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Confuses a hidden Keylogger (if any) by generating a ton of fake key strokes internally.
commandline software
All posts tagged commandline software
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https://mion.yosei.fi/BES/ [ 1 ] was http://mion.faireal.net/BES/ [ 2 ] was floral-magician.marybell.info/BES/
(source code)
Throttles CPU usage. Good for grinding applications to a halt, for testing, or to make sure that CPU-hogging applications don’t shit all over your computer.
Footnotes
prcview.com (gone as of 2016-02-12, archive)
Command line utility allows automating common task like figuring out if particular process is running or killing a running process on scheduler. Has a GUI version.
I’ve never really used it, but it’s stayed in my toolkit because it’s under a megabyte.
- Tested PrcView GUI 3.7.3.1, commandline 3.10.2.1, on 2014-04-24 on Windows 8.1, updated recently.
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Tested PrcView GUI 5.2.15.1, commandline 3.11.1.1, on 2016-02-12 on Windows 10, updated recently.
(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: sysinternals
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
Various GUI and console utilities to do technical stuff on Windows.
Although I don’t actively use this, I easily consider this suite mandatory.
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I may have used this on my Windows 9x days.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
A revision control system.
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aka
hg, which is Mercury (element)
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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: sumatrapdf and sumatrapdf.commandline
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader
Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows.
Seems decent enough.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://chocolatey.org/
A Linux-style package manager for Windows.
Stuff I likely installed using Chocolatey: /tag/software+chocolatey+live
TODO – add my notes, and scripts
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Git >
Provides a reasonable environment for working with Git while trapped on Windows. A console window with Bash, various everyday linux console applications, and git.
I loved it, and used it regularly for sane scripting when trapped on Windows, via bash, as well as for git itself.
I replaced it with Cygwin/Babun.
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Not related to Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190807131131/http://www.zaplet.org:80/adzapper/
A software application that can block ads from being displayed on your web browser.
- I experimented with this during my replacing web browser components project as a replacement for various ad blocking, Greasemonkey and Stylish.
- See also Ad-blocking with Polipo and adzapper.
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This looks like it hasn’t been updated in forever, because there are references to it being tested under Windows 95/98.
(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/
http://www.privoxy.org/
Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.
I experimented with cliget during my replacing web browser components project. I was interested in replacing Greasemonkey and Stylish, Adblock (now I use Adblock Latitude), Change Referer Button, etc. While I did get it working, I didn’t stick with it.
- Based on Internet Junkbuster.
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Polipo is a good solution for
