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This is a pretty small thing, but I have been getting into more and more windows coding, and recently began finding myself in a terminal (msysgit, powershell). However, something that bugs the CRAP out of me is that there is no full screen modes, and they have to be resized
So my question:
For any windows 8 users, are terminals (msysgit, powershell, cmd) maximable / customizable at all?
I HAVE used console2 (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Console2ABetterWindowsCommandPrompt.aspx), but while it is resizable, it does not maximize.I am weighing if whether my next computer will be a mac or windows, and this info will be useful in making that decision. I am getting tired of crazy work-arounds to get simple things changed in windows.
Windows doesn't really have "terminal" windows (except for those provided by a third party). Windows has a console subsystem which PowerShell, cmd.exe and any other console program you write, run in. The Windows console subsystem is old, hasn't changed much and is definitely showing its age. While there is a maximize button on every console window, as you have no doubt noticed, it doesn't maximize the window to full screen.
For script editing, I would use PowerShell_ISE or Visual Studio with the PowerShell Tools for VS add-in. To enable a number of BASH-like line editing features in PowerShell, you should check out PSReadLine on GitHub. It makes using PowerShell much nicer.
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Windows keeps randomly running processes.. and I don't want it to.
Search Indexer (if I deactivate it, Windows will cry in all places that it is deactivated, on the other side, the benefit of Windows Search is negative. It doesn't work, but uses CPU). So I want to keep killing it, without the system complaining that search is deactivated and now.. search which isn't working in any state of windows is "not working".)
Logitech Hub (I sometimes don't want it running, restarts anyways)
and others
So basically I want a bit of control what is running on my Windows Notebook.
I am looking for a script that I start which works with txt list of processes that it kills on a continous basis.
Any ideas?
I tried killing the processes manually, but Windows superseeds my intent.
Ideally it should not be a new tool to install, but rather running cmd in the background
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Microsoft released Windows terminal as a Microsoft Store app. How to add it to the context menu or replace 'Open Powershell window here' with it ?
There might have been several approaches discussed everywhere, but none of them is up-to-date nor offers flexibility. So I started a new open source project and provided two PowerShell scripts to help.
https://github.com/lextm/windowsterminal-shell
You can run install.ps1 as administrator in PowerShell 7 to easily add the default layout.
There are other layouts (mini and flat at this moment).
Uninstall the menu items are also easy with uninstall.ps1.
The Win-X Menu shortcuts are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\WinX and in the Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellCompatibility\InboxApp part of the registry, but the file explorer option is the one that really dictates what happens in the Win-X menu. I do not suggest just adding and changing stuff in the WinX folder because you could mess things up, however, the winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.30 app in the link provides a way in which you wouldn't mess it up. Either way, you should put "%programfiles%\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_0.11.1121.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\WindowsTerminal.exe" in either a shortcut in the WinX folder, or in the app named accordingly.
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Cortana opens smoothly but doesn't allow me to type more than 2 letters in the search box. After some time, it is hanged and Cortana disappears.
I had to face this issue too, I did not get the solution even after doing lots of research on the internet, Even Microsoft Advisor told me about reinstall windows
And finally, I found an alternate solution: Classic Shell.
you can use a classic shell. classic shell Make Windows 10 Look and Feel Like Windows 7
Follow the steps:
Go here and download classic shell - http://www.classicshell.net/
Install classic shell on your local computer
After install, select the style for start menu
Disable Cortana from the taskbar in Windows 10
Done, You will now feel the look of windows 7
For more details open link:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCnEhqmfZgc
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Today, I copied 2 lines of code in Visual Studio(using CTRL+C). Then deleted one line of commented code somewhere in the class(using SHIFT+DEL). Now if I try to paste the copied lines using (CTRL+V), it is pasting the commented code not the copied lines of code. That means SHIFT+DEL is overriding the clipboard copied items done earlier.
Here I could understand that this could be to give a chance to restore permanently deleted items. Any thoughts on this?
This same behavior is replicated in other Microsoft products like:
1. MS-Word application (by copying, deleting(CTRL+V) and then pasting some statements).
2. Windows files (by copying, deleting(CTRL+V) and then pasting some files).
Shift+Del is a shortcut for the Cut clipboard command. This isn't specific to Microsoft products either. It's a keyboard shortcut provided by Windows itself and works in most applications.
In fact, the Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Ins and Shift+Del keystrokes predate Windows. They were part of IBM's CUA standard, the only actual standard about keyboard shortcuts. Back then, every application used its own shortcuts forcing people to memorize them.
The Ctrl+C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl+V keystrokes come from Xerox PARC and were never an actual standard. Apple used them though and Microsoft added them to Windows. A lot of people complained that Microsoft was abandoning a proven standard.
By the early 2000s Windows and Mac OS were the only windowing OS's left so the Xerox PARC shortucts prevailed.
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I cant figure out why, but my vim74 on Windows 8 wont maximize. In fact it is very limited to a certain size.
This is the max size and I don't know how to make it bigger.
Also when I input a command (e.g. :q) character that I didn't input comes up
like :<-[1 q when I do :q
Thank you in advance
Based on the screenshot (and missing menus), it looks like you're using Vim in the Windows console (cmd.exe), which cannot be maximized in the usual way. You have the following options:
Use GVIM; it offers more (visual) features, and the biggest disadvantage, more clumsy shell integration, isn't that important on Windows, anyway.
Use the Windows console menu (right mouse button on the top-left icon > Defaults > /Layout\ > Windows Size) to resize it.
Inside Vim, you can influence the size via
:set lines=40 columns=120
and the console will resize accordingly.