Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/29
I wrote quite a few entries about Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts.
But Alister Christie did something much better: he published a great video on YouTube: Some windows shortcut key hints.
Most of the examples he shows work in Windows 7 and up.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/24
An eternal Dilbert strip that is based on the tiny Here’s a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer fragment from single.h:
#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32
#error "Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer."
#endif
Posted in *nix, ARM, Assembly Language, Delphi, Delphi 1, Development, Fun, Geeky, History, MS-DOS, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 8.1, Windows 95, Windows NT, x86 | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/08
When using Windows VMs on my MacBook Retina, often they’d start using excessive CPU after I switched back to my OS X screen.
This is very distracting, for instance during presentations, as it also starts humming the fans at close to 100 Hz (for non techies: nearly 6000 rpm).
When switching back to the VM, and going to Task Manager soon enough, I observed a MsMpEng+high+cpu+usage.
Since I knew this was caused by Windows Defender, I first tried to “Excluded files and locations” MsMpEng.exe, but that did not help.
My second thought was that it was caused by idle behaviour. Disabling that was indeed the cause. Since doing that was kind of hard to circumvent, here is how:
Posted in Microsoft Security Essentials, Power User, Uncategorized, Windows, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Defender | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/05
The Automatic Repair Wizard is very limited and – worse – sometimes plain wrong.
So, this important tip from Tim Anderson can be a real life saver:
if this happens to you, I recommend looking at the logs. It is the only way to get real information about what it going wrong. In some cases you may need to boot into the recovery console from installation media, but if your hard drive is working at all, it should be possible to view those files.
I had the same happening with Windows 81., and I asseume other Windows versions react the same way.
–jeroen
via: When Windows 8 will not boot: the Automatic Repair disaster | Gadget Writing.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/23
About a year and a half ago, I wrote:
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.
That is quite difficult when you run loads of VMs on SSDs: they usually don’t have an awful lot of disk space left.
The same issue holds for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 for Windows 7 x64-based Systems (KB2901983) which got released earlier this week:
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/15
Call either of these from a batch file or Windows shortcut to end up at the Windows Update screen in the Control Panel:
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler wuapp.exe
%windir%\explorer.exe shell:::{36eef7db-88ad-4e81-ad49-0e313f0c35f8}
Notes:
Control Printers calling Control Updates does not work.–jeroen
via: Windows Update Shortcut – Create in Windows 7 – Windows 7 Help Forums.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/08
In this case, another tool didn’t obtain the right Proxy settings.
Chrome to the rescue as chrome://net-internals/#proxy shows you the system proxy settings:
When browsers are experiencing network problems, generally the first thing to test is your network proxy settings. Misconfigured settings, or misbehaving settings, can have a profound impact on your network traffic possibly resulting in pages not loading at all.
Main take aways: chrome://net-internals/#proxy
Since then, I created this small batch file:
reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" | findstr proxy
And this one to edit the settings:
"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL inetcpl.cpl,,4
It will open the same Window that your Control Panel or Internet Explorer uses to manage connection and proxy settings.
From there click the “LAN Settings” button to edit the proxy configuration.
–jeroen
via: Debugging problems with the network proxy – The Chromium Projects.
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, 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, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/27
Edit 20210727:
- A lot of the links below have died due to link rot (sometimes even the domains have gone), but most of the WayBack machine links marked [Wayback] still work.
- The same stop [Wayback] stop
0x0000007Bcan happen when converting a physical machine to VMware (I will schedule a separate post about this):Windows XP Virtual Machine failing with stop 0x0000007B
Steps:
0x0000007B (usually because of SATA/AHCI/IDE or other MassStorage controller driver issues), then read [Wayback] Jon’s Project Blog » disk2vhd using [Wayback] UBCD for Windows to solve the issue as there is no BIOS screen in Hyper-V that allows you to switch from AHCI to SATA and back.Some links that helped me get at these steps:
–jeroen
Posted in BIOS, Boot, Hyper-V, Internet, link rot, Power User, Virtualization, Windows, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows XP, WWW - the World Wide Web of information | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/13
As a follow up on the Cntlm configuration post last week, here is a small batch file that will find Cntlm.exe (on x86 and x64 systems) then start it in verbose mode.
| call :start %ProgramFiles% | |
| call :start %ProgramFiles(x86)% | |
| goto :end | |
| :start | |
| startlocal | |
| set cntlm="%*\Cntlm\Cntlm.exe" | |
| echo %cntlm% | |
| if exist %cntlm% start "Cntlm verbose" %cntlm% -v | |
| endlocal | |
| goto :end | |
| :end |
–jeroen
Posted in Cntlm, Development, Fiddler, NTLM, Power User, Web Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/10
This is an elaboration of How to fill proxy information in cntlm config file – Stack Overflow.
When digging around how to get authentication stuff going, I want as much information, so this was the command-line I used:
cntlm.exe -v -c cntlm.ini -I -M http://www.bbc.co.uk
The -v is important: it shows you why things fail, and where: It also shows you the NTLM headers sent back/forth over the wire.
These are the switches used:
Since it is unsafe to store plain text passwords in configuration files, cntlm allows you to store the hashes.
Storing hashes not passwords locally is safer, but not much safer. See for instance Still Passing the Hash 15 Years Later: Guest Post: Let’s talk about Pass-the-Hash by Scriptjunkie the video How to own a Windows Domain or search for Mark Russinovich video windows hash ntlm hack.
Anyway: you can generate the password hashes using either Read the rest of this entry »
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