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Create a Bootable USB Key Thumb Drive in Windows Vista/7 with the Command Line

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/07

Open a command prompt with administrator rights and enter the following sequence of commands:

  • diskpart
  • list disk
  • select disk {number}
  • clean
  • create partition primary
  • select partition 1
  • active
  • format fs=fat32 quick
  • assign
  • exit

Which was for experimenting with a few of the entries in Top 5 Free Rescue Discs for Your Sys Admin Toolkit and Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10.

I think I like Download Hiren’s BootCD 15.2 | HBCD Fan & Discussion Platform most.

Another way to get it on a USB stick is through Launching Hiren’s BootCD from USB Flash Drive | HBCD Fan & Discussion Platform.

Wiping out the HPA and DCO stays difficult though: linux – Harddrive – wipe out “hidden areas” like HPA and DCO also after malware infection – Super User.

–jeroen

via: Create a Bootable USB Key Thumb Drive in Windows Vista/7 with the Command Line and Best Free Rootkit Scanner and Remover and Five free portable rootkit removers – TechRepublic and Utility Spotlight: Scan for Malware Outside of Windows | TechNet Magazine and What Is a Host Protected Area?.

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

Display Windows 8.x Edition & Build Version on Your Desktop (via: Team Windows 8)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/04

Display Windows 8 Edition & Build Version on Your Desktop | Team Windows 8:

Two keys needed: one HKCU one HKLM. You need to be Administrative user with a CUA token to install the second one.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
;http://teamwindows8.com/2013/03/display-windows-8-edition-build-version-on-your-desktop/
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"PaintDesktopVersion"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows]
"DisplayVersion"=dword:00000001

view raw

show-HKCU-PaintDesktopVersion-HKLM-DisplayVersion.reg

hosted with ❤ by GitHub

–jeroen

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To force-quit Mac Applications: the Mac equivalent of “Ctrl Alt Delete” (via: eHow.com): Option-Command-Esc

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/03

Once every while, a full screen app on your Mac hangs, and there is no way to Command-Tab to another application.

PC addicts then press Ctrl+Alt+Del, to either get to the Task Manager, or to logoff/reboot.

For a Mac, there are two:

  1. Force Quit Read the rest of this entry »

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Reminder: find out which Windows 7 drivers work for ScanSnap S510 from Fujitsu

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/14

One of the few Windows XP machines left is main usage is for the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 scanner that I have been using for years: it is small, does duplex scanning, emits searchable PDFs through an embedded Adobe Acrobat and Abby ScanSnap Edition OCR license. The Scan button on the scanner “just works” and allows for a “Scan Now, organize later” workflow.

Just Works: if a user is logged in on the Windows machine, which usually is the case.

Next to that, it is used for internet browsing and remote desktop access to VMs in the various clouds: it is more than adequate for that with dual Dell UltraSharp U2407WFP monitors at 1920×1200. The extra 120 pixels over “modern” 1080p do make a difference you know.

I never bothered to upgrade the machine, as it works so nicely and I have had bad experience replacing systems that include embedded licenses: it usually doesn’t work.

Of course I could buy a new ScanSnap iX500, but I don’t want to increase the electronic waste unless I’ve researched if it is possible to get the ScanSnap S510 working on Windows 7 or 8.x, or even on one of my Macs.

So here are some links for further research on a light-weight solution: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apple, Fujitsu ScanSnap, Hardware, ix500, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Scanners, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | 1 Comment »

Steps for shrinking a vmware disk for a Windows guest VM inside VMware Workstation of VMware Fusion

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/13

Another one from the “missed schedule” series, this one was originally scheduled for 20130927.

These articles were not very clear on the actual steps to take:

The steps I tried: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Fusion, Power User, VMware, VMware Workstation, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »

Windows security Token Bloat

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/13

This can happen when your Windows Security Token bloat has struck:

… the problem could be minor, or relatively major. You may get weird access denied messages, applications crashing, or strange entries in your event logs. Or worse yet a SID for a group that has a ‘deny permission’ on an object could be dropped into the virtual bit bucket, allowing a user to access a resource they are not supposed to access.

…

Summary of fixes for token bloat:

  1. Use global or universal groups instead of domain local.
  2. Increase the MaxTokenSize on all computers
  3. Convert security groups to distribution groups if they are only used for email lists.

…

There is a hard-coded limit of 1,024 SIDs for the Kerberos PAC (privilege attribute certificate)

…

Kerberos token size still remain to 64k in windows7 / win2008r2.

This is what UWWI did to avoid token bloat: UWWI Token Bloat – IAM – UW Information Technology Wiki.

–jeroen

via:

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

Accessing Mac Hard Drives from Windows 7/8: Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/07

If you want to read  a Mac HFS+ formatted disk from Windows 7/8 then you can use the Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033.

It is a large download (about half a gigabyte, uncompressed 800+ megabyte) of which you need only this file:

  • BootCamp5.0.5033.zip\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\BootCamp.msi

When you want to write HFS+, then MacDrive works fine and has a 5-day fully functional trial (so you can verify really large files transfer fine).

The other way around is built in, but not enabled by default. To have a Mac read and write NTFS volumes, you have to edit your /etc/fstab file as explained in will mountain lion read/write to an…: Apple Support Communities to which I added some hyperlinks. Note there are also NTFSFree and OSXFuse (which is the successor of MacFuse). Read the rest of this entry »

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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:

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:

So when you use Outlook Express, ask the sender not to use RTF.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 2 Comments »

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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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:

  1. Press Win+R, then type secpol.msc
  2. Click on “Network List Manager Policies”
  3. Double-click on your network
  4. Optionally give your network another name
  5. Click on “Tab Network Location”
  6. 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

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