As we know Mozilla Firefox is the Best and very good browser with extensions, add-ons, Language Packs, Plug ins and themes and many new things by which you can execute JavaScript. Mozilla Firefox also has other features like Tabbed browsing, Pop up blocking, Cookie Manager, Download Manager, pause downloads, JavaScript Console, JavaScript Debugger, Select text and perform search, View Selection Source, Cross-platform, Display icons in tabs and address bar, HTTP Pipe lining, XML Base, CSS generated content, CSS2 selectors, Caret Browsing etc. Below are some tricks and tips by which you can use Mozilla Firefox easily.
1. Here is the Keyboard shortcuts.
- Space bar (page down)
- Ctrl+K (go to search box)
- Alt-N (find next)
- Ctrl+L (go to address bar)
- Ctrl+= (increase text size)
- Ctrl+D (bookmark page)
- F5 (reload)
- Ctrl+- (decrease text size)
- Ctrl-W (close tab)
- Alt-Home (go to home page)
- Ctrl+F (find)
- Shift-Spacebar (page up)
- Ctrl+T (new tab)
2. Sometimes in hurry by mistake you click on close button of Firefox tabs. But In Mozilla Firefox you can remove or move close tab button by about:config. Type about:config in address bar then search for browser.tabs.closeButton in search bar. When you find it double click on it. It will show you a prompt with by default value 1. You can change it to different values for different behaviors.
- Enter 0 to display a close button on the active tab only.
- Enter 1 (default Value) to display close button to all tabs.
- Enter 2 to don't display any close buttons.
- Enter 3 to display single close button at the end of the tab bar.
3. Now we know Mozilla Firefox have giving feature of multiple tabs , so sometimes it is very hard to handle multiple tabs with mouse, so you can also handle tabs by keyboard. Below are some tips to handle tabs by keyboard.
- Ctrl+Tab (rotate forward among tabs)
- Ctrl+Shft+Tab (rotate to the previous tab)
- Ctrl+1-9 (choose a number to jump to a specific tab)
4. Here is the Mouse shortcuts for Mozilla Firefox.
- Middle click on link (opens in new tab)
- Shift-scroll down (previous page)
- Shift-scroll up (next page)
- Ctrl-scroll up (decrease text size)
- Ctrl-scroll down (increase text size)
- Middle click on a tab (closes tab)
5. about:config : This is a feature of Mozilla which lists aaplication and configuration setting setting of Mozilla. You can Get all settings configuration of your Mozilla by enter about:config in your address bar of Mozilla.
6. If you want to spped up your Mozilla Firefox then
- Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Type network. http in the filter field, and change the following settings (double-click on them to change them):
- Set network.http.pipelining to true
- Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
- Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to a number like 30. This will allow it to make 30 requests at once.
- Now, right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0?. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
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Windows Server 2008 - DNS
The principles for DNS in Windows Server 2008 are much the same as they were for Windows Server 2003.
Active Directory absolutely requires DNS. In particular, Active Directory relies on DNS to find resources such as Global Catalog and Kerberos. In Windows Server 2008, DNS combines support for standard DNS protocols with the benefits of integration with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).
DNS enables we humans to use meaningful names such as 'BigServer' instead of pure dot decimal IP addresses. (Or colon hex numbers for IPv6). The DNS server responds to requests from clients such as XP or Vista to provide the IP address associated with a mail or web server's DNS domain name. The beauty of DNS is that it's scaleable because the domain names can be organized into a hierarchy.
Practical Tasks for DNS in Windows Server 2008
Your first decision is one of approach. Do you take the simplistic approach? In which case accept the defaults and go with the simple choices. When you create a Domain Controller (see Add roles) it is automatically configured to use the appropriate DNS servers for name resolution.
This method either works incredibly easily, or else it goes spectacularly wrong; in which case you have to go back to the drawing board, and probably you should ask for guidance from someone who has installed and configured DNS before.
The other approach is to practice with DNS on a test network, have one hand on the keyboard and the other hand thumbing a text book.
For both approaches, the first task is plan your names. What will be the name of your Active Directory domain? Will it be the same name as your DNS domain?
The second task is to install the DNS service. Start with the Server Manager, and the Add roles and let the wizard install and configure the DNS role.
Wherever possible choose Active Directory Integrated DNS. Microsoft Active Directory, working with Microsoft DNS must be better than mixing Microsoft AD with UNIX DNS.
