In Windows Vista and Windows 7 there a new utility for handling drivers setup call PnPUtil. It handles exactly this kind of work. Just copy all your driver relevant files(*.inf, *.cat, *.sys) to a directory on the target computer and use PnPUtil -i -a <InfName>.inf Note: You will need to be in an administrator context … Read more
Well, I was browsing for some syntax and stumbled upon this page. I know its old but I thought I’d take a break and give the brain a little kick. Here’s something a little shorter and manageable. This just “brute forces” all uppercase letters to lowercase letters without regards to whether the actual letter exists … Read more
You can kill the process and all its children (ie. all processes started by it) using the /t switch: taskkill /f /t /im wwahost.exe See the documentation for taskkill (ss64) and tskill (ss64) system utilities.
Choose your poison: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365574%28VS.85%29.aspx The following IPC mechanisms are supported by Windows: Clipboard COM Data Copy DDE File Mapping Mailslots Pipes RPC Windows Sockets The closest to DBus is COM.
@echo off set MYDIR=C:\FOLDER1\FOLDER2\FOLDER3\ if “%MYDIR:~-1%” == “\” set “MYDIR1=%MYDIR:~0,-1%” for %%f in (“%MYDIR1%”) do set “myfolder=%%~nxf” echo %myfolder% outputs FOLDER3
Good news. Technically, the answer to “how do I clone files with colons in the filename” is to simply use “git clone”. Luckily it is only the checkout that fails on Windows (even under msysgit) and there is a rather clean workaround for this shown below. TL;DR in Git Bash… git clone {repo URL} cd … Read more
PuTTY cannot use keys in OpenSSH format. You need to convert your key to .ppk format first. For that, use PuTTYgen from PuTTY package. Run PuTTYgen; Press Load to load the private key in OpenSSH format; Press Save private key to save the private key in .ppk format
The Using Rust on Windows page you linked to dates from before rustup replaced the installer as the default option to install Rust. Installers are still available, but you should use rustup if possible, because it makes it easy to update and to use multiple toolchains at once (e.g. stable, beta and nightly). If you … Read more
You can use start to open the file with the associated application. Resources : Open a File in the Default Application using the Windows Command Line (without JDIC) (waybackmachine capture from Oct 30, 2010)
The forfiles command works without resorting to PowerShell. The article is here: Find files based on modified time Microsoft Technet documentation: forfiles For the example above: forfiles /P <dir> /S /D +12/07/2013 /P The starting path to search /S Recurse into sub-directories /D Date to search, the “+” means “greater than” or “since”