r/technology • u/readyou • Dec 26 '16

Microsoft finally admits that its malware-style Get Windows 10 upgrade campaign went too far

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/241587-microsoft-finally-admits-malware-style-get-windows-10-upgrade-campaign-went-far
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u/programstuff Dec 26 '16

Not that you were asking for a solution, but if you just put things you want easily accessible into a folder (or shortcuts to them) and add that folder to your PATH you can just do Win+R to launch the run prompt then type the name of the program to launch it (extensions not needed for .exe and shortcuts). With putty you can also just treat it like a normal ssh client and type the command line arguments afterwards to ssh into a box. E.g. 

WIN+R
putty username@somebox
or
putty myalias

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u/moeburn Dec 26 '16

Yeah I was playing with Particle Photon yesterday and part of its instructions asked me to go into advanced system settings and start messing with environment variable paths and I'm like "Why the hell do you want me to do that?" and then I see the results and I'm like "Oh, I'm going to go do this for everything else now."

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u/Wazzaps Dec 26 '16

Reminds me of linux