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believeme I dislike Windows, but is not because I love it somuch that I need to have a windows container. My company heavily relies on Windows, that is not going to be matter of hours/days to move our products to a platform independent env.

If you must deploy a hypervisor, WSL2 or Hyper-V is a mess to deploy on a windows box that is nested in ESXi is a mess, and a real pain to get up and running. Virtualbox with Docker Toolbox maybe a valuable option here is the github.

Good post @rimelek !

Yes, shortly after I made that post I realized that docker toolbox is no longer supported by docker. Therefore I gave in and deployed Hyper-V with WSL2 (not sure if both are needed or not). Here are the instructions and links I followed to get it all done:

I have never used QEMU on Windows. Only on Linux with KVM, but I used UTM on MacOS to install a Linux OS and install Docker. UTM is based on QEMU. It worked but the performance will depend on your machine.

Just want to start my mount from login/boot without having a cmd window open. I have the batch file and when using shell:startup, it works and runs when i log in but the cmd window just stays open ready to print a log for me. Want to just get rid of it and mount only

You can create a scheduled task to run it with. If you check "Run whether user is logged on or not", it will run hidden in background (there is a "Hidden" checkbox, but it is only to hide the task from the Task Scheduler user interface).

It is also possible to create a simple launcher script with WScript/VB that you can double click from Explorer, create shortcut for, add to StartUp etc, that will execute rclone normally as current user, but hidden. Simple and easy to use, but could be a bit too "naive", depending on your use case.. Example: Create a plain text file with extension .wsf, e.g. "RcloneMount.wsf", with the following content (edit in your specific rclone command line, of course):

I have a PC where I'm only running one application. I would like to prevent explorer.exe from being loaded on startup. I've read that one could change the registry entry in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" -> Shell"=""but unfortunately that absolutely doesn't work.

I tried manually to terminate explorer.exe, then replace it with an .exe that does nothing. That solution isn't great because in this case the logon cosumes approx 2-3 minutes (even-though without explorer). I guess there is a timeout period set up somewhere and the logon is using that time to find explorer.exe.Don't get me wrong: I do not want to remove explorer.exe from my system, I just want to remove it from the startup (logon) sequence. I know that it is possible as I have already seen it. For maintenance purposes one could manually restart explorer.exe via task manager.

Explorer.exe provides basic Windows and desktop functionality. If you kill it while running, it is restarted a few times, and eventually Windows contuinues operating without it - with nothing on the desktop, and no taskbar. If that's what you want, then make a script to kill Explorer a few times, e.g.,

I am trying to get a cuda 11 dev environment set up on windows. We have MSVC 2019 build tools already for general C++ compilation. Is there any way to get CUDA to compile without a full Visual Studio IDE installed?

You do not need the Visual Studio IDE to program in CUDA. In fact I have been using MSVS Professional and CUDA on Windows for 14 years and have never used the IDE. If you are comfortable with gmake and makefiles, you can build your projects using the same command line tools that the MSVS IDE uses under the hood. For simple CUDA programs, you can just compile with the CUDA compiler driver nvcc from the commandline.

My problem is that the whole rest of the project is built with VS2019 compilers and without the IDE, the CUDA install cannot install the Visual Studio integration scripts. Running the build using Nvcc.exe (through cmake) produces the error " Cannot find compiler cl.exe in path ", which I assume is something relating to the integrations, as it works fine with the full IDE.

The procurement issue is more that the corporate structure that I am beholden to could take an unnecessarily long time to make a licence happen, and I was wondering if there was an easier way to accomplish this with the tools I have available.

To run from the command line, the Visual C/C++ compiler needs to have a bunch of environment variables set up, independent of the use of CUDA. Check whether the build tools include a file vcvarsall.bat. If so, run it with

This will set up necessary environment variables for an x86-64 platform. Depending on what kind of apps you are building you may also need to add additional directories to the INCLUDE and LIB environment variables. Once the environment is set up and you can build Windows command line applications with the Microsoft compiler by invoking cl, you should also be able to successfully run nvcc. Try it standalone before you try via cmake, which may have additional quirky requirements.

