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Registry Key Toggle (for Command Prompt!)

Hello friends,
I am trying to figure out how to script a specific registry change which I can toggle off and on on Windows Mobile 6 without manually running a registry editor. The registry key I want to be able to toggle between 0 and 1 is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Console\OutputTo
I have searched heavily, and read about MortScript, but I feel there must be a better way to get this very simple task done.
The reason I want to be able to toggle the above registry key between 0 and 1 is to properly run a Command Prompt (like DOS prompt) on our Windows Mobile 5/6. If you happen to be interested in getting the Command Prompt on your Windows Mobile 5/6 device see the web site listed below (everything will work as soon as we can toggle the above registry key, without being able to toggle the key the Windows Mobile 5/6 boot process will get clogged by the command prompt window, forcing the user to manually close several open instances of the command prompt before going back to the Today Screen, which is quite a nuisance).
http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=122
If anyone has any ideas I would be very great full. Thank you!

I would say that Mortscript is the easiest way you could automate a registry edit. Dotfred's Advanced Task Manager has some shortcut parameters that can reference a given .reg file and edit the registry based off of that, but Mortscript is probably easier. And in the future, don't create duplicate threads, it's against XDA's rules.

Thank you for your response. I will look into Dotfred's Advanced Task Manager as you have stated.
Other comments or ideas are appreciated as well. Thank you.

[APP] Flash Whitelist Manager for Win RT / 8

I have had this coded for a while now but it only became infinitely more useful after the Surface and other RT devices can be jailbroken and run Python! Jailbreak your Surface, install Python 2.7.3, and when you open the .pyc file, have it open with python.exe!
If you find any bugs or have suggestions or comments, please let me know!
*****
Name: Whitelist Manager
Compatibility: Windows 8 / Windows RT
Version: 1.0 beta 3
Code: Python 2.7.3
*****
This simple program allows you to add to and remove from a local list of domain names that automatically synchronize with the IE10 (Modern UI) flash whitelist.
If your IE whitelist is ever overwritten through a Microsoft update, running this program will automatically restore all the sites back into the whitelist.
Domain names should be entered as follows (without quotes):
"microsoft.com"
Before using this program, open IE10 in desktop mode, and go to: "Tools -> Compatibility View Settings"
From there, UNCHECK the option to download updated lists. This only needs to be done once.
Finally, any time changes are made to the whitelist, they only become active after going to "Settings -> Internet Options"
in the Modern UI browser and deleting the browsing history.
NOTE:
This program ONLY synchronizes its whitelist with IE if you exit it via the menu option.
Pressing the close button or exiting in any other way than the built in method will not synchronize with the IE whitelist.
Synchronization works both for added and removed domain names.
DISCLAIMER:
This program is provided AS IS with no warranty express or implied, to be used at your own risk.

A few command line utilities for RT

So not to clutter up an 'apps' list, I am putting together pieces to enable my surface rt to have more functionality available for on device scripting and a put together a few utilities to fill some areas I think (?) were missing. I might use these from scripts, nodejs, powershell or anywhere else I might launch processes.
So for starters I made :
csnotify - A utility to simulate the toast notification banners (like what you see for weather or new mail alerts). Unfortunately the api used to actual system notifications are c++ sdk binaries which i can't use, so this is as close a clone as i could make. The options are many and explained in a readme file in the zip.
naudiocon - a simple console mp3 file player which i might use for sound effects but it plays a song just as well. There are many pieces to the open source NAudio library which could be useful for future audio media players.
wget - a simple way to download a file from a url via command line. not a true clone of wget but you can enter wget {url} or wget {url} newfilename. run without any params to see that usage syntax.
cryptocli - a simple command line file encryption and hashing utility. Possibly useful for email or sending between computers which has this utility installed. like most ports this runs on arm or intel windows.
speak - a simple text to speech utility to read text either from command line itself or from file specified in command line.
wscon - command line web server. spin up server on -p port and -d directory from command line or put shortcut to this app in 'shell:sendto' to send a -directory- to it (using default port or 8080)
The files are already signed, but if you download directly to your device you should probably right click the downloaded zip(s) and 'unblock' them on the file 'properties' page. This seems to be required when downloading to NTFS partitions, as it will flag the download as 'coming from an unsafe domain' (internet). If you save the file to non-ntfs sdcard/usb/nas you should not have to unblock.

