/wpg/ - Windows & Powershell General

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Windows tricks, useful programs, issues, fixes, and PowerShell snippets, hacks, utility scripts etc/ anything you have, share here.

oniichan

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# Resources ### Official https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/overview?view=powershell-7.5 ### PowerShell Forum https://forums.powershell.org/ ### Awesome Powershell https://github.com/janikvonrotz/awesome-powershell Contribute what you have.

Anonymous

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>>3038 I just use custom aliases and functions they are useful

oniichan

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>>3040 Share share.

oniichan

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Small function to add instagram accounts of people I found by reverse searching bhach pics to an archive. [code] $archive_name = "bhach_ig_archive" $archive_path = "$HOME\Documents\" function Add-ToInstaArchive { param([Parameter(Position = 0)]$url) $file = "$archive_path\$archive_name" if (-not (Get-Content -Path $file | ? {$_ -eq $url})) { Add-Content -Path "$archive_path\$archive_name" -Value $url } else { Write-Host "Account already exists in the archive! else" } } [/code]

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>>3041 I wrote few for my own usage has personal data. I will see what i can share.

oniichan

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[code] function ytmp3 { param([Parameter(Position=0, Mandatory)][string]$url) yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" } [/code]

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lofi bgm [code] function lofi { $lofi_urls = @( "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__1uVWUSJe4", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_dAUVZXSqo", "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ap3PAXuRwI" ) $idx = Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum $lofi_urls.Length $selected_url = $lofi_urls[$idx] # I am assuming you already have mpv installed! mpv --no-video "$selected_url" } [/code]

Bengali Rad

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atp just switch to linux.

oniichan

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>>3059 I want to but I am forced to daily drive win11 for reasons (course exams related) Tho I must say powershell is comfy too, despite being so verbose.

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It'd be great if Dyaush implemented syntax highlighting with more colors. picrel is lainchan's syntax highlighting and it's so comfy. ### Text Trim [code] function Trim-Text { param( [string]$text, [int]$max_width = 80 ) if ($text.Length -ge $max_width) { return $text.Substring(0, $max_width - 3) + '...' } return $text } [/code]

Anonymous

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>>3063 font looks nice yaara, which font is it?

oniichan

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>>3064 It's monospace

Bengali Rad

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>>3062 dual boot. make partition. select new partition when installing

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>>3069 Fuarrked my system last time I tried dual booting, so I am wary of it. I'll try again someday or maybe during vacation period.

Bengali Rad

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>>3076 My dual boot setup had linux first and did the partitioning from there. But i have seen people succeed from windows too

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Downloads folder cleaner. Runs before I shutdown my laptop. [code] Set-StrictMode -Version Latest $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' $categories = @{ ('docx', 'doc', 'odt', 'txt', 'pdf', 'rtf', 'md') = 'documents'; ('xlsx', 'xls', 'csv', 'ods', 'tsv') = 'spreadsheets'; ('pptx', 'ppt', 'odp', 'key') = 'presentations'; ('jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif', 'bmp', 'svg', 'webp', 'heic') = 'img'; ('mp4', 'mov', 'avi', 'mkv', 'webm', 'wmv') = 'vid'; ('zip', 'rar', '7z', 'tar', 'gz') = 'archive'; ('exe', 'msi', 'apk', 'bat', 'dll') = 'exec' } $idk = 'idk' $DOWNLOADS = "$HOME\Downloads" # set current working directory to the downloads folder Set-Location -Path $DOWNLOADS # files $files = Get-ChildItem -Path "$DOWNLOADS" | Where-Object {$_.Mode -notlike "d*"} function Clean-FileName { param([string]$fname) $fname = $fname.ToLower().Trim() $fname = $fname -replace "[\s_-]+", "-" return $fname } # check if directories for the categories exists. if not, make them foreach ($category in $categories.GetEnumerator()) { if (! (Test-Path -PathType Container ".\$($category.Value)")) { # directory doesn't exist. New-Item -ItemType Directory "$($category.Value)" } } # check if the directory for "idk" exists if (! (Test-Path -PathType Container $idk)) { New-Item -ItemType Directory $idk } foreach ($f in $files) { $fname = $f.BaseName $fext = $f.Extension $fcategory = "" $newfname = Clean-FileName $fname if ($fext) { foreach ($kv in $categories.GetEnumerator()) { if ($fext.SubString(1) -in $kv.Key) { $fcategory = $kv.Value; } } } if (! $fcategory) { $fcategory = $idk } try { Move-Item -Path $f.FullName -Destination "$fcategory\$($newfname + $fext)" } catch { Write-Host "Some error occurred while moving file: $fname" Write-Host "Error message: $($_.Exception.Message)" } } [/code]

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>>3104 >linux filesystem issues destroyed 2 pendrives brutal. what were you trying to do sirs?

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>>3104 please eggsplain(lole) maybe we can you

chota nunnu

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>>3111 will respond with a long comment tomorrow to tired to type today

Anonymous

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>>3104 what file system do you use ?? ext4 or btrfs ?? i have NEVER faced any issues with ext4. i have ny own bunch of hard drives and pen drives. i have had issues with btrfs before but that was due to my own dimwit. ext4 just werks.

Anonymous

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>>3117 waiting sir

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from 4chan/g/ # Activate Windows and Office Run below command in powershell. [code] irm https://get.activated.win | iex [/code] ## Useful Programs - All in one Visual C++ Runtime Installer https://github.com/abbodi1406/vcredist ## Partition Managers https://www.paragon-software.com/us/free/pm-express https://cdn2.minitool.com/?p=pw&e=pw-free https://www.diskpart.com/download-home.html https://download2.easeus.com/epm.php?product=epm_free https://gparted.org/download.php ## Archive Utility https://www.7-zip.org/download.html https://www.win-rar.com/download.html ## Torrent Client https://www.qbittorrent.org/download ## Media Players https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases https://potplayer.daum.net https://www.kmplayer.com/home https://www.smplayer.info/en/download-windows ## Codecs for x265/x264 that may not come bundled even with newer video players https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/releases ## Image Viewers https://www.xnview.com/en/xnview/#downloads https://www.faststone.org/FSIVDownload.htm https://nomacs.org/docs/getting-started/installation https://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm [I use this] https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview https://en.bandisoft.com/bandiview (formerly HoneyView) ## Fast File Search https://www.voidtools.com/downloads (Everything) # Software ## Piracy https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/software https://w16.monkrus.ws [for adobe software] ## PDF Viewers/Editors https://www.pdfgear.com/pdfgear-for-windows/ https://www.foxit.com/downloads/#Foxit-PhantomPDF-Standard https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader [i use this] https://pdf-xchange.eu/pdf-xchange-editor/trial-form.htm ## PDF Utility https://pdfsam.org/ https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf https://www.pdfgear.com/ ## Package Managers https://github.com/marticliment/UniGetUI https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop https://chocolatey.org [i use this] # Misc ## Drive space usage analyzers https://diskanalyzer.com/download https://windirstat.net/download.html https://customers.jam-software.de/downloadTrial.php ## Mass Youtube video and playlist downloader yt-dlp based front-end GUI made for Windows https://github.com/ErrorFlynn/ytdlp-interface Standalone downloaders https://stacher.io https://github.com/NickvisionApps/Parabolic https://www.4kdownload.com (daily limit 10 downloads) ## Advanced Notepad replacement https://notepad-plus-plus.org ## Fast advanced video converter (for making WebMs) https://www.xmedia-recode.de/en/download.php ## File recovery https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/recuva_portable.html [ works nicely ] http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete Few more links here: https://pastebin.com/hN8nnwns