Saturday Link Roundup-Assorted
DaleTables Generator I so dislike having to code HTML Tables manually, Tables Generator makes it easy. Personality Tests – summary from Atomic Habits Recently finished reading Atomic Habits by James…
Cached credentials security on Windows Operating Systems.
“Where are they actually stored though? In the Roaming Profile, or somewhere else?”, asked the Problem Team. The answer is “somewhere else”. “Windows NT 4.0 has the capability to cache…
Today I learnt about FIPS and SHA1
System.InvalidOperationException: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms. at System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1Managed..ctor() at .... When I say “learnt”, it was more about reading documents to determine…
MaxPatchCacheSize and Windows 7
So I was building a Windows 7 virtual machine, so I could play “Gardens of Time” as GoT doesn’t work on my Windows 2008 R2 box …, and I went…
The Case of the Windows FTP.EXE not working from the corporate network.
The heading alone should tell you the answer, particularly if I add ACTIVE FTP to it. You see, most Corporate IT people consider ACTIVE FTP a bad thing, and block…
VBscript to get the system uptime from a group of computers
One of our corporate customers doubted that we had computers being left powered on overnight. So I quickly wrote the script below to query each computer’s uptime. The record uptime? …
Text mode drivers and Sysprep (on Windows XP)
I’m so glad we’ve moved away from needing to use Sysprep on Windows Vista / 7. But since I still support Windows XP and needed to add a Intel AHCI…
Time Zones Revisited
As a co-worker pointed out, Microsoft stores time zone information in two places, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones this is where the time zone database is stored. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation this is the current…
Semi-regular web-link clearance – September 2010
Automatically increasing the system font size in Windows 7 … That year, the top-of-the-range machines we were giving out to these undeserving gits weren’t coming with 1024×768 screens any more;…
The Win 16 Subsystem has insufficient resources …
Sometimes, you don't ever expect to ever see a particular error message ever again. It's been over 5 years since the last time I saw this error, quite possibly on…