You can buy me a coffee. Share your insightful comments here. When dealing with software bugs, how you ask the question determines how likely you are to get a good answer. To me programming is talking with a computer. The computer understands zeroes and ones, nothing in between. So when someone has a bug and tells a story instead of giving the relevant zeroes and ones, chances are they will never find a solution.
One of the things that get usually ignored on a server is the firewall. A firewall is a security measure to block all unwanted connections. Unfortunately, the rules are written in gibberish. That's how I felt every time I had set up a new server. I have to search through multiple tutorials to find the right values to add to my settings. This is my attempt to document as much as possible so I can come back here to refresh my mind, and you can help yourself too of course.
Programmers like to set up their machines their own way. Sometimes restricting their environment to strict corporate policies will directly affect their creativity.
Luckily with Apache and PHP it is possible to create unique profiles for each developer to allow them to configure their environment in the way they want without affecting others. Andy Jun 20 :. Ibrahim Jun 20 :. Manish Oct 2 :. Ibrahima Diallo Oct 2 :. Manish I just tested it by downloading a jpeg file with curl, wget, and Invoke-WebRequest and the sizes are all the same. There is no extra compression with Invoke-WebRequest , all it does is download the file as is.
Ibrahim Oct 15 :. Ibrahim Jul 24 :. The first thing you need to do is find the file extension for the file that you want to set a default app for. This is easy enough; open File Explorer to the location with the file in it. Right-click the file and select Properties from the context menu. This command will return the file type that the file is. This result is what you need to execute the command to set a file app association.
Next, find the absolute path to the EXE of the app you want to associate with the file type. Run the following command. From this point forward, Windows 10 will use the set app to open the type of file you associated with it.
An error on Windows 10 may cause a file app association to reset. Fixed savescreenshotfull command to work properly on multiple screen system with negative coordinates. Added 'Flash' action to the win command, with allows you to flash the specified window. Added max and min options Minimized and maximized windows into exec and exec2 commands.
Added x64 builds of nircmd. Added sendkeypress command - Alternative to the sendkey command. Added setconsolemode command to set the console display mode - window or full screen. Added setconsolecolor command to set the foreground and background colors of the console text.
Added consolewrite command to write text into the console window. Added debugwrite for writing text into the debug output. Added monitor parameter to setdisplay command, for using it with multiple monitors. Added setprimarydisplay command. Added folder. You can try them if NirCmd. For example, if you type 'nircmd. Added currtime and currdate variables. Added rem or ; command, just for adding remarks in a script.
Added savescreenshotfull command. New command: closeprocess NirCmd now returns a non-zero value on error. New optional parameter in setdisplay command: refresh rate. New options in clipboard command. Volume commands setsysvolume, changesysvolume, setsysvolume2, changesysvolume2, mutesysvolume now allows you to change the volume of non-default sound card.
New actions in win command: move, center, settext. New gac command: Allows you to install assemblies in Global Assembly Cache.
In previous versions, NirCmd was statically linked to rasapi New actions in win command: trans, setsize, settopmost, ititle. New variables: folder. New commands for executing NirCmd on remote machines: remote and multiremote.
Folder and system variables. New option in setfiletime command - set the file time to the current time now parameter New parameter in shortcut command - hot key. License This utility is released as freeware. You are allowed to freely distribute this utility via floppy disk, CD-ROM, Internet, or in any other way, as long as you don't charge anything for this. If you distribute this utility, you must include all files in the distribution package, without any modification! Using NirCmd utility This utility is a standalone executable, and it doesn't require any installation process or additional DLLs.
It's recommended to copy the executable of NirCmd nircmd. Starting from version 1. In the console version, all error messages goes to the console window, instead of using a message box. General Syntax Of NirCmd nircmd. If you specify this parameter, an error message will be displayed on the screen if an error is occurred during the execution of the command. Otherwise, any error will be ignored.
For example: nircmd. If the dialing process is failed on the first example, an error message describing the problem will be displayed. If the dialing process is failed on the second example, error message won't be displayed. Special String Sequences Starting from version 1. System Variables Starting from version 1. The following table specifies the variables that you can use: Variable Name Description clipboard Represents the text that you copied into the clipboard.
The text that you type will be inserted into the command line. For example: in the following command, you will be asked to type 2 parameters 1 and 2 , and the text that you type will appear in the message box. For more information, see paramsfile command sys. TimeFormat Specifies the current time, according to the format specified in 'TimeFormat' section.
DateFormat Specifies the current date, according to the format specified in 'DateFormat' section. H Hours with no leading zero for single-digit hours; hour clock. HH Hours with leading zero for single-digit hours; hour clock. M Month as digits with no leading zero for single-digit months. MM Month as digits with leading zero for single-digit months. MMM Month as a three-letter abbreviation. MMMM Month as its full name. Executing NirCmd commands on remote computers Starting from version 1.
You cannot use it on Windows 9x machines. You must log on to the remote machine as administrator. The Schedule service in the remote machine must be started.
The command in the remote machine is executed under 'SYSTEM' account, and thus some commands may not work in the same way as you execute them locally. There are 2 commands for executing NirCmd in remote machines: remote - for executing command on a single remote computer. Help Command If you don't remember the exact syntax of a command, you can always look in the help file of NirCmd NirCmd.
You must specify this parameter if NirCmd doesn't exist in the Windows directory of the remote machine. You must specify this parameter if NirCmd doesn't exist in the Windows directory of the remote machines. The [computers file] parameter is a file that contains the computers list separated by Enter characters CRLF. Examples: Turn off all computers specified in computers.
Between the command executions, NirCmd will wait the number of Milliseconds specified in the second parameter. The text file can be comma-delimited, tab-delimited, semicolon-delimited, or delimited by any char that you specify in [Delimiters] parameter. Here's an example Example: infobox "This is a message box! If the user answers "Yes", run a program Example: qbox "Do you want to run the calculator? If the user answers "Yes", execute the NirCmd command in the third parameter.
Examples: qboxcom "Do you want to lock your workstation? If the key you specify in [key] parameter doesn't exist, it'll automatically be created. This command will failed if the specified key has one or more subkeys. If the file doesn't exist, it'll automatically be created. In the first parameter, specify "reg" for registering files, or "unreg" for unregistering files. In the second parameter, you can specify a single file that you want to register or unregister, or multiple files, by using wildcard.
The third parameter is optional, and specifies a log filename for saving the results of the registering operation. Except the [Entry Name] parameter, all other parameters are optional. If you don't specify the optional parameters or you specify empty string "" , the default values are used. This command is only supported If Internet Explorer version 4. Be aware that this command might not work on old versions of Windows You can use this command to disconnect a connection that you previously created with inetdial or rasdial commands.
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