Category: Microsoft Windows
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Microsoft Sysinternals Process Explorer for Microsoft Windows
N.B.: Running this utility does not require admin privileges. Allows you to search for files / directories opened by process / applications. E.g. I had started Excel today, and it “operated” in some directory. I ended Excel, at least I thought so – but it kept running (in “stealth mode”), and it kept “locking” that…
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my 2017 Windows working environment
All these packages resp. utilities do not require Windows admin rights for getting them “installed” – actually they do not need “a Windows system installation”. Below C:\Users\jhayek I created a couple of subdirectories: opt: every package resp. utility has its own subdirectory below there bin: some .bat and .sh (BusyBox ash) scripts go there Packages resp. utilities:…
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Microsoft Sysinternals “Autologon for Windows” — yet another nice utility
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/autologon.aspx Autologon enables you to easily configure Windows’ built-in autologon mechanism. Instead of waiting for a user to enter their name and password, Windows uses the credentials you enter with Autologon, which are encrypted in the Registry, to log on the specified user automatically. Autologon is easy enough to use. Just run autologon.exe, fill in…
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I diffed (GNU diffutils) two “.rdp” files (UTF-16), and I falsely got the impression these utilities properly deal with Unicode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol — originally from the Windows world RDP “provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection“ http://www.donkz.nl/files/rdpsettings.html — a(n) “.rdp” file keeps settings to start an RDP connection — because Emacs opens such files as text files, I had no idea they are not “classic” text files, instead (according to…
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nicer Windows terminals: ConEmu, Console2
ConEmu: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ConEmuTheWindowsTerminalConsolePromptWeveBeenWaitingFor.aspx http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60950/is-there-a-better-windows-console-window http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/ – 2017: moved … https://conemu.github.io Console2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/files/ http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Console2ABetterWindowsCommandPrompt.aspx http://superuser.com/questions/122253/how-where-do-you-install-console2-on-windows-7
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Microsoft Sysinternals: Process Monitor — yet another fine Sysinternals utility
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645 — their “Process Monitor” — requires admin privileges https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653 — their “Process Explorer” — I have been using that utility so far, and I quite like it
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startup PuTTY’s authentication agent “Pageant” with private keys
PuTTY’s authentication agent pageant combines the functionality of ssh-agent and ssh-add, and if you start it up, it makes sense to add the necessary private keys on its command line. You can do this using a script, but in Windows it’s convenient to does this through a “.lnk” shortcut. And if you place that “.lnk”…
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GNU Emacs for Microsoft Windows resp. Mac OS X
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006488 – “Learning GNU Emacs“ The quoted book points for Mac OS X and Windows implementations exclusively to these web pages, but pls regard both as outdated: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nqmacs/ http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/carbonemacspackage.html Update: As of 2016-01 here are the best sites for Windows “Emacsen”: cygwin provides w32 and also X11 binaries — I am about to give them a try…