Questions tagged [windows]
Writing software specific to the Microsoft Windows operating system: APIs, behaviours, etc. GENERAL WINDOWS SUPPORT IS OFF-TOPIC. Support questions may be asked on https://superuser.com
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Docker for Windows error: "Hardware assisted virtualization and data execution protection must be enabled in the BIOS"
I've installed Docker and I'm getting this error when I run the GUI:
Hardware assisted virtualization and data execution protection must
be enabled in the BIOS
Seems like a bug since Docker ...
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Python not working in the command line of git bash
Python will not run in git bash (Windows). When I type python in the command line, it takes me to a blank line without saying that it has entered python 2.7.10 like its does in Powershell. It doesn't ...
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Batch script loop
I need to execute a command 100-200 times, and so far my research indicates that I would either have to copy/paste 100 copies of this command, OR use a for loop, but the for loop expects a list of ...
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Windows shell command to get the full path to the current directory?
Is there a Windows command line command that I can use to get the full path to the current working directory?
Also, how can I store this path inside a variable used in a batch file?
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Run a task every x-minutes with Windows Task Scheduler [closed]
I'm trying to get Windows Task Scheduler to run a particular .exe every 10 minutes or so, but the options only allow for once a day execution.
Is there a way I can get it to run a .exe every 10 or 20 ...
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What is the Windows equivalent of the diff command?
I know that there is a post similar to this : here.
I tried using the comp command like it mentioned, but if I have two files, one with data like "abcd" and the other with data "abcde", it just says ...
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Command line for looking at specific port
Is there a way to examine the status of a specific port from the Windows command line? I know I can use netstat to examine all ports but netstat is slow and looking at a specific port probably isn't.
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CSV in Python adding an extra carriage return, on Windows
import csv
with open('test.csv', 'w') as outfile:
writer = csv.writer(outfile, delimiter=',', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
writer.writerow(['hi', 'dude'])
writer.writerow(['hi2', 'dude2'])
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Git symbolic links in Windows
Our developers use a mix of Windows and Unix-based OSes. Therefore, symbolic links created on Unix machines become a problem for Windows developers. In Windows (MSysGit), the symbolic link is ...
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Easier way to debug a Windows service
Is there an easier way to step through the code than to start the service through the Windows Service Control Manager and then attaching the debugger to the thread? It's kind of cumbersome and I'm ...
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How to run a makefile in Windows?
I have some demos that I downloaded and they come with a Makefile.win and a Makefile.sgi. How can I run these in Windows to compile the demos?
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Batch script: how to check for admin rights
How do I check if the current batch script has admin rights?
I know how to make it call itself with runas but not how to check for admin rights. The only solutions I've seen are crude hack jobs or ...
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Is there replacement for cat on Windows
I need to join two binary files with a *.bat script on Windows.
How can I achieve that?
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How to get the system uptime in Windows? [closed]
I am using windows 7 and xp. I want to know the uptime of the system.
What is the command / procedure for getting the uptime?
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How to grant permission to users for a directory using command line in Windows?
How can I grant permissions to a user on a directory (Read, Write, Modify) using the Windows command line?
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How do you run a Python script as a service in Windows?
I am sketching the architecture for a set of programs that share various interrelated objects stored in a database. I want one of the programs to act as a service which provides a higher level ...
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What languages are Windows, Mac OS X and Linux written in?
I was just wondering who knows what programming languages Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are made up from and what languages are used for each part of the OS (ie: Kernel, plug-in architecture, GUI ...
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Modifying the "Path to executable" of a windows service
I'd like to modify the path to my application, but doing so breaks it because the service still points to the old location.
By going to Administrative Tools > Services you can open a properties ...
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Which comment style should I use in batch files?
I've been writing some batch files, and I ran into this user guide, which has been quite informative. One thing it showed me was that lines can be commented not just with REM, but also with ::. It ...
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How can you zip or unzip from the script using ONLY Windows' built-in capabilities?
In Windows you can zip some files by
right click → Send to → Compressed (zipped) folder
And unzip by double clicking on the .zip file and extract the files.
Is there a way to apply ...
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Wildcards in a Windows hosts file
I want to setup my local development machine so that any requests for *.local are redirected to localhost. The idea is that as I develop multiple sites, I can just add vhosts to Apache called site1....
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Create an empty file on the commandline in windows (like the linux touch command)
On a windows machine I get this error
'touch' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I was following these instructions which seem to be linux specific,...
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Get encoding of a file in Windows
This isn't really a programming question, is there a command line or Windows tool (Windows 7) to get the current encoding of a text file? Sure I can write a little C# app but I wanted to know if there ...
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What exactly are DLL files, and how do they work?
How exactly do DLL files work? There seems to be an awful lot of them, but I don't know what they are or how they work.
So, what's the deal with them?
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How to change users in TortoiseSVN
I was setting up another user to use our SVN repository. He didn't have a username/password, so I logged in with my credentials. We now have a username/password for him.
How do I get TortoiseSVN ...
