Windows articles.
This article explains how to extract various Windows dumps of passwords from a target system. To follow along with this article, you’ll need to have administrative access to the target Windows machine, and any endpoint security will need to be tolerant of your activities. Any good AV will likely prevent
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We don’t tend to install Windows very often these days. It seems to be far more stable than the old days and it mostly just works. But from time to time we do need to install it fresh and there’s a list of things we need to do to make
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If you have a “Work or School” Office 365 account, you’re likely able to use it as your Windows Domain service, allowing you go join your Windows 10 Pro (or higher, but not Home) to it as a domain member much like you would with an on-prem domain controller We’ll
Read moreThis article shows a one lines (well, 4 lines) that output any updates that are waiting to be installed on your local computer. Open PowerShell and run the following commands: $UpdateSession = New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.Session $UpdateSearcher = $UpdateSession.CreateupdateSearcher() $Updates = @($UpdateSearcher.Search(“IsHidden=0 and IsInstalled=0”).Updates) $Updates | Select-Object Title The output should
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This article demonstrates one way to get and crack Windows 10 passwords. All the steps are completed on Windows 10. The last step of running the hashes through the Rainbow attack process could be replaced with John (JtR). The tools we’ll use are: Windows 10 Pro samdump2 mimikatz https://crackstation.net Step
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Trouble installing Windows 10 Updates? This article is for you. Visit the site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 … and click the “Update Now” button. The program that downloads helps you manually update Windows. Execute it and go through the Wizard. Warning, this takes your computer into a process of uninterruptible reboots and updates
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This article shows how to download and apply a Windows patch (update) manually. The following uses “cmd” with Administrative permissions. Start by downloading the patch. You need to visit the following URL and search for the KBxxxxxx file manually. https://catalog.update.microsoft.com Click on the “Download” link next to the result you’re
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There are several ways to configure a web browser to use a proxy. This article focuses on the DNS & WPAD method but we’ll cover other options too. The objective is to force workstations to use a proxy server if and how the business needs depending on where the workstation
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Suppose you’re investigating moving some computing resources to Amazon’s AWS cloud. You will have several questions such as a) how much will it cost?, b) how do Windows licenses work?, and c) how can staff access those servers? I answers these in a simple way in the example scenario below.
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If you are trying to enable PIN or Fingerprint login options and you find that these options are disabled (with the message “Some settings are managed by your organization”), this is because it is done by Microsoft design. To resolve this you need to enable the “Turn on convenience PIN
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