot space can be used more spacious.

The fuel tank is on the right side of the vehicle.

The vehicle keys are in the door pocket of driver's seat.
Do not leave your car with the key left inside and be careful of the loss of it.