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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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If your question relates to using Windows APIs or Windows-specific behavior with a particular version of Windows, use the tag for that particular version – for example:

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Why does the 260 character path length limit exist in Windows?

I have come up against this problem a few times at inopportune moments: Trying to work on open source Java projects with deep paths Storing deep Fitnesse wiki trees in source control An error trying to use Bazaar to import my source control…
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How do I get the current username in Windows PowerShell?

How do I get the current username in Windows PowerShell?
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TortoiseSVN icons not showing up under Windows 7

I can't seem to get the icons to display under Windows 7 and I really miss this from Windows XP. How can it be fixed?
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How do I manually create a file with a . (dot) prefix in Windows? For example, .htaccess

I want to create a .htaccess file manually and discovered it seems impossible through the Windows UI. I get a "you must type a filename." message. There has to be a way to create files with . as a prefix in Windows. Can this be done manually?
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How to add to the PYTHONPATH in Windows, so it finds my modules/packages?

I have a directory which hosts all of my Django apps (C:\My_Projects). I want to add this directory to my PYTHONPATH so I can call the apps directly. I tried adding C:\My_Projects\; to my Windows Path variable from the Windows GUI (My Computer >…
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Create Windows service from executable

Is there any quick way to, given an executable file, create a Windows service that, when started, launches it?
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Unix tail equivalent command in Windows Powershell

I have to look at the last few lines of a large file (typical size is 500MB-2GB). I am looking for a equivalent of Unix command tail for Windows Powershell. A few alternatives available on are, http://tailforwin32.sourceforge.net/ and Get-Content…
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How to completely remove node.js from Windows

I uninstalled my previous version of node.js (0.8.11) and downloaded the latest, 0.10.24 from the node.js website and installed it. However, after running node --version, it still indicates that I'm running v0.8.11. Obviously, some stuff was left…
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Permanently add a directory to PYTHONPATH?

Whenever I use sys.path.append, the new directory will be added. However, once I close python, the list will revert to the previous (default?) values. How do I permanently add a directory to PYTHONPATH?
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How to recursively delete an entire directory with PowerShell 2.0?

What is the simplest way to forcefully delete a directory and all its subdirectories in PowerShell? I am using PowerShell V2 in Windows 7. I have learned from several sources that the most obvious command, Remove-Item $targetDir -Recurse -Force,…
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Reminder - \r\n or \n\r?

I just can't remember those. So, what is the right way to properly terminate old fashioned ASCII lines?
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Run cURL commands from Windows console

Is there a way to install cURL in Windows in order to run cURL commands from the command prompt?
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Iterate all files in a directory using a 'for' loop

How can I iterate over each file in a directory using a for loop? And how could I tell if a certain entry is a directory or if it's just a file?
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The difference between the 'Local System' account and the 'Network Service' account?

I have written a Windows service that spawns a separate process. This process creates a COM object. If the service runs under the 'Local System' account everything works fine, but if the service runs under the 'Network Service' account, the external…
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How to convert DOS/Windows newline (CRLF) to Unix newline (LF)

How can I programmatically (not using vi) convert DOS/Windows newlines to Unix newlines? The dos2unix and unix2dos commands are not available on certain systems. How can I emulate them with commands such as sed, awk, and tr?
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