Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/26
Vista!
Windows Vista introduced the /g switch in shutdown.exe and was unchanged in Windows 7:
/g Shutdown and restart the computer. After the system is rebooted, restart any registered applications.
I never noticed it until Windows 10 which began actively use it when applying system updates: then suddenly many of the previously running applications would reopen during startup.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/03
Great post [WayBack] The Evolution of Windows Search | Windows Search Platform, covering some 3 decades of search:
It is part 1 of a series of 4 posts by [WayBack] Brendan Flynn, Author at Windows Search Platform:
- The Evolution of Windows Search 👈 You Are here
- Windows Search Configuration and Settings
- What’s in my index?
- How to make the most of search on Windows
When grabbing them, only the first two parts were available. Part two was about [WayBack] Configuration and Settings | Windows Search Platform with an in depth coverage of both the old style Control Panel applet as the new Windows 10 Settings page.
Via: [Archive.is] Immo Landwerth on Twitter: “If you like Raymond Chen’s The Old New Thing, then you might love this new developer focused blog too. It starts with an interesting history of Windows Search, by @brflynn_ms. Enjoy & subscribe!”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/31
This helped me big time finding failed logon attempts: [WayBack] Event Log Hell (finding user logon & logoff) – Ars Technica OpenForum
Alternatively, you can use the XPath query mechanism included in the Windows 7 event viewer. In the event viewer, select “Filter Current Log…”, choose the XML tab, tick “Edit query manually”, then copy the following to the textbox:
Code:<QueryList>
<Query Id="0" Path="Security">
<Select Path="Security">*[System[EventID=4624] and EventData[Data[@Name='TargetUserName'] = 'USERNAME']]</Select>
</Query>
</QueryList>This selects all events from the Security log with EventID 4624 where the EventData contains a Data node with a Name value of TargetUserName that is equal to USERNAME. Remember to replace USERNAME with the name of the user you’re looking for.
If you need to be even more specific, you can use additional XPath querying – have a look at the detail view of an event and select the XML view to see the data that you are querying into.
Thanks user Hamstro!
Notes:
eventvwr.exe running as an elevated process using an Administrative user CUA token.USERNAME needs to be the name of the user in UPPERCASE.TargetUserName with subjectUsername (as suggested by [WayBack] How to Filter Event Logs by Username in Windows 2008 and higher | Windows OS Hub) fails. 4624(S) An account was successfully logged on. (Windows 10) | Microsoft Docs4625(F) An account failed to log on. (Windows 10) | Microsoft Docs4626(S) User claims information./Device claims information. (Windows 10) | Microsoft Docs4634(S) An account was logged off. (Windows 10) | Microsoft Docs4797 (An attempt was made to query the existence of a blank password for an account) At the time of writing, it was undocumented, but it seems to be part of an account checking process as per [WayBack] Windows 8 Event ID 4797 in Security Log:That means that an application or service makes an attempt to query the accounts which have blank password. I think some security software may make such request.
Related:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/23
lFor Mac keyboard keys, almost all (except the old solid and open Apple logo’s) have a Unicode code point, see for instance the modifier keys from the [WayBack] List of Mac/Apple keyboard symbols · GitHub (the “Alt” column has a solid Apple logo in the bottom right; on non-Mac systems it will look differently as it is in the Unicode private range: [WayBack] Unicode Character ” (U+F8FF): ‘<Private Use, Last>’):
Sym Key Alt ⌃ Control ⌥ Option ⇧ Shift ⌘ Command
These are the code points for the “Sym” column:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/09
[WayBack] How to turn on automatic logon in Windows
Describes how to turn on the automatic logon feature in Windows by editing the registry.
Most archivals of the above post fail with a 404-error after briefly flashing the content, but this particular one usually succeeds displaying.
It is slightly different from the one referenced in my blog post automatic logon in Windows 2003, and because of the archival issues, I have quoted most of it below.
A few observations, at least in Windows 10 and 8.1:
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultDomainName /t REG_SZ /d %ComputerName% /fI wrote a batch file enable-autologon-for-user-parameter.bat that makes it easier:
if [%1] == [] goto :help :enable reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v AutoAdminLogon /t REG_SZ /d 1 /f :setUserName reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultUserName /t REG_SZ /d %1 /f :removePasswordIfItExists reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultPassword /f if [%2] == [] goto :eof :setPassword reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" /v DefaultPassword /t REG_SZ /d %2 /f goto :eof :help echo Syntax: echo %0 username password
The article quote:
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