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Apps to look at…
Chocolatey: CLI package manager for Windows. Boxstarter, based on Chocolately, helps setup Windows on new systems.
Cmder: Console emulator (i.e. alternative to cmd.exe) that doesn't suck
Installation
Selecting different HAL during installation
A different HAL (e.g. Standard HAL instead of ACPI HAL) can be chosen on installation by hitting F5 during the Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver message.
Commands
Active Directory
# Force Group Policy Object update on a client machine: gpupdate
File management
# Recursive directory removal
rmdir /s /q [directory]
# Remove desktop.ini files from a directory structure
FOR /f %G in ('dir /b') do attrib %G\desktop.ini -h -s
FOR /f %G in ('dir /b') do del %G\desktop.ini
Power
# Display an energy efficiency report (Windows 7) powercfg /energy
Shortcuts
Run application with administrative privileges
Ctrl+Shift+Enter when clicking on a shortcut will launch an application with administrative privileges. Works on Windows Vista and above. Usually brings up a User Account Protection (UAP) dialog.
CLI
Clink: GNU Readline for cmd.exe. Extendable via a Lua API.
Evil
https://gist.github.com/ryancdotorg/9f557d3513710ce91aed: FAT32 file fragmenter.
Stuff
Upgrading WSL to Ubuntu 16.04: Tips on upgrading Windows for Linux (WSL) to Ubuntu 16.04.
Running Docker inside WSL via Docker for Windows: Setup Docker userspace inside Windows for Linux (WSL), connect to Docker for Windows running outside of WSL. Let's you interact w/ Docker inside Linux userspace, while on Windows.
