To mount a network drive in WSL2 temporarily (until logoff): To mount the network drive persistently, edit /etc/fstab and add the following: Then execute: Source: https://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/it/support/kb48568/
In PowerShell:
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 regular basis: shell:AppsFolder Applications shell:desktop Desktop shell:downloads %UserProfile%\Downloads shell:Programs %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs shell:Quick Launch %AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch shell:SendTo %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo shell:Start Menu %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu shell:StartMenuAllPrograms StartMenuAllPrograms shell:Startup %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup #shell-commands-table td { […]
You can add things to the “Send To” option in Explorer, by simply creating shortcuts to programs in the following directory: When you put a shortcut here, when you choose this, the file’s full name gets passed as an argument to the program referenced by the shortcut. This can be easier than trying to add […]
Basic usage of robocopy – there are a lot more options, but this is what I find useful: /E will include subdirectories /COPY uses DAT by default (Data, Attributes, Timestamps) /DCOPY uses DA by default /MIR will delete items that are in the target but not the source
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 keyword, but it wasn’t always like this. “God Mode” was built for Windows 7, but still available today. To create a shortcut to “God Mode”, which puts all kinds of […]
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 USB, this seems to work, with the instructions found here: No promises that this will work everywhere.
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 JPG image, you may be able to do it with this command: Prerequisites ImageMagick Ghostscript VC++ 2013 redistributable
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 batch file, and it will convert them all to MP3.
Assuming you have Lame for Audacity installed:
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