Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/06
I had to verify the rights on some parts of the registry were the same for a lot of machines. So I used AccessChk by SysInternals.
If there were difference, my plan was to use REGINI to fix them.
It appears that AccessCheck does not show the permissions for objects within the specified path, not for the path itself.
As I observed that
accesschk -k hklm\software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
does not reveal results.
But
accesschk -k hklm\software\Microsoft\Windows
shows:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/05
The GitHub Contributions Archive is based on the GitHub Archive (see below) and provides insight in anyones contributions. I discovered through a recent post by Ilya Grigorik:
Handy new tool (built on top of githubarchive.org dataset!) that aggregates all of your GitHub activity: bit.ly/1mraQyT.Apparently I’ve contributed to… – Ilya Grigorik – Google+
The GitHub Archive is amazing as it provides way more history than Github does by itself:
GitHub Archive is a project to record the public GitHub timeline, archive it, and make it easily accessible for further analysis.
Researching that data can provide tons of information, for instance about behaviour. It is also available through Google BigQuery so you can write your own queries for it.
The GitHub Contributions Archive – built by Liam Bowen – provides one (very usable) kind of insight: contributions, but there is much much more as quite some research, visualizations and talks have shown.
Interesting stuff!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/05
DiskMgmt.msc does not allow you to delete EFI partitions.
wmic has a nice assoc mode that allows you to find associated classes like the logical drive association to physical partitions.
But lets start simple: physical partitions and logical drives.
C:\temp>wmic partition get DeviceID, DiskIndex, Index, Type DeviceID DiskIndex Index Type Disk #1, Partition #0 1 0 GPT: System Disk #0, Partition #0 0 0 Installable File System C:\temp>wmic logicaldisk get Caption, DriveType, FileSystem, ProviderName, VolumeName Caption DriveType FileSystem ProviderName VolumeName C: 3 NTFS D: 5
These Associations:
They can be hard to use.
LogicalDisks are bound to a Partition, but a Partition does not need to have a Logical Disk.
I wanted the other way around: finding partitions not having a LogicalDisk association. But that does not seem to be possible with WMI at all.
Heck, detecting EFI partitions with WMI seems to be impossible.
Even though there needs to be a 15 second delay between DiskPart invocations:
you must allow at least 15 seconds between each script for a complete shutdown of the previous execution before running the DiskPart command again in successive scripts
it seems to be the only way to go.
But it is hard, as there seems to be no way to convert from volume (which lists the EFI partition as ESP), to disk+partition.
So a way to automate what How to delete a protected EFI disk partition with Windows 7 or 8 | WinAbility Software describes seems impossible.
Any thoughts on that?
This is what I have done so far
Now you can create a new partition on the disk.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/01
[WayBack] While cleaning up my “attic”, I came across some old QuickReport 1.0 documents and BDE installation tips so I scanned them.
I think the first document is by this Lars Søndergaard.
The last is by Dave Robinson, then working at Amber Computer Systems Inc, but I could not find on-line activity of him If you know him, please let me know his on-line contact info.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/30
This is what I needed:
:: http://www.windows-commandline.com/disable-screensaver-registry-settings/
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" /v ScreenSaveActive /t REG_SZ /d 0 /f
And this one to verify the current settings:
:: http://www.windows-commandline.com/disable-screensaver-registry-settings/
:: possible names
:: ScreenSaveActive
:: ScreenSaveTimeOut
:: ScreenSaverIsSecure
reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" | findstr /I /C:"ScreenSave"
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/29
I needed to compare the local group memberships on a few systems.
I knew there is the distinction between
So I came up with this batch file thanks to Command Line Kung Fu:
:: http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2009/06/episode-43-users-groups.html
for /F "skip=4 delims=*" %%g in ('net localgroup ^| find /v "The command completed successfully"') do @net localgroup "%%g"
It can be done in PowerShell too, but is more work.
Based on that and Beyond Compare I created some diff scripts.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/23
When adding Icons to your Windows applications a few things matter.
The icon selected by the Windows Shell (for modern Windows versions usually Windows Explorer), is the one with the lowest ID. When there is no icon with an ID, it selects the icon with the lowest name.
Icons in Windows can have both IDs and names. Even though API calls like LoadIcon have an lpIconName parameter, you can convert the ID to a name using MAKEINTRESOURCE.
There is a difference between the format of an ICO file and the icon resource (technically two things: RT_GROUP_ICON resource directory and an RT_ICON resource for each image) contains a list of icon images.
The selection process is on the RT_GROUP_ICON, and then within the group on the ICON itself.
For the RT_GROUP_ICON process, modern Windows versions still use the algorithm used by Windows 95 (not that by Windows NT):
Windows NT simply chooses the first resource listed in the application’s RC script. On the other hand, Windows 95’s algorithm is to choose the alphabetically first named group icon if one exists. If one such group resource does not exist, Windows chooses the icon with the numerically lowest identifier.
For a Delphi application the icon shown must be named MAINICON, since the below source fragment has been in TApplication.Create(…) like forever:
FIcon.Handle := LoadIcon(MainInstance, 'MAINICON');
Which means that if you want the Windows Shell (usually Explorer) to select that one, all other icon resources in your executable must have names that sort after MAINICON.
For the individual icon, the process is more complex. Even the summary is. To summarise the summary to select an icon for the requested size:
- Prefer the image closest in size.
- When more images of that size are present, match on the best color depth for the display.
- When no color depth matches, prefer the image with the greatest color depth not exceeding the color depth of the display.
- When all exceed the color depth, prefer the lowest color depth.
For color depth, treat 8 or more bits per pixel as equal. So there is no advantage of including a 16×16 256-color image and a 16×16 16-color image in the same resource — the system will simply choose the first one it encounters. When the display is in 8-bpp mode, the system will choose a 16-color icon over a 256-color icon, and will display all icons using the system default palette.
I’m not completely confident how 32-bit precisely fits in this scheme. If someone knows, please let me know and I’ll include the information.
I usually take 32-bit color images here which are actually True Color 24-bit + alpha channel RGBA images.
Actually there are a lot of sizes that Windows can request, and there are many articles about it, some of which contradict each other.
From what I assembled, these are the sizes you need to run on Windows XP / Server 2003 and up:
I might be wrong, so here are some links:
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/22
The ones I know, hopefully they are the only ones as search results are inconclusive:
–jeroen
XE9
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/18
Interesting:
For codesign verification:
find /Applications -d 1 -name "*.app" -exec codesign --verify --verbose {} \;For system policy assessment:
find /Applications -d 1 -name "*.app" -exec spctl --assess --verbose {} \;
–jeroen
Source: How to verify app signatures in OS X | MacIssues
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/17
DUnit registration can mix TestSuites and TestCases.
Some links:
–jeroen
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