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Comment by Wilson F on Is there a way to make Windows 8.1 (home edition)...

Cool. I particularly appreciate that you gave steps and source!

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Comment by Wilson F on Make minimized window move to the end of the alt-tab list

But without minimizing it. It'd be nice to be able to do both.

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Comment by Wilson F on Make minimized window move to the end of the alt-tab list

Actually, you have to go into the comments to get the real story. It seems that whether minimize/z-order behaviour is correct (i.e. what the OP wants) is dependent on the number of windows open. The...

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Comment by Wilson F on Make minimized window move to the end of the alt-tab list

Comments on the article @lightinthedark linked to ( superuser.com/a/766448/244608 ) suggest that the behaviour may be dependent on how many windows are open. (:sigh: Oh, Microsoft.) Unfortunately, no...

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Comment by Wilson F on Linux: close a program with command line (not kill it)

Firefox seems to be (broken). If I run kill -s TERM <firefox-pid>, it will not shut down gracefully, and when I start it again, it asks me if I want to recover the crashed session. :sigh:

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Comment by Wilson F on Is there a way to fix multi-line indenting in Sublime...

Hmm. I tried that command, and I'm not seeing any difference between that and ordinary pasting. I expect I'm doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what it could be. Does it only work with one line at...

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Comment by Wilson F on Why does "cd.." work in the Windows command line?

Tangent: I remember an old utility program called doskey which, when installed, added variations on DOS command prompts. The main one I miss is adding dots to the cd.. (or cd ..) command to substitute...

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Comment by Wilson F on Change default text editor for crontab to vim

@eelghEEz - Do you mean ~/.selected_editor? That's what's on my system and what I've seen elsewhere.

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Comment by Wilson F on BASH history truncated to 500 lines on each login

I read through the links you provided and I'm unclear about one thing: do settings in ~/.profile override (or, at least, are they applied later than) settings in /etc/bash.bashrc? I have a feeling that...

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Comment by Wilson F on How to insert a tab character in sublime text?

Another trick I read about in the Sublime Text forum is to insert a character that you know isn't used anywhere in your code (the example given was a backtick, but you could paste a unicode character...

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Comment by Wilson F on Switching back to last *used* tab on Chrome

This is the one I used, and on Ubuntu, I didn't have to use AutoHotKey (or maybe that's no longer required anywhere now?)

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Comment by Wilson F on Connecting SATA drives after the computer is booted up

Hi. Where did the rest of this discussion go? I'm having this exact problem (with what looks like the same or similar BIOS, based on that photograph): my computer won't boot from the correct HD. When...

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Answer by Wilson F for How to use "Search and replace" in selected text in...

I'm not sure if this works on every platform, but (in the Linux version at least) even though the text no longer appears selected, the search/replace module(?) seems to know where the text was...

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Is there a way to make Windows 8.1 (home edition) request a periodic password...

Is there a way to get Windows 8.1 (home edition) to request/require a periodic password change (period settable by the user)?If so, how is it done?

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Is there a way to fix multi-line indenting in Sublime Text 3 so that it adds...

When I select several lines in Sublime Text 3 and indent them as a block (using either Tab or Ctrl+]), it adds the new whitespace characters at the beginning of the first line outside the selection...

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