Mr Average and Mr In-a-Hurry do not need to study DNS in depth. It's near enough the same as DNS in Windows Server 2003. The main thing to know is that Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 DNS is compliant with RFC (Refer For Comments) standards, for example RFC 2136 for Dynamic DNS.
What's New In Windows Server 2008's DNS
IPv6
The best feature of DNS in Windows Server 2008 is that it's ready for IPv6. For example it can handle the 32 hex digits in the IP address. Furthermore it employs the quad-A (AAAA) resource records for forward name resolution. While reverse lookup is handled by the new IP6.ARPA domain.
RODC
You may have read else where about the new Windows Server 2008 RODC Read Only Domain Controller. The implications for DNS are that these servers hold a read only copy of the ForestDNSZones, and DomainDNSZones.
LLMNR
Link-local multicast name resolution is an intelligent system whereby Vista clients and W2K3 member servers can resolve names on the local subnet even when the DNS server is down.
This is a new way for Vista clients to contact their local Domain Controller. Principally a mechanism for laptops. With XP laptops could get 'locked on' to a distant server, when the laptop returns to base it still fixates on the distant DC. With Vista, it occasionally tries to find the nearest DC, thus breaking an inappropriate 20 hop link with a distant DC when there is a perfectly good Domain Controller in the same building.
Dynamic Updates
Windows Server 2008 loads Active Directory in the background, this helps DNS servers with zillions of records who reboot often. While this is progress, I wonder how common that scenario of frequent reboots and lots of zone records is?
GlobalNames Zone (GNZ)
Is a way of incorporating WINS resolution within DNS. My mate 'Mad' Mick says, 'Those bright enough to figure out GlobalNames are bright enough to have phased out WINS'. However, if you are a techie genius who is weighted down by old applications that rely on NetBIOS over TCP/IP then you can add appropriate single-label records as CNAME records in DNS. The idea of GlobalNames is to replace the static WINS records for mail servers or possibly web servers.
Should you need to experiment with GlobalNames, then you need to create a particular zone, this is how you perform the action from the command-line:
Dnscmd ServerName /config /Enableglobalnamessupport 1
Alternatively, you could use the DNS GUI and create a zone called precisely: GlobalNames (not case sensitive).
Once you have created this special zone called GlobalNames, then add CNAMES which point to the FQDN of the appropriate mail or web server.
Useful DNS Features First Introduced in W2K3 (Windows Server 2003)
DNS Integrated with Active Directory
The biggest breakthrough with DNS was to integrate its database with that of Active Directory. This made it much easier to replicate. This integration started in Windows 2000 and there have been minor advancements in Windows Server 2003 and now in Server 2008. e.g RODC, Security and new site location flags.
DNS Stub Zones
A stub zone holds a copy of only the resource records that are necessary to identify the authoritative (child) DNS servers for that zone. The idea is to help maintain DNS name-resolution efficiency.
Dynamic Update Protocol
Clients such as XP and Vista can tell the DNS Server service to dynamically update their resource records. Dynamic DNS (DDNS) introduces the one good feature of WINS into DNS. The result is no need to manually update DNS 'A' Host records.
Incremental Zone Transfer (IXFR)
These days we take for granted the idea of only updating records that have changed. However, back in NT 4.0 days one change in a host record resulted the whole of the DNS database being replicated. Very inefficient.
Conditional forwarders
Here is another efficient idea if the server does not have a record for a specific domain, it forwards the request onto a server that is authoritative for that domain. Requests for other domains would not be treated in this way, hence Conditional Forwarding.
Think of the the Server Manager as the focal point for installing, configuring, and managing your computer's roles and features. Server Manager replaces W2K3's Manage Your Server, Configure Your Server, and Add or Remove Windows Components.
How to Launch the Server Manager
The Importance of Server Manager in Windows Server 2008
How to Launch the Server Manager
The Windows 2008 version of Server Manager is intelligent enough to work out dependencies and to install any necessary underlying services automatically.
- Click on the Windows 'Start' button on the Task bar
- Type 'Server' in the dialog box
- Double-click the Program 'Server Manager.
Initial Configuration Tasks
The install tactics for Windows Server 2008 are to get the files copied and the operating system running as quickly as possible. After a minimal install, and the appearance of the GUI, you need to configure items which will be unique to your computer, for example, the Administrator's password and a suitable computer name.
