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Windows 7 Firewall - Cannot disable or remove exceptions #
If attempting to disable or remove Windows Firewall exceptions using the standard method fails, try this: Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Windows Firewall with Advanced Security > select "Inbound Rules" or "Outbound Rules" > right click and delete or disable rule. (Thanks moogly!)

/windows | May 17, 2013

"This may be the finest piece of word processing code ever written" #
Green Award VDE 1.96A [90k] + DOS/console text editor with an essential core of word processing features, including support for WordStar, WordPerfect, and Microsoft Word formats.  Screenshot

Dvorak quote from 1990:
"This may be the finest piece of word processing code ever written. I have never been as impressed with anything as I have with VDE 1.5... writing software in 100 percent assembly language still pays off in performance and reduced code size. It's an astonishing product, believe me. It's more than the perfect laptop word processor... I cannot give a higher recommendation for any product that I have seen in ten years... Top recommendation."

/windows | May 05, 2013

Upgrading Quicken 2001 to 2013 #
or any ancient version of Quicken to a modern one requires using an intermediate version to convert the old data first. Intuit kindly offers these free Quicken downloads for that purpose: Refreshingly, no registration is required; these are direct download links.

/windows | Apr 24, 2013

Dump cleartext passwords of logged in user(s) #
mimikatz displays passwords of logged in user(s):
mimikatz # privilege::debug
Demande d'ACTIVATION du privilège : SeDebugPrivilege : OK

mimikatz # sekurlsa::logonPasswords full
...
Utilisateur principal       : user
Domaine d'authentification  : domain
        kerberos :
         * Utilisateur  : user
         * Domaine      : domain
         * Mot de passe : pass
...
Spotted on /r/sysadmin here and here.

Similar "exploit" for OS X: Recover passwords from current user's Login Keychain

/windows | Apr 11, 2013

Emailing results from Windows XP Scheduled Tasks #
The Windows 7 Task Scheduler includes a built-in email option, something XP doesn't offer. A simple workaround is to use blat and a batch file. We'll use a SyncToy scheduled task in this example.
  1. Schedule a SyncToy backup job (see "Schedule SyncToy" in the included help file for details)
  2. Throw blat and grep into C:\Windows (or anywhere in your PATH)
  3. Create a batch file (e.g., C:\scripts\email.bat) which contains something like this:
    schtasks /query /fo list /v | findstr /i "Result: TaskName: Last" | grep SyncToy -A 2 | blat -f admin@example.org -to user@example.org -s "SyncToy task result" -serverSMTP mail.example.org
  4. Schedule email.bat to run daily. You'll start receiving emails that look something like this:
    TaskName:      SyncToy
    Last Run Time: 12:30:00, 4/2/2013
    Last Result:   0
On a related note, the Windows 7 version of schtasks supports the /TN parameter for queries:
C:\>schtasks /query /?
...
    /TN   taskname       Specifies the task name for which to
                         retrieve the information, else all of them.
...
Sadly, the help text is deceiving; you need to specify the full path, not just the task name (or rather (more accurately), the full path is the task name, though that is not at all clear from the Task Scheduler GUI).
C:\>schtasks /query /v /fo list /tn synctoy
ERROR: The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\>schtasks /query /v /fo list /tn "\Microsoft\Windows\SyncToy\synctoy"

Folder: \Microsoft\Windows\SyncToy
HostName:                             computername
TaskName:                             \Microsoft\Windows\SyncToy\synctoy
Next Run Time:                        4/3/2013 10:57:34 PM
Status:                               Ready
Logon Mode:                           Interactive only
Last Run Time:                        4/2/2013 11:01:39 PM
Last Result:                          0
Author:                               computername\user
Task To Run:                          "C:\Program Files\SyncToy 2.1\SyncToyCmd.exe" -R
...

/windows | Apr 02, 2013

Delete a directory with a trailing space in its name #
We've seen the confusion a trailing space in a filename can cause. The same problem in a directory name stored on a FAT32-formatted flash drive made it impossible to delete under OS X with the usual workarounds, but Windows managed it via:
C:\>rd "\\?\e:\dirname "
For more information, see Cause 5: The file name includes a reserved name in the Win32 name space in this KB article: You cannot delete a file or a folder on an NTFS file system volume.

/windows | Mar 31, 2013

Recent additions to File/Backup #
  • Green Award FSync 1.5 [116k] + Uni-directional folder mirroring. Target can be specified by drive letter, label, or serial number. Cannot backup locked or in-use files; combine with ShadowSpawn to work around.  Screenshot
  • Green Award Drive SnapShot 1.42 [352k] + Disk imaging backup. Review  Screenshot
  • Bvckup 1.0.1.401 [478k] Delta copy folders in real time, manually, or at scheduled intervals.  Screenshot
UPDATE:

/windows | Mar 24, 2013

Copy in-use files from the command line #
  • hobocopy (open source) - "Uses the Volume Shadow Service (VSS) to 'snapshot' the disk before copying. It then copies from the snapshot rather than the 'live' disk." Several issues raised in these comments, including problems with incremental mode and attributes/ACL. The author has deprecated it in favor of:
  • ShadowSpawn (open source) - "Works by making a shadow copy of your disk, making it available at a drive letter, then launching (spawning) another program that you specify. Probably the most common way to use ShadowSpawn is to use Robocopy make a copy of files that are currently in use."
  • ShadowCopy (freeware) - Copies locked and open files via Volume Shadow Services.
  • Backup of locked files using vshadow.exe and robocopy.exe (PDF) - Instructions from the University of Arkansas for backing up with VShadow and Robocopy.

/windows | Mar 24, 2013

Error installing Windows 7 #
While attempting to install Windows 7 from a USB-connected Zalman ZM-VE200 (formerly iodd 2501), the following error appeared:
Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information.
The error would not appear when booting from a Windows 7 install DVD.

Resolved by making two changes in the BIOS:
  1. set target disk to be first in the hard drive boot order
  2. set target disk as the primary boot device
References:

/windows | Mar 24, 2013

Windows freezes shortly after booting into Normal Mode #
and even in Safe Mode under heavy I/O. Assuming crash dumps and event logs do not avail:
  1. Launch msconfig
  2. Click "General" > "Selective startup"
  3. Uncheck "Load system services" and "Load startup items" (screenshot)
  4. Restart in Normal Mode. If Windows is no longer freezing, begin adding back desired services and startup items until the culprit is found.

/windows | Feb 11, 2013



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