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#: apt-get install lightdm References: http://wiki.debian.org/LightDM

#: apt-get install lxde-core References: http://wiki.debian.org/LXDE

I have installed Ubuntu using netinstall to have more control as to what gets installed in the system. I have selected Lubuntu minimal installation in Software Selection (tasksel). It is pretty clean I should say. Here are some of the tools that I install to make it more useful for my needs: Customize Look and Feel (lxappearance) - LXDE GTK+ theme switcher Chromium Browser (chromium-browser) - open source version of Google's Chrome browser Image Viewer (gpicview) - lightweight image viewer Leafpad (leafpad) - a text editor, it is a GTK+ based simple editor LXTerminal (lxterminal) - LXDE terminal emulator Midnight Commander (mc) - a powerful file manager

Short command below returns exit code of 1. powershell -Command exit 1

To sequence one command after another one can use & to do it. For example: set test=hello & call echo %test% set test="hello" sets the value and call echo %test% shows the result to the standard output. Note also the use of call instruction, that forces the interpreter to re-interpret echo otherwise it will not see changes made.

Stop-Process -ProcessName "notepad" Where notepad is the name of the process to kill. Or to make life more difficult, you can: [System.Diagnostics.Process]::GetProcessesByName("notepad") | ForEach-Object {$_.Kill()} References: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee177004.aspx

Inspired by Rob Caron's blog on installing VS2012 Update 1 offline. Below shows how to download without user interaction with the GUI. C:\> vsupdate_KB2707250.exe /layout f:\tmp /passive Of course you need to download the installer first, see this link . It is assumed that vsupdate_KB2707250.exe is in the system path or in the root of drive C:. And you have enough space in drive F:\. References: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robcaron/archive/2012/11/26/how-to-install-visual-studio-2012-update-1-offline.aspx