The Server Manager is also the place to revisit if you later want to join your server, however the sub-menu changes from Initial Configuration Tasks to: Server Summary.
Customize This Server
Once your Server Manager appears, scroll down to bullet point 3) 'Customize This Server'. Now you can click on 'Add roles' or Add features.
Add Roles Wizard
A role describes and determines the major job of a server, for example Terminal Services. Some roles have their own second level Services Wizard, for example, the File Services include the option to install DFS and Search. [IIS not installed by default].Add Features Wizard
Features are secondary factors such as backup, which transcend a number of roles. This wizard replaces Add or Remove Programs in previous Windows systems. One welcome new intelligence is the way the wizard installs any dependent services. For example, if you add PowerShell it also install the .Net Framework feature. My bet is that if you review Server Manager's Features, you will find at least one new 'gem'.The Importance of Server Manager in Windows Server 2008
The Server Manager is the hub of Windows Server 2008. This is the place to Add roles and features and then check that they are configured correctly.
In addition, the Server Manager provides snap-ins for Diagnostics, Configuration and Storage.
Server Manager goes right back to the days of NT 3.5. However, in Windows Server 2003 it took a back seat in the form of, 'Configure your Server' or 'Manage your Server'. At the time, these Configure or Manage Server menus seemed an unnecessary restrictive layer, consequently, I preferred to invest time in creating an MMC console and then adding my favourite snap-ins.
Now in Windows Server 2008, the Server Manager's GUI provides welcome structure, rigor and organization, consequently, I for one am happy to follow its signposts which point to the best features of this operating system.
While 'Add Roles' and 'Add Features' catch the eye, remember that you can troubleshoot services and make configuration changes through this central interface. It is even possible to manage local user accounts.
After you have used Server Manager for a while you will tend to focus on the Server Summary. These facts and figures are arranged in two main categories, Computer Information and Security information.
To return to the beginning, the first time you enter the Server Manage is to set basic information such as the computer name and time-zone. My point is that this is also the place to change such basic information as Firewall settings or Remote Desktop.
Server Manager Command Line
Windows Server 2008 encourages us to use the command line. The rational is that for some tasks it's quicker to type a few commands than to drill down 27 levels with the mouse.
While PowerShell (Monad) is the most famous new scripting language, ServerManagerCmd.exe is a simple command just for installing or removing Windows Server 2008's roles and features.
I suggest you begin with:
ServerManagerCmd.exe -help
Then try
ServerManagerCmd.exe -query (See what you have already)
Next comes the switch -install
Registry Values
I can never resist a registry hack. When you very first logon, you are grateful for the ICT (Initial Configuration Tasks), but later you may dismiss the menu. If you want to reset the value in the registry, this is the place to control the ICT menu display.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Server Manager\oobe
Zero (0) disables the menu.
One (1) enables this setting, restoring it to the first logon setting.
Windows Server 2008 - How to Add Roles
The key to managing your Windows Server 2008 network is planning then configuring server roles. Questions to ask include, 'How many servers do we need?'. Which roles do I need on each server, for example, DNS, *AD DS, File and Print.
This planning stage could also be a good time to analyze your connections to the outside world, and appraise the need for old configurations such as **DMZ and ***RADIUS servers, with new ideas such as ****NPAS servers and a remediation network.
* Active Directory Directory Service, ** Demilitarised Zone, *** Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service, **** Network Policy and Access Services.
For each individual Windows Server 2008, the place to start in your task of adding and configuring the pre-defined roles is in the Server Manager.
Launch the Server Manager
The Windows 2008 version of Server Manager is intelligent enough to work out dependencies and to install any necessary underlying services automatically.
With the Add Roles Wizard you get the chance to inspect the services and also to configure options for that particular role.
- Click on the Windows 'Start' button on the Task bar
- Type 'Server' in the dialog box
- Double-click the Program 'Server Manager.
Customize This Server
Once your Server Manager appears, scroll down to ' 3) Customize This Server'. Now you can click 'Add roles'.
