All categories

October 2026
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
	1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

Bug fixes from both sides for “Windows 10 Creators update and Delphi debugging don’t go well”

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/13

It looks like Microsoft and Embarcadero solved their ends for [WayBack] Windows 10 Creators update and Delphi debugging don’t go well… :

[WayBack] Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16215 for PC + Build 15222 for Mobile – Windows Experience BlogWindows Experience Blog
[WayBack] The Issue with Delphi Runtime Packages and Windows 10 Creators Update

The issue was caused by the Windows LoadLibrary trying to optimise loading which backfired for libraries (PE files like DLL/EXE…) that have multiple import tables in them as generated by the Delphi and C++ Builder linker (and maybe other linkers as well).

Microsoft finetuned their optimisation whereas a future update to Delphi and C++ Builder will generate more optimised import tables.

–jeroen

via [WayBack] Blog post “The Issue with Delphi Runtime Packages and Windows 10 Creators Update”… – Marco Cantù – Google+

Posted in Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10 | Leave a Comment »

VHD Attach 4.11 – Medo’s Home Page

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/05

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 Management console. Detach option is available on hard drive contextual menu also (if selected in options).

Source:

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 | Leave a Comment »

What’s got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course • The Register

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26

Penguinistas, rejoice: Tavis Ormandy lets you fuzz Windows

Cool, as they now can fuzz Windows Defender and have Microsoft make it better so all Windows 8+ users can profit from it.

Source: [WayBack] What’s got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course • The Register

Repository: https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary

Via: [WayBack] WAT? – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2016 | Leave a Comment »

17 years ago, C:\nul\nul crashed/BSOD Windows; now $MFT does for Windows < 10

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26

Source:

History repeating itself: [Archive.is] 31607 – C:\nul\nul crashes/BSOD then, now it’s this:

Via:

All versions prior to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 seem vulnerable.

So add $MFT to this list:

The following device names have been known to render a system unstable: CON,
NUL, AUX, PRN, CLOCK$, COMx, LPT1, and CONFIG$.

Oh BTW: history repeated itself this year too. With NUL

In short, Steven Sheldon created a rust package named nul which broke the complete package manager on Windows:

[WayBack] How I Broke Rust’s Package Manager for All Windows Users – sasheldon.com
[WayBack] I Broke Rusts Package Manager for Windows Users | Hacker News
[WayBack] I think a crate called ‘nul’ is causing errors for cargo (windows).
[WayBack] @bstrie: @sheldonut Hi Steven, Rust team here :) We’re having some technical difficulties with the name of one of your crates… feel free to DM
[WayBack] Null character – Wikipedia
[WayBack] IRC Logs for #rust-internals | BotBot.me [o__o] – 2017-04-30 – 84953638 – page 4
[WayBack] List of software package management systems – Wikipedia: Application-level package managers
[WayBack] I think the name of this project causes issues for windows users. · Issue #1 · SSheldon/nul
- When cargo updates its crates.io registry, it creates a file for each crate, no extension, just the name.The name nul is not a valid name in windows 10, so cargo fails to update the registry, and then aborts whatever it was doing (building, searching, ect.).I think this project should be re-published to crates.io under a new name, something like null-strings perhaps?
[WayBack] Fresh install unable to install anything · Issue #3982 · rust-lang/cargo
- Here is what I see with verbose. I get this trying to install clippy or rustfmt. I assume I would get it with other crates.Updating registry https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index
  error: [20/-1] Cannot checkout to invalid path ‘3/n/nul’
[WayBack] IRC Logs for #rust | BotBot.me [o__o] – 2017-04-30 – msg 84953614 – page=19
[WayBack] What’s the deal with those reserved filenames like NUL and CON? – The Old New Thing
The solution: [WayBack] Reserve windows crate names. by withoutboats · Pull Request #695 · rust-lang/crates.io
[WayBack] @withoutboats boats ✨ on Twitter: “I thought Rust was supposed to prevent nul errors! ;-)”

BTW: one of my gripes on learning new languages is that they come with a whole new idiom of their ecosystem: rust, cargo, crates, all sound like being a truck mechanic to me.

