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to simply send files by using the Windows Explorer sendto context menu you have to create an Outlook shortcut in the shell:sendto folder.
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Category Archives: Windows knowhow
Howto do some things in Windows
Windows: Working with the linux subsystem (WSL)
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this post contains some examples on how to interact with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. For an installation howto see my previous post.
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Windows: Lock the screen by command line
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there is no command line tool that can lock the screen, but it’s possible by calling the Win32 API function.
This can be done by Rundll32.exe
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Windows 11: Enable the Explorer Ribbonbar
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Windows 11 comes with a “face lift”. The Ribbon bar of the explorer, introduced in Windows Vista, was removed. But many User likes them because many functions like copy etc. can really fast accessed without opening a context menu.
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Windows WSL: Build/Import a custom linux
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WSL is not limited to the OS images from the Micosoft store. You can import custom images either when the distributor offers a mini root file system or you can convert docker os images for the import into wsl. This is described in this post.
Requierments are
- WSL enabled
- Docker Desktop for Windows installed with the WSL 2 backend engine installed, enabled and checked if the integration works
Installation Docker Desktop for Windows. Download latest version, start installation and ensure “Install requiered Windows Components for WSL2” is selected.
Logoff and Logon after installation. Start the Docker Desktop
goto settings and check if wsl2 is enabled
Then go to Resources and select the wsl distributions where docker should be available
An example:
Start the wsl distribution Ubuntu and check if docker works.
D:\> ubuntu2004
michael@windev:~$ docker --version Docker version 20.10.10, build b485636
A “service docker start” as describted in the microsoft documentation is not necessary.
Search docker hub for suitable (offical) OS Image. Here Archlinux
Get the arch linux docker container and start it (see documentation of the vendor)
michael@windev:~$ sudo su root@windev:/home/michael# docker run -it --name archlinux_export archlinux bash -c ls -l Unable to find image 'docker:latest' locally 7a147323bccf: Extracting [============> ] 34.54MB/134.3MB 160ee6c41455: Download complete
Get an id from an archlinux container and export the container to one of your Windows drives. Here D:\temp which is mounted under /mnt/d/temp.
root@windev:/home/michael# docker container list --all| grep -i archlinux_export c50a0039d252 archlinux "bash -c ls -l" 42 seconds ago Exited (0) 40 seconds ago root@windev:/home/michael# docker export c50a0039d252 > /mnt/d/temp/archlinux.tar
Then delete the container and exit wsl
root@windev:/home/michael# docker container rm c50a0039d252
Back on the windows command try to import the archlinux tar file.
D:\> wsl --import archlinux D:\temp\wsl\archlinux D:\temp\archlinux.tar
Check the import
D:\> wsl -l --all archlinux
and start the distibution
C:\Users\Michael>wsl -d archlinux [root@windev Michael]# cat /etc/issue Arch Linux \r (\l)
Michael