Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/28
and when upgrading to Chocolatey to version 2, I got this error:
Invalid argument --localonly. This argument has been removed from the list command and cannot be used.
The upgrade broke a small batch file choco-list-installed.bat that I run on a lot of systems including both old and new chocolatey installations some dating back to before 2015 having this simple content:
choco list --localonly
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/06/02
If course you can configure Windows Optional Features using the GUI as for instance explained at [Wayback/Archive] How to manage Windows 10’s many ‘optional features | Windows Central.
However, I prefer command-line management.
About the only post doing the comparison of command-line mangement options I could find about is [Wayback/Archive] Different ways for installing Windows features on the command line – Peter Hahndorf and hopefully will be further updated in the future. It is dated 2015, but has been updated until at least Windows Server Nano.
I added one, and then rewrote the tool-set availability table in the post into this:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/29
Since winget is only available as of Windows 10 version 2004, [Wayback/Archive] Install apps with the WinAppDeployCmd.exe tool – UWP applications | Microsoft Docs as an alternative.
Related:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/26
In the continuing series of Chocolatey/Scoop/winget related posts, this one is about Windows Terminal.
There are basically two ultimate sources you can install it from:
winget install --id 9N0DX20HK701 --source msstore --accept-source-agreements --accept-package-agreements --silentwinget install --id=Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -echoco upgrade microsoft-windows-terminalYou can configure the Microsoft Store to automatically install updates as per [Wayback/Archive] Turn on automatic app updates (on my system this was the default):
Microsoft Store – Auto-Updates is turned on by default
As a backgrounder, here some articles on Windows Terminal, ConPTY and the Windows Console from the [Wayback/Archive] DevBlogs – Microsoft Developer Blogs:
More on (pseudo)terminals in general containing [Wayback/Archive] “ConPTY” – Search results – Wikipedia:
More on using the Windows Terminal:
My related blog posts:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/18
After using Chocolatey for a long time and writing about it, I have written a few articles on other Windows package managers like winget and Scoop.
Part of the reason was that I wanted to install new systems in a semi-automatic way including WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2).
As I have spent quite some time getting treated against metastasised rectum cancer, I missed part of the evolvement of WSL into WSL2 and of the winget evolvement.
The good news is that this simplified the scripted installation of WSL2 a lot, as over time, this got very easy, as confirmed in these posts/messages I found via [Wayback/Archive] winget wsl2 – Google Search:
wsl --installis now available in Windows 10 2004 and above. I think that’s a better solution rather than winget having a special case for it.
to install WSL 2 on Windows 10 OS Build 2004 or later you need to open the command prompt app with Administrator permissions, and enter the following command:wsl.exe --installAs soon as you hit enter, the process automatically gets to work. It enables the WSL optional features required, fetches the latest WSL Linux kernel version, and installs Ubuntu as your default distro
I even found back this was announced when I was still in hospital: during the Build 2020 conference. A summary is at [Wayback/Archive] The Windows Subsystem for Linux BUILD 2020 Summary – Windows Command Line describing the introduction of wsl.exe --install and that it defaults to install WSL 2 as back-then already most Windows Insider build users using WSL had switched from WSL 1 to WSL 2.
Yesterday, in Windows “equivalents” for bash backticks in cmd and PowerShell, I showed how to get the wsl.exe information:
C:\temp>PowerShell -Command "SigCheck "$((Get-Command -CommandType Application wsl).Path)"" Sigcheck v2.82 - File version and signature viewer Copyright (C) 2004-2021 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com c:\windows\system32\wsl.exe: Verified: Signed Signing date: 09:24 15/10/2021 Publisher: Microsoft Windows Company: Microsoft Corporation Description: Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux Launcher Product: Microsoft« Windows« Operating System Prod version: 10.0.19041.1320 File version: 10.0.19041.1320 (WinBuild.160101.0800) MachineType: 64-bit
This was on one of my Windows 10 systems with version 21H2.
The installation progress was as follows and took ome 3 minutes on a 50 Mibit/s fiber connection:
C:\temp>wsl.exe --install Installing: Virtual Machine Platform Virtual Machine Platform has been installed. Installing: Windows Subsystem for Linux Windows Subsystem for Linux has been installed. Downloading: WSL Kernel Installing: WSL Kernel WSL Kernel has been installed. Downloading: Ubuntu The requested operation is successful. Changes will not be effective until the system is rebooted.