nazoraios said:
So not to clutter up an 'apps' list, I am putting together pieces to enable my surface rt to have more functionality available for on device scripting and a put together a few utilities to fill some areas I think (?) were missing. I might use these from scripts, nodejs, powershell or anywhere else I might launch processes.
So for starters I made :
csnotify - A utility to simulate the toast notification banners (like what you see for weather or new mail alerts). Unfortunately the api used to actual system notifications are c++ sdk binaries which i can't use, so this is as close a clone as i could make. The options are many and explained in a readme file in the zip.
naudiocon - a simple console mp3 file player which i might use for sound effects but it plays a song just as well. There are many pieces to the open source NAudio library which could be useful for future audio media players.
wget - a simple way to download a file from a url via command line. not a true clone of wget but you can enter wget {url} or wget {url} newfilename. run without any params to see that usage syntax.
cryptocli - a simple command line file encryption utility. Possibly useful for email or sending between computers which has this utility installed. like most ports this runs on arm or intel windows.
The files are already signed, but if you download directly to your device you should probably right click the downloaded zip(s) and 'unblock' them on the file 'properties' page. This seems to be required when downloading to NTFS partitions, as it will flag the download as 'coming from an unsafe domain' (internet). If you save the file to non-ntfs sdcard/usb/nas you should not have to unblock.
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Thanks definitely going to be using wget. If only we could make a port of bash...
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Qiangong2 said:
Thanks definitely going to be using wget. If only we could make a port of bash...
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Bash shell would be great, git-bash would be even better.
There's a lot of c++ projects that I haven't been able to set up visual studio to compile for arm. vs2013 and 2015 haven't been playing very well so far, I think mamaich successfully did some arm ports with vs2012. Then there's Win10 iot efforts which Microsoft may be more inclined to support officially. They seem to support console c++ apps on win10arm using vs2015 here :
http://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/samples/ConsoleApp.htm
I have not even begun trying to set up MinGW/Cygwin which I believe is the toolchain required for cross compiling Linux source projects for win/arm.

nazoraios said:
Bash shell would be great, git-bash would be even better.
There's a lot of c++ projects that I haven't been able to set up visual studio to compile for arm. vs2013 and 2015 haven't been playing very well so far, I think mamaich successfully did some arm ports with vs2012. Then there's Win10 iot efforts which Microsoft may be more inclined to support officially. They seem to support console c++ apps on win10arm using vs2015 here :
http://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/win10/samples/ConsoleApp.htm
I have not even begun trying to set up MinGW/Cygwin which I believe is the toolchain required for cross compiling Linux source projects for win/arm.
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Windows RT was probably coded using vs2012, that's why it's better to use vs2012. Also, Microsoft removed and changed lots of stuff in vs2013 and even more in vs2015 from vs2012. Vs2013 and 15 probably don't have the right commands built in
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hey i made batch file with sample commands for csnotify
p.s save the file with .bat
p.p.s i seek a bug, the -m text dont support long words

roxas22 said:
hey i made batch file with sample commands for csnotify
p.s save the file with .bat
p.p.s i seek a bug, the -m text dont support long words
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since your parameter has spaces in it you should wrap it in quotes like :
Code:
csnotify -t "hi xda!!!" -m "i love xda!!!"

nazoraios said:
since your parameter has spaces in it you should wrap it in quotes like :
Code:
csnotify -t "hi xda!!!" -m "i love xda!!!"
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Thanks, i have some problems with usising batch language

Well I finally figured out how to tap into speech libraries on windows rt, so I created a command line utility.
You can use it to speak some generic text by using this command line :
Code:
speak -t "hello world this is text to speech on windows rt"
Or you can pass in a filename :
Code:
speak "c:\some path to\filename.txt"
Or you can type "shell:sendto" into the address bar of windows explorer and create a shortcut to speak.exe in there and then you can then send text files to it and it will read them.
File should be attached for download.

I added a command line version of simplewebserver, which is called 'wscon' (webserver console).
bundled readme :
This is a console/parameter based version using much of the same code as SimpleWebServer program, but created for command line/script invocation.
The use case for this app is when you frequently change hosting directories and just want to spin up a server on some port and directory.
You can specify port and directory with -p and -d command line options or you can create a shortcut to this wscon program in your shell:sendto folder and right click a directory and 'send to' it.
If you use sendto it will use the default port set in wscon_settings.xml file, which is automatically generated in same folder as executable. Once this file exists you can override the default port of 8080 to be something else if you want.
If you launch from console with just -d option it will use default port in wscon_settings.xml also.
By default this application serves up only to local machine (localhost), if you run it as admin it will be visible to other computers (provided firewall allows).
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## PRO-TIPS for your (non-pro) Windows RT ##

