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ROODAY

14:00

how would I go about getting typing cygwin have the same functionality as typing cmd into the address bar?

barlop

maybe you have to restart to get it to run from the start menu

it works for me

ROODAY

oh is adding path a restart needed thing?

barlop

for the start menu, I don't know, maybe

For a cmd prompt, no

a quicker thing to try is.. end task explorer and restart explorer

ROODAY

how would I do that?

Journeyman Geek

You usually need to log in and out, or start a new session

Iirc

barlop

14:02

ctrl-shift-escape opens task manager

google how to end task explorer.exe it's pretty standard

ROODAY

will it autorestart when I kill it?

barlop

people have been doing it for 20 years.

just google about end task explorer.exe

and it says how to start a new explorer.exe

with pictures too

or just restart it or log out and back in

ROODAY

i see it let me try this

barlop

I have Sublime associated with TXT files.. But i'm getting the problem opening files when there's a space, from start..run So I want to find the place where the parameter is and put quotes around it. But I van't find it!!

I know that's a basic question but I can't see it.. Anybody know where it is?

ROODAY

yea so i killed/restarted explorer, no dice

ill try restarting

barlop

14:05

try logging out and in first

that's quicker

And why did you install cygwin to R:\ ? And it's more standard in windwos to use backslash not forwardslash though windows can apparently use forwardslash

@HackToHell why Boo cygwin? it's awesome

it's like a miracle program

ROODAY

i installed to R cuz my C is almost full

even tho cygwin's pretty small i don't have much space

barlop

@ROODAY If it still doesn't work, try copy c:\windows\system32\calc.exe to r:\cygwin call it calc2 see if it runs calc2.exe Experiment with the PATH put calc2.exe in other directories. Maybe your PATH variable is messed up. This doesn't look like a cygwin issue.

Psycogeek

@barlop ugg been a while, but it is something like this superuser.com/questions/407779/… So you go into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\txtfile\shell\open\command somewhere like this, and put "%1" instead of %1 ?

ROODAY

just to clarify tho

is this a proper looking path variable:

its under user variables: variable = cygwin, value = R:\cygwin

barlop

@Psycogeek weird thing is that path lists notepad but my association is sublime

Psycogeek

14:17

@barlop yea classes are a bloody mess, you know how to find the right item, as far as the quotes i donnot if it is going to work.

barlop

@ROODAY doesn't sound right

Psycogeek

in the 7 system defaults changed by users are in some other mess. So search the program itself? or program %1?

barlop

just use system path

var=path and append cygwin to it

Psycogeek

The system is supposed to handle spaces now , i still avoid the use of them in my stuff.

barlop

@Psycogeek even the run dialog box?

is supposed to handle spaces?

Psycogeek

14:25

here, one program put itself in like that , this is in the users shell open "C:\Audio\GoldWave\GoldWave.exe" "%1" soo it looks proper enough?

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Good you didn't tell "computers brake into them"...

Psycogeek

@barlop it was one of the things they addressed ? oh maybey in the search not the run? I donno I do not type stuff, i only look at the pictures :-)

barlop

I don't know 'cos it doesn't even mention sublime for txt file in the registry there for some reason

in the regulsr start search box the files get listed as you type then you choose the file from there.. so there's no issue with that

but run is good 'cos it has a history

Psycogeek

@barlop well txt there is a whole load of different ones, then you probably changed it only at the user level? so it should hang out somewhere in the users class junk?

ROODAY

i appended R:\cygwin to the path, no dice

ill try restarting

Psycogeek

14:32

easiest to just search the registry for sublime.exe pass up the other 5 things that do not apply, and find the open thing ?

barlop

@Psycogeek searching now found a path in the regustry with 'users' but it has quotes

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-39771273-4062837575-3865552575-1000\Software\Classes\Applica‌tions\sublime_text.exe\shell\open\command

i'll keep going through

Psycogeek

that is probably it.

barlop

but it has quotes

Psycogeek

so i guess the answer is, use spaces in CmD prompt and you gotta stick in quotes?

barlop

well i'm trying from the run dialog box. It works no quotes in XP

not 7

Psycogeek

14:38

de spaces worked here, i tell ya they fixed it :-) i need more stuff to test, amazing how few things had spaces

like i can CD to program files , back a few OSes that would fail

nope, it did not work without quotes and the extention was required too.

that was on the CMD prompt, the "recent" came up in run and it did work with the space

and again, in the RUN item, calling up a movie m:\i foobar.avi shot it off to the video player i have defaulted for it.

oh heck why am i typing a file name , there is a Browse in run , who put that there :-)

the browse put proper quotes around that one. but it worked without quotes, to play a .wav file with spaces to the windows media player.

HackToHell

@barlop I find it cubersome

I prefer booting up a linux vm

Psycogeek

type in linux , use GUI in windows

HackToHell

14:57

gophercon.in/#page-top

The tickets are fucking expensive

Psycogeek

consistant, in CMD prompt window must use proper quotes. In Run window anything goes :-)

I think there is a little guy back in there typing in %20 when he sees spaces ?

in a mac use i-tunes :-)

Psycogeek

15:16

@Boris_yo in america they still go Old School "Jacksonville, Florida, employees at a Synovus Bank branch arrived to discover a bizarre scene. A 10,000-pound variable reach forklift was lodged in the building's drive-through ATM. Apparently the ATM had sustained damage overnight from repeated attempts to crash it open." news.yahoo.com/blogs/odd-news/…

they just wait till you get the money out, then steal it.

user285oo6

15:42

hi does anyone have an idea regarding i tuness

i wanted to know whether the songs in ipod would remain even if i connect the ipod to another system through itunes

or would they get erased with the new playlist

allquixotic

16:06

@HackToHell @Bob is correct; I got a second GPU (a R9 280X, which is the same chip as the 7970, but clocked higher and with a different cooler design) for Star Citizen.

HackToHell

Oh well then you wouldn't have any problems running that and it's f2p !

allquixotic