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Writing software specific to the Microsoft Windows operating system: APIs, behaviors, 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 major 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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How to run a PowerShell script

How do I run a PowerShell script? I have a script named myscript.ps1 I have all the necessary frameworks installed I set that execution policy thing I have followed the instructions on this MSDN help page and am trying to run it like…
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Windows batch files: .bat vs .cmd?

As I understand it, .bat is the old 16-bit naming convention, and .cmd is for 32-bit Windows, i.e., starting with NT. But I continue to see .bat files everywhere, and they seem to work exactly the same using either suffix. Assuming that my code will…
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Remove credentials from Git

I'm working with several repositories, but lately I was just working in our internal one and all was great. Today I had to commit and push code into other one, but I'm having some troubles. $ git push appharbor master error: The requested URL…
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Redirect Windows cmd stdout and stderr to a single file

I'm trying to redirect all output (stdout + stderr) of a DOS command to a single file: C:\>dir 1> a.txt 2> a.txt The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. Is it possible, or should I just redirect to two…
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How do SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT differ?

The man pages and programmer documentations for the socket options SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT are different for different operating systems and often highly confusing. Some operating systems don't even have the option SO_REUSEPORT. The WEB is…
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How to export/import PuTTy sessions list?

Is there a way to do this? Or I have to take manually every record from Registry?
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How do I kill the process currently using a port on localhost in Windows?

How can I remove the current process/application which is already assigned to a port? For example: localhost:8080
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Setting Windows PowerShell environment variables

I have found out that setting the PATH environment variable affects only the old command prompt. PowerShell seems to have different environment settings. How do I change the environment variables for PowerShell (v1)? Note: I want to make my changes…
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Batch file to delete files older than N days

I am looking for a way to delete all files older than 7 days in a batch file. I've searched around the web, and found some examples with hundreds of lines of code, and others that required installing extra command line utilities to accomplish the…
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What is the difference between Cygwin and MinGW?

I want to make my C++ project cross platform, and I'm considering using Cygwin/MinGW. But what is the difference between them ? Another question is whether I will be able to run the binary on a system without Cygwin/MinGW ?
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UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte X in position Y: character maps to

I'm trying to get a Python 3 program to do some manipulations with a text file filled with information. However, when trying to read the file I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "SCRIPT LOCATION", line NUMBER,…
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How can I echo a newline in a batch file?

How can you you insert a newline from your batch file output? I want to do something like: echo hello\nworld Which would output: hello world
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How do I run Redis on Windows?

How do I run Redis on Windows? The Redis download page just seems to offer *nix options. Can I run Redis natively on Windows?
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How to upgrade Git on Windows to the latest version?

I just upgraded to Git 1.8.0.1 for Windows, from my previous version 1.7.9.mysysgit.0. I downloaded the new version from the Git site and installed through the normal Git installer EXE. That said, when I fire up my terminal window, it still is…
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How do I shutdown, restart, or log off Windows via a bat file?

I've been using Remote Desktop Connection to get into a workstation. But in this environment, I cannot use the power options in Start Menu. I need an alternative way to shutdown or restart. How do I control my computer's power state through the…
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