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Category Archives: Windows

I use Windows a lot almost exclusively. It started with version 3.0 back in… ? I used and developped applications for each and every version ever since. Many posts will refer to Windows.

Porting a custom Gina to a Credential provider

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Making a replacement Gina behave like a Credential Provider (not the other way around) looks like the ticket to have a single source solution to a Gina and Credential Provider.

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Stop internal drive from showing up in "Safely remove hardware"

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Like many of you, I had a drive that showed up in the “Safely remove hardware” tray icon, and was unable to remove it. The trick is to subtract 4 from the Capabilities in the registry. Not easy, but it can be done. The only thing is that it keeps coming back after every boot [...]

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Step by step guide to create your own MSCASH hashes

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I wanted to test the relative strength of a password policy. I wanted to run a password cracking tool over different passwords, from a dictionary based password (like Banana42) to a random one (generated with Password Safe). Creating users setting passwords and running different password extraction tools was a lot of trouble. I found a [...]

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