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Create normal and admin taskbar shortcuts for the same program (e.g. cmd.exe) in Windows 10

On my new Windows machine I try to use the package manager Chocolatey to install all programs. As it requires an administrative cmd.exe or PowerShell, I had the problem of wanting two shortcuts in my taskbar one for installing programs, and another one for then using the command line normally. This unfortunately is not [ ]

How to stop Windows 10 from going to sleep after locking it with Win+L

Recently my Windows 10 machine started to go into sleep mode shortly after I locked it with the Windows + L keys. This was new behavior, and after realizing what was happening I googled a bit to find a solution: https://superuser.com/a/1186786/25933 (As usual, this post is a not to myself so I can easier find [ ]

Notes on iTMSTransporter (autoupdate)

iTMSTransporter seems to look for updates on every execution (and there is no way to disable it, which is a bit of a pain) It seems to check https://contentdelivery.itunes.apple.com/transporter/lib/osgibootstrapper.jar.md5 and https://contentdelivery.itunes.apple.com/transporter/repositories/j2se8/latest/repository.xml for updates If it finds a newer version, it downloads all the updated .jars to…

Proxy iTMSTransporter traffic on Windows

Install iTMSTransporter on Windows Install your proxy application, e.g. Charles Proxy Use Java s keytool to add the Charles Root Certificate to your Java installation to add: keytool -import -alias charles -keystore ..\lib\security\cacerts -file c:\root.cer (password: changeit) to check: keytool -list-keystore ..\lib\security\cacerts (same password) Execute the iTMSTransporter command with the…

How to reload environment variables (including PATH) in Windows Command line / cmd.exe

Do you know all those installation instructions that tell you to restart your Windows console after installing a tool that adds itself to your PATH so its binary can directly be called? Well, today I learned there is a much easier way to achieve this: Thanks to meteor for telling me about this in its [ ]

How to change the color scheme of Windows Command Prompt / cmd.exe

Last week we announced the exciting news that Windows Console has a new default color scheme, and also promised you that we would release a tool to make it easier to change the console to your desired scheme. The Windows Console team is proud to present the Colortool which you can use to apply the [ ]

TIL: How to Fix a Slow-Opening Windows Downloads Folder

Opening my Downloads folder from Firefox or Chrome always was slow. Reaaaaaally slow. So finally I googled opening downloads folder from firefox is slow and found this short article, the explains a simple and perfectly fine solution: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/slow-windows-downloads-folder Yay!

npm link: What the first `npm link` really does and how it can also be used

There are loads of articles about npm link, how it works (npm link in library dir, then npm link library in project that should use that local library as a dependency) and what it can be used for (linking to a local folder for a dependency instead of having a npm downloaded version in node_modules). [ ]

Android Emulator: PANIC: Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value

Debugging and fixing a broken Android SDK setup is always fun especially on a CI environment where you don t control the actual installation. It gets worse when all the StackOverflow answers and other Google results for the error you are getting are basically I executed some slightly related, but otherwise random commands, and after [ ]

How to create an empty file in cmd.exe / Windows Command Line

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1702790/252627