mstsc
rdesktop -u 'mydomain\myuser' -p 'mypass' -g 80% ip-of-win -5 -K -r clipboard:CLIPBOARD
Open windows explorer and navigate to your favorite directory Open Windows commnad prompt there by typing: Alt-d cmd
2015-10-12: apt-cyg is a Cygwin package manager. REF: https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg I love this as it offers a non-gui package installer for cygwin, so I can ssh to a windows machines, do my stuff, and never click a mouse.
2015-09-17: View json in IE
Microsoft is awesome, and IE (Edge) is their flag ship product.
To view json in IE, ... drum roll ..., you must edit the registry.
This worked for me:
https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2011/Apr/01/Displaying-JSON-in-your-Browser
Run regedit.exe
Browse to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\ContentType
Right click ContentType -> New -> Key
Name it 'application/json'
Select 'application/json'
In the right pain, Right click -> New -> String -> 'CLSID'
Double click 'CLSID'
Data value: {25336920-03F9-11cf-8FD0-00AA00686F13}
Select 'application/json'
In the right pain, Right click -> New -> DWORD -> 'Encoding'
Double click 'Endocing'
Data Value: Hex -> 80000
Close and save
Start IE, and open a json file
You will see the json.
I am not sure if you need to reboot, but I think IE needs a restart.
It is that easy. I hope this helps you reach your potential.
2014-11-012: Microsoft "open-source" .NET It will use the MIT license. https://tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license M$ promises not to sue over patent infringement, Available Source: https://github.com/Microsoft/referencesource but they (currently) don't plan to accept patches back, so it's not a community project yet. Now we have to get systemd to migrate to .NET, "Join me, and I will complete your training."
REF: My notes are from here
Install Python(2.7) on windows:
https://www.python.org/downloads
Click Downloads -> select the 2.7 -> run installer.
Install: c:\Python27
Add new Environment variable PYTHON=c:\Python27
Add to Environment PATH, %PYTHON%;%PYTHON%\Scripts
Install pip:
NOTE: I had another pip on my system, belonging to perl
so you may have to use a fully qualified path when using pip.
To see if you have a conflicting pip:
where pip.exe
Download: https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrip/get-pip.py
Run: python get-pip.py
Installs: c:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe
For ipython qtconsole, install pyqt
RiverBank Computing - PyQt Binary Downloads
Install the binary appropriate for your python install (x86 or x86_64)
At the time of this writing, I see PyQt4-4.11.1-gpl-Py2.7-Qt4.8.6-x32.exe
Install iPython
c:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install ipython[all]
Launch it:
ipython qtconsole
Discovered cygwin sets TZ=America/Los_Angeles, which throws off time for any native Windows program launched from the cygwin shell. I use cygwin to auto-build software, where a windows command shell launches a compiler, and effecting time(), __DATE__, __TIME__. I could not figure out why time was off by 8 hours until I found the environment variable TZ was set when things where wonky. Once I knew what to search for, "Unset cygwin TZ", I found lots of people with this issue. In this post Christopher Faylor says it's not his problem. To me this was a ladder laying on the floor in a dark room for people to trip over. It is known to people in charge of the room, and they aren't going to move it. They say just unset it once in windows command shell. Sometimes this isn't easy... I guess I can make a diaper (wrapper) script to handle this mess.
in bat files ggetting a date in format : "yyyy.MMdd.HHmm.ss". ------------------------------------------- set secs=%time:~6,2% if "%secs:~0,1%" == " " set secs=0%secs:~1,1% echo secs=%secs% set min=%time:~3,2% if "%min:~0,1%" == " " set min=0%min:~1,1% echo min=%min% set hour=%time:~0,2% if "%hour:~0,1%" == " " set hour=0%hour:~1,1% echo hour=%hour% set day=%date:~7,2% if "%day:~0,1%" == " " set day=0%hour:~1,1% echo day=%day% set month=%date:~3,3% if "%month:~0,1%" == " " set month=0%hour:~1,1% echo month=%month% set year=%date:~-4% if "%year:~0,1%" == " " set year=0%hour:~1,1% echo year=%year% set Version=%year%.%month%%day%.%hour%%min%.%secs% echo Version=%Version%
RIP DVD on Windows. 1. Download (64 bit) Handbrake for Windows 2. Download the libdvdcss 64-Bit from VideoLan http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.12/win64/libdvdcss-2.dll 3. Rename the libdvdcss-2.dll to libdvdcss.dll in your Handbrake install folder. ( C:\Program Files\Handbrake ) 4. Start Handbrake, put in your DVD and go from there. 5. Scan cd drive 6. if everything worked, you can rip a copy protected dvd.
