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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/15
About a year and a half ago, JenMsft (Jen Gentleman) pointed me to the cool “Shortcut Guide” part of the Windows PowerToys: [Wayback/Archive] microsoft/PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity.
The PowerToys install is an all or nothing approach which will elevate you as admin during installation:
winget install Microsoft.PowerToys --source winget
From the [Wayback/Archive] PowerToys Shortcut Guide utility for Windows | Microsoft Docs:
Open the shortcut guide with the shortcut key combination: ⊞ Win+Shift+/ (or as we like to think, ⊞ Win+?) or hold down the ⊞ Win for the time as set in the Settings. An overlay will appear showing keyboard shortcuts that use the Windows key, including:
- common Windows shortcuts
- shortcuts for changing the position of the active window
- taskbar shortcuts
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/14
Need to figure out what is the cause here for [Wayback/Archive] Troubleshooting Errors… | FileWave KB
General Errors
| Hex |
Decimal |
Symbol |
Description |
| … |
0x8A15003B |
-1978335173 |
APPINSTALLER_CLI_ERROR_RESTAPI_INTERNAL_ERROR |
Rest API internal error |
| … |
I got the error following the install steps at [Wayback/Archive] Download and install Google Chrome with winget
winget install -e --id Google.Chrome
Usually I don’t install through winget because it is often slow and during upgrades often fails to be silent (causing all kinds of popup Windows to appear), but Chocolatey had a history of hashing problems when installing [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Google Chrome 130.0.6723.92.
This package always installs the latest version of Google Chrome, regardless of the version specified in the package. Google does not officially offer older versions of Chrome for download. Because of this you may get checksum mismatch between the time Google releases a new installer, and the package is automatically updated.
Yup the page contains the above warning, but often this happens a week at a time: not something I want to spend on installing a web-browser.
Error
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/11
[Wayback/Archive] Frederik Braun �: “Annoyed that a website is doin…” – security.plumbing
Annoyed that a website is doing something custom on right-click?
Did you expect the browser’s context menu (Back, Reload, Save Page As, View Source etc.)?
Just hold the ⇧Shift key while clicking and Firefox will show the built-in context menu.
It reminded me of Windows 11 first crippling the context menu, then allowing shift right-click to show the Windows 10 context menu:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/10
A while ago, Jilles found out why not to use VirtualBox: [Wayback/Archive] Jilles🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “@jpluimers Ik wil op basis van wat de Arch community schreeuwt; “Virtualbox is stom, als je geen hyper-v gebruikt vraag je om problemen”, HYPER-V maar gaan proberen.” / Twitter
The biggest problem is that VirtualBox seems to be developed ant tested for the happy path, not the failing path.
Which means that when you use it for less common scenarios, it will often fail in mysterious ways.
Back in Running ArchiveTeam Warrior version 3.2 on ESXi, I already mentioned this:
Totally agreeing with Kristian Kohntopp, I do not understand why people use VirtualBox at all: I just run in too much issues like [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Hint: Wenn die Installation einer Linux-Distro in Virtualbox mit wechselnden, unbekannten Fehlern scheitert, hilft es, stattdessen einmal VMware Workstation oder kvm zu probieren. In meinem Fall hat es dann *jedes* *einzelne* *Mal* mit *demselben* Iso geklappt.”.
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, ArchiveTeamWarrior, Hyper-V, InternetArchive, Linux, Power User, VirtualBox, Virtualization, VMware, WayBack machine, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/03
Formatting USB sticks in Fat32 on Windows 10 can be a pain, especially when they are larger than 32 gigabyte.
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19043.1081]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\bin>format D: /FS:FAT32
Insert new disk for drive D:
and press ENTER when ready...
The type of the file system is EXFAT.
The new file system is FAT32.
Verifying 239.0 GB
The volume is too big for FAT32.
Format failed.
C:\bin>
This works:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/19
I have had these two batch files on my system forever:
sha1.bat:
:: https://superuser.com/questions/245775/is-there-a-built-in-checksum-utility-on-windows-7
:: https://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2017/03/use-certutil-to-get-file-hash/
:: Windows 7 has case sensitive Hash algorithms: MD2 MD4 MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512
certUtil -hashfile %* SHA1
sha256.bat:
:: https://superuser.com/questions/245775/is-there-a-built-in-checksum-utility-on-windows-7
:: https://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2017/03/use-certutil-to-get-file-hash/
:: Windows 7 has case sensitive Hash algorithms: MD2 MD4 MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512
certUtil -hashfile %* SHA256
But I forgot to blog about [Wayback/Archive] Use Certutil to Get File Hash | MCB Systems mentioning:
on Windows 7, the hash algorithms are case-sensitive. Be sure to type, for example, “MD5”, not “md5”. On Windows 8.1 and 10, case doesn’t matter
I did mention the first link in “error: invalid object 100644” “git svn”, though only in a by-line. So thanks [Wayback/Archive] user64996 for asking and:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/16
Be careful phrasing reg.exe commands.
Sometimes it gives you the error ERROR: Invalid key name.
The reason is that the reg.exe is really sensitive on the order of the command-line: the first argument must be a full key, optionally prepended by a computername.
Any other optional command-line option (like /f to force execution without asking) needs to go after that.
See:
–jeroen
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