Category Archives: Windows

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rsync: Using rsync with puttyagent on Windows

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the often called question: Can I run rsync on Windows by using the putty agent?

Answer: Yes, but there a some steps to setup such an environment.
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Windows: Enable (WSL) Windows Subsystem for Linux

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these are the steps to enable WSL (2) on Windows 10 >= 2004.

Open Powershell with administrator permissions (right click) and install the features VirtualMachinePlatform and Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux.
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Windows: Capture a network trace with builtin tools (netsh)

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Windows Event tracing also supports the capturing of network traffic which can be reed by Wireshark, Microsoft Network Monitor or the Microsoft Message Analyzer.

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Powershell: Change the title of the powershell window from a script

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sometimes it would be nice to see the status of a script in the title of the powershell window.
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Windows: Manage applications with winget

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winget is a new tool from microsoft which acts as a package manager like apt, zypper or yum.

Installing winget (latest version on 26.01.2021 is 0.2.3162 Preview)
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