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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

General support questions for Windows should be asked on Super User

Windows is a family of graphical operating systems developed by Microsoft for server, client, and mobile platforms.

Recent Versions

  • Windows 10 was released on July 29, 2015.

  • Windows 8.1, the first significant update to Windows 8, was released on October 17, 2013.

  • Windows 8, the successor to Windows 7, was released to the market on October 26, 2012. It was designed to be used on both tablets and conventional PCs.

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Format date and time in a Windows batch script

In a Windows (Windows XP) batch script I need to format the current date and time for later use in files names, etc. It is similar to Stack Overflow question How to append a date in batch files, but with time in as well. I have this so far: echo…
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Windows recursive grep command-line

I need to do a recursive grep in Windows, something like this in Unix/Linux: grep -i 'string' `find . -print` or the more-preferred method: find . -print | xargs grep -i 'string' I'm stuck with just cmd.exe, so I only have Windows built-in…
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How to list files in windows using command prompt (cmd). I've tried using ' ls ' as in Linux but it shows an error?

When I tried to use list ls on a Windows command prompt, the system doesn't recognize it. I already added C:\Windows\System32 in the path.
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How can I show hidden files (starting with period) in NERDTree?

How can I make NERDTree show files that begin with an . (period)? I have a file named .hgignore in a project directory. If I browse to that directory using NERDTree, the file is not displayed within the tree. I am using gvim on Windows.
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How to install both Python 2.x and Python 3.x in Windows

I do most of my programming in Python 3.x on Windows 7, but now I need to use the Python Imaging Library (PIL), ImageMagick, and wxPython, all of which require Python 2.x. Can I have both Python 2.x and Python 3.x installed in Windows 7? When I run…
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What's the best free C++ profiler for Windows?

I'm looking for a profiler in order to find the bottleneck in my C++ code. I'd like to find a free, non-intrusive, and good profiling tool. I'm a game developer, and I use PIX for Xbox 360 and found it very good, but it's not free. I know the Intel…
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How do I create my own URL protocol? (e.g. so://...)

I have seen: http://www... ftp://blah.blah... file://blah.blah... unreal://blah.blah... mailto://blah.blah... What is that first section where you see http and the like called? Can I register my own?
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Map a network drive to be used by a service

Suppose some Windows service uses code that wants mapped network drives and no UNC paths. How can I make the drive mapping available to the service's session when the service is started? Logging in as the service user and creating a persistent…
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how to change directory using Windows command line

I'm using cmd.exe (C:\WINDOWS\System32\cmd.exe) and I have to change my current directory to "D:\temp" i.e. temp folder in the D drive. When I try to cd nothing happens. C:\> cd D:\temp C:\> I don't know what else to do here. Even pressing tab key…
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Why do 64-bit DLLs go to System32 and 32-bit DLLs to SysWoW64 on 64-bit Windows?

I would like to know when do we need to place a file under C:\Windows\System32 or C:\Windows\SysWOW64, on a 64-bits windows system. I had two DLL's, one for 32-bit, one for 64-bit. Logically, I thought I'd place the 32-bit DLL under…
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Best way to run scheduled tasks

Today we have built a console application for running the scheduled tasks for our ASP.NET website. But I think this approach is a bit error prone and difficult to maintain. How do you execute your scheduled task (in an windows/IIS/ASP.NET…
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Checking if a folder exists using a .bat file

I would like to be able to check if a certain folder (FolderA) exists and if so, for a message to be displayed and then the batch file to be exited. If FolderA does not exist, I would then like to check if another folder (FolderB) exists. If…
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What does #defining WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN exclude exactly?

I found the explanation defining WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN "reduces the size of the Win32 header files by excluding some of the less frequently used APIs". Somewhere else I read that it speeds up the build process. So what does WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN…
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Environment variable is too large on Windows 10

I have recently upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1. Now I wanted to set an environment variable for my new installation of Apache Maven. Each time I created the user variable, things were fine. However, I also need to create the system variable…
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Docker - 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 following error: > [build 3/7] COPY…
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