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Microsoft Sysinternals ProcessExplorer: restore the original task manager after replacing it with ProcessExplorer

https://superuser.com/questions/1320561/restore-the-original-task-manager-after-replacing-it-with-the-sysinternals-proce
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite – includes Process Explorer, the PsTools suite of command-line utilities, and a lot more
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pstools – PsTools – suite command-line utilities

2022-09-20

Git for Windows – comes with a nice minimal GNU shell environment

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/FAQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mingw-w64#MSYS2 – GfW is based on MSYS2; MSYS2 provides a Unix environment to Windows
https://www.msys2.org – …
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#windows – MSYS2 users can install GNU Emacs using a pacman command line
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ – I wonder whether I can get this GNU Emacs for Windows to cooperate with the MSYS2 provided by GfW
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Microsoft-Windows.html
I guess the ordinary way to start GfW is through “Git Bash” in the “Git” group, that you reach through “Start”
but I like ConEmu better than mintty, and I can start “C:\Program Files\Git\bin/bash.exe”

2021-07-15

my 2021 Windows working environment

I would actually rather prefer Windows Terminal over ConEmu, because I assume it will be the new standard in the Windows world – but then in my professional Windows environment Group Policies do not allow “apps” – and then … ConEmu is quite nice.

Windows Terminal (CAVEAT: did no achieve it):

ConEmu – a Windows console alternative, where you can paste text w/o using the mouse 😎

https://ConEmu.github.io

Last not least: WSL resp. WSL2:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

My WSL is still a pre-GUI WSL, because my Windows 10 is not new enough – I can’t get my Windows admins to update my Windows 10 in order to achieve that.

Within WSL I run CentOS-7, because it makes me more used to what I need these days.

And …: