Category: Microsoft
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Microsoft Windows and the X Window System — new title: updating my cygwin installation left me in trouble again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin/X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_tunnel $ startxwin I usually prefer the rootless way. My applications nowadays “usually” run on a Linux (Debian, …) system or AIX. Update 2018-04-18: After some cygwin updating startxwin prefers to shut down immediately. I had no idea, that startxwin uses this start-up file: /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc . The last utility called there usually makes X wait…
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is there a multi-tab terminal replacement for Cygwin’s terminal?
https://superuser.com/questions/264901/is-there-a-multi-tab-terminal-replacement-for-cygwins-terminal
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Git, Windows, and how to deal with file mode problems
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12193020/file-mode-with-msysgit https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config $ git config core.filemode false
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EmacsWiki: NTEmacs With Cygwin
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NTEmacsWithCygwin This is great!!! Now I can do “Search Files…” in Emacs’s dired-mode again — just like “everywhere”. How to get it to start in the user’s home directory? Create a shortcut for runemacs.exe, move it to AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ ! Modify the properties of that shorcut accordingly!
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Oracle SQL Developer – how to run it on Windows in English w/o admin rights?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7768313/how-can-i-change-the-language-to-english-in-oracle-sql-developer https://stackoverflow.com/a/24532448/3119172 I chose the approach “set language at runtime“: sqldeveloper.exe –AddVMOption=-Duser.language=en Works like a charm. On the Win7 PC at work I have no admin rights, therefore I cannot change the config file mentioned in the thread.
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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