Add Roles Wizard
Some roles have their own second level Services Wizard, for example, the File Services include the option to install DFS and Search. [IIS not installed by default]
Select Server Roles:
- Active Directory Certificate Services
- Active Directory Domain Services
- Active Directory Federation Services
- Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
- Active Directory Rights Management Services
- Application Server
- DHCP Server
- DNS Server
- Fax Server
- File Services
- Hyper-V (64bit editions only)
- Network Policy and Access Services
- Print Services
- UDDI Services
- Web Services (IIS)
- Windows Deployment Services
Group Your Roles
- Active Directory Domain Services (Domain Controller)
- DNS Server
- DHCP Server
Alternatively:
- Application Server
- File Services
- Print Services
Maybe
- Terminal Services
- Network Policy and Access Services
Two Additional Roles
- Core (No GUI)
- RODC (Read-only domain controller)
Select Server Roles
Remember to re-visit the Server Manager at regular intervals so that you can configure additional roles or add new features.
Server Manager
The Server Manager is the hub of Windows Server 2008. This is the place to install roles and features and check that they are working correctly.
Server Manager goes right back to the days of NT 3.5. However, in Windows Server 2003 it took a back seat in the form of, 'Configure your Server' or 'Manage your Server'. At the time, these Configure or Manage Server menus seemed an unnecessary restrictive layer, consequently, I preferred to invest time in creating an MMC console and then adding my favourite snap-ins. See more on the 2008 Server Manager.
Server Roles
The term 'Roles' when applied to Windows Server 2008 has the same connotation as the word 'Role' in medium to large size company. Human resources manager, Secretary to the MD, financial director. In other words 'Role' describes a person primary job. In a smaller company one person may take on server roles, thus it is with Windows Server 2008, the server's role maybe DHCP, DNS, and Active Directory.
ServerMangerCMD.exe Cmdline options - like PowerShell
Windows Server 2008 Features and Services
If you didn't find a Windows Server 2008 amongst the Roles, the chances are it's amongst the 20+ 'Features. See here more about how to add Windows Server 2008's features.
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How to Activate the Local Administrator - Active:Yes
Windows Server 2008 has a hidden administrator account. This super-user account is only of use on a member server where you normally logon to the domain, but now need to logon to the local 'SAM' database. The method to activate the administrator is almost identical of that for Vista; the only difference that springs to mind is that in Windows Server 2008 people are more likely to deactivate than to activate this account.
How to Activate or Deactivate the Hidden Administrator
If you are going to activate and use this administrator account, then you need to know its password. Therefore a preliminary step is to set, and especially to remember, the password. Naturally, if all you want to is deactivate you don't need to worry about the password, and thus could avoid this step.
Quick method to activate an account
- Logon to your Windows Server 2008 using another account with administrative privileges.
- Launch the cmd prompt - Make sure you select, 'Run as administrator'
- Net user administrator p@$$w0rD
- Net user administrator /active:yes
- Switch User, or logoff
- Logon as administrator Password p@$$w0rD
To be precise, you need to be HostName/administrator not Domain/Administrator
Detailed Instructions to Activate the Administrator
- Logon to the server using your normal domain admin username and password.
- Click on the Start button
- Click on Start Search.
- Type: cmd.
- Right-click cmd, select 'Run as administrator' from the shortcut menu.
- At the command line type:
Net help user - My idea is for you to just observe Net User options. In particular, check the syntax to set the password.
- The next instruction is the crucial command. I have chosen password = p£ssworD, you may want to choose a different password.
- Net user administrator p@$$w0rD
- Net user administrator /active:yes
- Check the message : The command completed successfully
- Switch User, or logoff
- Logon as Hostname/Administrator Password p@$$w0rD (Your password may be different!)
Where Hostname is the computer name of the Windows Server 2008 computer.
Trap1: You need a forward-slash before /active
Net user administrator active:yes is wrong
Net user administrator /active:yes is correct
Trap2: There should be no space between the word 'active' and the ':'.
/active :yes is wrong.
/active:yes is correct.
Tip 1: You can also activate and deactivate the guest account.
Tip 2: The key word in the deactivate command is the word:no
Net user administrator /active:no.
Local Security Method to Enable the Administrator Account
Kindly sent in by Dave Waddell
If you prefer a pure GUI method, launch the Local Security policy.
This is how you navigate to the Local Security Policy.
- Click on Start orb, then in the Start Search dialog box type: secpol.msc. Note: you must include the extension .msc.
- Drill down to Local Policy, Security Options
- Double click Accounts: Administrator account status, and select enable.
You can also see the resulting Administrator in the Control Panel, User Accounts folder.