Time to play around (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/15
[Wayback/Archive] powershell – How to get the windows version with command line? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] harrymc!)
The value can be found under registry keyComputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersioninside the value namedDisplayVersion.The following PowerShell command will get it:(Get-Item "HKLM:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion").GetValue('DisplayVersion')
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/11
I finally got annoyed enough to figure out how to disable the Windows 10 news (and weather) feeds.
At first I thought the solution in this post worked for Windows 11 as well, but re-testing in Windows 11 it does not or does not (or not any more: given so many new Windows 11 releases with ever changing functionality I’m not surprised).
explorer.exeBased on the below sources, I made this small batch file:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/10
Sometimes, you want to restart the Windows explorer. This is already an exception case which you want to do when explorer hangs (for instance when taskbar icons do not respond any more), or has files locked which need to be modified. I described the latter in Inno Setup: Program Folder not showing up In Start > All Programs , with this very simple restart script:
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe start explorer
Even more exception is wanting to run explorer with a UAC elevated administrative token. I sometimes do this when moving around stuff from other users on the same computer without having them logged on (as that would lock the files or directories to be moved around).
The risk of running explorer under UAC elevation, is that any program you start will also start UAC elevated, so beware what you ask for…
This is how you start explorer under UAC elevation:
pwsh.exe -nol -noni -nop -w hidden -c "taskkill /f /im explorer.exe; start explorer -v runas -a /nouaccheck"
or if you run an older Windows version of PowerShell:
PowerShell.exe -nol -noni -nop -w hidden -c "taskkill /f /im explorer.exe; start explorer -v runas -a /nouaccheck"
These command-line options and verbs are used:
pwsh == PowerShell:
-nol == -NoLogo-noni == -NonInteractive-nop == -NoProfile-w hidden == -WindowStyle Hidden *-c == -CommandSee:
taskkill:
/F == force close/IM == image name (name of .exe file)start == [Wayback/Archive] Start-Process (Microsoft.PowerShell.Management) – PowerShell | Microsoft Docs
-v == -Verb (in this case runas*)-a == -ArgumentList (to explorer)See [Wayback/Archive] Start-Process (Microsoft.PowerShell.Management) – PowerShell | Microsoft Docs.
explorer
/nouaccheck == /NoUACCheck**Time to explain a few:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/05/09
Last month, I wrote Need to take a look a Scoop (as a long time Chocolatey user).
So I did, and started with a list of my Chocolatey installs grouped by functionality in order to expand the table towards winget and [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ScoopInstaller/Scoop: A command-line installer for Windows.
This was a good way to start learning, and by already doing this, got learned this:
Let’s focus on the latter for a bit:
scoop-bucket, see [Wayback/Archive] scoop-docs/Buckets.md at master · kidonng/scoop-docsIf you want your bucket listed in the Scoop Directory , add a topic of
scoop-bucketto its github page.
The indexing is done by the project [Wayback/Archive] ScoopSearch/ScoopSearch.AzureFunctions: Azure functions to maintain Scoop applications index.
ScoopDirectory indexes once a day, updating both the static Markdown pages and a [Wayback/Archive] scoop-directory/scoop_directory.db at master · rasa/scoop-directory database used for searching.
.The refreshing is done by [Wayback/Archive] scoop-directory/update-index.yml at master · rasa/scoop-directory calling [Wayback/Archive] scoop-directory/github-crawler.py at master · rasa/scoop-directory.
From the above, I got a feeling that Scoop is way more like the Linux Package Managers than WinGet and Chocolatey are.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/24
Triggered by last week’s post Need to take a look a Scoop (as a long time Chocolatey user), I need to re-think which Windows package managers to use and in what order.
Basically there are two challenges:
Since I hardly used winget, I need to get started at Windows Package Manager – Wikipedia.
A good example of unavailability is at [Wayback/Archive] Scott’s Ultimate Tools via Winget – DVLUP (which has the ID values for winget or chocolatey of [Wayback/Archive] Scott Hanselman’s 2021 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman’s Blog)
–jeroen
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