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How to echo with different colors in the Windows command line
I know that the color bf command sets the colors of the whole command line window but I wanted to to print one single line in a different color.
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Is there a better Windows Console Window? [closed]
I find working on the command line in Windows frustrating, primarily because the console window is wretched to use compared to terminal applications on linux and OS X such as "rxvt", "xterm", or "...
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Stop and Start a service via batch or cmd file?
How can I script a bat or cmd to stop and start a service reliably with error checking (or let me know that it wasn't successful for whatever reason)?
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Stop all instances of Node.js server
I have started a Node server through the plugin of an IDE. Unfortunately, I cannot use the IDE's terminal. So I tried to run the script from the command line.
This is the problem - I am using the ...
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RuntimeError on windows trying python multiprocessing
I am trying my very first formal python program using Threading and Multiprocessing on a windows machine. I am unable to launch the processes though, with python giving the following message. The ...
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How to do something to each file in a directory with a batch script
How do you iterate over each file in a directory with a .bat or .cmd file?
For simplicity please provide an answer that just echoes the filename or file path.
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How to check if a process is running via a batch script
How can I check if an application is running from a batch (well cmd) file?
I need to not launch another instance if a program is already running. (I can't change the app to make it single instance ...
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Keyboard shortcut to paste clipboard content into command prompt window (Win XP) [closed]
Is there a keyboard shortcut for pasting the content of the clipboard into a command prompt window on Windows XP (instead of using the right mouse button)?
The typical Shift+Insert does not seem to ...
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Using port number in Windows host file [closed]
After installing TeamViewer, I have changed the wampserver port to 8080, so the address is http://localhost:8080.
For the host file located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\, I have also made the ...
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port forwarding in windows
I have two network board in my pc:
The main one has the local ip -> 192.168.1.111
The secondary ones has the local ip -> 192.168.0.200
The main one has internet connection and the second one is ...
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Docker gets error "failed to compute cache key: not found" - runs fine in Visual Studio
I've generated a Dockerfile with Visual Studio. It runs in Visual Studio just fine and now I'm trying to build it from Windows itself (docker build ., and I tried many combinations). Yet I get the ...
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What is the proper way to test if a parameter is empty in a batch file?
I need to test if a variable is set or not. I've tried several techniques but they seem to fail whenever %1 is surrounded by quotes such as the case when %1 is "c:\some path with spaces".
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How do I start PowerShell from Windows Explorer?
Is there a way to start PowerShell in a specific folder from Windows Explorer, e.g. to right-click in a folder and have an option like "Open PowerShell in this Folder"?
It's really annoying to have ...
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Quickly create large file on a Windows system
In the same vein as Quickly create a large file on a Linux system,
I'd like to quickly create a large file on a Windows system. By large I'm thinking 5 GB. The content doesn't matter. A built-in ...
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What encoding/code page is cmd.exe using?
When I open cmd.exe on Windows, what encoding is it using?
How can I check which encoding it is currently using?
Does it depend on my regional setting or are there any environment
variables to check?
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How to detect Windows 64-bit platform with .NET?
In a .NET 2.0 C# application I use the following code to detect the operating system platform:
string os_platform = System.Environment.OSVersion.Platform.ToString();
This returns "Win32NT". The ...
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How do you loop through each line in a text file using a windows batch file?
I would like to know how to loop through each line in a text file using a Windows batch file and process each line of text in succession.
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What is the Windows version of cron? [closed]
A Google search turned up software that performs the same functions as cron, but nothing built into Windows.
I'm running Windows XP Professional, but advice for any version of Windows would be ...
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Windows batch: echo without new line
What is the Windows batch equivalent of the Linux shell command echo -n which suppresses the newline at the end of the output?
The idea is to write on the same line inside a loop.
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Command to list all files in a folder as well as sub-folders in windows
I tried searching for a command that could list all the file in a directory as well as subfolders using a command prompt command.
I have read the help for "dir" command but coudn't find what I was ...
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How to write a multiline command?
How do we extend a command to the next line?
Basically what's the Windows alternative for Linux's:
ls -l \
/usr/
Here we use backslashes to extend the command onto the next lines.
What's the ...
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What are good grep tools for Windows? [closed]
Any recommendations on grep tools for Windows? Ideally ones that could leverage 64-bit OS.
I'm aware of Cygwin, of course, and have also found PowerGREP, but I'm wondering if there are any hidden ...
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Composer install error - requires ext_curl when it's actually enabled
I'm trying to install Facebook PHP SDK with Composer. This is what I get
$ composer install
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev)
Your ...
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Signing a Windows EXE file
I have an EXE file that I should like to sign so that Windows will not warn the end user about an application from an "unknown publisher". I am not a Windows developer. The application in question is ...
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Error: ANDROID_HOME is not set and "android" command not in your PATH. You must fulfill at least one of these conditions.
I'm trying to install PhoneGap and I'm getting the following error:
Error: ANDROID_HOME is not set and "android" command not in your PATH. You must fulfill at least one of these conditions.
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