Benefits of Activating Windows Server 2008's Hidden Administrator Account
The main benefit of activating this hidden Administrator is if you ever needed to logon at the server when the domain was not available and not accepting cached credentials. Alternatively, you may be troubleshooting and wish to eliminate domain settings. To be frank, there are always other scenarios that I have not thought about. Sometimes when troubleshooting you need a combination of unusual techniques to finally solve your problem.
Actually, the main benefit of knowing this method is to make sure that you deactivate the special built-in local administrator account. To achieve this try:
Net user administrator /active:no.
How to Check Windows Server 2008's Local User Accounts
Checking the Local User accounts is a useful task in itself, but it comes into its own where you need to troubleshoot whether accounts are active, or not. In a nutshell, if you type /active:yes the account should display in the GUI. If you type /active:no, the account disappears from view.
This is where you can configure Windows Server 2008 local as opposed to domain accounts. Click on the Start button, Control Panel and select --> User Accounts:
Trap: Before you can make ANY changes to ANY account, you must make sure that this box is ticked:
'Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer'. See screenshot below (Taken from Vista).
If you do deactivate the local administrator, then you simply won't see the account listed in the User Accounts menu in the Control Panel.
Summary of Activating the Local Administrator
One reason to activate the hidden Vista Administrator account is for logging on locally when you are troubleshooting. The procedure is straightforward, just launch the cmd prompt and type:
Net user administrator /active:yes.
The only trap is that you require a complex password so that you need to add a password to the command string thus
Net user administrator p@$$w0rD
Then
Net user administrator /active:yes
How to Activate the Vista Administrator - /Active:Yes
on 10/07/2008 01:30:00 AM
Labels: windows vista
Not many people know that Vista has a hidden super-user account. I will show you how to activate this Vista Administrator account via a 'Net User' command. One benefit of logging on as this super account is that you will never be prompted for the nagging UAC dialog box.
Local Security Method to Enable the Administrator Account
How to Activate the Hidden Vista Administrator
Key decision - decide if you need a password for the administrator's account that you are going to activate. My point is that the local policy may insist on a complex password, thus you will not be able to activate the administrator with a blank password. This technique also works on Windows Server 2008, however on that operating system it is more likely you will set /active:no.
Overview
- Logon to Vista using your usual account.
- Launch the cmd prompt - Make sure you select, 'Run as administrator'
- Net user administrator p£ssw0rD
- Net user administrator /active:yes
- Switch User, or logoff
- Logon as Administrator Password p£ssw0rD
(Your password may be different!)
Detailed Instructions to activate the Administrator
- Logon to Vista using your normal username and password.
- Click on the Start button
- Click on Start Search.
- Type, cmd.
- Right-click cmd, select 'Run as administrator' from the shortcut menu.
- In the black 'DOS box', type the following at the command line:
Net help user - The idea of the last command is just to observe the options for Net User. In particular, examine the syntax to set the password.
- The next instruction is the crucial command. I have chosen password = p£ssworD, you may want to choose different characters.
- Net user administrator p£ssw0rd
- Net user administrator /active:yes
- Check the message : The command completed successfully
- Switch User, or logoff
- Logon as Administrator Password p£ssw0rD (Your password may be different!)
Trap1: There should be no space between the word 'active' and the colon.
/active :yes is wrong.
/active:yes is correct.
Trap2: You need a forward slash before /active
Net user administrator active:yes is wrong
Net user administrator /active:yes is correct
Thanks to Rob Hilton for pointing out this trap.
Trapx: Pay close attention to the command, it should be active, not activate.
I thank Ben O'Sullivan for correcting this activate --> active error.
Local Security Method to Enable the Administrator Account
Kindly sent in by Dave Waddell
If you prefer a simpler method, visit the Local Security policy, incidentally, this MMC is worth exploring in its own right.
This is how you navigate to the Local Security Policy.
Firstly click on Vista's Start orb, then in the Start Search dialog box type: secpol.msc. Note: you must include the .msc extension.
Secondly drill down to Local Policy, Security Options
Thirdly double click Accounts: Administrator account status, and select enable.
You can also see the resulting Administrator in the Control Panel, User Accounts folder see below.
Benefits of Vista's Hidden Administrator Account
The main benefit of activating this hidden Vista Administrator is so that you have access to an account, which does not suffer from the annoying UAC dialog box. Although it is possible to suppress the UAC with a local policy, there is a lingering fear that security is being weakened. Another worry is that rumours persist that some commands don't work properly if you turn of the UAC.