Well I guess this is more of a 'list of utilities, commands, and features' that might be buried so deeply into windows rt that you didn't know it was there. I don't know about other surface/winrt users but I have gotten more advanced configuring my surface rt than I ever did on an x86. Now I usually end up needing to configure my x86 devices to provide the same functionality I expect on my tablets.
So I don't think we have a list like this and I'm sure a lot of you have your own 'pro-tips', so maybe we can compile a list of hidden gems we can use with windows rt into this thread so that we collectively can reference or individually don't forget
So here is a short list to start off :
Utilities -- Many more utilities can be found by browsing c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
WF.msc (type at command prompt or Win-R key run window) : (Windows Firewall with Advanced Security) although they removed the control panel applet it seems they left in this mmc plugin.
gpedit.msc : group policy editor... somewhat hidden but they left this in
resmon (Resource Monitor)
msconfig (System Configuration)
msinfo32 (System Information)
steps (Steps Recorder) : this is a utility that will capture your activity as screenshots to play back or upload for others to see.
Modify whether links or html files open in Desktop or Metro versions of Internet Explorer :
Open desktop Internet Explorer, click on gear icon and choose Internet options. Now click on 'Programs' tab and select your preference from the 'Opening Internet Explorer' section dropdown.
Keyboard Shortcuts :
Metro snap via keyboard : Hold Windows and tap . (period) Keep holding down windows key and tap left, right, up, or down
Win-Tab : While alt-tab lets you cycle 'desktop' programs, Windows key + Tab cycles through 'metro' app list
Win-X : Show advanced start menu (same as right clicking start menu)
Win-D : Show/Hide desktop
Win-P : Pick from various multi-monitor configurations (duplicate/extend/pc only/external monitor only)
Console Commands
'HELP' : Show a list of all commands you can get more help on.
'WHERE' : Type where wf.msc (for example) and it will tell you where that program/file exists if it is in any of your PATH'ed folders.
'WMIC' : a very deep well of information, type WMIC /? to see list of all modules
wmic volume list brief (shows all mounted drives/volumes)
wmic qfe list brief (shows all installed windows updates)
'SYSTEMINFO' : another system info command, sort of a command line version of msinfo32
'TREE' : show an 'ascii-art' tree of sub-folders for the folder you are in.
'ASSOC' : command line ability to set file associations
'CERTUTIL' : can be used (among other things) for computing file hashes
certutil -hashfile [filename] [MD5|SHA1|SHA256] so for example :
certutil -hashfile myfile.zip sha1
Associations / Context menu / 'Send To' programs :
Create a shortcut to control.exe /name Microsoft.DefaultPrograms to quickly go to this control panel applet.
Use command line ASSOC to set file associations
Manage 'Send To' folder by opening 'windows' explorer, typing shell:sendto into the location bar to be taken to a folder showing all your 'send to' programs'. You can drop shortcuts to other programs (provided those programs accept command line arguments). Now you can right click a file in windows explorer and 'send to' programs like 7-Zip, Paint.NET, notepad++, etc.
Add an "Open with Notepad++" or other top level context menu for all files :
Open registry editor and browse to : HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell.
Right-click on “shell” and choose to create a new key, calling it “Open with Notepad++”
Create a new key below that one called “command”
Double-click on the (Default) value in the right-hand pane and enter "c:\path_to_npp\notepad++.exe" $1
To have the menu item show the notepad++ icon do these extra steps :
Right click the "Open with Notepad++" key (which you created) and add a new string value called "icon"
Double click new "icon" value and set its string value to "c:\path_to_npp\notepad++.exe"
In all steps above make sure you enter the path to notepad++ on your machine instead of the path entered.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...th-notepad-to-the-context-menu-for-all-files/
Make 'command prompt here' context menu when right clicking folder in windows explorer : http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...-always-display-for-folders-in-windows-vista/
Enable 7-Zip Context Menu :
Run regedit (Registry Editor), and drill into / expand HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers.
Now right click on 'ContextMenuHandlers' and choose 'permissions'.
Click 'Advanced' button.
On advanced Security Settings screen (at the top) choose Change (owner) link.
When selecting a user or group screen comes up click 'Advanced', then 'Find Now', and in search results choose 'Administrators' (may need to widen column to distinguish from singular 'Administrator').
