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Everything[0] search is a great file search utility on Windows. This is one sure productivity booster. [0] https://www.voidtools.com/
This is the one app that keeps me from switching to linux as my primary OS
cat ubuntu.iso > /dev/sdb; reboot
Or just install WSL…
I'll replace WinDirStat with WizTree. It loads immediately because of reading local disk MFT.
I love that the MFT makes utilities like that so fast. I couldn't imagine working without Everything Search. I've never found anything similar for Linux. I think I could do something with locate and a cron job, but that doesn't get instant updates to its database like Everything does.
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Everything is installed as portables in user directory Is that a good thing?
In corporate environments it is, since you don’t have to get permission from the IT police to install VSCode or Firefox or grep. (Of course, you should. But sometimes it’s not an option.)
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Tangentially related, but I wish that running elevated from the shell was more ergonomic. I want to just be able to have a sudo-like command to run elevated from an otherwise non-elevated shell. Instead I have to launch a new instance of the shell host that's elevated. ConEmu makes this feel more seamless by doing some window manipulation hacks to bring elevated and non-elevated into tabs of the same window, but Wind…
> ... a sudo-like command to run elevated from an otherwise non-elevated shell. Something like RunAs? [0] -- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runas
Everything[0] search is a great file search utility on Windows. This is one sure productivity booster. [0] https://www.voidtools.com/
What do folks think of the recommended WinMerge and Perforce Visual Merge, over Beyond Compare? I've been using Beyond Compare for years and have yet to see anything I like better. Total Uninstall should also be on this list, to keep your machine clean if you're like me and try out dozens or hundreds of different software titles per year. SysInternals belongs up there with NirSoft. I used Teracopy for a while but fou…
I enjoy lists like this, so I, for one, would love to see yours. +1 for Beyond Compare. Fantastic tool. Outstanding support from Scooter Software.
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In corporate environments it is, since you don’t have to get permission from the IT police to install VSCode or Firefox or grep. (Of course, you should. But sometimes it’s not an option.)
They can prevent that if they want to (there are tons of admin software to prevent users from install unapproved software on windows) so it really is a nonissue. The main issue is extra space, but that also isn't that big of an issue if the app is written well for updates and I don't know why that would be any more or less efficient when installed by "user" vs "admin"
While they could prevent it, that's not how. The software is never "installed". It's only unzipped to scoops install directory (usually home/scoop/...)
Then it adds the install directory to the PATH and it's done. The copied executables have never been marked as unknown by windows in my experience.
Admins could of course lock down systems to only allow executables with specific hashedls which are manually whitelisted by the admins, but just disallowing installs won't help at all
Disallowing powershell or scripting altogether makes it impossible to use as well.
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They can prevent that if they want to (there are tons of admin software to prevent users from install unapproved software on windows) so it really is a nonissue. The main issue is extra space, but that also isn't that big of an issue if the app is written well for updates and I don't know why that would be any more or less efficient when installed by "user" vs "admin"
> prevent users from install unapproved software While they could prevent it, that's not how. The software is never "installed". It's only unzipped to scoops install directory (usually home/scoop/...) Then it adds the install directory to the PATH and it's done. The copied executables have never been marked as unknown by windows in my experience. Admins could of course lock down systems to only allow executables with…
You can't really do that, as pwsh can be embedded easily.