I am currently running Windows 11 on my main computer and I wanted to switch to linux, so I chose manjaro, I am wondering how I can install it over my windows installation (Format and replace it with Manjaro), without having to use a USB or other similar device since I do not have any USBs currently.

I currently own a Mac and would like to install the Windows operating system on it. However, I want to explore alternative methods as I'd like to avoid using Boot Camp Assistant, the default utility provided by Apple for this purpose. Unfortunately, I'm unaware of any other reliable methods or tools to accomplish this task.

Hence, I kindly request your assistance and expertise in guiding me through the process of installing Windows on my Mac without using Boot Camp Assistant. I understand the importance of compatible software and the potential risks involved in altering the operating system, so I seek lawful and secure methods only.

It is still possible to install Windows 10/8/7 on an Intel based Mac. For dual-boot, you can go with Bootcamp Assistant if it is available on your Mac. If not, then you should first make a Windows bootable USB on Mac and install Windows from the USB drive.

It is possible to use the Windows ARM version with a Parallels' VM, but there are a lot of limitations & restrictions with this option (still requires a proper Windows' license). Both Microsoft and Parallels have some documentation on how this works and the various limitations & restrictions.

Another option would be to use the third party UTM app which uses QEMU at its core which is a free open source machine emulator & virtualizer to mimic different CPU architectures so you can run an OS for a completely different CPU architecture on an Apple Silicon Mac. With UTM you can install the Intel version of Windows OS (you will need a proper Windows' license). However, there are a lot of limitations....the performance will be slow since you are emulating a different system plus running a virtualized instance of an OS as well. Plus you won't have access to any GPU hardware acceleration. For some apps this option may work fine, but for others it will be insufficient.

When you post a question such as yours, it would serve you better to state that you have an Intel or Apple Silicon architecture Mac running a specific operating system version. That reduces the fishing expedition as to what specifically will work in your case.

Microsoft has only publicly sanctioned Parallels for running Windows 11 ARM on Apple Silicon Macs. VMware is now offering a free, non-commercial user license for their Fusion VM client, but very likely will want personal information that at minimum may result in ramped email SPAM. Nothing is truly free with these vendors.

Stack Social has Windows 11 Pro licenses in the $25 range (today) and you should have a Microsoft account because an aspect of the purchase process requires one to sign into a Microsoft account so the license purchase is registered with Microsoft. I purchased Office 2021 for Mac and Office 2021 Professional Plus for Windows through them and never paid more than $35 each.

The problem with this is that Windows WILL NOT install onto the disk because it needs MBR on the destination disk, MacOS REALLY TRIES to use GPT, which is extremely annoying, and the only thing I've been able to do to temporarily make this not the case is to just use Bootcamp which I can no longer do due to having MacOS 10.8.5 on one partition and MacOS 10.13 on another partition, and Bootcamp not even trying to do anything when there are already 2 partitions. I'm trying to install Windows on a 3rd partition. This is after I already installed Windows BEFORE I restored my 10.8.5 partition, so bootcamp would actually work, but as soon as I put the 10.8.5 partition back, Windows would no longer boot, and trying to simply reinstall it on that same partition would say that the disk is "of the GPT partition style". Whoever made this a thing needs to go under the jail, but I really need to do this. Any ideas?

I would know, I did try it on my fully maxed out i9 MacBook Pro, my M2 Pro Mac mini, my M1 Mac mini, an M1 MacBook Air I no longer have, my 16-inch 2021 MacBook Pro, and my 14-inch 2021 MacBook Pro. Complete garbage tier Windows installation on all of them. Windows is already horrible, making it go through translation layers is a terrible idea, plus Windows 11 sucks more than the rest. I would never use such a garbolium tier OS. My main gaming PC runs Windows 10, which is bricking itself as we speak. Not even kidding.

Actually this thread was started by someone asking how to run Windows WITHOUT bootcamp. And that person never clarified what type of machine they had. Therefore, it's perfectly reasonable for people to ask you for more details about what you're asking. Remember, everyone here is a voluteer.

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