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Windows 10

Windows – fast install of GitHub.

If you want to quickly install GitHub in Windows, then you can use PowerShell and the winget utility, like this:

C:\>powershell
Windows PowerShell
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PS C:\> winget install --id Git.Git -e --source winget
Found Git [Git.Git] Version 2.41.0
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.41.0.windows.1/Git-2.41.0-64-bit.exe
  ██████████████████████████████  57.8 MB / 57.8 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
The installer will request to run as administrator, expect a prompt.
Successfully installed

C:\>powershell

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PS C:\> winget install --id Git.Git -e --source winget

Found Git [Git.Git] Version 2.41.0

This application is licensed to you by its owner.

Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.

Downloading https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.41.0.windows.1/Git-2.41.0-64-bit.exe

██████████████████████████████ 57.8 MB / 57.8 MB

Successfully verified installer hash

Starting package install...

The installer will request to run as administrator, expect a prompt.

Successfully installed

Windows – Toolwiz Care tested on Windows 10.

Toolwiz Care is a free suite of tools and applications for your computer that aim to optimize your system’s performance and manage clutter. Clean and remove unnecessary files and data and free up disk space to improve speed and allow your computer to run as efficiently and effectively as possible. Additionally, it includes a number… Read More »

Windows – Pieces for Visual Code and browsers.

Pieces is a first-in-kind productivity suite that optimizes developer tools and eliminates the chaos of context switching. You can find it on this webpage. Will come with extensions for browsers and Visual Code.

PowerShell tips – part 027.

Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) is a graphical host application that enables you to read, write, run, debug, and test scripts and modules in a graphic-assisted environment., see the official webpage. You can start on the command shell with this command:

powershell_ise.exe

1	powershell_ise.exe

You can run PowerShell commands in this environment, let’s see the version… Read More »

Windows – ReactOS another Windows O.S.

ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system for amd64/i686 personal computers intended to be binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Windows., read more on Wikipedia. If you have old hardware then this is a good idea to use your Windows applications with ReactOS. The… Read More »

Programming with FASM – reading from file.

In the last article tutorial, I wrote about how to write a message to a text file named file.txt. Now, I will show you how to read that message. You must use the ReadFile function defined after fileapi.h, in WIN32AX.INC. The text is shown in modal dialog – has some limitations in terms of mode… Read More »

Windows – Process Hacker tool.

Process Hacker is a powerful free and open-source process viewer. There are two versions, 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64), and help users to see the Windows processes and comes with some features and plugins …

Programming with FASM – writing to file.

In this simple example, I will show how to write a file using the assembly programming language with FASM, known as flat assembler. You can use the FASM editor with the FASMW.EXE executable. Open this editor and use this commented source code:

;define format of exe file
format pe console 4.0
;include file WIN32AX
;http://flatassembler.net/docs.php?article=win32
include 'INCLUDE/WIN32AX.INC'
; define data for code
.data
 ;this will be the filename of file
 filename db 'file.txt',0
 ; this string will be write on the file
 buffer_text db 'This is a test by Catalin!'
 ; this is the size for WriteFile based on buffer_text
 buffer_size = $ - buffer_text
 ; define a space
 bytes_to_write dd ?
; the code for running
.code
 main:
 invoke  CreateFile,filename, GENERIC_WRITE, 0, 0, 4, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0
 ;https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-writefile
 invoke  WriteFile, eax, buffer_text, buffer_size, bytes_to_write, 0
 ;https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-exitprocess
 invoke  ExitProcess, 0
.end main

;define format of exe file

format pe console 4.0

;include file WIN32AX

;http://flatassembler.net/docs.php?article=win32

include 'INCLUDE/WIN32AX.INC'

; define data for code

.data

;this will be the filename of file

filename db 'file.txt',0

; this string will be write on the file

buffer_text db 'This is a test by Catalin!'

; this is the size for WriteFile based on buffer_text

buffer_size = $ - buffer_text

; define a space

bytes_to_write dd ?

; the code for running

.code

main:

invoke CreateFile,filename, GENERIC_WRITE, 0, 0, 4, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0

;https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-writefile

invoke WriteFile, eax, buffer_text, buffer_size, bytes_to_write, 0

;https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-exitprocess

invoke ExitProcess, 0

.end main

Each step is describe in the source code. Run and test with… Read More »