Linked to the benefit of suppressing the UAC dialog box is the fact that this Administrator account has elevated privileges. What this means is that if your run CMD you don't have to 'Run as administrator' before you get unrestricted access to the command line.
Another benefit of knowing this method is to keep the hidden Vista administrator account as a 'back door', for example, if you inadvertently lock out your main account. Sitting there at your computer, you can never believe that you will be so foolish as to lock yourself out, yet logic dictates that somewhere in the world, someone has just done that: locked themselves out of Vista. Would not they like to know how to activate the administrator account?
Naturally, it is a case of administrator by name and administrator by function, this super user is a member of the Local Administrator's group. In many ways this super Administrator account reminds me of the Unix root account. As I am not a 'professor' of Unix I do not know if you can hide root, but you can hide Vista's administrator account with this command:
Net user administrator /active:no.
Check Vista's User Accounts
Activating this super account provides a good opportunity to examine where you can configure Vista's accounts. Click on the Start button, Control Panel and select --> User Accounts: My point is that you can check in the GUI whether accounts have activated successfully. /Active:yes the account is visible. /active:no the User Name disappears from the list below.
Trap: Before you can make ANY changes to ANY account, you must make sure that this box is ticked:
'Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer'. See screenshot below.
Hidden Administrator's SID
Every Windows account has a unique Security Identifier, or SID for short. It has been a traditional for THE administrator's account to have a SID ending in 500. I was surprised therefore, not to see any such SID number in Vista - until I activated the hidden administrator. When I launched regedit and checked the HKEY_USERS, there was the famous SID ending in 500 (S-1-5-20-2344314121-13413-500), and it corresponded to the recently activated administrator's account.
One puzzle remained, if, when you initially logon to Vista, can you create (as opposed to activate) an account called Administrator.
John Wolfe came up with the answer. 'When I tried to name the original account as Administrator. I was told that the "Account already exists" '.
My point is that you cannot have two accounts with the same name, and unlike previous operating systems, before you can logon to Vista you must first create an account.
Summary of Vista Administrator - Super User (Hidden Account)
One reason to activate the hidden Vista Administrator account is so that you are no longer nagged by the UAC (User Account Control) prompt. The procedure is straightforward, just head for the cmd prompt and type:
Net user administrator /active:yes.
The only trap is that many systems require a complex password so that you need to add a password to the command string thus
Net user administrator p£ssw0rd
Then
Net user administrator /active:yes
Windows Vista - Backdoor Logon
You would not expect it to be easy to create a backdoor logon. Indeed, the technique described on this page does not threaten Vista security, unless someone has a Trojan horse program to prepare the way. Whatever you make of this technique, you have to smile at Microsoft's unintended meaning of 'Ease of access'.
How the Vista Backdoor Logon Works
This back door method exploits the 'Ease of Access' menu at the bottom of a regular Windows Vista Logon. Normally, if you click the Icon then you get a choice of help from Narrator, Magnifier and High Contrast. The trick is to replace the file called Magnify.exe, with a file which is really cmd.exe.
Once you make the change, then when you select Magnifier from the Ease of Access dialog box, you enter the operating system at the command prompt. The result is you can logon as the System account, without the need of a password. One limitation is that your shell program is cmd.exe rather than explorer. A more serious limitation is that in order to enter via this backdoor, you would need to install a Trojan horse program. Another possibility is that you have logged on previously, and manually made the changes described below.
Mission to Create an Impostor instead of Magnify.exe
The idea is to change the programme names so that the hyperlink link called 'Make items on the screen larger (Magnify)', actually points to cmd.exe. The result is that you open a back door logon to Vista.
Preliminary Step - Deal with Permissions
Problem: You cannot rename or delete the original Magnify.exe in Windows \system32. Even though you are an administrator, even though UAC is enabled, all you get is this message:
'You need permission to perform this action'
Solution: Take ownership of the file Magnify.exe, then change the permission for the Administrator's group to Full control. Then rename Maginify.exe to MagnifyOld.exe.
Main Step - Create the Impostor Magnify.exe
- Create a new folder called Ease
- Copy CMD.exe ---> \Ease \cmd.exe
- Rename \Ease \cmd.exe ---> Magnify.exe
- Copy \Ease \Magnify.exe ---> Windows \system32\Magnify.exe
What you have achieved is that the old, relatively harmless, 'Magnify' becomes the more versatile cmd.exe.
