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Handy Guide to re-installing windows 7 with upgrade media
Some xp optimization notes has zone good info on using fsutil to speed filesystem access up
execution policy for powershell To run unsigned scripts locally you need to run the following as an admin in a powershell window set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
Using ntsd to execute commands remotely
Disabling boot time defrag on xp
handy for virtual machines that you don't want locking up your hard disk every time they start
1. Start Regedit. 2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction 3. Select Enable from the list on the right. 4. Right on it and select Modify. 5. Change the value to Y to enable and N to disable. 6. Reboot your computer.
Identifying SQL Server version
List of how to tell version of SQL Server in use from version information returned by the server
General Notes
Net use syntax for null connections
net use \\host\IPC$ "" /u:""
Getting Password Hashes from system and sam files
process here. This mentions using the Auditor Live CD. However on ubuntu the two programs bkhive and samdump2 are available in the repos.
NT Backup File Reader
Backup File reader Links to binaries are on this page.
Reading information from "password" fields
Some applications will display passwords ostensiably hidden in "password" type fields where the data is present but only stars or black circles are shown on screen. In web apps this is trivial to circumvent by "view source" but in windows apps can be trickier. Per here there's a number of apps that do the job, I've used this one successfully.
