Tag Archives: windows

Gain Admin Access

To get access to a Windows PC as an Administrator user, there is a very brute security hole which you can use. The only thing is: You need physical access to the machine. The procedure is as follows:

If you can’t aquire any video from a DV camera connected via Firewire/IEEE1394, check if you have these symptoms: The reason seems to be a faulty IEEE1394 driver in Windows 7 64-bit. Check the Device Manager whether you have the Texas Instruments 1394 Controller installed. If so, right-click and choose Update driver…, search your computer… Read More »

Install wubildr

The loader for a convenient wubi-installation of Ubuntu, can be easily re-added to the Windows Vista/Windows 7 bootloader. After you have transferred all Ubuntu related files to the new root drive (files: wubildr and wubildr.mbr and the ubuntu directory), open a new Console as Administrator and run the following commands to add Ubuntu to the… Read More »

U3 Basics

U3 USB Stick The U3 capable stick will emulate 2 devices: a virtual CD-ROM drive and the actual flash disk. The virtual CD drive contains the LaunchPad software manager and it is on this extra area to let it be automatically run by Windows (as Autorun from USB flash disks doesn’t work correctly). Another advantage… Read More »

CruzerSync

For the SanDisk cruzer Titanium U3, there is a sync-software called CruzerSync which really is an OEM version of DMailer. In the SanDisk U3 Download Central you’ll find a link to CruzerSync 6.2.042.1 which is ancient. Then I somehow found a link directly at DMailer.com, which serves CruzerSync 6.3.130.0 (which updates itself to 6.3.134.0 after… Read More »

microsoft.com not working

If you have a router and Internet works with any application/site but you can’t connect to any microsoft.com site (e.g. WindowsUpdate, Windows Live Messenger [error code: 81000306], etc.) you might have your MTU set to a too high value. The default MTU for ethernet devices is 1500 but since the PPPoE header adds 8 Bytes… Read More »

Missing Wireless Zero Configuration

If you are missing the Wireless Zero Configuration (in German: Konfigurationsfreie drahtlose Verbindung), you might have installed a D-Link driver. To get the Windows tool back, there’s a nice manual at practicallynetworked.com:

Remove WGA Notification

Microsoft distributes the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool (KB905474) through the WindowsUpdate mechanism. This tool should detect fake Windows serial numbers and nag the user. Interestingly, Microsoft hid a small paragraph in their EULA after that the tool sends daily(!!) reports to Microsoft. According to MS this “is neccessary” since the tool is BETA and… Read More »

Windows License keys

At My Digital Life you can read about Belarc Advisor spreading Windows license keys. Advisor is a system profiler which also includes the Windows key in its reports. Users posting them to the Internet also publish their Windows key. A common string of Advisor reports is “Belarc Advisor Current Profile“. Together with the desired Windows… Read More »

Max 10 simultaneous SMB-connections

Windows XP Professional only allows 10 simultaneous connections to shares and printer spoolers. The eleventh user gets a System error #71 message. The unused connections get freed after 30 minutes which is a bit late since often you just need a few files or to print some pages but this blocks the connection for 30… Read More »