Test Your 'Ease of access' Backdoor Method
- At the Vista Logon screen, click on Ease of access
- Check the box next to: Make Items on the screen Larger (Magnifier)
- Click 'OK'
- You should now find yourself at the Command Prompt
- Try whoami (System account)
- Try regedit
- Feel the power!
Modifications to the 'Ease of Access' backdoor
You could apply the same back door technique that I suggested for Magnify.exe to Narrator.exe. Another modification is to substitute other programs for cmd.exe. I tried explorer.exe, but that did not work for me.
Summary of Vista Backdoor Logon
The idea behind this Vista backdoor logon is to re-program the Magnify or Narrator. As a result, if you call for 'Ease of access', then you can logon by pressing Narrator or Magnifier. With this technique, you logon as the System account without the need to supply a password. One limitation, that I have yet to overcome, is that you have a command prompt shell rather than an explorer shell.
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Installing ipMonitor is a breeze, but learn from gung-ho Guy's mistake and install SNMP on each computer that you wish to monitor. What sealed my unreserved recommendation of SolarWinds is their support team, you will get expert help even when you are evaluating the ipMonitor. One last point, SolarWinds are offering a 40% discount until Sept 26th.
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How to Clean Up Unused System and Applications, Registry and Boot Up System's Speed
on 10/07/2008 01:12:00 AM
System will become slower and not stable when load with lots of unused application or unnecessary system, especially Windows system. Users will have to do some maintenance of their system so that it can last longer and maintain their system̢۪s speed. For user to maintain their system, most of them will install lots of third party software to do clean up and speed up their system and is wasting time for them to install and configure in their system. For users that still look for the software to maintain their system, nCleaner is the software they looking.
nCleaner is a system cleaner that allows you to clean both your system and applications, free more disk space, boost your system’s speed and get more stability and privacy protection. With nCleaner users can maintain their system more easily as nCleaner contain lots of features that easy for users to maintain their system. Below is the features of nCleaner.
- Advanced system and application cleaner with over 90 cleaning items
- Registry Cleaner
- Tweak Manager
- Advanced Startup Manager
- Junk Finder
- Free Space Shredder
- System Resource Monitor
- System Adviser
- Supports logging and statistics
- Advanced Scheduling
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At some point in time, anybody who owns a computer will acquaintance the trials and tribulations of adamantine drive failure. The affidavit abaft it vary, and could accommodate aggregate from a animal absurdity to amercement consistent from flood or water. Viruses can comedy a role as well, forth with abounding added factors. For abounding years, the charge to balance abstracts that has been absent or destroyed has fabricated abstracts accretion such a actual admired asset.
Almost all adamantine drives can be recovered. Normally, if the drive is authoritative a active or a abrading noise, you can use assertive software programs to balance the data. Sometimes, due to age or bad parts, the breach arm in the adamantine drive can fail, or the platters can become damaged and lose the abstracts that they hold. If you can’t balance the advice with software, you’ll charge to accelerate the adamantine drive off and accept it either rebuilt or accept technicians balance your data.
Data accretion is consistently an option, from adamantine drives that are 2 GB in admeasurement to the better of over 300 GB or added of data. No amount what admeasurement adamantine drive you have, the abstracts can about be recovered. Keep in apperception that if you’ve had a computer crash, you’ll charge to accelerate the adamantine drive off to accept the abstracts recovered by technicians.
One of the key allowances of abstracts accretion is the actuality that advice can additionally be retrieved from the recycle bin as well. Partition recovery, and alike advice that has been absent about on the deejay can be retrieved as well. Alike admitting it may assume like your abstracts is gone always - the technicians that specialize in abstracts accretion can retrieve it.
From Windows to Mac, aggregate can be recovered. There are altered filing structures and formats, including NTFS and FAT32. These are accepted Windows filing structures, and authority all of the advice for your hard.
Those of you who accept assorted adamantine drives in your computer, can draft assured that RAID configurations can additionally be recovered. If a distinct adamantine drive on the RAID agreement fails, the RAID bureaucracy will blot the draft and there won’t be a accident of data. On the added hand, if the absolute RAID agreement crashes, it will blast big time. Whenever this happens, you’ll charge to accelerate it off and accept technicians restore both the RAID accouterments and software.
