How can I change the location of docker images when using Docker Desktop on WSL2 with Windows 10 Home?

The WSL 2 docker-desktop-data vm disk image would normally reside in: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\data\ext4.vhdx Follow the following to relocate it to other drive/directory, with all existing docker data preserved (tested against Docker Desktop 2.3.0.4 (46911), and continued to work after updating the 3.1.0 (51484)): First, shut down your docker desktop by right click on the Docker Desktop … Read more

Copy Paste in Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

Update 2019/04/16: It seems copy/paste is now officially supported in Windows build >= 17643. Take a look at Rich Turner’s answer. This can be enabled through the same settings menu described below by clicking the checkbox next to “Use Ctrl+Shift+C/V as Copy/Paste”. Another solution would be to enable “QuickEdit Mode” and then you can paste … Read more

How can I auto-elevate my batch file, so that it requests from UAC administrator rights if required?

There is an easy way without the need to use an external tool – it runs fine with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 and is backwards-compatible too (Windows XP doesn’t have any UAC, thus elevation is not needed – in that case the script just proceeds). Check out this code (I was inspired by the … Read more

How does Windows 8 Runtime (WinRT / Windows Store apps / Windows 10 Universal App) compare to Silverlight and WPF? [closed]

At the lowest level, WinRT is an object model defined on ABI level. It uses COM as a base (so every WinRT object implements IUnknown and does refcounting), and builds from there. It does add quite a lot of new concepts in comparison to COM of old, most of which come directly from .NET – … Read more

Starting ssh-agent on Windows 10 fails: “unable to start ssh-agent service, error :1058”

Yeah, as others have suggested, this error seems to mean that ssh-agent is installed but its service (on windows) hasn’t been started. You can check this by running in Windows PowerShell: > Get-Service ssh-agent And then check the output of status is not running. Status Name DisplayName —— —- ———– Stopped ssh-agent OpenSSH Authentication Agent … Read more

IIS Manager in Windows 10

Thanks to @SLaks comment above I was able to turn on IIS and bring the manager back. Press the Windows Key and type Windows Features, select the first entry Turn Windows Features On or Off. Make sure the box next to IIS is checked. If it is not checked, check it. This might take a … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)