Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/07
If adding a Windows machine to a Samba domain fails and the below “solves” your issue, then you need to tighten the security on the Samba side:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters]
; Enable NT-Domain compatibility mode
; Default:
; [value not present]
; "DomainCompatibilityMode"=-
"DomainCompatibilityMode"=dword:00000001
; Disable required DNS name resolution
; Default:
; [value not present]
; "DNSNameResolutionRequired"=-
"DNSNameResolutionRequired"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Netlogon\Parameters]
; Disable requirement of signed communication
; My Samba (3.0.33) works with signed communication enabled, so no need to disable it.
; Default:
; "RequireSignOrSeal"=dword:00000001
; Disable the usage of strong keys
; Default:
; "RequireStrongKey"=dword:00000001
"RequireStrongKey"=dword:00000000
–jeroen
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Power User, samba SMB/CIFS/NMB, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/04
Uh-oh: [WayBack] Unicode in Microsoft Windows: UTF-8 – Wikipedia:
Microsoft Windows has a code page designated for UTF-8, code page 65001. Prior to Windows 10 insider build 17035 (November 2017),[7] it was impossible to set the locale code page to 65001, leaving this code page only available for:
- Explicit conversion functions such as MultiByteToWideChar
- The Win32 console command
chcp 65001 to translate stdin/out between UTF-8 and UTF-16.
This means that “narrow” functions, in particular fopen, cannot be called with UTF-8 strings, and in fact there is no way to open all possible files using fopen no matter what the locale is set to and/or what bytes are put in the string, as none of the available locales can produce all possible UTF-16 characters.
On all modern non-Windows platforms, the string passed to fopen is effectively UTF-8. This produces an incompatibility between other platforms and Windows. The normal work-around is to add Windows-specific code to convert UTF-8 to UTF-16 using MultiByteToWideChar and call the “wide” function.[8] Conversion is also needed even for Windows-specific api such as SetWindowText since many applications inherently have to use UTF-8 due to its use in file formats, internet protocols, and its ability to interoperate with raw arrays of bytes.
There were proposals to add new API to portable libraries such as Boost to do the necessary conversion, by adding new functions for opening and renaming files. These functions would pass filenames through unchanged on Unix, but translate them to UTF-16 on Windows.[9] This would allow code to be “portable”, but required just as many code changes as calling the wide functions.
With insider build 17035 and the April 2018 update (nominal build 17134) for Windows 10, a “Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support” checkbox appeared for setting the locale code page to UTF-8.[a] This allows for calling “narrow” functions, including fopen and SetWindowTextA, with UTF-8 strings. Microsoft claims this option might break some functions (a possible example is _mbsrev[10]) as they were written to assume multibyte encodings used no more than 2 bytes per character, thus until now code pages with more bytes such as GB 18030 (cp54936) and UTF-8 could not be set as the locale.[11]
- Jump up^ [WayBack] “UTF-8 in Windows”. Stack Overflow. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
- Jump up^ [WayBack] “Boost.Nowide”.
- Jump up^ [WayBack] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/strrev-wcsrev-mbsrev-mbsrev-l
- Jump up^ [WayBack] “Code Page Identifiers (Windows)”. msdn.microsoft.com.
Via [WayBack] Microsoft Windows Beta UTF-8 support for Ansi API could break things. Wiki Article of the Change… – Tommi Prami – Google+
Related, as handling encoding is hard, especially if it is changed or not your default:
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, C, C++, Delphi, Development, Encoding, GB 18030, Power User, Software Development, UTF-16, UTF-32, UTF-8, UTF16, UTF32, UTF8, Windows, Windows 10 | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/23
I needed a “get only the first result” of WHERE (which is present after Windows 2000, so XP, Server 2003 and up), so based on [WayBack] A 90-byte “whereis” program – The Old New Thing I came up with this:
@echo off
:: based on https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050120-00/?p=36653
::for %%f in (%1) do @echo.%%~$PATH:f
for %%e in (%PATHEXT%) do @for %%i in (%1 %~n1%%e) do (
@if NOT "%%~$PATH:i"=="" (
echo %%~$PATH:i
goto :eof
)
)
:: note: WHERE lists all occurrences of a file on the PATH in PATH order
goto :eof
Two changes:
- it takes into account the extension if you specify it (unlike WHERE.EXE)
- it bails out at the first match (like WHERE.EXE)
References:
–jeroen
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, The Old New Thing, Windows, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/23
I’m not surprised this free product is from German origin:
With O&O ShutUp10 you have full control over which functions under Windows 10 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far.
[WayBack] O&O ShutUp10: download free antispy tool for Windows 10
Download: [WayBack] dl5.oo-software.com/files/ooshutup10/OOSU10.exe
Run it after each update as well.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/14
I needed this during logon on Windows machines to set the sound volume: [WayBack] NirCmd – Windows command line tool set-soundvolume-25-percent.bat:
:: requires https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
:: 100% = 65535
nircmd setsysvolume 16000
Works on all Windows versions (7-10) I tested so far.
Via
There are way sexier ways to do this, but they were all too convoluted for the time I had to get this to work.
For the future:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/14
Dumping the command prompt history
From [WayBack] Saving windows command prompt history to a file – Charlie Arehart’s ColdFusion Troubleshooting Blog:
doskey /history
gives you the command history.
Redirecting with >, >> or piping with | allows you to save this to a file or filter the output.
Found via: [WayBack] How I can export the history of my commands in Windows(7) Command Prompt? – Stack Overflow
Shells that do support persistent history
Note that the command history is not persistent. If you want that, then there are two other shells that support persistent history:
Both of these found through [WayBack] windows – Is there a global, persistent CMD history? – Server Fault.
–jeroen
Posted in Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, MS-DOS, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/12
[WayBack] xcopy | Microsoft Docs has this:
| Exit code |
Description |
| 0 |
Files were copied without error. |
| 1 |
No files were found to copy. |
| 2 |
The user pressed CTRL+C to terminate xcopy. |
| 4 |
Initialization error occurred. There is not enough memory or disk space, or you entered an invalid drive name or invalid syntax on the command line. |
| 5 |
Disk write error occurred. |
Empirically, errorlevel 4 is also returned when the source file or source directory does not exist.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/12
Cool tool: [WayBack] Windows Services Dependency Viewer – Home:
Windows Services Dependency Viewer is a simple tool that provides the following information:
- Windows service dependent and antecedent services
- Services grouped by process
- Service details (from Win32_Service WMI class)
- Service process details (from Win32_Process WMI class
This tremendously helps getting an overview of which Windows Services to monitor for running state: if for instance you need monitor SMTP, then you do not need to monitor Event Log as that is a requirement.
Related: [WayBack] What is Windows 7 service dependency tree? – Super User
Download: [Archive.is] https://download-codeplex.sec.s-msft.com/Download/Release?ProjectName=svcdependencyviewer&DownloadId=100584&FileTime=129075223089600000&Build=21050
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/05
Both in %TEMP% and %Windir%\TEMP, a lot of log files named %COMPUTERNAME%-yyymmdd-hhnn.loghaving entries named Click-To-Run General Telemetry appear.
Anyone who knows how to disable this logging?
I think they are related to Office 2016 installed through Office 365.
Disabling the Click-To-Run Monitor scheduled task is not a good solution, as it will also Office disable update notification: [WayBack] MS Office 2016 – Click to run logs | MalwareTips Forums
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/29
For my link archive: [WayBack] Language Accessory Pack for Office – Office Support (short-link)
All supported languages for Office 2010, 2013 and 2066/newer versions.
–jeroen
Posted in Office, Office 2010, Office 2013, Office 2016, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »
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