Thanks to Shawn Brink for publishing the complete list on https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3109-shell-commands-list-windows-10-a.html Here is a subset of that list of items that I use on a […]
Send To
You can add things to the “Send To” option in Explorer, by simply creating shortcuts to programs in the following directory: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo When you put […]
Robocopy
Basic usage of robocopy – there are a lot more options, but this is what I find useful: robocopy c:\temp\input\ c:\temp\output\ /E /COPY:DAT /DCOPY:DAT /XF […]
God Mode in Windows
Windows settings are scattered all over the place. In Windows 10, the Start Menu search function does a pretty good job of finding settings by […]
Create Bootable USB from Windows
I’ve had amazingly bad luck with different programs and operating systems, just trying to create bootable thumb drives. In Windows, when creating a Windows bootable […]
Convert PDF to JPG
This is a pretty limited use case, probably something that will never be needed, but if you need to convert a PDF file to a […]
Convert MP4 to MP3
Using FFmpeg for Audacity command line tool, here’s a simple batch file that lets you drag a series of MP4 files on top of the […]
Convert WAV to MP3
Assuming you have Lame for Audacity installed: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Lame For Audacity\lame.exe” –preset standard –ta “THE_ARTIST” –tt “THE_TITLE” “INPUT_FILE.wav” “OUTPUT_FILE.mp3”
Batch file basics
Disable echo: @echo off Loops over fixed values: for %%a in (a b c) do ( echo %%a) Variables: set somevar=myvalueecho %somevar%echo %temp%echo first […]
Run .NET Windows app as Administrator
Sometimes you need to do adminstrative things from your Windows application. You can either force the user to “Run as Administrator”, which is annoying to […]