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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 life windows • 211w
Windows: Single click to open
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So while I was traveling through the menus to change the 'Show hidden files' options in a new Windows system I was cursed to used, I saw once more the the 'Single-click to open an item'.

I had seen it plenty of times, but for some reason it hit me this time. Why do we double click to open a file? Obviously because you don't want to open a file when you just click it. But why do we need to single click a file? for what?

But there must be reason... no there is no reason. 

And of course, if we check some web based file explorers like Google Drive, in the web were all the links are single click, we see that... it uses... double click... Never mind.

So lets try it, some other issue may pop up. [after 1 week] Some double opened files but we will get used to it. [after 1 month] Forgot even I switched to single click, everything is fine with half the clicks.

Making the world more optimized place.



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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 life windows • 301w
Windows: Uninstalling programs
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Time to clean up the old windows machine a bit (Linux user here).

So I go looking for the good old control panel, but I find the "Settings" so I go there. Let me skip the whole design and usability comments.

The thing is that when you click tap the Uninstall button there is some times a huge delay until the admin confirm thing pops up. I don't know why this is, if its a security thing or just a bug.

So I thought I could open the whole "Settings" as an admin and then the confirm thing would not pop up.

Long story short, the only relevant thing I could find was to open with admin the command prompt. And from there you can start the control.exe which is actually the old classic control panel. 

But nope, your are still in user mode.

After some googling research I found out that this is a fake cmd admin (the one in the start menu), you need to run `runas /u:administrator cmd` to get the actual admin cmd. And before you do that you need to kill the exploer.exe that already runs. 

Then to restore the explorer you need to open admin task manager to kill the admin exploer and open non-admin cmd and ....


PS: In this process I had the pleasure to uninstall the microsoft silverlight


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Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 utils windows • 49w
Windows: Copy only what's new or changed
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Copy all files (/H /G) and directories (/E) that are either new or changed (/D /Y)

xcopy C:\From C:\To /D /E /I /H /Y /G


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