Useful utilities/programs, windows only

[Jojo202]

what is the purpose of this feature?? Trying to think of a use case aside from being lazy and opening a web browser

Exactly

[etech0]

Saves a few steps if all the stars line up

[Choshive Yid]

what is the purpose of this feature?? Trying to think of a use case aside from being lazy and opening a web browser

It can open any address:
For example,
- if you put in a file path, it will open the file. (EG: file.docx)
- if you put a terminal command, it will run it for you (EG: msg * "Hello, world!")
- Any other valid uri (EG: I have Windows subsystem for android and I can put "wsa://com.android.settings" to open the settings app)

By default, if none of those match, it assumes its a web url and opens it in the default browser. As someone who uses that address bar often (computer programmer), it really annoys me when I do a typo and that happens. I think there is a way to turn it off, but I haven't looked into it.

[etech0]

you can use it for anything you'd put in the "run" box. eg: "winword" to open Word

[Alexsei]

you can use it for anything you'd put in the "run" box. eg: "winword" to open Word

Or cmd, or add custom commands, but nowadays just get used to to power toys run

[Yisroel Tech]

Found today Sudo for Windows that Microsoft recently added to Windows 11 (in version 24H2).

For power users it can be pretty annoying when trying to run a command/application in terminal (CMD/PowerShell) and then realize it doesn't work, or it's not good enough, because you are in a non-elevated terminal. And then you need to open a new terminal window As Administrator and run it...

This is the solution for this issue! Just like in Linux terminal you can always run a single command with elevated permission by using sudo, this is the Windows implementation of that idea, and it comes built-in with Windows (just needs to be enabled.)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-for-windows/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sudo/

[Choshive Yid]

Found today Sudo for Windows that Microsoft recently added to Windows 11 (in version 24H2).

For power users it can be pretty annoying when trying to run a command/application in terminal (CMD/PowerShell) and then realize it doesn't work, or it's not good enough, because you are in a non-elevated terminal. And then you need to open a new terminal window As Administrator and run it...

This is the solution for this issue! Just like in Linux terminal you can always run a single command with elevated permission by using sudo, this is the Windows implementation of that idea, and it comes built-in with Windows (just needs to be enabled.)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-for-windows/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sudo/

Yeah, very cool. Until now I've used https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo. Let us know how the native MS one is.

[Randomex]

To copy the names of multiple files at once, highlight them, hold Shift, right-click, and select "Copy as path."
(You may then need to find-and-replace the location data, e.g., "C:\Users\[yournamehere]\Desktop\.)