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Console2 is a much improved cmd or console app.I installed mine to c:\dev\utils\Console2\Console.exe Don't do this: set the environment variables SHELL and COMSPEC Control Pannel->Preferences->Environment-> Replace: ComSpec %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe With: ComSpec c:\dev\utils\Console2\Console.exe After I did this, i had so many error windows it was hard to set back. I guess Microsoft really doesn't want you to have a better shell.
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Steps:
cmd set PATH=%PATH%;"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin" signtool verify /v /paSuccessfully verified: fee.exe Successfully verified: fi.exe Verifying: foe.msi SignTool Error: No signature found. Number of files successfully Verified: 0 Number of warnings: 0 Number of errors: 1
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I kinda like the windows7 resource monitor.Start ->Run->%windir%\system32\resmon.exe
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Automate install/uninstall in windows7In windows7 one can automate install/uninstall/repair programs using msiexec.exe it's usage looks like: Install: msiexe.exe /n /passive /i my.msi Uninstall: msiexe.exe /n /passive /x my.msi Uninstall: msiexe.exe /n /passive /x {Product Code} The "Product Code" is a guid "Product ID" I use in Wix to create the msi. One can find the installed "Product Code" guids in the registry: Run regedit.ext ->HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall ->HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID look in there you will see lines that contain: msiexe.exe /n /passive /x {Product Code}
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Find Boot time in windows7Computer Manaagment ->Event Veiwer -->Application And Service Viewer --->Microsoft ---->Windows ----->Diagnostics-Performance ------>Operational shows a BootStartTime: 2013-03-14T10:17:47.812000500Z
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killing processes using a file or directoryDownload SysinternalsSuite.zip http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sysinternals Unpack to c:\SysinternalsSuite and put it in your %PATH%. Explore to where the file or folder is located Hold shift and right click, select "Open command window here". From the command shell type: handle.exe -uA list of pids will be shown. From the command shell, this will kill the pid pskill.exe
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Add To Exploerer "Open command prompt here"
NOTE: in win7, hold shift while right clicking in Exploer
No extra stuff is required
But this is a reghack
Create file: hack.regWindows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\cmd] @="Open Command Prompt Here" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\cmd\command] @="cmd.exe /k pushd %L"
Run by double clicking
Open Exploerer, sleect some folder
File->Folder->Open Command Prompt Here
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Recently ran into furstration trying to install nmake on xp (to build pyqwt5 for python 2.7)
Requires .NET 2.0
Error installing Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Setup:
Instlaler: dotnetfx.exe
Error 25007. Error occurred while installling fusion.
Setup could not load fusion with LoadLibraryShim().
Error: 0x80131700
Solution: How to manually remove and then reinstall the.NET Framework 2.0
Unregister and then reregister Windows Installer Start->Run, type "msiexec /unregister" Start->Run, type "msiexec /regserver" Manually remove and then reinstall the .NET Framework 2.0 Start->Run, type "installer" Right-click the Name column header, and then click Comments Right-click the cached Windows Installer file that has the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 RTL x86 enu, and then click Uninstall. Start->Run, type "system32" - Delete c:\Windows\system32\URTTemp folder - Delete c:\Windows\system32\mscoree.dll file - Delete c:\Windows\system32\v2.0.50727 folder Start->Run, type 'microsoft.net' - In Microsoft.NET\Framework folder, delete v2.0.50727 folder start->Run, type 'regedit' - locate and then delete the following registry keys HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v2.0.50727 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\policy\v2.0 start->Run, type %Temp% - Delete everyhting Reinstall the .NET Framework 2.0. Run windows update
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msi, rmi, msp, oh my - diverse installers for windows
.msp file contains just the difference between 2 MSI files.
extract msi
msiexec.exe /a "[path to .msi file]" /t "[location to extract to]"
apply msp to extracted msi
msiexec.exe /p "[path to .msp file]" /a "[location to extracted msi]"
.MSP can be applied to .msi to generate updated .msi
msiexec.exe /a "[path to .msi file]" /p "[path to .msp file]"
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/04/07/571138.aspx
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Disk Space Analyzers:
Space Sniffer no install, free, fast.