–jeroen

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Development, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, NTFS, Power User, Security, Software Development, The Old New Thing, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Defender, Windows Development, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

CTRL control | CommitStrip

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/23

Guilty, not so much in programming but in Word Processing: CTRL control | CommitStrip

Posted in Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

WannaCry — Decrypting files with WanaKiwi + Demos – Comae Technologies

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/19

[Archive.is] Working Windows XP & 7 demos. #FRENCHMAFIA: WannaCry — Decrypting files with WanaKiwi + Demos – Comae Technologies:

TL;DR;

DO NOT REBOOT your infected machines and TRY wanakiwi ASAP*!

*ASAP because prime numbers may be over written in memory after a while.

Via:[WayBack] A French researcher says he’s found a tool that could help some fraction of victims running that older Windows version. Just don’t reboot! WannaCry Ransomware Victims Might Have Some Hope–If They’re on Windows XP | WIRED

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

PatchCleaner just cleaned 10-20 gigabyte per Windows 7-8.x installation

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/15

PatchCleaner just cleaned out 10-20 gigabyte per VM for most of my Windows 7-8.x VMs. After that, the updates still worked fine.

So it indeed does:

Safely remove all orphaned patch and installer files from your windows installer directory in one easy click

–jeroen

Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/patchcleaner/

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9 | Leave a Comment »

Technology Chatting with Jack: SOLVED! – High CPU Usage of Microsoft Security Essentials

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/01

Details: Technology Chatting with Jack: SOLVED! – High CPU Usage of Microsoft Security Essentials

TL;DR:

if MsMpEng.exe uses a lot of CPU, it it to it’s own exclusion list.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9 | Leave a Comment »

Two Quick Methods for Finding Shared Folders in Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/01

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 Folders” inside compmgmt.msc

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Windows update errors you get when you have a bad network connection: 80244019 and

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/14

A while ago I had some intermittent network issues resulting in these Windows Update error numbers:

80244019 (some traffic made it through)
80072EE2 (no traffic made it through)
8??????? (DNS traffic didn’t make it through)

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »

« Previous Entries

Next Entries »

	#2 on Forensics: Automating Active D…
	A/V Revolution on Link archive: A YouTube video…
	#omdenken on Post by @lookitup.baby (Ian Co…
	xyzzy, Relay Confere… on Sad and Useless about Competit…
	ZaqHydn on MeshCore – Off grid mesh…

The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

Jeroen W. Pluimers on .NET, C#, Delphi, databases, and personal interests

Subscribe

Archives

Category Cloud

Recent Comments

Recent Posts

Blog Stats

Meta title

Top Clicks

Top Posts

My badges

Twitter Updates

My Flickr Stream

Pages

All categories

Email Subscription

Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

Bug fixes from both sides for “Windows 10 Creators update and Delphi debugging don’t go well”

Like this:

VHD Attach 4.11 – Medo’s Home Page

Like this:

What’s got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course • The Register

Like this:

17 years ago, C:\nul\nul crashed/BSOD Windows; now $MFT does for Windows < 10

Oh BTW: history repeated itself this year too. With NUL

Like this:

CTRL control | CommitStrip

Like this:

WannaCry — Decrypting files with WanaKiwi + Demos – Comae Technologies

TL;DR;

Like this:

PatchCleaner just cleaned 10-20 gigabyte per Windows 7-8.x installation

Like this:

Technology Chatting with Jack: SOLVED! – High CPU Usage of Microsoft Security Essentials

Like this:

Two Quick Methods for Finding Shared Folders in Windows

Like this:

Windows update errors you get when you have a bad network connection: 80244019 and

Like this:

Jeroen W. Pluimers on .NET, C#, Delphi, databases, and personal interests

Subscribe

Archives

Category Cloud

Recent Comments

Recent Posts

Blog Stats

Meta title

Tag Cloud Title

Top Clicks

Top Posts

My badges

My Flickr Stream

Pages

All categories

Email Subscription

Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Oh BTW: history repeated itself this year too. With NUL

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

TL;DR;

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Share this:

Like this: