In Windows Shell programming, the Windows Shell namespace is an organized tree-structured hierarchical representation that Windows Explorer facilitates...
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Explorer, a Windows component that can browse the whole shell namespace. Windows Desktop is a full-screen window rendered behind all other windows. It hosts...
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File Explorer (redirect from Windows shell extension)
Idiot's Guide to Writing Shell Extensions, by Michal Dunn, March 15, 2006 Namespace extensions – the undocumented Windows Shell, by Henk Devos, November...
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Special folder (redirect from Shell folders)
presented through Windows Explorer as a tree of folders that the user can navigate. This is known as the Shell namespace. On Windows XP systems, the root...
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only for Windows, known as Windows PowerShell, it was made open-source and cross-platform on August 18, 2016, with the introduction of PowerShell Core. The...
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VBScript or PowerShell) to manage Microsoft Windows personal computers and servers, both locally and remotely. WMI comes preinstalled in Windows 2000 and later...
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Manager Netsh Netstat QBasic Regsvr32 Robocopy Win32 console Windows Script Host Windows PowerShell XCOPY Commit charge Kernel Transaction Manager Win32 Thread...
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within the control panel. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\Namespace This contains the location of the CLSID variables...
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component in the Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 as System Agent. Its core component is an eponymous Windows service. The Windows Task Scheduler infrastructure...
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GMail Drive (redirect from GMail Drive shell extension)
GMail Drive was a free third-party Windows Shell namespace extension ("add-on") for Google's Gmail. It allowed a user to access a virtual drive stored...
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Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, targeting the server and business markets. It is the direct...
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Path (computing) (redirect from Windows path)
interpreting names like ... Windows NT object manager \\??\-prefixed paths (global DOS namespace). In versions of Windows prior to Windows XP, only the APIs that...
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WebDAV (section Additional Windows-specific extensions)
an HTTP web server by providing facilities for concurrency control and namespace operations, thus allowing the Web to be viewed as a writeable, collaborative...
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Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. It...
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Windows Server 2008, codenamed "Longhorn Server" (alternatives: "Windows Vista Server" or "Windows Server Vista"), is the seventh major version of the...
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Compared with previous versions of Microsoft Windows, features new to Windows Vista are numerous, covering most aspects of the operating system, including...
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Named pipe (section In Windows)
WriteFile) Namespace used to create handles Inefficient WAN traffic (explicit data transfer request, unlike e.g. TCP/IP sliding window, etc.) Peekable...
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namespaces thus usually replace the notion of a search path in the shell. A path environment variable ($path) still exists in the rc shell (the shell...
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PGP. It works with Windows up to (as of 2016) Windows version 10, with the caveat that Turnpike version 6 (due to the shell namespace usage) only works...
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The Windows Master Control Panel shortcut, labeled All Tasks in the Windows Registry and by at least one Microsoft developer, and also often informally...
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ChromeOS (redirect from Chrome shell)
The window manager handles user interaction with multiple client windows (much like other X window managers). ChromeOS includes the Chromium Shell, or...
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My Documents (category Windows components)
Documents" to a folder on a file server. My Briefcase Home directory Windows Shell namespace "Configuration of the My Documents Folder". Support (3.4 ed.)....
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Symbolic link (section Shell objects)
folders in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows Vista or in Windows 7". support.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2021-07-08. Creating Shell Extensions...
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File URI scheme (section Windows)
applications on Windows systems, referring to the same, local file c:\WINDOWS\clock.avi file://localhost/c:/WINDOWS/clock.avi file:///c:/WINDOWS/clock.avi Here...
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Drive letter assignment (redirect from Windows drive)
arbitrarily in a single hierarchical namespace, drive letter assignment allows multiple highest-level namespaces. Drive letter assignment is thus a process...
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through folder paths of shell namespace extensions, removable drives, and network shares when the navigation pane (Folders) in Windows Explorer is turned on...
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desktop application launchers work with Microsoft Windows operating systems only. Via shell namespace extensions inside the menu PortableApps.com branding...
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Windows Vista contains many new features, a number of capabilities and certain programs that were a part of previous Windows versions up to Windows XP...
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pkgsrc, and Portage—have Darwin ports. Some of these operate in their own namespace so as not to interfere with the base system. GNU-Darwin was a project...
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LiteStep (category Desktop shell replacement)
a Windows Shell replacement for Windows 9x and up, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). LiteStep replaces the Windows Shell...
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