SevenMizer Windows XP
Following the same behavioral pattern as with the release of Windows Vista, software developers have striven to offer the masses the possibility to disguise Windows XP as Windows 7.
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2.10.2009 Adding fonts to cmd.exe
Be default, the properties on a cmd.exe window allow you to select either Raster Fonts or Lucida Console. You can add other monospace fonts to the list via the registry.
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15.8.2007 Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Vista
Windows Help (WinHlp32.exe) is a Help program that has been included with Microsoft Windows versions starting with the Microsoft Windows 3.1 operating system.
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9.3.2007 Vista SP2 Compcln.exe and Other Notable Changes in Service Pack 2
According to Microsoft, Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista delivers an evolution in terms of compatibility, reliability, and performance, as compared with Service Pack 1.
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12.12.2008Where the Heck's the Bug Reporter?
The whole point of a beta operating system is to test it and report flaws, right? (Well at least that's what Microsoft thinks...
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06.05.2009Windows Server 2008: Terminal Services Architecture
Day Fourteen - we are past the halfway point. A good portion of the next two weeks will be devoted to Terminal Services and the new TS features. So
strap in, and let's get started ...
We talked about the
Windows
Server 2008 Startup Processes in an earlier post. SMSS.EXE is still the first user-mode process created during the boot process as in previous
versions of Windows. The change is that now SMSS.EXE launches a second instance of itself to configure Session 0, which is dedicated to system
processes. The instance of SMSS.EXE dedicated to Session 0 launches the Windows Startup Application (WININIT.EXE) as well as an instance of CSRSS.EXE
for Session 0, after which it exits. WININIT.EXE continues the startup process by starting SERVICES.EXE and LSASS.EXE as well as a new process, the
Local Session Manager (LSM.EXE) which manages Terminal Server connections for the machine.
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14.02.2008Demonstration: Windows 7 VHD Boot
This command line demonstration explains how to build a bootable Windows 7 VHD image from a Windows 7 install.wim file using diskpart.exe and
imagex.exe. The demonstration continues with an explanation of how to configure the boot entry using bcdedit.exe and explains the limitations of VHD
Boot. Note: This screencast discusses a release candidate of a Microsoft product. The information in this screencast is provided as-is and is subject
to change without notice.
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01.05.2009Debugging a Per-User Installation Error on Windows Vista
Chris Jackson: Yesterday, a friend asked for some assistance debugging an issue with Windows Installer. It was one of those situations where you've
looked at the problem so closely, so many times, that you just needed another set of eyes. (They're close to shipping, so they've been doing nothing
but look at bugs, probably for a while.)
Some background:
What they're doing is a rather interesting use of
Windows Installer. They're using it to drop a setup.exe and then run it. So, they have a custom action of type 0xC02, which is a deferred custom
action, promoted to not use impersonation, which runs as an exe. This custom action spawns another version of itself (with different arguments), and
then the process exits so the installer can complete. The second version of this custom action then wants to uninstall the msi, as well as launch the
setup.exe. So, the msi is just a way to package up the setup.exe.
And, with UAC, it was breaking.
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25.10.2007Updated Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images Available
VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites with different IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista.
This
download page contains four separate VPC images, depending on what you want to test.
- IE6-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows
XP SP3 with IE6 VHD file
- IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE7 VHD file
- IE8B2-XPSP3_VPC.exe
contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta 2 VHD file
- IE7-VIS1.exe+IE7-VIS2.rar+IE7-VIS3.rar contain a Vista Image with IE7 VHD
file.
Note: For The Vista image, you will need all three files, downloaded and in the same directory, then simply run
IE7-VIS1.exe.
This VPC image will expire in January, 2009.
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29.08.2008How to change Registry Permissions with RegIni.exe (VBScript)
Alejandro Magencio: Today I'll show how we can set the following permissions on a registry key with
RegIni.exe and a VBScript :
- Creator Owner Full Control
- Users Full Control
- Power
Users Full Control
- Administrators Full Control
- System Full Control
I will set the permissions here for testing
purposes:
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11.03.2008One Step Download for MUI Packs of Windows Vista
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28.02.2008Vista: What are wmpnscfg.exe and wmpnetwk.exe and Why Are They Running?
So you've been going through Task Manager trying to figure out why so many services are running when you notice there's two items for Windows Media
Player in the list but you don't even use Media Player. What's up with that?
It's not like the processes take a lot of
memory I just get irritated when there's a process that restarts for no good reason. You disable it, and then somehow it's back. Annoying!
