Tuesday, February 16, 2010
I just release a small update to Notifu. You can now display a pop-up without playing the system event sound (-q). Notifu also supports the Windows 7 quiet time. By default, pop-up will not be displayed in the first hour or so after the very first logon. I you must display a pop, you can [...]
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
There is a bug in my replacement GINA. I left a call to DebugBreak in my initialisation code.
When Winlogon can’t load a GINA, the server reboots. I run all my tests in virtual machines attached to a remote kernel debugger. I had set up a rule to ignore this first hardcoded breakpoint. In a regular [...]
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Again with much help from user Abdul Khaliq, I can now offert you a 64 bits version of my replacement GINA, called aucun64.dll.
This release also comes with a important bug fix. You can donwload it here.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
There is an important update to aucun that fixes a bug in the dialog procedure hooking code. If you have Aucun version 1.4.2 or earlier, you will experiment the following bug :
Login to the pc.
Hit CTRL-alt-Del to get to the Windows Security Screen
Click “Change Password”
Click “Cancel” to get back to the main Windows Security Screen.
Click [...]
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I updated my Notifu utility to use the new IUserNotification2 interface introduced in Vista. It allows to detect a left or right click on the icon in the system notification area. If you run Windows XP, behaviour is unchanged.
On Vista, you can also revert to the old interface by adding the /xp switch.
I am also [...]
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
I just put online version 1.4 of my replacement Gina ! Thanks to everyone who gave me a break while I was spending more time house shopping, buying and renovating. This release is very good, thanks to everybody who wrote me about problems they were facing… Here is what’s new :
Fixed a bug where registry [...]
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This Notifu update allows you to concatenate multiple /m and /p switches. It is usefull when a paramater to Notifu is feed by a program you have no control over.
For example, this command line now works :
notifu /p Concatenate /p ” this” /m “Hello” /m “, ” /m “World”
Nothing is added to your parameters. If [...]
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I fixed a bug in notifu that made it ignore quotes that were escaped with a backslash. For example, this command line works now :
notifu /m “\”Theo Est\” test@example.com”
Thanks to Sof for the heads up !
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Here is just a little update to my Notifu utility. It is a drop-in replacement (no new command-line switches) that features
Vista Home Premium and Vista Business support (same binary works on XP and Vista)
Better error handling on platforms that don’t support IUserNotification
Option to specify pop-up delay in seconds (/d 5 or /d 5000 will give [...]
I was a little overwhelmed by the reaction to my custom GINA. The good thing about it is that it motivated me to put a better version out that addresses all the comments I had so far, namely :
Allow force log off without being a member of the administrator group
Allow an arbitrary group to be [...]