I needed this download-file.bat a while ago, but forgot how I found out.
It’s in this gist too: [Wayback/Archive] Quick batch file hack to download a file calling PowerShell to do the heavy lifting.
Here we go: Read the rest of this entry »
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Quick batch file hack to download a file calling PowerShell to do the heavy lifting
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/12
Posted in .NET, Batch-Files, CommandLine, Development, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »
Some notes on testing locally modified chocolatey packages
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01
A few notes after I helped updating [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | SetACL (Portable) 3.0.6.0 to version 3.1.2.0 and [Wayback/Archive] Updates glab from 1.22.0 to 1.24.1; fixes #2 by jpluimers · Pull Request #3 · corbob/ChocoPackages.
As the burden on maintainers (not just Chocolatey ones) is high, not all packages get updated soon after new underlying software versions arrive.
Which means the maintainers are often very happy when an occasional user helps and preferably sends in a pull request.
That brings me to the an important point IN DOCUMENTATION DO NOT LIMIT EXAMPELS TO ONLY ABBREVIATED PARAMETERS OR VERBS as that scares away occasional and novice users of your software.
Chocolatey documentation is no exception on this, hence this blog post meant for people other than maintaining chocolatey packages on a day to day base.
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PowerShell: playing around with Get-PnpDevice filtering with -Class and -Status
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/29
I while ago I was playing around in PowerShell with Get-PnpDevice (which got introduced in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019):
[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@jilles_com … this is the difference between only connected disks versus including ones that had been connected in the past.Output difference between Get-PnpDevice -Class DiskDrive -Status OK Get-PnpDevice -Class DiskDrive …” – Mastodon
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Disabling the ever returning screens after Windows install/upgrade, and advertisements/feeds
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/21
This started out ad a post to make things easier for my mentally brother, but then I figured it makes it so much easier for myself as well: getting rid of the evern returning Windows nag screens. Not just the ones after logon during initial Windows install that get back about every other Windows 20H update (thank god they stepped away from 19## version numbering that felt so, ehm, last millennium), but also the various “suggestions” in start menu, on the taskbar and elsewhere.
I understand that basically giving Windows 10 and 11 for free to many Windows 7/8 licensed machines or Windows-preinstalled machines induces Microsoft to see Windows as an advertising environment, but hey: many users can do without these distractions.
It is hard to solve, as even the underlying registry settings seem to be reset every once in a while, and solving it globally is not an option: the settings are a per-user one. Which means you need to run script early during every Windows logon to overwrite these settings.
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unix – How come is this command returning “GET A LIFE!”? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/11
Didn’t know nx had a scriptable RPN command-line calculator dc (for Desk Calculator) which does not seem to need white space characters in the input stream or input file.
It likely is a source for command-injection attacks given the question [Wayback/Archive] unix – How come is this command returning “GET A LIFE!”? – Stack Overflow, so I did a bit of digging and found this great platform:
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Some SQLite things I recently learned a while ago
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/30
More on the reason why I learned a few SQLite things soon, but for my link and documentation archive, below is what I learned.
Most commands use the database file C:\temp\History which has no extension as that is how I got the file in the first place (spoiler: it’s a Chrome browser History from one of my user profiles).
Let’s get started:
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Windows event log querying from the command line: wevtutil (with XPath query parameters and XML output)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/23
A while ago, I needed to investigate reboot events on some Windows 10 systems. I wanted to use the console instead of the eventvwr GUI Event Viewer.
There is a tool for that called wevtutil which – like eventvwr – uses XPath query parameters and produces XML output.
Postprocessing XML can be a thing, but since .NET has great XML support, you can use PowerShell for that (which for me often is way easier than going the XSLT route, for instance because Windows lacks built-in console XSLT tooling).
Based on the help and the below links, my query command then on these machines turned out to be this: Read the rest of this entry »
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git on Windows: figuring out SID mismatch
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/31
A few years back I had an error happen a while on one of my Windows machines after a git pull: fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at 'C:/versioned/repository' followed by a few lines with Windows SIDs (Security Identifiers) that I had to map to actual users.
I thought I had it scheduled, but my notes were in a draft post, so when I bumped into it again when upgrading an old virtual machine with new versions I finished it and scheduled it for now.
The first time I got the error was after git for Windows fixed security vulnerability [Wayback/Archive] CVE-2022-24765 and included the quote from [Wayback/Archive] Uncontrolled search for the Git directory in Git for Windows · Advisory · git-for-windows/git:
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Note for future self if .NET hash calculations from `ComputeHash()` are slower than expected
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/26
Normally when calculating hashes in .NET you use the [Wayback/Archive] HashAlgorithm.ComputeHash Method (System.Security.Cryptography) | Microsoft Learn.
This can be slow as [Wayback/Archive] cmcginty showed while answering the question [Wayback/Archive] How to get an MD5 checksum in PowerShell – Stack Overflow by [Wayback/Archive] Luke101 posing a faster solution (in this case for md5, but it can be generalised):
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Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too) and some EnumWindows/EnumChildWindows tricks
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/19
Earlier this months I wrote Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too) promising I would rewrite the Delphi code into C# and integrate it into PowerShell.
This is the beginning on porting the basics of the Delphi code (which had a flaw!) to C# and contains EnumWindows/EnumChildWindows and error handling tricks and tips.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 