Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/25
[WayBack] Call Everything with search pattern as parameter? – voidtools forum:
C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe -search """aaa bbb"""
The extra quotes are needed to get through 2 layers of de-quoting.
Related: [WayBack] How to apply quotes from the command line – voidtools forum
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/22
Just out of curiosity, I wanted to try run a CHKDSK at boot time of a non-system disk.
The trick appears to be to ensure something locks the drive. An easy way to do that is have a command prompt open inside a directory on that drive.
The below example show just that: a regular command prompt locking the E: drive and an administrative command prompt scheduling the check at boot time:
Regular command prompt:
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063] (c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\jeroenp>e: E:\>cd $RECYCLE.BIN E:\$RECYCLE.BIN>
Administrative command prompt:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk /R /F E: The type of the file system is NTFS. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first. ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID. Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) n Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) y This volume will be checked the next time the system restarts. C:\WINDOWS\system32>
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/19
Based on [WayBack] How can I open a cmd window in a specific location? – Stack Overflow:
cmd /K "pushd ""D:\Versioned Stuff\wiert.me"""
The quoting is required for paths having spaces, so I always include them just in case I ever have a path with spaces.
If I want it with bash, then I run it as follows:
cmd /K "pushd ""D:\Versioned Stuff\wiert.me""" && "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe"
Documentation: [WayBack] CD Change Directory – Windows CMD – SS64.com
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/13
Based on [WayBack] windows – How to run batch file command with elevated permissions? – Super User:
powershell -command "Start-Process cmd.exe -Verb runas"
This works better than "runas /user:administrator cmd.exe" as that forces to use the specific Administrator account, whereas the PowerShell way allows you to specify the actual account during elevation.
You can extend this to run a command with one or more parameters based on [WayBack] Launch Elevated CMD.exe from Powershell – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] mklement0):
powershell -command "Start-Process cmd.exe -Verb runas -Args /k, call, goto-bin"
This will actually pass “call goto-bin” to cmd.exe which tries to execute the “goto-bin” command (which I have around on the PATH as goto-bin.bat).
You can either use comma-separated parameters or a quoted string. In this expansion, comma-separated is easier in this PowerShell construct.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/11
I totally did not know that DOSKEY was part of CMD.EXE, but it is: [WayBack] How do I export the history from the Windows command line to a text file? – Super User
Even better: it can export the command history:
doskey /HISTORY > history.txt
Related:
/history : Displays all commands stored in memory. You can use a redirection symbol (>) with /history to redirect the list to a file. You can abbreviate /history as /h.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/08
TL;DR:
/unique switch for sortuniq (in a default x64 install, it is at C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\uniq.exe)From [WayBack] sorting – Is there a Windows equivalent to the Unix uniq? – Super User
This works fine:
dir /s /b *0*.pas *1*.pas *2*.pas *3*.pas *4*.pas *5*.pas *6*.pas *7*.pas*8*.pas *9*.pas | sort /unique > pas-files-with-numeric-names.txt
I need remove duplicate lines from a text file, it is simple in Linux usingcat file.txt |sort | uniqwhen file.txt containsaaabbbaaacccIt will output aaabbbcccIs there a Windows
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/04
I do not like a machine that sleeps after a certain amount of inactivity as I might have a long running job going on.
Usually however, I do like to have a machine off at night, even if I forget to put it asleep.
Exceptions for sleeping are just two:
Luckily you can tell Windows 10 to allow for all cases.
Note I’m not fully sure which BIOS settings you need to enable – if any- to have this work on all systems. Wake up works on my machine for these [WayBack]
psshutdownparameter combinations:
psshutdown.exe -h -t 0(Hibernate)psshutdown.exe -d -t 0(Suspend)It fails with these:
psshutdown.exe -s -t 0 -f(Shutdown without poweroff)psshutdown.exe -k -t 0(Poweroff)The odd thing: Wake-on-LAN can usually wake up the last two.
This is done with the gpedit.msc (via [WayBack] How to prevent Windows 10 waking from sleep when traveling in bag? – Super User, thanks xxxbence)
Follow this path:
Local Computer PolicyComputer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsWindows Update
Double click
Enabling Windows Update Power Management to automatically wake up the system to install scheduled updatesto show the below dialog.Enable it:
so it looks like this:
In Windows 7..10: disable shutdown/hibernate/sleep/restart from UI I wrote about shutdown /h /f to hibernate a machine. You can force to run this from the taskschd.msc (Windows Task Scheduler):
I wanted history for tasks, so I started
taskschd.mscas Administrator, then on the rightActions Pane, I clicked onEnable All Tasks History:
also explained in [WayBack] How can I enable the Windows Server Task Scheduler History recording? – Stack Overflow and can be verified/set on the console as well:
- Get as any user:
wevtutil get-log Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational- Set as Administrator:
wevtutil set-log Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational /enabled:trueI named the task
__ sleep at 2300with these settings:
Ensure the
Program/scriptitself isshutdownand the parameters are/h /f:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/01
I tried finding a way with the built-in Windows tools to keep an ISO mounted to a specific drive letter (some software remembers the drive letter it got installed from and disallows changing it).
I couldn’t. Luckily there is WinCDEmu which supports more formats than the built-in Windows tools as well.
[WayBack] WinCDEmu – How to keep images mounted
- Right click the ISO file
- Choose
Select drive letter & mount- In the popup dialog, put check marks if you need any of these options:
Disable autorun for this timeKeep drive after restart
So I can add that to the list of WinCDEmu features I wrote about before (from newer to older):
WinCDEmu is open source; if you want to build it from scratch, you need these repositories:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/01
I totally forgot that the Windows 7/8/8.1. stuff (that makes a back-up to VHD/VHDX) is still in the Control Panel:
While Windows 10 doesn’t actually add any new backup or recovery tools, it provides great upgrades to the tools it previously offered in Windows 7 and 8.
Source: [WayBack] Windows 10 Feature Focus: Backup and Recovery – Thurrott.com
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/25
For my link archive: 3 ways to hide drive letters.
TL;DR:
diskman.msc (Disk Management) by removing drive letters or/and changing the mount point to be in another drive.regedit.exe (or other Registry Editor like reg.exe) for a bitmap of drive letters to add a value named [WayBack] NoDrives to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ExplorerHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorersecpol.msc (Local Security Policy editor, or find it through gpedit.msc) to add a security policy similar to the registry.Source: [WayBack] How to hide an entire drive from prying eyes on Windows 10 | Windows Central
After setting NoDrive you have to reboot (logoff/logon isn’t sufficient).
For the NoDrive bitmap: these list below has the values to add for each drive to hide, but it’s easier to use the [WayBack] NT Drive Calculator – The ‘NoDrives’ Registry Key Value Calculator which calculates the Decimal version of the value needed.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 