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How to remove read-only attribute recursively on Windows

I need to remove read-only attributes of all files under a directory recursively on Windows using command line. Could you please provide an example on this?
Mert Nuhoglu
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How to check my RAM configuration (Windows 7)?

I would like to check my RAM configuration. I know it is easy to check the total RAM installed on a computer (eg 32 GB), but is there an easy way to check in Windows if the RAM is e.g. 2x16 GB, 4x8 GB, 8x4 GB or 16x2 GB?
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Arrange windows within the same application in the taskbar of Windows 7

Is there a way to arrange windows within the same application in the taskbar of Windows 7? Right now we can freely adjust each application's position in the taskbar, but within the app itself the windows can't be reordered, for example multiple…
user12217
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How do I configure custom URL handlers on OS X?

I've been reading a lot online about custom URL handlers / custom protocol handlers such as: Launching External Applications using Custom Protocols under OSX OS X URL handler to open links to local files I get that you can tell the system that a…
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What's the difference between "adduser" and "useradd"?

I wonder: Why are there these two commands on Debian Linux, with very similar names and functionality? This has always been confusing for me. Is any of them superior to another? Why aren't they merged into one? Is there any significant difference…
Petr
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Rename user's group name

I just did usermod -l login-name old-name to change the username, but the group name is still the old one. Any way of renaming the group name? I can't find any info to do so.
w0rldart
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Delete files with regular expression

I Tried to delete files that starts with A and ends with 2 numbers but It doesn't do a thing. What I tried: rm ^A*[0..9]2$ Where am I wrong?
gdoron
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How to find uptime of a linux process

How do I find the uptime of a given linux process. ps aux | grep gedit | grep -v grep gives me a whole lot of information which includes the time at which the process was started. I am specifically looking for switch which returns the uptime of a…
Mahadevan Sreenivasan
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Force Chrome to open URLs as URLs, instead of searching

I have a local Apache server running, which is defined through /etc/hosts as "apache". So I often open pages like: http://apache/website/ Normally, this works fine. However, since I am using a more recent Chrome browser, at odd moments the browser…
user95156
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How do I determine if my Windows is 32-bit or 64-bit using a command?

Possible Duplicates: How to tell if a computer has a 64-bit CPU or OS Detect Windows Server version 32/64-bit in CLI OS version: 32-bit or 64-bit? How do I determine if my Windows system is 32-bit or 64-bit from the commandline? I want to know…
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How do I mount a network drive to a folder?

Does anyone know of a third party (or even windows native) solution to this simple problem? I want to map an internal network share on our windows server to a folder on each of the client machines in the network. I don't want to to use drive…
Toby Allen
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What's the back button of Adobe PDF Reader after clicking a hyperlink whose target is on the same document?

PDF documents have hyperlinks to the contents on the same document (analogous to "#section" hrefs for an HTML document). Where's the back button to go back to the page I was on (where I clicked the hyperlink)? Let's say I'm on the index of a PDF…
Srikanth
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Count the number of words in a PDF file

How can I get the word count of a PDF file? I think that most pdf files for which I want to get total word count have text layer embedded, so I need no OCR. The task was arisen from searching for some scientific papers of known size, e.g. 15000…
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How do I change the colour scheme on PuTTY?

I'm using PuTTY to SSH from my PC at home to Linux computers at work, but some of the text (folder names) is dark blue on black, which is almost impossible to read. How do I change the colour-scheme? My computer at home has Windows 7 in case it…
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Is it safe to install both Homebrew and Macports on the same machine?

I have MacPorts installed on my iMac with a fair number of ports installed. I'm interested in trying out Homebrew, though, as I've heard many good things about it, and because I've noticed that it contains more up-to-date versions of several of the…
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