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Multiple ways to open PowerShell in the current Explorer window
These techniques are generic and can be used for other items like command prompt as well. A word of caution, everything given below involves fiddling with the registry so please backup your system’s registry or create a restore point before trying this out.
1) Adding it to Vista Explorer’s toolbar:
This is the most convenient one [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Context sensitive auto-completion using PowerShell, PowerTab and GIT
Powertab is an Awesome PowerShell TabExpansion extension. It extends the default PowerShell autocompletion and shows the results like:
The best part is that it is easily customizable.
One way to customize it is by editing it Tab Expansion database file which is located in your powershell profile directory:
TabExpansion.xml
Displaying GIT Branch on your PowerShell prompt
PowerShell is a command line shell like the command prompt (cmd.exe) but with a lot more features. It can be downloaded from here.
One of the features is that you can change the default prompt. Prompt can be changed by overriding the function with name “prompt”.
This function can be declared inside the PowerShell profile file which [...]
Compiling and Installing GIT on windows under cygwin
Using GIT was one of the requirements of one of the project that I am doing. Here is how I installed GIT on Windows.
So What is GIT?
The supplied documentation of GIT says that:
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access [...]
New and Improved Sudo for Vista (now remembers credentials)
In one of my earlier blog post I shared source code for a simple utility that I had made. It could be used to launch elevated processes from the command line.
So opening a Elevated command prompt was as simple as writing
sudo cmd
Actually the code for this is very simple as it just executes a well [...]
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