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Extend Windows C: drive remotelly

April 26th, 2017 No comments

A somersault with remote Powershell call using psexec.

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Session “ReadyBoot” stopped due to the following error: 0xC0000188

May 25th, 2014 No comments

Here is solution to fix it.

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Reset Authentec fingerprint sensor database on Windows 8

May 23rd, 2014 No comments

To reset Authentec fingerprint sensor internal database on Windows 8 used tool from Toshiba site – TFPU WBF Delete Fingerprint Tool.

Or one 23Kb program from this archive – Biometric Cleanup Utility. Be careful, it wipes data without confirmation.

Dell Latitude – enable biometric/fingerprint on Windows 8.1 and Authentec AES28XX

May 23rd, 2014 No comments

I used Dell Latitude E5520 laptop and Windows 8.1 is not supported on it. Dell Support site has not driver available. Terrible, but…

Used these steps to enable fingerprint authorization.

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Windows 2003 Firewall Commands

August 26th, 2009 No comments

– Important Note: Must manually configure the firewall to first start. Automated attempts at starting the firewall will cause it to come online with deny all / everything total lock down. (Learned this the hard way too!)

– Start / Stop

netsh firewall set opmode DISABLE
netsh firewall set opmode ENABLE

– Start / Stop Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
sc start SharedAccess
sc config SharedAccess start= auto

– Allow/Deny Ports

netsh firewall add portopening TCP _port_number_ _name_ DISABLE ALL
netsh firewall add portopening TCP 3264 CCMAIL DISABLE ALL

netsh firewall add portopening TCP _port_number_ _name_ ENABLE ALL
netsh firewall add portopening TCP 8443 PLESK-ADMIN ENABLE ALL

– Allow/Deny Programs

Programs to not allow TCP/UDP Socket Connections
netsh firewall add allowedprogram _path_ _name_ DISABLE ALL
netsh firewall add allowedprogram C:\WINDOWS\Cluster\CluAdmin.exe CLUSTER-ADMIN DISABLE ALL

– ICMP Settings

Allow outbound packet too big 2
Allow outbound destination unreachable 3
Allow outbound source quench 4
Allow redirect 5
Allow inbound echo request 8
Allow inbound router request 9
Allow outbound time exceeded 11
Allow outbound parameter problem 12
Allow inbound timestamp request 13
Allow inbound mask request 17

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 2 DISABLE

– Allow/Deney Multicast Rules

netsh firewall set multicastbroadcastresponse DISABLE

– Allow/Deny Desktop Popup

netsh firewall set notifications DISABLE

– Allow/Deny Network Services

netsh firewall set service REMOTEDESKTOP ENABLE

– Firewall Loging
netsh firewall set logging _path_ _size_ ENABLE
netsh firewall set logging C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\firewall.log 4096 ENABLE

– Reporting

netsh firewall show config verbose = ENABLE
netsh firewall show state verbose = ENABLE
sc qc SharedAccess

-Start/Stop IPSec

sc start PolicyAgent
sc config PolicyAgent start= auto

-Load IPSec Backup Configuration

netsh -f filename

– WinDefend – Windows Defender

sc start WinDefend
sc config WinDefend start= auto

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