WinDirStat.exe is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows.
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Zeroconf/avahi/Bonjour on Windows:
Windows doesn't come with DNS Service Discovery (dns-sd).
Install Apples Bonjour Print Services for Windows
This installs some libs and a tool that only shows printers on the network, which isn't enough.
Install Firefox plug-in BonjourFoxy
After installling BonjourFoxy, in Firefox, under Tools menu, you will see Bounjour Browser.
You can also install JDK, then JBonjourBrowser by downloading and running: java -jar JBonjourBrowser.jar
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Compilers for windows:
Free:
mingw: "Minimalist GNU for Windows" http://www.mingw.org/
Commercial:
cl.exe : Visual Stidio commad line for .c or .cpp files
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\cl.exe
devenv.com : Visual Studio commad line for .sln files:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.com
Before running either of those, first run the bat script:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat"
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Keyboard Shortcuts:
Brows to Start->Programs->Your_Program_Name
Right click Your_Program_Name, Select Properties.
On Shortcut tab, Click 'None' in "Shortcut key:" filed, and press your shortcut to launch this (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-d).
Close and press key sequence (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-d).
For putty, you need to create a shortcut of putty first, then create
keyboard shortcut as before, using shortcut to putty.
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Windows needs antivirus, but it should not be a tax:
Malwarebytes
Clamav
AVG
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Files in system32 directory copied from http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/cwindowssystem32-files-explained
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Create shortcut to Edit Domain Users and Groups
Right lick desktop, choose new->shortcut
For program to run enter: mmc.exe %systemroot%/System32/dsa.msc
Name it: Edit Domain Users and Groups
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Tools to show shared library (dll) dependencies of exe.
Dependency Walker recommended by QT.
dumpbin.exe (part of Visual Studo).
In dos shell, run: "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
now dumpbin.exe will be in your path.
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When installing cygwin, try to make it automated
cygwin faq.setup.automated
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If you try to run make.exe in cygwin, and recieve the error
Makefile:14: *** missing separator. Stop.
this error can be caused by calling incorrect make binary.
Try to prepend path to your make.exe to the path.
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Cygwin terminal: rxvt
Supirior to native terminal.
Setup:
1. Create bat file: C:\cygwin\home\Your_User\bin\rxvt.bat
Bat file contents:@echo off REM place in C:\cygwin\rxvt.bat and put REM a shortcut on the desktop :-) REM NOX c:\cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash -login REM WITH X REM DISPLAY="$DISPLAY.0" c:\cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash -login REM DISPLAY="$DISPLAY.0" c:\cygwin\bin\rxvt -sr -sk -backspace ^? &
2. Create shortcut on your desktop to the bat file
Target: C:\cygwin\home\You_User\bin\rxvt.bat
Start In: C:\cygwin\home\Your_User\bin
Change font and background in c:\cygwin\home\Your_User\.Xdefaults
#ifdef COLOR
*customization: -color
#endif
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: orange
XTerm*highlightColor: red
XTerm*cursorColor: yellow
XTerm*saveLines: 30000
XTerm*scrollbar: true
Rxvt*font: Lucida Console-14
Rxvt*background: Black
Rxvt*forground: Orange
Rxvt*savleLines: 300000
-- or--
rxvt*background: Black
rxvt*foreground: Orange
rxvt*scrollBar: true
rxvt*scrollBar_right: true
rxvt*font: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
rxvt*boldfont: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
rxvt*saveLines: 300000
rxvt*loginshell: true
rxvt.backspacekey: ^H
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Having problems running nedit when sshed to cygwin host
1. Make sure forwarding isn't disabled:
chmod 666 /etc/sshd_config
vi /etc/sshd_config
Set: X11Forwarding yes
chmod 644 /etc/sshd_config
2. Make sure xauth is installed
Run setup.exe
Select keep, then search for xauth, and install
3. edit ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc
Add seciton like this:
