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I have the below code which is working in principle but seems to be sending the file to my printer and not creating a folder and saving the pdf there. Have a sheet that needs to be pdfed and saved in ...
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I am building a custom device with Android 12 AOSP, which does not need the management of media files. Every time I plug in a USB stick - it gets populated with a bunch of folders like Music, Movies, ...
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I am trying to change the location of windows specials folders (documents, downloads, pictures, etc.) from windows registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User ...
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I've had at least two users complain about our myapp.msi quickly failing, rolling back and then exiting without any messages. This just got reported again by an internal tester running Windows 11 (I ...
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My app is a windows desktop exe, and windows service which runs under the System account. My windows service needs to integrate with a 3rd party app that the user will also install which stores some ...
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In the last time I've seen a rising number of customer PCs (Windows 10/11), where my c# software was not able to write in a subfolder of C:\users\public\documents, although the user running it is able ...
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I am following the tutorial here which shows how to use the VS C++ in Visual Studio Code. Everything runs smoothly. The only problem is the auto-generated files (.lnk, .pdb, .exe and the likes) get ...
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I have a requirement where I want to get the Environment.SpecialFolder value from a file path. Eg - string filePath = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\text.txt" //SpecialFolder sf = ...
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hope you can help me. I am looking for a way to use batchscript to delete all folders in a subfolder except the very newest folder AND a special folder named "BACKUP". So the backup folder ...
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I've allowed for custom paths to be entered and wanted the default to be something along the lines of: %UserProfile%/Documents/foo, of course this needs to successfully parse the string and though it ...
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How to change the paths to user folders (Shell Folders) with Powershell? Required: get the path to the folder $mydoc = [Environment]::GetFolderPath('MyDocuments') C:\Users\shay\Documents Change the ...
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I've moved my Windows 10's /Desktop folder to a different location. As a result, my batch and Powershell scripts that were pointing to %USERPROFILE%/Desktop no longer worked. Is there another way to ...
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I am trying to insert in Settings.settings a special folder path (MyDocuments). I currently use this: Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments) but hardcoded. I don't want to ...
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When entering start shell:startup into the command prompt, it opens a new window at the startup folder. How can I print the path to that folder but not actually open the folder in explorer?
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In the Windows Run dialog, I can use the command shell:startup to open the user's startup folder. In hope to be able to use the command in the Windows command line, I tried typing shell in the ...
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