After highlighting Administrators, click OK button to go back to Advanced Security Settings screen.
Now you are able to click on 'Administrators' and click 'Edit' and select 'Full Control' and click ok to apply permission.
Keep clicking ok on dialogs till you are back at registry editor.
Now run 7-Zip as administrator, go into tools menu and select options.
Then on 7-Zip tab choose 'Integrate 7-Zip to shell context menu' and click ok to close dialog.
Context menu should now appear when right clicking on files in windows explorer.
Disabling Connected Standby :
This is only a good idea if your tablet will always be left on a charger or 'shut down' when not in use. If you turn off connected standby and set your display to turn off after... say 5 minutes, then after 5 minutes your display will really power off (backlight as well) but any desktop programs will continue to run. You might want to do this if you are running a web server or some other process in background. When you disable connected standby, many other options appear in your power options 'advanced power settings' page. If you do this I recommend you 'Create a power plan' on the 'Choose or customize a power plan screen first'.
To toggle connected standby feature on or off, modify the :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\CsEnabled key, setting to 0 for 'off' or 1 for 'on' and reboot to take effect.
Node Chakracore :
This is really an undocumented bonus 'add-on', made by Microsoft which you can run even on windows rt devices which are not in test-signing mode. For those who are not familiar, NodeJS is a console-based javascript scripting environment. Standard Node.js uses v8 javascript engine (same as google chrome), however this 'node-chakracore' version uses the chakra javascript engine (which is the latest version used in edge browsers). Microsoft is providing this for raspberry pi users running Windows 10 on ARM but they also work on Windows RT.
I made a utility here if you prefer to try an automated means of installing
Install Node.JS (node-chakracore) :
Download the latest ARM release from : https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore/releases
Extract that archive to (for example) c:\nodejs
Add that directory (which you extracted to) to your path environment variable.
(Optional) Install/Setup NPM (lets you install packages from npm repository) :
Download https://github.com/npm/npm/archive/master.zip, save somewhere.
Extract it to (for example) c:\npm.
Open windows explorer and type %AppData% into the address bar and hit enter.
Within your AppData directory, create an "npm" directory.
Double click on npm folder you just created from windows explorer
Click into the address bar to see the full path and remember (or copy) this path for next step and later.
Save the following to file named "npm.bat" and save into the directory you just created/copied
Code:
@node c:\npm\npm-master\cli.js %*
(If you extracted npm elsewhere, update the batch file to reflect actual location)
Create an etc directory under this appdata npm folder
Create an separate etc directory under your node folder (c:\nodejs if you used suggested default)
Copy .npmrc file from c:\npm\npm-master to c:\node
Rename and get rid of the '.' from the filename so the filename is just npmrc
edit that npmrc file In notepad and add the following lines :
Code:
globalconfig=c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\npm\etc\npmrc
prefix=c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\npm
(make sure to substitute your username in the above this base folder is the folder I told you to remember/copy in previous steps)
Having saved those changes to npmrc under c:\node\etc, copy that file to your appdata\npm\etc directory as well.
Add the path of your appdata\npm directory your path environment variable. If you install global packages they will install commands/batch files into this folder. If it is pathed you can exec them as native commands. This path is also where we put the npm.bat so it can be run from anywhere.
A useful demonstration if you have configured the both npm and node correctly is to install cash (an implementation of unix shell commands) by typing from a command prompt :
Code:
npm install -g cash
That should take a several minutes to complete (hopefully successfully). When done you can run 'cash' or just '$' at a command prompt to bring up simulated Linux prompt from which you can type 'help' to see supported commands. These commands interop with windows commands as well so you can mix (see cash link above).​
(Thanks to @black_blob for discovering this node/npm)
I will add more info or cleanup as needed, feel free to post your own, if needed I can compile it into first post to work towards a guide if anyone wanted to make one.

