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Windows Flaw Reveals Microsoft Account Passwords, VPN Credentials
Attack from the ’90s resurfaces more deadly than before Source: Windows Flaw Reveals Microsoft Account Passwords, VPN Credentials TL;DR: block LAN->WAN port 445 Note this won’t affect web-dav shares...
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4K/5K monitors: when your RDP session has small black bands limiting the...
Sometimes RDP limits you to 2048 pixels vertical (or 4096 pixels horizontal) Just found out why on some Windows versions, the RDP sessions form my 4K monitor has some small black bands on top/bottom:...
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Windows “Device Manager”– expand all nodes
With the increasing number of devices, it really helps to expand all nodes in the Device Manager’s tree view. You cannot do this with the mouse, as none of the menu options contain an “Expand All”...
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Batch files to show the User/System environment variables stored in registry...
I wrote two tiny batch files that would dump the environment variables from the registry. Various reasons: Environment variables can be stored in two contexts: System and User (SET will show them all...
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permissions – recursively change owner windows 7 – Super User
Slightly updated the answer the /D Y part will recursively accept taking ownership when directory listing is denied in the permissions: To fix really broken permissions, the best is to run these two...
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Reducing the size of your Windows.edb (Search) and DataStore.edb (Update)...
Windows Search: Windows.edb If you use Windows Search (I don’t: I use Everything by VoidTools), your Windows.edb can grow ridiculously large. It is a single file, though it appears to be in two places...
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Two Quick Methods for Finding Shared Folders in Windows
In addition to the two methods mentioned at Two Quick Methods for Finding Shared Folders in Windows (use net share or compmgmt.msc) I like this one: fsmgmt.msc It directly gets you to the “Shared...
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17 years ago, C:\nul\nul crashed/BSOD Windows; now $MFT does for Windows < 10
Source: History repeating itself: [Archive.is] 31607 – C:\nul\nul crashes/BSOD then, now it’s this: [WayBack] A bug in NTFS, or hang the entire system / Blog Aladdin RD / Habrahabr [WayBack] Баг в...
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VHD Attach 4.11 – Medo’s Home Page
Brilliant: This is small tool that adds Attach and Detach option to contextual (aka right-click) menu of Virtual disk (vhd) files. That enables those operations to be done without trip to Disk...
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The Most Common VPN Error Codes Explained
Source: The Most Common VPN Error Codes Explained VPN Error 800 “Unable to establish connection” VPN Error 619 “A connection to the remote computer could not be established” VPN Error 51 “Unable to...
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batch-file trick: Starting Windows Explorer and selecting a file (“explorer”...
From a batch-file I recently had to start Windows Explorer, at the same time select a specific file or directory. This turned out pretty easy: use the /select command-line switch from Windows Explorer....
View ArticleCan I invoke Windows Update from the command line? – Super User
For my link archive: Can I invoke Windows Update from the command line? – Super User [WayBack] –jeroen
View ArticleTask Scheduler – command-line End a Running Task
schtasks /End [/S <system> [/U <username> [/P [<password>]]]] /TN taskname [WayBack] End a Running Task Every now and then you have those Scheduled Tasks consisting of batch files...
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Consolidating NTFS free space
For shrinking VM disk images, it’s important to consolidate NTFS free space towards the end of the this. I’ve tried many tools, starting with defrag C: /X (which tries, but doesn’t give good results)...
View ArticleFinding out when your domain password will expire :: Active Directory ::...
Here’s how you can find out when your domain password will expire. net user %USERNAME% /domain It figures this out for the current logon domain (so it doesn’t work cross-domain) but it is a great help,...
View ArticleWindows 10 auto-logout on
This seems to work on other Windows versions as well: [WayBack] Windows 10 auto-logout on <5 minutes of inactivity – Super User
View ArticleRumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated – but it still pays to...
About a year ago, [WayBack] Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated – Windows Command Line Tools For Developers got published as a response to confusing posts like these: [WayBack] Say...
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Use Software Restriction Policies to block viruses and malware | Branko Vucinec
Interesting: [Ardhive.is] Use Software Restriction Policies to block viruses and malware | Branko Vucinec via: [WayBack] Ransomware treft Tweede Kamer – Malware versleutelt overheidsbestanden – IT Pro...
View ArticleWhen you cannot RDP to a target because of “CredSSP-encryption Oracle...
If you get the below error, then your RDP target server needs to be patched. You can choose to stay vulnerable and modify your policy or registry settings as explained in the first linked article...
View Articleautomatic logon in Windows 2003
At a client that still runs Windows Server 2003 (despite the fact that it is in the extended support phase now), I needed to enable automatic logon (one of the tools they run sometimes fails when...
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