Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
Funfact: Microsoft doesn’t call it “advertising,” they call it “Show sync provider notifications.”
Tag: Windows
Domain User Spraying and Brute Forcing Domain Default Passwords, Avoiding Lockout
Looks interesting: A while ago, Dave Hoelzer did a nice video on how to use Windows PowerShell to hack domain user accounts. Basically, Dave leveraged PowerShell commands which any domain user can execute on a domain and receive either a positive and negative response based on the legitimacy of the username and password combination. This […]
Can’t activate Windows XP after a repair install or in-place upgrade
I ran into an interesting problem yesterday, and by “interesting” I mean really annoying and made me curse Microsoft repeatedly, again and again. An old home PC has been having video problems off and on for several years: It’d show an argyle-style print superimposed over whatever was on the screen. Rebooting would sometimes fix it, […]
True X-Mouse Gizmo for Windows
For the hardcore X11-style mouse & window lovers: X11 is better for fingers. Copy with mouse. Paste with mouse. Focus without clicks. Raise and lower windows. So called X-Mouse. One and only… True X-Mouse Gizmo. It seems to work pretty good! Now my XP behaves how I expect it to after spending so much time […]
