Windows Tips and Tricks

Published: 07 February 2018 07 February 2018

Updated!

Works with Windows 7, 10 and most servers:

  • GodMode: Create a folder on your desktop and rename code list below You can call it GodMode or Master Folder... What this gives you is access to all the system programs to change and work on things in windows.
 GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
  • Snipping Tool: Takes screenshots of anything on you desktop. Then you can save it as a JPG or PNG
  • Snip and Sketch:  to start Windosw Key + Shift + S This will be replacing the Snipping tool in later versions of Windows 10. This tool allows you to open menus and take a screen shot unlike the snipping tool.
  • Voice dictation:  pressed windows key and H start dictation you need to be an A text field such as a work processor or a field browser.
  • Virtual Desktops - Win 10 now has mutable desktop views ( just like Linux). press Windows key and TAB then click new desktop. switch between the with Windows key and Ctrl and right or left arrow.
  • Magnifier - Use the Windows Key and the + and - keys to magnify the entire desktop.  
  • Quick Assist - to Get Assistance or to Give Assistance - A new feature within win 10 that allows you to share desktops. It give you the asister an access code and  password to allow you access to someone desktop. As a hosts you will need an MS account to complete the connection. It's similar to Teamviewer but through MS
  • Sticky Notes:  Handy desktop tool to jot down a quick not. In windows 10 you have other options to enable "Insights". this adds more functions...
  • Windows Remote Assistance: it works great on the Intranet such as home  to connect two windows machines. you can also use the remote assistance to connect to another persons computer over the internet. Use the wizard to connect. If you do not use this feature you should disable it in your settings menu.
  • Steps Recorder: can record all you steps while you click and type on your system. This could be good for troubleshooting problems or making instructional screenshots on home to do something. 
  • Voice Recorder or Sound recorder: either one may be on your system based on the windows version you are using.
  • MRT: Malicious Removal Tool: you should run this from time-to-time. This will not run automatically unless windows updater is running, so you need to run in manually via the run menu.
  • SyncTool: this is a FREE Microsoft product and is very useful to sync your files with USB hard drive, DropBox, OneDrive, Search for ms synctool and only download it from Microsoft. This is the current link -> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15155 Go thought the setup wizard to manage your files. Now you can you Windows Task Scheduler and have it run every hours while your logged into your system. use command below:
[code]cd \Program Files\SyncToy 2.1\
SyncToycmd.exe -R[/code]

  • certUtil: is a Checksum tool, Yes you will need to run this at the CMD window but is worth mentioning here. I wrote a blog on it here...
  • Windows time and alarms: You can set alarms and timers. In addition you can see a world clock and see the difference between several locations.
  • Windows 10 Game Mode: To start press Windows key and G. This will bring up MS game mode which add several features such at game recorder, chat, audio widget. 
  • Ransomware protection: go to Windows Security to virus and protection and scroll down and click ransomware protection. This locks very important files that cannot be accessed  by remote software. If you are using other antivirus protections this feature will no show.
  • Reliability Monitory:  Windows 10 now has a tool that gives widows historical reliability issues. This tool shows errors, warning, and info historically and gives possibly resolutions.   

Diversify Your Financial Risk When Investing In Cryptocurrencies

Published: 10 February 2020 10 February 2020
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Diversify your financial risk when investing in Cryptocurrencies.

You no longer need to be a computer geek to invest in one of the fastest growing financial markets. Cryptocurrencies also known as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Tezos, and hundreds more, are really taking off. So your fear of investing, may have swayed you away from this profitable investment, but companies like CoinBase (USA Based Company) have made it easy to be an investor.  

Coinbase will allow you, the investor, to connect your bank account to their fast and secure trading platforms. This allows you to easily deposit cash in and start investing.

  • Coinbase is the world’s largest Bitcoin broker, and also offers an exchange, wallet, and developer API.
  • Coinbase Pro  (Formerly GDAX) is their world-class interface that provides real time order books, charting tools, trade history, and a simple order process so you can start trading immediately. 
  • They have a top rated help desk for you to get started. I have personally email them and got a response almost immediately. In addition all of my request were resolved.
  • iPhone and Android trading ready.

So the fear of investing has been resolved by Coinbase.com, so take some time and do your homework, and check out Coinbase.com and Pro.Coinbase.com.

Python - Add a message box

Published: 23 February 2019 23 February 2019

Add a message box to your Python code. Use the ctype library with is already in the core Python library..

