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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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Filename timestamp in Windows CMD batch script getting truncated

I have a batch script that outputs a file, and I'm trying to ensure that each time the script is executed, no existing files are overwritten, so I'm trying to put a timestamp on it. Currently I have this: set stamp=%DATE:/=-%_%TIME::=-% But if the…
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Why do I need ILK, PDB and EXP files?

I have downloaded some dll files and with it came also pdb, exp and ilk files. Now I need to know do I need to put them in my system file, or not and what is the purpose of each of them in the general?
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NPM package 'bin' script for Windows

Cucumber.js is supplying a command-line "binary" which is a simple .js file containing a shebang instruction: #!/usr/bin/env node var Cucumber = require('../lib/cucumber'); // ... The binary is specified in package.json with the "bin" configuration…
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Good alternatives to Cygwin? - Cygwin doesn't support natively support Win32 apps

Update 1/9/2014: TL;DR version: Go to bottom of this post for a way to get Cygwin to be able to call non-Cygwin programs. After having spent the time to make some bash scripts that happen to be of significant size, newer versions of Cygwin have…
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Find windows user name within R

Is there a way to get the current windows user name or the windows home within an R session? Thanks. (Sorry, if I missed something, but I couldn't find anything)
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How to get PID of process just started from within a batch file?

In Windows batch scripting there is start command which starts a new process. Is it possible to get PID of the process just started?
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Where is the 'man' Program for Windows (Program to open UNIX man pages)?

I'm looking for the windows executable for the linux man (manual reader). I tried googling around, but got frustrated with the kind of results it came up with, owing to 'man' being such a common phrase. I got results that read "man executed in…
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Poetry installed but `poetry: command not found`

I've had a million and one issues with Poetry recently. I got it fully installed and working yesterday, but after a restart of my machine I'm back to having issues with it ;( Is there anyway to have Poetry consistently recognised in my Terminal,…
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How do I upload some file into Azure blob storage without writing my own program?

I created an Azure Storage account. I have a 400 megabytes .zip file that I want to put into blob storage for later use. How can I do that without writing code? Is there some interface for that?
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Can't start my virtual Box machine after installing Docker on Windows

To learn ArchLinux, I installed and using ArchLinux in a VirtualBox machine. It runs perfectly. Now I installed Docker on my pc (Windows environment). During the installation of Docker I got a warning, that if I install Docker on Windows, that…
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What do these RubyInstaller 2.4 components do?

A few days ago, RubyInstaller 2.4 for Windows was released. Upon installation, it asks me the following question. _____ _ _____ _ _ _ ___ | __ \ | | |_ _| | | | | | |__ \ |…
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How to install pandas from pip on windows cmd?

I am trying to install pandas using pip to run some pandas-based Python programs. I already installed pip. I tried googling and SO'ing but didn't find a solution to this error. Can somebody share your inputs on this? C:\> pip install…
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How do I force Robocopy to overwrite files?

In general, Robocopy ignores files for which lastwrittendate and filesize are the same. How can we escape this design? I'd like to force overwriting with Robocopy. I expected that dst\sample.txt should be written test001. But these file are…
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What are the differences between msys/git and git-for-windows/mingw-w64-x86_64-git?

To be able to run the test scripts for my cross-platform application also on Windows, I installed MSYS2 and used pacman to install any packages my test scripts rely on. Since MSYS2 provides a port of git (msys/git), I think there is no need to…
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"The filename or extension is too long error" using gradle

I have recently updated my code and when I tried to run our application using g bootRun in the command line, I encountered this error. Stack Trace: org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':bootRun'. at…
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