7-zip do not open the contents of every single self-extracting installer executable. Sometimes you’ll see garbage like this
Here’s a list of the ‘secret’ keys I know to get the core driver files out for slipstream
For a more generic way of capturing temporary files, redirect the temp folder to somewhere with a custom ACL permissions that do not allow deleting:
Year ago I was so desperate to convert my beloved mechanical keyboard to wireless (most built-in ones do not have the kind of right tactile feel I wanted) so I was damn close to building an embedded wireless HID/keyboard on my own (there’s a Hackaday Tutorial for HC-05). Now Handheld Scientific makes it.
This design choice escapes me and is highly annoying. Go go Preferences/Settings > Config Editor (the very bottom problem at the page)
It’s called Advanced Preferences tab. Look up mailnews.default_sort_order and change the value from 1 (ascending) to 2 (descending).
You can change the field to sort by mailnews.default_sort_type. By default it’s 18 (sort by date)
Thanks https://markohoven.com/2021/01/06/descending-sort-order-thunderbird/ for the clue.
Basically Windows is making a diary of every single folder/filenames you’ve visited in chronological order. Just learned about something called ShellBag while using NTlite to slipstream Windows. WTF!
Parents can run a scan with ShellBag Analyzer in their family computer and see what their teenager has been up to!
Everybody should first disable this feature by running this registry settings (or manually creating the DWORD entry and set it to 1) which you can download and execute below:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell] "BagMRU Size"=dword:00000001
Sometimes Windows recovery mode do not have the ‘Startup Repair’ option like this below
I don’t know under what condition it won’t show up (sometimes I plug the system drive to be repaired in a computer, it shows up, at least for Windows 2008 R2), but you can selection Command Prompt (always available) and go to X:\sources\recovery and run startrep.exe to launch the repairing tool.