Productivity

I’ve been using this handy tool called PowerToys. That contains a bunch of utilities that make working on Windows easier and faster. One of my favorite features in PowerToys is Workspaces. I truly hate restarting my machine. The pain is, all your apps and windows disappear, and it takes forever to get everything back the way it was. That’s where PowerToys Workspaces is a helpful tool. It’s a desktop manager that lets you save your current desktop setup (all apps and window positions), and later launch everything back in place with just one click. ...

PowerShell is one of my favorite tool when it comes to automation. It has lot of functionalities and one of its cool features is Start-Job. This will let you run tasks in the background while you keep using PowerShell for other things. Start-Job is ideal to use when … Tasks take a long time to complete You want to avoid module conflicts by isolating them in separate jobs You need to resolve assembly conflicts by running jobs in isolated processes How to Use Start-Job I will try to explain this with a simple example below. ...