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If I start a Modern-UI app and then switch to a different app or a normal program running on the desktop, what happens to the first app?
Yes the app enters a suspended state (you can check its resources in task manager). Apps will be suspended when you are not using them, this is for performance. When suspended you won't feel your system 'lag' (ie ...
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Most programs follow the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (man hier): libraries go to /usr/lib, configuration files to /etc, static data to /usr/share, and so on.
Some self-contained programs put all data in /opt/<program>/.
.deb/.rpm packages are not supposed to be unpacked manually – they should be handled by the apropriate program, dpkg or rpm.
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The Skype account has been linked with your Microsoft Account. At the time, there is no way to remove this link.
Found this on Skype forum:
Unlinking Microsoft Account
Please contact Skype customer service as they can help you unmerging
Microsoft accounts that were merged with a Skype account incorrectly.
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Don't do it. Installers will usually report requiring elevation anyway. If they don't, Windows will probably ask whether the installation succeeded and give you an option to redo the process with elevation.
For incidental use, take half a second to right-click and run as admin, or type the executable's name in the start menu's search, then hit ...
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Look at aclock.
Aclock is an analog clock program for text mode console displays, terminals, or terminal emulators. This program is obviously absolutely useless, except for turning your old, expensive mainframe or supercomputer into a wall clock.
It has also the bonus of running pretty much anywhere: from DOS to Linux to old UNIX systems.
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Application:
Application software, also known as an application or an app, is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. So, you are right. An application is something that the user interacts with.
Process:
A computer program is a passive collection of instructions; a process is the actual execution of those instructions. Several ...
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Windows XP still makes up nearly 50% of the install base of Windows. When you add in 32-bit Vista and 32-bit Windows 7 installations, 60 - 70% of Windows PC's are running a 32-bit operating systems.
Click here for May 2011 Windows install base stats
Software companies won't release 64-bit software until a large enough slice of the market has a 64-bit ...
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I'll give you two options. One possibility is to disable it entirely, in System Preferences -> General pane -> disable "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps".
You can also disable it temporarily while quitting an application. Just quit with Command-Option-Q -- a shortcut for "Quit and Discard Widows", which is also available under the ...
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Yes, it is called AutoIt.
You would use something like this:
While 1 ;loop indefinitely
WinActivate("notepad","") ;give focus to notepad
Sleep(30000) ;sleep 30 seconds
WinActivate("wordpad","") ;give focus to wordpad
Sleep(30000) ;sleep 30 seconds
WEnd
WinActivate() gives focus to the window with exact or closest matching title, in cases ...
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Command like nethogs can be used for the requirement. You can install it using sudo apt-get install nethogs from the command line.
NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process. NetHogs does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. If there's ...
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Bryan here. Guy behind Less.app. The above locations for the data file and preferences are correct. The reason the app stores the information in a "don't mess with this" format is that it was never designed to be used across machines.
Here's the reason: say you have two computers. They both have the exact same website project in the exact same location. ...
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This is a very complex question with many possible answers. However, a VPN would probably work best for this case. This will allow for Y and Z to access the database server while restricting access to the rest of the world. There may be performance issues with running a VPN over a consumer DSL line as the upload speed on these lines it quite slow. You many ...
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There are plenty of virtual-desktop programs.
Dexpot has been gaining in popularity and functionality over the years.
VirtuaWin frequently appears near the top of search results (for a reason).
Virtual Dimension has some nice functions including transparencies.
Finestra is nice and easy to use.
Sysinternals Desktops is a simple virtual desktop manager.
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On Windows (and possibly other 64-bit operating systems), 32 bit applications are supported. One possible advantage of a 32 bit application is therefore greater portability.
The main advantage of a 64 bit application is that it can access 4GB or more of memory as a flat address space. However, relatively few applications benefit from that. The disadvantage ...
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If you are registered as a dev, you can get the iOS dev center that will let you emulate an iOS device..
http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action
as far as an app for a general user to download, i dont think there are any legal apps that let you do that.
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This is built in to Windows 7. There should be a border around the icon.
Internet Explorer pinned and not running:
Internet Explorer pinned, running, and minimized:
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Take a look at this; in particular I'd recommend the tput example, since that permits more or less exactly what you have in mind, and is fairly lightweight in a shell script -- which echoing escape sequences directly is not. tput also respects termcap/terminfo, which will help to make your scripts more portable.
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Activate the charm bar with win - C
Go to Settings then Accounts then Click on the account you want to delete, scroll all the way down on the accounts settings page, and click on the remove account button
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This really is a matter of legality. Microsoft does not permit regions to access the app-store unless they are able to sell the apps legally in that country.
Reasons they cannot sell apps can include everything from issues with tax-collection, export fees and even laws against exporting of security technology. Asking us for instructions on how-to ...
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For Windows if you have Aero you can do Win+Tab however it is just the same thing as Alt Tab but with fancier switching.
and the latter cycles (in an unpredictable order). What I want is to
move through my open applications in a circular buffer order.
It is a predictable order and it is a circular buffer, however it is a sorted Circular buffer. The ...
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Unless the program is designed to be a screen saver you can't run it when the computer is locked. By this I mean when the computer becomes idle and the rules for a screen saver apply.
Obviously if the program is already running it will continue to run. If you want to see it still running then you need to disable the screen saver.
If it is a screen saver go ...
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There are no universally applicable hard definitions for these things.
Program
A program used to be a single binary executable file, perhaps with associated library files and most likely dependent on shared libraries provided with the operating system (or with a specific run-time environment provided with, or installed on, the operating system.
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Visor
a system-wide terminal on a hot-key
It will basically show Terminal.app with a system-wide hot-key from wherever you are.
iTerm2
iTerm2 can also do that if you need a Terminal with a system-wide shortcut. It won't "fly down" though Apparently, it does fly down! iTerm2 has a bit more features than the default Terminal.app, so it's worth ...
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Use the built-in shutdown timer in windows, shutdown.exe. It lets you specify how long to display a warning for, and what the warning text should be. Cancelling the shutdown requires administrative privileges or granting the user permission via group policy to manage timed shutdowns.
To initiate a shutdown, use the following command from the command ...
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It is much simpler than a script: Just copy the shortcuts to the Startup Program folder.
It is located here on XP:
C:\Documents and
Settings\ProfileName\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup
And here on Vista/Windows 7:
C:\Users\ProfileName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs\Startup
The easiest way to get to the folder is to go ...
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As slhck suggests, I would use a revision control system to record changes, whenever you check in a change you have an opportunity to type in a message stating the reason for the change.
For database structure changes I use a revision control system to manage a set of SQL DDL commands "create table ...; create index ..." which I edit whenever I make a ...
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It depends on which Applications folder you mean. In fact, there can be two:
/Applications
This one is owned by root, and reserved for all applications that already come with OS X, like Mail.app, iTunes.app, etc. This root user is not an account you can log into with the graphical interface, but it's still accessible via Terminal.
Since the folder ...
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That doesn't seem possible because of licensing restrictions. A program will generally make it difficult to copy itself onto another system. Of course with free applications this is different. If you have both application already installed and licensed on both systems, and you would like to synchronize the preferences that a different story.
Windows 8 ...
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If you install portable applications (for example, see PortableApps.com), then you can use any type of file sync mechanism, such as DropBox (my personal favorite) to achieve this. (Full disclosure: the DropBox link has my referral code; you are welcome to visit their site directly rather than clicking on the link.)
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I would recommend Process monitor for the file system changes, registry changes, etc, and HeapMemView for viewing the program's memory.
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