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12.03.2008Vista's MoveUser.exe replacement
Ned Pyle: In Windows Vista moveuser.exe is no longer supported. However, now we expose this functionality with a new WMI provider called
Win32_UserProfile, which is discussed in
KB930955. This is
awesome because we expose things about user profiles in WMI now… and we can also move the profile to another user as well as delete user
profiles. However, once I started looking at
MSDN to understand what
methods were available I quickly found that MSDN has not been updated as of yet for this new class. So we did some digging into the source code to
find out how this works and what is supported.
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09.09.2008Winamp 5.3 Released
Cheers Copernic who
posted this update for Winamp
in
Back
Page News on our
forums.
Nullsoft
Winamp is a fast, flexible,
high-fidelity music player for
Windows. Winamp supports MP3,
CD, Audiosoft, Audio
Explosion, MOD, WAV and other
audio formats, custom
appearances called skins, plus
audio visualization and audio
effect plug-ins.
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27.09.2006MS update ate my CPU cycles
The latest batch of
patches from Microsoft has
left some users in the slow
lane.
After
applying the seven critical
updates released by Redmond,
some punters are finding their
processor's resources eaten
by an application called
svchost.exe, in a way that
mimics a viral infection.
Svchost.exe is a generic name
for services that run from
dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).
Outlook 2003 users
have been
http://www.roundtripsolutions.
com/blog/2007/05/10/239/micros
oft-breaks-outlook-again>harde
st hit, with some linking the
application's slow-down to
the effects of a cumulative
update to Internet Explorer.
However, the effect is far
from limited to Outlook 2003
users...
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13.05.2007Vista SP1 Integration Guide
As
we reported a few days ago, the latest build of Vista SP1
released to testers (6001.16633) is in the EXE standalone update format. Many of you will no doubt be wondering as to how exactly the bits can be
integrated into a Vista RTM ISO if at all possible.
There's some good news and there's also some bad news.
First of all, it must be noted that we are still unsure if the SP1 update will remain in the EXE format and that anything noted below is subject
to change. The primary reason being
Microsoft's documentation for Vista Service Packs state that they will be provided in the MSU format whereas it is currently
being offered to testers in the EXE format.
Unlike previous service pack updates for older Windows OSes, Microsoft do not provide
any switches in the EXE to allow for simple integration. Part of the problem has to do with the completely different format that the Vista Setup DVD
uses where each edition of Vista is a separate index in the install.wim and that each index needs to be separately updated. While Microsoft could
implement a switch to allow the user to select which index to update or a switch to update all the indexes, it will turn out to be a very lengthy and
time-consuming process as we are talking about gigabytes of files that need to be updated/replaced, saved and recompressed. Unfortunately, Vista also
does not implement an Updates folder unlike Office 2007 where one could stick all the latest updates in the folder in the ISO and setup would pick
them up and install them...
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28.08.2007"Storm Worm" Virus Hits Computers Worldwide
Finnish data security company
F-Secure has reported that a
virus called Small.DAM,
referred to as "Storm Worm"
was sent to hundreds of
thousands of email addresses
globally and is continuing to
spread very quickly.
Representatives from F-Secure
have said " the Small.DAM
(Storm-Worm) we posted on
earlier spread very fast
during the night, Helsinki
time. The heavy seeding
through spam was quickly
obvious on our tracking
screens. The worm was spread
throughout the world very
rapidly ." The origin of
the Trojan virus is currently
unknown.
F-Secure
indicated that those who
receive any of the following
lines in the subject line
should be particularly
cautious:
- 230 dead as
storm batters
Europe.
- A killer at
11, he's free at 21
and...
- British Muslims
Genocide
- Naked teens
attack home
director.
- U.S.
Secretary of State
Condoleezza...
The
email will contain one of the
following
attachments:
- Full
Clip.exe
- Full
Story.exe
- Read
More.exe
- Video.exe
Keep your anti-virus
software up-to-date and make
sure to warn all your friends
who still don't know their
computer is actually under the
desk, not inside the
monitor.
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20.01.2007Office 2007 SP1 Installation/Slipstream Guide
Some of you may be wondering how to do a clean install of Office 2007 using an Office 2007 RTM image along with SP1 at the same time. As you may know,
Office 2007 makes use of the Updates folder in the installation media to install any new updates that it finds in the folder however updates have to
be in the .msp file format for them to be recognized. Since the Office 2007 SP1 update file is delivered in the .exe format, an extra step is required
before being able to proceed:
First, you should copy the contents of the Office 2007 RTM image to a temporary folder. For our
example we're using C:O2007Temp. We have also copied the Office 2007 SP1 Update file (office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe) to the D:
drive.
