WinUtils: Shell-powered CLI tools for Windows 95
code_naked
11 points
2 comments
June 02, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
code_naked
I saw Coreutils for Windows post earlier here on Hacker News and it reminded me of this old project. I went digging to see if I still had the original files. Turns out I did, so I pushed them up to GitHub and wrote this down. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372853
westurner
-InstallPSWindowsUpdate, -UpdateWindows from setup_windows.ps1: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/s... .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668502 Windows Media Player for XP and Powershell won't run on Windows 95 though; you need to buy a new computer for XP.