# The next line fixes a bug in running nedit over ssh.
# Error:
# X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
# Major opcode of failed request: 70 (X_PolyFillRectangle)
# Serial number of failed request: 291
# Current serial number in output stream: 301
#
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
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Set history to something resonable
edit ~/.bash_profile
Add seciton like this:
# configure history editing
set -o vi
export HISTSIZE=1000
export HISTFILE=~/.history
export HISTFILESIZE=1000
export EDITOR=vi
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Best Windows Tool: "Computer Management" or compmgmt.msc
Or right click my computer->manage
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Good merge utility for windows (but free): DiffMerge
Good merge utility for windows (but not free): araxis merge
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Good Free zip utility for windows: Tugzip
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thunderbird_portable
firefox_portable
Tor: (side step the office proxy/monitoring)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
Tor on usb:
http://anonymous.livelyblog.com/2007/03/15/operator-a-great-way-to-make-your-own-tor-usb-keystick/
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araxis - Non-Free Good diff tool
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Found blog about running network Control pannel as different user,
since runas doesnt' work
Needing Explorer as admin
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automate runas such that no password must be typed in manually,
REFERENCE: Why doesn't the RunAs program accept a password on the command line?
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/29/271551.aspx
Summery: It was a design decision, because they didn't want people to do insecure stuff,
and because it would have added too many options to the runas UI.
Systeminternals was bought by M$, but the free tools are availble:
http://microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/
Download the http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/PsTools.zip
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Use JXplorer to brows your active directory LDAP,
And try to change some values, to test security.
You will need a client (aka JXplorer)
server: kdc.my.microsoft.domain
protocol: ldap v3
base dn: DC=my,DC=microsoft,DC=domain
Level: User+passwd
User DN: CN=Joe Smith,CN=Users,DC=my,DC=microsoft,DC=domain
Passwd:
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Problem: Acrobat Reader hangs when starting or reports that it can't create a temporary file. Accrobat reader creates a few of temp files for each file opened:
C:\Documents and Settings\They are all zero bites, but they are not always cleaned up in NT4/Win2K/Win2003/XP. After you have 65,535 of them, accrobat reader 6 will hang on opening, and 5 reports that it can't create a temp file. Deleting all the Acr*.tmp files solves the problem, but windows will hang if you try to delete all of them at one time. funny stuff.\Local Settings\Temp\Acr[0001-FFFF].tmp
To join a domain from cli: NETDOM /Domain:MYDOMAIN /user:adminuser /password:apassword MEMBER MYCOMPUTER /JOINDOMAIN
Disable last-accessed-time, regedit: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate
Procedure to automate network switch on XP via batch files
1. Set network settings via network control panel for static IP on fake
subnet.
2. Save the config to a file by running:
netsh -c interface dump > c:\net_fixed.txt
3. Set network settings via network control panel for dhcp IP.
4. Save the config to a file by running:
netsh -c interface dump > c:\net_dhcp.txt
To load a settings file for one of the networks above:
netsh -f c:\net_.txt
5. Create bat scripts on desktop, so you can switch network config by
clicking:
i.e. dhcpnet.bat
@echo off
c:
netsh -f c:\net_dhcp.txt
i.e. fakenet.bat
@echo off
c:
netsh -f c:\net_fixed.txt
C:\Windows\System32\wpa.dbl
C:\Windows\System32\wpa.bak
md tmp
copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak
delete c:\windows\system32\config\system
delete c:\windows\system32\config\software
delete c:\windows\system32\config\sam
delete c:\windows\system32\config\security
delete c:\windows\system32\config\default
copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config\system
copy c:\windows\repair\software c:\windows\system32\config\software
copy c:\windows\repair\sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy c:\windows\repair\security c:\windows\system32\config\security
copy c:\windows\repair\default c:\windows\system32\config\default