Then, using the Run command in Windows XP/Vista (WinKey+R), run the following command:
D:office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:C:O2007TempUpdates
replacing D: with wherever you stored
the Office 2007 SP1 update file and C:O2007Temp with wherever you stored the Office 2007 RTM files. After agreeing to the Microsoft Software
License Terms, SP1 will be extracted to C:O2007TempUpdates.
That's it! Just start the setup for Office 2007 and the
updates for SP1 will then be picked up and installed during the setup. The same method applies to any other Office 2007 SP1 update.
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12.12.2007Internet Explorer 7.0.5346
Public Release
It seems that Microsoft have
updated the Internet Explorer
7 public download to build
5346. The new build supports
the following versions of
Windows: Windows XP SP2,
Windows XP Pro x64, Windows
Server 2003 x64, Windows
Server 2003 SP1, Windows
Server 2003 ia64.
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25.04.2006PINNED: Internet Explorer 7
Beta 3
Microsoft have just released
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 to
the public. The new beta build
is available for all the major
Windows Platforms. The new
beta holds the build number
5450.4, and was compiled on
the 23rd of this month.
At a glance, some of
the new noticeable features
include the ability to
drag/move tabs, a few icon/UI
changes, as well as some bug
fixes and cleanups.
Choose your
platform below to download IE7
Beta 3:
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29.06.2006Fake sites with Obama news infect users with malware
Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson has discovered fake websites with headlines like Barack Obama has refused to be a president and
links that take the user to fake Obama sites which mimick the official Obama website. Trend Micro has found binaries with file names like barack.exe
and baracknews.exe which belong to Waladec family of worms that spread more after New Year as spam greeting cards. Below is a glimpse of the fake
obama website Some of the malware found are: WORM_WALEDAC.KAX WORM_WALEDAC.AE WORM_WALEDAC.AG WORM_WALEDAC.AD WORM_WALEDAC.AL WORM_WALEDAC.AH
TROJ_AGENT.DOZZ TSPY_BANKER.BFE TROJ_DLOADER.XGZ BKDR_KRYPTIK.AB These malware are mostly hosted on domains that contain Obama-related key words.
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21.01.2009Microsoft Update Ate My CPU Cycles
The latest batch of patches
from Microsoft has left some
users in the slow lane.
After
applying the seven critical
updates released by Redmond,
some punters are finding their
processor's resources eaten
by an application called
svchost.exe, in a way that
mimics a viral infection.
Svchost.exe is a generic name
for services that run from
dynamic-link libraries (DLLs).
Outlook
2003 users have been hardest
hit, with some linking the
application's slow-down to
the effects of a cumulative
update to Internet Explorer.
However, the effect is far
from limited to Outlook 2003
users.
The issue has cropped up on
the WSUS (Windows Server
Update Services) blog and
among reports to the SANS
Institute's Internet Storm
Centre (ISC). The precise
cause of the problem remains
unclear. Microsoft is yet to
respond to our requests to
shed some light on the
problem.
Some users are experiencing
relief by applying a hot fix
issued to address problems
involving non-response of
svchost.exe (not exactly the
symptom most are reporting)
prior to upgrading their
Windows Update client, ISC
reports. Your mileage may
vary.
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12.05.2007Rafael's at it Again
As a lot of people are aware, Rafael from Within Windows has been finding and exposing un-released Windows 7 features, most notably the "Superbar"
and Desktop Slideshows.
He has now created a full unlocking tool called "Blue Badge" that will unlock the following features:
- The Superbar
- Gestures and Panning (for use on touch screens)
- Desktop Slideshows
Please note two things:
1. This application does NOT back up any of the files it patches, so to be safe, you will need to back up these files:
WindowsExplorer.exe
WindowsSystem32wisptis.exe
WindowsSystem32ieframe.dll
WindowsSystem32shell32.dll
WindowsSystem32stobject.dll
WindowsSystem32TabletPC.cpl
WindowsSystem32themecpl.dll
WindowsSystem32themeui.dll
WindowsSystem32powercfg.cpl
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2. This application IS compatible
with systems currently running the superbar who want to extend their desktop to allow the three other features.
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10.11.2008Kaspersky false alarm quarantines Windows Explorer
A faulty signature update from Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday flagged up Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) as infected with a low-risk virus, Huhk-C. As a
result the core Windows component was quarantined or worse.
Kaspersky released a revised update alongside advice on how to
recover legitimate system and application files from quarantine (the default setting) within two hours. But that's not much consolation for users
that had set their software to auto-delete infected files, who found themselves with hosed systems.
Among those affected was Reg
reader Carl. "A false positive caused the deletion of explorer.exe.," he reports. "It would have only caused problems for companies performing
their network scan during the hours that the dodgy update was present - which included me, unfortunately. I was working out of hours to fix the
previous Kaspersky update problem. I finally finished sorting it all at 5am.".
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