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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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
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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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Most common error codes during Windows/Microsoft Update
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/25
Finally I found a good list of error codes that you might encounter when doing Windows/Microsoft Updates.
The page is for Windows XP SP3, but the error codes occur in many other update situations as well.
Error code that appears in the WindowsUpdate.log file Error Code description (as it may appear in the Svcpack.log file) Knowledge Base article that describes potential resolutions 0x8007F0F4 STATUS_PREREQUISITE_FAILED 949388 0x80246007 SUS_E_DM_NOTDOWNLOADED 949386 0x8007F003 STATUS_NOT_ENOUGH_SPACE 949385 0x80070005 ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED 949377 0x800706BE RPC_S_CALL_FAILED 950718 0x8007F02B STATUS_NOT_ENOUGH_WITH_UNINST 949375 0x87FF0004 Error_Too_Many_Open_Files 950718 0x8007054F Error_Internal_Error 949384 0x8007001F ERROR_GEN_FAILURE 950718 0x8007F070 STATUS_SETUP_ERROR 950718 0x8007F205 STR_UPDATE_ALREADY_RUNNING 949381 0x8007F004 STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_PRIVS 951244 0x80070001 ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION 950718 0x80070002 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND 950718 0x8007F0CC STATUS_KERNEL_NONSTD 327101 0x87FF054F n/a 950718 0x87FF36B7 n/a 950718
Oh and this didn’t solve my problem:
- REGSVR32 WUAPI.DLL
- REGSVR32 WUAUENG1.DLL
- REGSVR32 ATL.DLL
- REGSVR32 WUPS2.DLL
- REGSVR32 WUCLTUI.DLL
- REGSVR32 WUPS.DLL
- REGSVR32 WUWEB.DLL
- REGSVR32 WUAUENG.DLL
–jeroen
via:
- Steps to take before you install Windows XP Service Pack 3.
- Windows XP – Unable to Install Updates from Windows Update.
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START: Start a program, **even if it is not on the PATH** ideal to start various versions of apps from DOS
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29
A while ago, I had to adapt a DOS app that used one specific version of Excel to do some batch processing so it would support multiple versions of Excel on multiple versions of Windows.
One of the big drawbacks of DOS applications is that the command lines you can use are even shorter than Windows applications, which depending you how you call an application are:
- 32767 characters when you call CreateProcess (the limit is UNICODE_STRING structure)
- 8192 characters when you use Cmd.exe
- 2048+32 characters when you use ShellExecute or ShellExecuteEx (the limit is INTERNET_MAX_URL_LENGTH)
- 260 characters for the Windows 95 family of products (the limit is MAX_PATH)
- 127 characters for DOS (the upper limit of a signed byte) often excluding the length of “cmd.exe” or “command.exe”
This is how the DOS app written in Clipper (those were the days, it was even linked with Blinker :) started Excel:
c:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\excel.exe parameters
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890
1 2 3 4
The above depends on 8.3 short file names that in turn depend on the order in which similar named files and directories have been created.
The trick around this, and around different locations/versions of an application, is to use START to find the right version of Excel.
The reason it works is because in addition to PATH, it checks the App Paths portions in the registry in this order to find an executable: Read the rest of this entry »
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AkelPad Editor: tiny, and functional. Too bad it steals the Alt-letter keyboard shortcuts
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/25
Just found out about the AkelPad Editor.
It is tiny, has a lot of functionality.
Too bad that Alt+V does not go to the View menu, but is bound to a kind-of-past functionality.
Similar for other Alt+letter combinations in their keyboard shortcuts.
They should have used Ctrl+Alt+letter combinations for it.
So I continue my search for a good, tiny, syntax highlighting and multi-encoding capable NotePad alternative.
–jeroen
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in light of the zero-day Java exploits: JRE removal/install tool JavaRa from SingularLabs
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17
Even though the JavaRa tool is Windows-only, it is a tremendous help scraping old vulnerable versions of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from your systems and keeping only the fixed versions.
Regular JRE installs from Oracle/Sun will keep the old-and-vulnerable JRE versions.
(note that it seems the recent JRE update did not actually fix the vulnerability, just the exploit, and that a new Java vulnerability might already be exploited. Be sure to keep a watch upcoming Java updates for these).
JavaRa is an effective way to deploy, update and remove the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Its most significant feature is the JRE Removal tool; which forcibly deletes files, directories and registry keys associated with the JRE. This can assist in repairing or removing Java when other methods fail.
JavaRa 2.1 (released 20130116) Read the rest of this entry »
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Getting localized translations of built-in Windows account names
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/31
A lot of scripts you find on the internet have hardcoded Windows account names or groups, for instance BUILTIN\Administrators
Those don’t work on many localized Windows versions, as part of the account names have been translated as well. Not only Administrators is translated, but BUILTIN can be translated too. Basically, expect everything in Windows to be translated as part of the localization process.
Some people keep translations lists, but that is not the real solution.
The real solution is that each such group, account or other identifier stems from a SID or Security ID.
Many of those SIDs are the same on any machine, or structured the same within a domain.
Microsoft has a list of these called Well-known security identifiers in Windows operating systems.
That list isn’t in a format most Windows tools use it, so I generated the list below that is more suitable.
The list below is based on a Windows 7 machine. Other versions or editions give slightly different results, but it is a good start.
At the bottom is the batch file that I used to generate this table. That file is adapted from the Microsoft list above.
The batch file depends on a few tools and tricks: Read the rest of this entry »
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 