/windows | May 17, 2013

"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

• Quicken 6 for Macintosh
• Quicken 6 for Windows
• Quicken 99 for Windows
• Quicken 2000 for Windows
• Quicken 2003 for Windows
• Quicken 2004 for Windows

/windows | Apr 24, 2013

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
...

/windows | Apr 11, 2013

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

C:\>schtasks /query /?
...
    /TN   taskname       Specifies the task name for which to
                         retrieve the information, else all of them.
...

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

C:\>rd "\\?\e:\dirname "

/windows | Mar 31, 2013

•  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.  
•  Drive SnapShot 1.42 [352k] + Disk imaging backup. Review  
• Bvckup 1.0.1.401 [478k] Delta copy folders in real time, manually, or at scheduled intervals.  

• Lazy Mirror 9.3.1.401 [687k] Folder mirroring with versioning and automatic archive purging.  

/windows | Mar 24, 2013

• 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

Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information.

1. set target disk to be first in the hard drive boot order
2. set target disk as the primary boot device

• Windows 7 Installation Error: "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition."
• Error: "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files." when you try to install Windows 8 (CP)

/windows | Mar 24, 2013

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