Put it back to sleep. Reason: drive is needed less than 1 hour every day; no point in incurring the wear, tear and power expenditure by having it spin all the time. Related question: Assuming the ...

Windows Package Manager is a free and open source utility from Microsoft that allows you to download, install and manage apps from the command line in Windows 10 or Windows 11. First introduced in ...

I want to design a web frontend to a commmand line utility I have. The command line utility detects whether a custom microcontroller I have is "Active" or "Inactive". I would like to have a web page ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Awhile back, you answered a DOSBox question for me (Geek Note: IGTM #723, May 30, 2021 and IGTM #779, Jun 26, ...

Windows Package Manager is a utility that lets you install Windows applications from a command prompt, much the way you can with most Linux distributions. Up until recently though, you could only ...

Microsoft has published a document with details about further WMI Command Line utility (WMIC) deprecation. It will soon be off by default and eventually removed from the next-gen Windows version.

I have written a couple of different articles about ChromeOS Flex and FydeOS, both of which are based on ChromiumOS and allow you to run ChromeOS on x64 systems. I have found both to be helpful ways ...