Need to check this out later this month: Bvckup 2 | Simple fast backup.
–jeroen
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In my research list: Bvckup 2 | Simple fast backup
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/07
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Outlook + Outlook express: email received from Outlook sender does not have any attachment in Outlook Express
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/03
A friend of mine uses Outlook Express because that has been with Windows since very early on, and before that with Internet Explorer from version 4 till version 6.
He is the kind of person that does use a computer, but doesn’t like change. No wonder, as he is well into the retirement age and the systems he has used in the past all lasted for a very long time.
So it is going to be a big change for him when he needs to upgrade from Windows XP – that he used for over 10 years – to something else. Probably more on that in a later stage (if Windows Live Mail exists by then).
Back to the problem at hand: he couldn’t see attachments from certain Outlook users, though those users insisted .
I hadn’t used Outlook nor Outlook Express for a long while but it was fairly easy to track down the cause by viewing the message source in either of these two ways:
- From the opened message itself: view the message properties, then the message source as described in How to View and Forward Email Headers.
- From the message list: Press Ctrl-F3 to view the full message source (which also seems to work from the opened message itself).
As soon as you see the full message source, there is a ms-tnef encoded Winmail.dat attachment in the affected messages. You find it by searching for a line that starts with “begin” followed by 2 spaces, “666” or “664” (it is one of the means to fake UUencoded attachments and hide text from Outlook Express).
Winmail.dat is known to cause all sorts of problems, even the NY Times devoted an article about it. It basically encapsulates the content of a message including any attachments into RTF: a Microsoft proprietary – but documented – standard of encoding formatted text.
Outlook Express does not cope with Winmail.dat well: it is a typical example of the one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing.
The “trick” is to configure Outlook for using HTML to format text (or use plain text without formatting) instead of RTF. You can do this either globally, or per recipient in the address book:
- Recipients receive a winmail.dat attachment – Outlook – Office.com.
- Email received from a sender using Outlook includes a Winmail.dat attachment.
So when you use Outlook Express, ask the sender not to use RTF.
–jeroen
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Know your enemy: Hacking Microsoft Remote Desktop Services for Fun and Profit
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/03
All software and protocols has weak points, so it is good to know about the weak points on MSTSC and the RDP protocol: Hacking Microsoft Remote Desktop Services for Fun and Profit.
–jeroen
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rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client (open source, runs on X, hosted on sf.net)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/02
Very interesting, especially since rdesktop.org works with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 as well, and is stable on x64.
It provides three tools: rdesktop, rdpproxy and seamlessrdp.
Researching this, I also found about TSWindowClipper which allows you to seamlessly integrates remote apps on your client by integrating a DLL inside the MSTSC software using the official virtual channels.
Back to rdesktop: I really wish the documentation was better, but it contains some very interesting source code.
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Remote Desktop Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. rdesktop is known to work with Windows versions such as NT 4 Terminal Server, 2000, XP, 2003, 2003 R2, Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2.
rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward.
rdesktop is released under the GNU Public Licence (GPL), version 3. Please send feedback, bug reports and patches to the appropriate mailing list. Patches can also be submitted to the SF patch tracker.
rdesktop is a project. See the Sourceforge rdesktop project info and the Wiki for more information.
Status
The latest stable version of rdesktop is 1.7.1 (edit: this was at the time of writing, for the current latest, check here). This versions solves major issues with 64bit version and smartcard support among a few minor fixes.
–jeroen
via rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client.
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Retina MacBook Pro: with VMware Fusion 5: setting resolution 2880 x 1800 not available in Windows 8 (via: Ask Different)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/27
(Originally scheduled for 20130930, so it made it to the Missed Schedule list as well)
On my research list, as I want to do this in Windows 7 as well as windows 8: retina macbook pro – Resolution 2880 x 1800 not available in Windows 8 (VMware Fusion 5) – Ask Different.
–jeroen
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X-mas present: Beyond Compare v4 beta for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/24
I’ve been wanting this a very long time, so I’m going to install it Right Now ™ (:
Right before X-Mas, Scooter Software did the ANN: Beyond Compare 4.0 beta available on Windows, Linux, and OS X:
Posted: Dec 23, 2013 4:17 PM
Beyond Compare 4.0 beta is now available for testing on Windows, Linux, and OS X.
http://www.scootersoftware.com/beta
This version adds a number of new features: Read the rest of this entry »
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Top 10: Windows Firewall Netsh Commands (via: Windows Server content from Windows IT Pro)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/24
For my own reference, especially since setting the network profile in Windows 8 from the UI got much more difficult.
It is doable though, but not in logic places; I like the secpol.msc way most: windows 8 – How do I set my wireless network to be private instead of public? – Super User.
Same for renaming the network, which also has a secpol.msc way that is easy:
- Press Win+R, then type
secpol.msc- Click on “Network List Manager Policies”
- Double-click on your network
- Optionally give your network another name
- Click on “Tab Network Location”
- Set “Location Type” to “Private”
Go back to Network and Sharing Center to check the result.
To start the Network and Sharing Center:
control.exe /name Microsoft.NetworkAndSharingCenter
Top 10: Windows Firewall Netsh Commands | Windows Server content from Windows IT Pro.
including:
- Checking if the current profile is set to private/public/domain:
netsh advfirewall show currentprofile
- Checking the firewall rules for applications: Read the rest of this entry »
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Scott Hanselman’s 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/22
After a couple of years break, there is the new Scott Hanselman’s 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows – Scott Hanselman.
A must read!
–jeroen
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Link Shell Extension: for hardlinks, junctions, volume mount points, etc.
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/20
Interesting as a complement to fsutil and mklink and FindLinks and Junction: Link Shell Extension and ln.exe.
It allows you to create and maintain “Hardlinks, Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Windows7/8’s Symbolic Links, (herein referred to collectively as Links) a folder cloning process” and more.
Note that Link Shell Extensions require NTFS5 or higher (NTFS.sys version 5, which corresponds with NTFS v3.1)
–jeroen
via: Link Shell Extension.
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Error 13EC when installing The .NET Framework 4.5.1 means you need to free more disk space. 3GB that is.
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/15
Recently I had Windows Update giving me a 13EC error when installing KB2858725: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 that got release lated last November on various virtual machine systems.
It appears that a lot more people suffer from the Windows Update 13EC issue, and most of them have to to with .NET 4, .NET 4.5 and .NET 4.5.1.
Running many virtual machine systems on an SSD based host machine, so I’m always pressed with disk space (hence cleaning the various temporary files directories often). I wasn’t glad with Windows 8 update KB 2821895
- taking a very long time to install while using lots of CPU (compressing the C:\Windows\WinSxS folder)
- taking a huge C:\Windows\WinSxS\Reserve.tmp file (the Reserve.tmp is almost 3 gigabyte on my various Windows 8 VMs), but that 3 gigabyte boundary seems to ensure that future upgrades can be installed.
Note there are some Microsoft tips to make the size of the C:\Windows\WinSxS smaller, but those still do not remove the Reserve.tmp file.
My conclusion is that various Microsoft updates now require 3 gigabytes of disk space.
This seems to be the case with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 KB 2858725 update, and probably more future updates. I tried installing the KB 2858725 update with slightly less than 3 gigabytes of space (and after the 3 gigabyte reserve.tmp appeared), and I was still getting error 13EC. But with slightly more than 3 gigabyte the update would install.
Like usual, the Windows Update help on Error 13EC is useless, see the below screenshot.
–jeroen
via: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 and its corresponding language packs are available on Windows Update.
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