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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/21
Via [Archive.is] Kevin on Twitter: “Gotta say this looks amazing and I actually didn’t know you can customize the command line on Windows this far. Read this blogpost by @shanselman , highly recommended. 👇 “
For my link archive: [Wayback] My Ultimate PowerShell prompt with Oh My Posh and the Windows Terminal – Scott Hanselman’s Blog
Posted in CommandLine, Development, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/06
I totally missed this feature got implemented: [Wayback/Archive] Use Remembered Arguments for a Package During Upgrades · Issue #797 · chocolatey/choco. I also seem to be lucky I have not tried it out yet (:
I bumped into it via [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Notepad++ 8.4.4, which had this interesting comment:
If you want Notepad++ 32 bit and you want it to stay on 32 bit with upgrades, ensure you are on Chocolatey 0.10.4 (or newer). Then add `
-x86` to your installation arguments. Then turn on the remembered arguments feature with ‘choco feature enable -n useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades‘ – this will ensure that `-x86` gets passed on upgrade when running `choco upgrade all`. For more information on how this works, see https://github.com/chocolat…797
First of all, if you started using Chocolatey at or before 0.14, the useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades feature is disabled by default and kept that way even after upgrading to the most recent version. You can see executing choco feature list on a system that started with Chocolatey:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/13
The conditional formatting feature in Excel is so cool!
If you use FALSE and TRUE expressions to check validity, you can easily make these red and green.
[Wayback/Archive] Conditional formatting of TRUE / FALSE values in an Excel 2010 range – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] tbone for asking and [Wayback/Archive] digitxp for answering):
Posted in Apple, Excel, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Office, Office 2010, Office 2011 for Mac, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/25
This one is cool: [Wayback/Archive] PRANK: Windows XP Updates.
Note that unlike the screenshot below, the actual prank does count the percentage. The actual page does.
You can start this one and various other OSes plus Windows versions and other pranks via [Wayback/Archive] FakeUpdate.net – Windows Update Prank by fediaFedia (at the time of writing Windows 98 install, Windows Vista update, Windows 8 update, Windows 7 update, Mac OS boot, Windows 10 install, Windows 10 update, steam and “fake ransomware”).
It is a cool and relatively harmless way of teaching people to use their lock screen when away from their machine (Windows: Win+L, Mac OS: Ctrl+Shift+Power).
Posted in Awareness, Fun, Power User, Security, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2000, 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 »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/19
It looks like after decades, ReMapKey (from the Windows 2000 and 20023 Resource Kits, see If you miss having the Caps Lock button on your #Chromebook… (via: Google Chrome – Google+)) got a successor:
[Wayback/Archive] PowerToys Keyboard Manager utility for Windows | Microsoft Docs:
The PowerToys Keyboard Manager enables you to redefine keys on your keyboard.
For example, you can exchange the letter A for the letter B on your keyboard. When you press the A key, a
Bwill display.…
You can also exchange shortcut key combinations. For example: The shortcut key Ctrl+C will copy text in Microsoft Word. With PowerToys Keyboard Manager utility, you can exchange that shortcut for ⊞ Win+C. Now, ⊞ Win+C will copy text. If you do not specify a targeted application in PowerToys Keyboard Manager, the shortcut exchange will be applied globally across Windows.
PowerToys Keyboard Manager must be enabled (with PowerToys running in the background) for remapped keys and shortcuts to be applied. If PowerToys is not running, key remapping will no longer be applied.
The real kicker however, is that the new PowerToys Keyboard Manager can be application specific:
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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-1978335173APPINSTALLER_CLI_ERROR_RESTAPI_INTERNAL_ERRORRest 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.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/22
Summary of [Wayback/Archive] Print large PDF in Preview over several pages… – Apple Community:
Via [Wayback/Archive] macos print pdf scaled over two pages – Google Search.
–jeroen
Posted in Adobe, Adobe Acrobat, Apple, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, PDF, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »
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 2023/11/13
5cdca90b182ffcfb7deb17686168116ea44c37ad3c4f3b871255e27271f4704e4bc6c7e7c61af4b5d1b086c5d279947357cff45c2f82021bb58628c2503eb64e1c2edc542dc450b0666b74ecdf97073751123c78450fb92783587fcceecf445d8f8e54759e54a25d4cbf869a418f57b7c4942a9b2672a8c3fb84396551608b7fGot to the ISO files from www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 by changing the User-Agent of Chrome on Windows to be Chrome on Mac:
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