Brett Cannon made a short (and quite interesting post) on virtual environments and their context, though this focused on their application to a Unix-based OS rather than Windows. I’d like to summarize the content there and adapt it to Windows. History Why do we have virtual environments? This may be a perplexing question to someone…
Category: windows
Moving Large Program Data to Another Drive with Links
I regularly run a program (on Windows) that downloads and indexes quite a bit of data. While this makes the application run quite smoothly, it does take up a lot of disk space. Recently, a change modified the save location for this data from my spacious D:\ to the rather more cramped conditions of C:\Users\foggy\AppData\Local….
Installing Python on Windows
Python 3.11.0 was just released. In honor of this, I wanted to write a quick walk through of installing Python on Windows. The process is relatively straightforward and only takes a couple minutes. In addition, I’ll provide the steps for downloading and installing Microsoft Build Tools for Visual Studio which is sometimes required for compiling…
Disable New Microsoft Office “Save As” Menu
Perhaps I’m old-fashioned, or perhaps I haven’t invested enough learning how great Microsoft Office’s new(-ish) save dialog is. Typically, when I want to save something, I want to type/paste in the path I want to save my file, or click through the folders as I’m accustomed to in Windows Explorer. I can’t really figure out…