Anytime your adamantine drive happens to blast or malfunction, abstracts accretion is there to advice you get aback your files. Whether they are alone files or actual important files that are charge for business - you can put your assurance in abstracts accretion and apperceive that you’ll get aggregate the aback the way it was.
DIY DiskPatch DataRecovery TECH EDITION v2.1.100
DiskPatch Feature summary:
a) MBR Repair (boot code & partition tables)
b) Partition Table Repair - unlike some other tools, DiskPatch does restore access to logical partitions
c) Boot Sector Repair (FAT [*], FAT32, NTFS)
d) MBR, Partition Table & LDM Backup
e) Disk Editor (RAW hex, ASCII, Partition Table, Boot Sector) [*]
f) Set Active Partition, Partition hiding/unhiding
g) Undo feature for all automatic repairs
h) Surface Scan, read-only and non destructive read/write [*]
i) Disk Cloning, even when logical damage or bad sectors exist [*]
j) Disk Compare [**]
k) Forensic mode [**]
l) Low Level Format (pattern write or wipe) [*]
m) State File - once a disk has been scanned (with the demo) the actual scan can be skipped
n) Extensive logging
o) Boot Disk Builder - From Windows you can easily create a bootable diskette that DiskPatch can be used from.
[*] - Available in Pro or higher Edition only! /
[**] - Available in Tech Edition only! Read More..
Almost all adamantine drives can be recovered. Normally, if the drive is authoritative a active or a abrading noise, you can use assertive software programs to balance the data. Sometimes, due to age or bad parts, the breach arm in the adamantine drive can fail, or the platters can become damaged and lose the abstracts that they hold. If you can’t balance the advice with software, you’ll charge to accelerate the adamantine drive off and accept it either rebuilt or accept technicians balance your data.
Data accretion is consistently an option, from adamantine drives that are 2 GB in admeasurement to the better of over 300 GB or added of data. No amount what admeasurement adamantine drive you have, the abstracts can about be recovered. Keep in apperception that if you’ve had a computer crash, you’ll charge to accelerate the adamantine drive off to accept the abstracts recovered by technicians.
One of the key allowances of abstracts accretion is the actuality that advice can additionally be retrieved from the recycle bin as well. Partition recovery, and alike advice that has been absent about on the deejay can be retrieved as well. Alike admitting it may assume like your abstracts is gone always - the technicians that specialize in abstracts accretion can retrieve it.
From Windows to Mac, aggregate can be recovered. There are altered filing structures and formats, including NTFS and FAT32. These are accepted Windows filing structures, and authority all of the advice for your hard.
Those of you who accept assorted adamantine drives in your computer, can draft assured that RAID configurations can additionally be recovered. If a distinct adamantine drive on the RAID agreement fails, the RAID bureaucracy will blot the draft and there won’t be a accident of data. On the added hand, if the absolute RAID agreement crashes, it will blast big time. Whenever this happens, you’ll charge to accelerate it off and accept technicians restore both the RAID accouterments and software.
Anytime your adamantine drive happens to blast or malfunction, abstracts accretion is there to advice you get aback your files. Whether they are alone files or actual important files that are charge for business - you can put your assurance in abstracts accretion and apperceive that you’ll get aggregate the aback the way it was.
DIY DiskPatch DataRecovery TECH EDITION v2.1.100
DiskPatch Feature summary:
a) MBR Repair (boot code & partition tables)
b) Partition Table Repair - unlike some other tools, DiskPatch does restore access to logical partitions
c) Boot Sector Repair (FAT [*], FAT32, NTFS)
d) MBR, Partition Table & LDM Backup
e) Disk Editor (RAW hex, ASCII, Partition Table, Boot Sector) [*]
f) Set Active Partition, Partition hiding/unhiding
g) Undo feature for all automatic repairs
h) Surface Scan, read-only and non destructive read/write [*]
i) Disk Cloning, even when logical damage or bad sectors exist [*]
j) Disk Compare [**]
k) Forensic mode [**]
l) Low Level Format (pattern write or wipe) [*]
m) State File - once a disk has been scanned (with the demo) the actual scan can be skipped
n) Extensive logging
o) Boot Disk Builder - From Windows you can easily create a bootable diskette that DiskPatch can be used from.
[*] - Available in Pro or higher Edition only! /
[**] - Available in Tech Edition only! Read More..