I modded the Windows 10 Chakra(non-core) to run on 8.1 as a part of my earlier NodeJS port. By the way, I also had Microsoft Edge running with it at a time.(EdgeHTML)
I wonder if I should continue my backports from Win10

You mean other programs/frameworks? You have brought over some great stuff, so yes absolutely! Anything you have in mind?

nazoraios said:
You mean other programs/frameworks? You have brought over some great stuff, so yes absolutely! Anything you have in mind?
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I have in mind to backport the UWP framework, or maybe even a FrankenKernel(10 kernel, 8.1 userspace). Microsoft Edge works without needing UWP, as you can use edgehtml like mshtml for embedding

You would definitely be my hero if you could bring over Edge, preferably with somewhat recent (EdgeHTML? rendering) and Chakra javascript engine.
Not sure how FrankenKernel and UWP support could work out but both could potentially be awesome... guess its the details which I'm sure you have a better idea than me. So do you think we would be able to run (open source?) Windows 10 apps and would the 'developer mode' be brought over with the kernel or is that 8.1 userspace which would require 8.1 developer license signing (and renewing every 6 months)? Or would the UWP part just be for console or node-chakracore like it is on IOT?

nazoraios said:
You would definitely be my hero if you could bring over Edge, preferably with somewhat recent (EdgeHTML? rendering) and Chakra javascript engine.
Not sure how FrankenKernel and UWP support could work out but both could potentially be awesome... guess its the details which I'm sure you have a better idea than me. So do you think we would be able to run (open source?) Windows 10 apps and would the 'developer mode' be brought over with the kernel or is that 8.1 userspace which would require 8.1 developer license signing (and renewing every 6 months)? Or would the UWP part just be for console or node-chakracore like it is on IOT?
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Windows 10 kernel & system, Windows 8.1 explorer.exe, dwm and other tiny GUI bits
I have a Windows Server ARM64 build, but that's not 32-bit

Yea that sounds daring... Don't brick your device please Too bad no 32bit gui bits to borrow. I doubt they would bring the Ubuntu for Windows 10 subsystem to arm, but technically i'm sure they could since Ubuntu has arm and pi2 image.... still would be neat. Also I think they added ssh server to pi2 but not sure if it would be easy to 'extract' and borrow.
We will be watching you commander...

nazoraios said:
Yea that sounds daring... Don't brick your device please Too bad no 32bit gui bits to borrow. I doubt they would bring the Ubuntu for Windows 10 subsystem to arm, but technically i'm sure they could since Ubuntu has arm and pi2 image.... still would be neat. Also I think they added ssh server to pi2 but not sure if it would be easy to 'extract' and borrow.
We will be watching you commander...
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The Ubuntu support uses the Linux binary compatibility SubSystem, also known as Astoria

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I have in mind to backport the UWP framework, or maybe even a FrankenKernel(10 kernel, 8.1 userspace). Microsoft Edge works without needing UWP, as you can use edgehtml like mshtml for embedding
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That would be even more amazing than a running build of Windows 10 Mobile. So you'd have a "full" OS with the befinits of running UWP. That would def. insure the future of Windows RT.
It would be even better if astoria would work on it too. So you'd even able to run android apps.

I need help for the nodejs and the npm instructions. Can you explain it out in details for morons?

Sorry late reply... which steps are you getting confused at (for node/npm install) ? So for starters :
- if you open a command prompt and type "node -v" does it tell you the version of node your running? If so, what version does it say?
- if you type "npm -v" does it tell you the version of npm you are running or give an error? Tell version or error.
So i'll start with that to make sure your paths are set up.

I created an installer utility to install node-chakracore along with NPM. Hopefully this will make it easier for other or myself to install or upgrade as new versions of node-chakracore and npm come out.
The final step in the process (updating the system PATH environment variable) requires admin permissions so right click executable and run 'As Administrator'. If you prefer to set the environment variables yourself, this step will tell you the paths it would add.
9/13/16 : Updated default node chakracore download link to new 7.0.0-pre9 release, added a 'Complete' tab with links to further resources and made UI fix

Autoremote actions WinRT 1.0 (android users)

Hello Windows RT Fans
I wanted to introduce my little desktop program "Autoremote actions".
Its specifically for android users who use an app called "Autoremote" (+optional Autovoice).
With Autoremote you can control many fucntions and run tasks on your phone or tablet.
I use my program to control my smart home devices from Surface.
How to use:
1. Generate IFTTT/personal link for your device in "Autoremote" android app (Autoremote -> registered devices -> hold on IFTTT -> generate IFTTT URL)
2.Paste that URL to my program -> Menu -> Autotemote LINK config. (If you want to use Autovoice -> check the checkbox)
3.Define your commands -> menu -> Commands ( Left name of the command and right your Autoremote message)
You can save profiles aswell
4. Thats it. If you have working internet connection you will be able to send messages to autoremote and with that messages you can run just any task on your phone/tab.
I've tested it on my Surface 2 (Windows RT 8.1) and windows 10, so it works on x86, x64 and ARM architecture. So please TEST it and write here if it works for you.
Enjoy
I would be grateful if you could support my work:
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