Hi,
in WinPE it is possible to read bitlocker encrypted drives.
Check state
manage-bde -status c:
If the drive is only protected by a password use
manage-bde -unlock c: -pw
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Windows: Recover lost passwords from memory
Hi,
if a User is logged on and forget it’s password you can dump to lsa process and recover the password from a dump file.
Two tools are needed:
- Microsoft’s sysinternals procdump
- mimikatz. A tool to play with windows security. Take care when download precompiled binaries. Better get the source code from github and compile it yourself. Its very easy
Lets start. Login as a User with administrator permissions and dump the lsass process
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Virtualbox: VM does not start after creating a snapshot. EFail (0x80004005)
Hi,
when using vhd disks or when you convert other disk formats (vmdk, vhd) to vdi and you create a snapshot, the virtual machine won’t boot.
An error occurs while starting the vm:
Fehlercode: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: ProgressProxy
Interface: IProgress {c20238e4-3221-4d3f-8891-81ce92d9f913}In this case the manager for virtual medias shows an error that the parent UUID of the snapshot file does not matches the UUID of parent medium stored in the media registry c:\Users\Username\.virtualbox\VirtualBox.xml.
This can be fixed 🙂 Get the UUID of the parent disk
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Windows: Extract all files from a msi file
Hi,
first post in 2015 🙂
msiexec offers the ability to extract all files included in an msi file to a specified folder by alter the TARGETDIR proberty of the msi package.
Syntax is
msiexec /a msifile.msi /qb TARGETDIR=D:\target
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VMware: List Users who have a active Console Connection to a virtual machine
Hi,
there are multiple active console connections and you want to know who are currently connected?
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