Even More Research on WSL Interoperability

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date: May 14, 2018
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- WSL
language: English
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As Windows 10 Linux Subsystem is becoming more and more mature and stable, it is more stable and powerful than ever before. As my own wslu has hit 1.3 already. In order to use it in a more efficient fashion, I extended the research in addition to the previous article I have mentioned. This article will keep updated as time goes by.

powershell.exe execution time too long

Thanks to cerebrate, wslu can now execute wslusc faster by boosting the code execution speed in powershell. If we execute powershell.exe directly, code will not be executed directly. Instead, it will try to load a interactive prompt, load profile, and then execute the code. hence, to execute powershell faster, we need to add two parameter: -NoProfile and -NonInteractive, to stop powershell to load profile and entering interactive prompt.

open website from WSL

You can actually use explorer.exe <website> to start the webpage. Unfortunately, it only supports https website, and all website start with http will be ignored and explorer.exe itself will be started.

UPDATE: A better way to do it is to use powershell.exe Start. Way faster and supports HTTPS.

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