It can be most annoying sometimes when you try to access files across Windows Shares on a network and come accross an access denied message. The aim of this little function is to allow you to clear saved Network Share passwords from a windows computer.
Go into the start menu, and select Run. Copy and paste
rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr
into the dialog box and click OK.
You will now have access to Stored User Names and Passwords window. AKA – Key Manager
…according to Bill Gates.
In Bill Gates CES 2008 interview he was asked the difference between Apple‘s approach and Microsoft‘s approach when it comes to product releases.
Bill Gates Explains the Difference Between Microsoft and Apple
One thing about Fedora 8 I have noticed is that if you try to install it in Virtual PC 2007 the video display will be messed up if you use the GUI install. Problem solved.
At the boot screen hit “tab” for additional options. You will want to add “vesa” to the end of the boot parameters to fix the screwed up video problem. Booting at this point will introduce you to the other problem plaguing recent distros in Virtual PC… a non-functional mouse. Fortunately, to fix this as well add “i8042.noloop“.
vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img vesa i8042.noloop
Now this is one handy guide for us admins.
Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control
So I was trying to find a way to schedule telnet commands, personally all I could find was commercial programs that you need to pay for and that was something I wasn’t wiling to do. Luckily I stumbled across this little gem called Telnet Scripting Tool v1.0. The program is by Albert Yale. Unfortunately the official site (http://ay.home.ml.org/) for the program doesn’t exist any more so I will provide a link to the program at the end of this article.
This program is pretty simple to use really. All you do is create a script file in notepad that contains the commands you wish to use in telnet.
Script
The following code should be placed in a text file. e.g scriptname.txt
Example:
(This example should reset any CPE Billion router – e.g 7402VGO)
192.168.1.254 23
WAIT "Login:"
SEND "admin\m"
WAIT "Password:"
SEND "default\m"
WAIT "admin>"
SEND "system restart\m"
That looks pretty simple doesn’t it. The first line of your script is always the address and port number. If you are using TCP port 23 then you don’t really have to say it, it’s considered default. First thing we do is WAIT"Login:" peace of text. Once it has done this we then respond with SEND "admin\m", this give the router the login name admin, and the \m represents the user pressing enter.
Thats pretty much it WAIT then respond to the WAIT by sending a command using SEND
Command Line
Once you have completed your script of the commands you wish to use you are now ready to issue a command to run your script.
tst10.exe /r:scriptname.txt
This causes the script file that you created to run, if you follow the example and have a billion router or another router that has the same telnet interface your modem will reset.
Scheduling
It’s now simply a matter of using Windows Scheduled Tasks to execute the command line at the time you wish.
How To Schedule Tasks in Windows
Conclusion
Now thats not very hard to use is it, and is very useful if you need to force a reboot on a device with a telnet interface.
Copy the following code into a bat or cmd file then run it.
@echo off
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\XPSP3 /f 2> NUL
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\XPSP3 /v RCPreview /t REG_SZ /d 1c667073-b87f-4f52-a479-98c85711d869 /f
echo XPSP3 registry key has been set. Please check for updates in Windows Update - Kudos to dailyapps.net
pauseThe code above will add a few entries to the Windows Registry that makes Microsoft think that you are a part of the Private beta program. This will mean that when you visit the Windows update site you should see SP3 RC1 as a download.
Note: Microsoft will probably catch onto this.
It was drawn to my attention today that it can be a real bitch to run this old DOS games and other DOS applications under modern Microsoft Windows, thus I thought I would dump this guide on everyone.
Personally there are some old DOS games I still like to play who haven’t lost any play value e.g. The Settlers 2, Dune 2, WarCraft… etc. All of which were programed to run in Microsoft DOS and not Windows. While Windows does have some ability to run these new versions of Windows are slowly killing off support for these old DOS applications. What prompted me to write this is that I run Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, and low and behold the following error message if you try to run a DOS application.
Frustrating isn’t it, you will probably see this in Windows Vista x64 as well.
But low and behold in all it’s glory there is a solution. DOSBox.
DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X…
DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games.
Now while that is a quote from the site, it’s actually true.
Apparently Microsoft Excel 2007 can’t do it’s times tables. Microsoft employee David Gainer, has posted on the Excel Blog that when computer users try to get Excel 2007 to multiply some numbers, and the result was 65535, Excel would incorrectly display 100000. Gainer said Excel makes mistakes multiplying 77.1 by 850, 10.2 by 6425 and 20.4 by 3212.5. Gainer said the bug is limited to six numbers from 65534.99999999995 to 65535, and six numbers from 65535.99999999995 to 65536.
Microsoft is currently trying to address this problem.
UPDATE
Microsoft has now addressed this problem with a patch
See the Blog entry Here