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
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 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 2015/10/29
On a system where I just added a new E: drive, it was indeed available as
wmic logicaldisk where drivetype=3 get caption,filesystem,drivetype,providername,volumename
would output:
Caption DriveType FileSystem ProviderName VolumeName C: 3 NTFS D: 3 NTFS E: 3 NTFS
But it would not list as an administrative share since
net share
would give:
Share name Resource Remark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IPC$ Remote IPC ADMIN$ C:\WINDOWS Remote Admin D$ D:\ Default share C$ C:\ Default share The command completed successfully.
I wonder why the E$ drive was not visible. If anyone knows a better solution than a reboot, please let me know.
This was after the reboot:
Share name Resource Remark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IPC$ Remote IPC ADMIN$ C:\WINDOWS Remote Admin D$ D:\ Default share E$ E:\ Default share C$ C:\ Default share The command completed successfully.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/25
Very smart case insensitive way answered by jeb:
if NOT "%foo%"=="%foo:bar=%" echo FOUND
–jeroen
via windows – Find out whether an environment variable contains a substring – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/26
Thanks Jon for answering this:
for /lis your friend:for /l %x in (1, 1, 100) do echo %xStarts at 1, steps by one, and finishes at 100.
Use two
%s if it’s in a batch filefor /l %%x in (1, 1, 100) do echo %%x
–jeroen
via: windows – Batch script loop – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/05
If you are running OpenSSL as a regular user, or cannot perform “RunAs Administrator”, and you get this error message:
unable to write 'random state'
then make sure you have set your environment variables correctly before running OpenSSL:
RANDFILE=%LOCALAPPDATA%\.rnd
A full batch file front-end for OpenSSL.exe is this one:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/22
Wow: I feel like having lived under a stone for 8 years, as RosettaCode has been alive since it was founded in 2007 by Mike Mol.
The idea is that you solve a task and learn from that, or learn by seeing how others have solved tasks or draft tasks.
So in a sense it is similar to the Rosetta stone: it has different languages phrasing the same tasks.
There are already a whole bunch of languages on RosettaCode (of which a few are in the categories below), and you can even suggest or add your own languages.
When you want to solve tasks, be sure to look at the list unimplemented tasks by language that leads to automatic reports by language (for instance two of the languages I use most often: C# and Delphi).
I’m sure there are lots of programming chrestomathy sites, even beyond the ones, and it feels very similar to programming kata sites.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/06
Two interesting links today about Delphi and Batch files.
–jeroen
PS: If you want to see some serious Batch file and PowerShell related scripts, then read through the Build Automation part of my session materials I posted to ITDevCon and EKON session materials on Delphi Unit Testing + Build Automation and Continuous Integration on-line.
More details are in the batch files here:
and PowerShell scripts here:
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