Windows tips, howtos, scripts
Hi,
in Active Directory Domain environment you have to frequently change your password.
The default Windows methods usually does not support clipboard operations. So you have to enter your new password two times and depending on your method your old password too 🙁 .
Continue reading Windows: Change Password Utility
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a customer of mine has bought a new PC (Fujitsu Esprimo P956 E94+) with an 256GB SSD and 5TB Harddisk and he wants to use the SSD as accelerater (Write/Read cache) for the 5TB Disk.
Newer Intel Chipsets support such a configuration. It is called Smart Response Technology.
Continue reading Windows: Cannot activate Intels Smart Response Technology
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I will describe here how to create a Windows PE based boot media, a USB Stick or a boot CD, with some customization:
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verifing of a file is often done by builting an MD5 or an sha256 hash over it.
Powershell has no “builtin” functions for this purposes.
So I wrote some 🙂
Continue reading Powershell: md5sum and sha256sum Functions
Hi,
in Windows, local group policies could applied through the Group Policy Editor or simply by setting the Registry Keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies and its equivalent in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Unfortunataly when just set the Registry Keys this isn’t shown in the GPO Editor and it’s hard to find the equivalent section and setting there.
Continue reading Windows: Resolve Policy Registry Keys to Group Policy Editor Entries (and vice versa)