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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.

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

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 [...]

Step by step guide to create your own MSCASH hashes

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 [...]

Notifu updated, now with Vista support

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 [...]