Need to research this if it works for both FTP and HTTP: How can I mount an FTP to a drive letter in windows? – Server Fault.
–jeroen
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On my research list: mounting FTP or HTTP location as drive in Windows
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/01
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Why don’t the shortcuts I put in the CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES folder show up in the Favorites menu? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/25
Why Internet Explorer does not use these two for showing shortcuts:
- CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES
- %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
–jeroen
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TSListUsers: great little console tool to list Remote Desktop / Terminal Services Users
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/18
Thanks to Joe Klemencic, TSListUsers is a great little console tool that shows you the currently logged on users and which session they use:
List Terminal Services Users
TSListUsers is a command line utility to list both the currently connected and disconnected users, hostname, IP address and RDP session number on either the local or a remote Windows Terminal Server/RDP Server
To list the users, you need to have the following abilities:
- NetBios access to the server
- Permissions allowing you to Query RDP session information (if you can log into the TS, you should have this by default)
- Terminal Services/RDP should be running on the target host
Usage:
TSListUsers.exe /? to get the Help text
TSListUsers.exe to query a target Terminal Server
TSListUsers.exe with no paramters to query the local hostYou can download TSListUsers from here.
Example output of remote session:
C:\Windows>TSListUsers.exe Active Connections: Username, HostName(IP), SessID, RDP-Port ---------------------------------------- jeroenp, W701UJPL (192.168.71.34), 2, RDP-Tcp#92 Disconnected Connections: Username, HostName, SessID --------------------------
Example output of local session:
C:\Windows>TSListUsers.exe Active Connections: Username, HostName(IP), SessID, RDP-Port ---------------------------------------- jeroenp, 1, Console Disconnected Connections: Username, HostName, SessID --------------------------
–jeroen
via List Terminal Services Users.
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ntfs – How do you find what process is holding a file open in Windows? – Server Fault
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/15
First a warning: when you have found the process holding open a file, and you want to forcibly close the handle, read this post why you should not: Windows Confidential: Forcing Handles Closed.
In fact:
if you forcibly need to close a handle to salvage something, you should reboot shortly afterwards.
Back to the question at hand:
How do you find what process is holding a file open in Windows?
One thing that annoys me no end about Windows is the old “sharing violation” error. Often you can’t identify what’s holding it open. Usually it’s just an editor or explorer just pointing to a relevant directory but sometimes I’ve had to resort to rebooting my machine.
Any suggestions on how to find the culprit?
All of the below solutions require you to run with Administrative privileges.
On current Windows versions, if you run them without UAC elevation, they will miss a lot of processes. And still: under some secured environments you won’t see all processes anyway.
My preferred answer is not on the list:
Quit the application that holds the handle
All the tools that show you the handles will indicate which process holds the handle.
Often, you can just quit that process, do your job on the affected file, then relaunch that process.
When the process is Explorer, there is a neat little trick that works for Windows Vista and up:
For explorer, btw, hold ctrl-shift and right-click a blank area of the start menu, and you’ll get “Exit Explorer” – ps, not quite Jeff’s answer.. – Mark Sowul
Another answer I like is to use Handle, as it is both a command-line tool, and allows for wildcard searching: Read the rest of this entry »
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A couple DLL Locations that Windows uses to display Icons from
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/11
This one most people know of:
- %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
But these files also provide icons:
- %SystemRoot%\system32\filemgmt.dll
- %SystemRoot%\system32\dsadmin.dll
- %SystemRoot%\system32\els.dll
Various versions of Windows share the icon ID in those files, but have different visual content.
A tool like IconsExtract – Extract icon/cursor stored in EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL files can be used to view or extract those icons.
IconExtract works much better at finding the Index inside SHELL32.dll that is described at How Can I Change the Icon for an Existing Shortcut? – Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs.
Copyright issues might apply…
–jeroen
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New Java update available: patch all your machines for yet another zero-day fix: Security Alert CVE-2013-1493
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/05
It starts to be not so funny any more: almost every week a new Java security update.
Time to update again, to stay secure and install the patch: Security Alert CVE-2013-1493.
On the funny side: Java 0day countdown.
–jeroen
via: Security Alert CVE-2013-1493.
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How to make a disallowed-by-default Software Restriction Policy
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/22
Locking down your Windows system even further than the standard restricted user: How to make a disallowed-by-default Software Restriction Policy.
–jeroen
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The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video (awesome 25 minutes, via: Scott Hanselman – G+)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/21
A couple of weeks ago, Scott Hanselman posted a great Windows 8 instructional video.
It contains all the stuff that geeks like me will find out themselves over time, but in a well paced and complete manner:
… to give new users to Windows 8 a near-complete understanding of the major features including the Start Screen, Hot Corners, Full Screen Apps, Desktop Apps, The Store, Browsing, Doing Social Stuff, using the Mouse effectively and exploiting keyboard Shortcuts.
It also shows what a power user like Scott uses besides the standard Microsoft Windows/Office combo.
Oh: and it includes the “Windows-X” shortcut (:
(no: not the mobility center any more)
Recommended watch!
–jeroen
via: (12) Scott Hanselman – Google+ – The Missing Windows 8 Instructional Video. It’s 25 minutes….
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Map WebDAV Drive tool: works in Windows 8 and Windows 7
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/15
Wow, I wish I had found this tool a lot earlier: Map WebDAV Drive.
–jeroen
via: windows – Mapping a Network Drive with Delphi WITHOUT WNetAddConnection2 – Stack Overflow.
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Disabling the Microsoft Security Essentials service by commandline: MsMpSvc
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/01
There are (rare and offline) occasions where you want to want to stop/start the service that provides Microsoft Security Essentials.
A few notes first:
- Only do this when you are off-line
- Be sure to enable the Microsoft Security Essentials by starting its service as soon as possible
- You need to be Admin (and on Vista and up with UAC using elevated security)
This is how: Read the rest of this entry »
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