For my link archive: Can I invoke Windows Update from the command line? – Super User [WayBack]
–jeroen
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Can I invoke Windows Update from the command line? – Super User
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/25
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Permanently Disable & Prevent Automatic Restart of Windows Update in Windows 10 – Tech Journey
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/22
Yay!
Windows 10 automatically restart the PC whenever it installed updates that required a mandatory reboot in order to finish installed. User can no longer delay or postpone a restart indefinitely. […]
The source Permanently Disable & Prevent Automatic Restart of Windows Update in Windows 10 – Tech Journey [WayBack] describes steps to fix a bunch of scenarios:
- Disable Reboot Task
- Stop the re-enabling of Reboot task
- Group Policy (but people reported that Windows 10 ignores the policy when comes to mandatory reboot required for installing updates)
- Prevent Updates from Installing by forcing your WiFi to act like a “metered” connection
- Prevent Updates from Installing by setting the Configure Automatic Updates setting in your Local Group Policy Editor
- For Windows 10 Home edition (that misses the Local Group Policy Editor) setting the above value directly in the registry
–jeroen
via: How to prevent Windows10 from automatically installing updates & rebooting – Primož Gabrijelčič – Google+ [WayBack]
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Terry L@u’s blog: Manage non-domain Hyper-V servers (Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview) by Hyper-V Manager
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/11
One day I will need this: Terry L@u’s blog: Manage non-domain Hyper-V servers (Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview) by Hyper-V Manager [WayBack]
Via: Matthijs ter Woord
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How to Find Saved WiFi Passwords in Windows – Geeks Gyaan
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/07
How to Find Saved WiFi Passwords in Windows – Geeks Gyaan [WayBack]: the rescue is netsh [WayBack].
netsh wlan show profiles
netsh wlan show profile name=network-name key=clear
–jeroen
via: Easily find save WiFi passwords in Windows – Joe C. Hecht – Google+ [WayBack]
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How to Easily Print a Large Image to Multiple Pages in Windows | Scottie’s Tech.Info
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/04
Many applications cannot not do that (Paint.net is one of them), but Paint can at least in Windows XP, 7, 8. and 8.1 (I need to check other Windows versions).:
In any case, here’s what you do:
- Open the image you’d like to print in Paint
- Select: Print -> Page Setup (Vista and 7), or File -> Page Setup (in XP)
- Under Scaling, select Fit to and change the setting to something like “3 by 2 page(s)”
- Click OK
- Print the image from Paint, and make sure to select “All Pages”
Source: How to Easily Print a Large Image to Multiple Pages in Windows | Scottie’s Tech.Info [WayBack]
Note the “3 by 2” has the order “horizontal by vertical”.
–jeroen
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How to change the Notepad++ editor’s font – via Notepad++ Community
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/04
Paraphrased Steps (thanks guy038); Screenshots below.
- Choose the menu option
Settings->Style Configurator… - In the
Style configuratordialog, choose theGlobal StylesunderLanguage - Then, under
Style, select theDefault Style(this won’t work forGlobal Overrideunless you have that one override everything) - Finally, in the
Font Stylearea, you can select your favouriteFont nameand/or itsSizeand apearance (Bold,Italic,Underscore) - Confirm with
Save & Closewhen you like the new font settings.
The cool thing is that if you have a file open, you will immediately see the effects even before pressing Save & Close.
Source: No way to change editor’s font? | Notepad++ Community [WayBack]
–jeroen
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SSD TRIM check tool | CyberShadow’s blog
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/17
SSD TRIM check tool | CyberShadow’s blog [WayBack] has source code on github:
trimcheck – SSD TRIM check tool for Windows
Source: CyberShadow/trimcheck: SSD TRIM check tool for Windows
It’s written in D using rdmd as compiler.
–jeroen
via via.
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Closed: HDD Guardian – Home
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/16
Too bad: it was fun while it lasted.
Mid april 2017 [WayBack] HDD Guardian – Home closed down, so the latest commit removed all the [WayBack] HDD Guardian – Source Code.
HDD Guardian provides a Windows front-end for smartctl, a utility which monitors your hard drive(s) and SSD(s) for health status, taking advantage of S.M.AR.T.
The WayBack machine and Archive.is have archived some links though:
- 2017: [Archive.is] [WayBack] HDD Guardian – Home – most recent home page
- 2017: WayBack: HDD Guardian – Documentation – Documentation – Supported/unsupported controllers
- 2016: WayBack: HDD Guardian – Documentation – News
- 2016: WayBack: HDD Guardian – Documentation – FAQ / Known Issues
- 2017: [Archive.is] HDD Guardian – Source Code – Changesets
- 2017: HDD Guardian – Download: HDD Guardian 0.7.1 (though the downloads themselves are not available).
Anyone interested in getting it before codeplex itself shuts down:
git svn clone https://hddguardian.svn.codeplex.com/svn
Edit 20210909:
Note that a while ago, the salvaged source code got pushed to GitHub: [Wayback/Archive.is] native-api/hddguardian: A GUI app to watch and manage HDDs’ S.M.A.R.T., based on smartmontools. Salvaged from https://hddguardian.codeplex.com
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wget for nirsoft
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11
Since they require a referer:
wget --referer=http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ -m -np http://download.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_1.20.10.zip
wget --referer=http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ -m -np http://download2.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_enc_1.20.10.zip
The latter has password nirsoft9876$
The filenames change over time (the 2016 archive of http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ shows http://download.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_1.20.5.zip and http://download2.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_enc_1.20.5.zip
Need to check out if I can automate this, as they seem to keep a SysInternals link http://download.nirsoft.net/sysinternals4.nlp
–jeroen
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Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2016 – Microsoft Press blog
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/21
It’s been a while ago, but still relevant and available as both Standard PDF [WayBack] and Mobile PDF [WayBack]:
free ebook, Introducing Windows Server 2016 (ISBN 9780735697744), by John McCabe and the Windows Server team. Enjoy!
Source: Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2016 – Microsoft Press blog [WayBack]
Via: Ondrej Kelle – Google+ [WayBack]
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