[code]

## add a message box for Windows only parameters below for different box types
# ##  Styles:
##  0 : OK
##  1 : OK | Cancel
##  2 : Abort | Retry | Ignore
##  3 : Yes | No | Cancel
##  4 : Yes | No
##  5 : Retry | No
##  6 : Cancel | Try Again | Continue
## To also change icon, add these values to previous number
# 16 Stop-sign icon
# 32 Question-mark icon
# 48 Exclamation-point icon
# 64 Information-sign icon consisting of an 'i' in a circle

import ctypes
#print(dir(ctypes)) # displays all the functions in the library
ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(0, 'Error in your code today', 'Error message title 0', 0)
ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(0, 'Error in your code today', 'Error message title 1', 1)
ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(0, 'Error in your code today', 'Error message title 2', 2)
ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(0, 'Error in your code today', 'Error message title 3', 3)
ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(0, 'Error in your code today', 'Error message title 4', 4)
ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(0, 'Error in your code today', 'Error message title 5', 5)
ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(0, 'Error in your code today', 'Error message title 6', 6)
ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(0, 'Error in your code today', 'Error message title 16', 16)[/code]

Windows Check Sum Hash Algorithm from CMD

Published: 19 January 2019 19 January 2019

Yes Window 10 (and Windows 7) had a built in Hash Tag Checksum tool. So when you download a file, you can verify that this file has not been tampered with. This tool is from Windows Command Line - CMD. It will generate a key for all these HASHES - MD2 MD4 MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512

Open a command line windows - CMD, Make sure you know that path where the download file is located. Verify the Hash Tag Algorithm from the website. Type in the following:

 

certUtil -hashfile C:\owner\download\MyDataFile.img SHA256

 

For example you can see I downloaded a file from this site (on the left) and it gives the SHA256 Checksum code you should expected when running the certutil. 

 checksumFileExampleCMD Hash Tag SHA256 

 

Protect Your Personal Identity - Wipe That Hard Drive

Published: 21 August 2016 21 August 2016

To protect your personal identity you need to wipe your HD clean from all your personal data. Try DBAN, which is a free SSD and hard disk utility that will nuke all your data. Check out the YouTube video below how2 wipe all personal data. So, you can eliminate the virus, or wipe the drive reload your operating system so you can resell your system, or just distroy the HD, so that no one can see what has been saved.

Here is the link to an instructional video on DBAN

 Here is an alternative to deal with your use unwanted hard drive, simply to destroy it. Find a local shredding company, to see if they shred your drive/electronics. This is eco-friendly and it should make you feel better, not even the government can see your data after this destruction. Watch this video just to see how your drive is destroyed, and how they recycle all of the parts. Also look for free community service events. they usually provided by your city, count. These events usually offer dangerous waste collections, shredded of documents and a computer shredding service.

In Kali LINUX you can use a command below:

shred -vfz -n 10 /dev/sda

Apache htaccess

Published: 27 November 2012 27 November 2012

Apache htaccess New User and file

 

Make a new user name on .htacApache, htaccesscess (see below)

At the command Line Type:

htpasswd .htpasswd username

to add a new usere to the .htpasswd NOTE: Only us the -c (htpasswd -c .htpasswd username)to create the file DON"T use -c if File exist it will erase all the other users. The program will initially prompt you for a password and then ask you to verify it.

 
The .htaccess file below must contain

AuthUserFile /kunden/homepages/http/website/foldertoprotect/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName "Download Area" AuthType Basic <limit get="" post=""> require valid-user </limit>

Note the AuthUserFile must be from root and end with the password file name. AuthName is the name in the password popup window change as needed. IN ADDITION verify you are using the correct path - telnet in and type pwd, use the path that echo's back

note CHMOD to 644 for both files

 

MySQL Dump

Published: 14 April 2016 14 April 2016

A Simple Database Backup

mysqldump -h [hostorIP] -u [username] -p [password] [databasename] > [backupfile.sql]

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  • [host or IP] - is your connection to the sql server
  • [username] - this is your database username
  • [password] - this is the password for your database
  • [databasename] - the name of your database
  • [backupfile.sql] - the file to which the backup should be written.
     

The resultant dump file will contain all the SQL statements needed to create the table and populate the table in a new database server. To backup your database 'Customers' with the username 'sadmin' and password 'pass21' to a file custback.sql, you would issue the command:

You can also ask mysqldump to add a drop table command before every create command by using the option --add-drop-table. This option is useful if you would like to create a backup file which can rewrite an existing database without having to delete the older database manually first.

To restore the dump...  The "<" before the file name will restore all the table to the Customers database

htaccess Tutorial

Published: 27 November 2012 27 November 2012

htaccess Tutorial

This tutorial will demonstrate how to use .htaccess files to perform several basic Apache and PHP configurations at the directory level. This tutorial makes the following assumptions:

 * You are using Apache as your webserver.

* Your web host has enabled .htaccess override for your account.

* For the PHP configuration, you must be running PHP as an Apache module.

 

If you're not sure about whether these statements are true, check with your web host's technical support department.

 There several types of configuration that can be performed using a .htaccess file. These include authorization, redirects, changing the index file name, displaying custom error pages, and changing PHP configuration settings.

 To perform such configuration, simply create a file named .htaccess (the dot in front is required) in the folder where you would like the settings to be applied. Any settings you configure for this directory will also be applied recursively to all of its sub directories. Note that some FTP clients may be configured to hide files that start with a dot. If this is the case, you may need to reconfigure your FTP client to display these files.

Changing the index file name

 The index file is the file that gets displayed automatically when a user browses to a directory. Historically, the index file is called index.html or index.htm. On a PHP powered site, you may want your index file to be named index.php. This can be accomplished by putting the following line in your .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

 The directive above instructs Apache to use index.php as the index file if it exists, otherwise it should look for a file named index.html. If neither file exists in the requested directory, the user will usually get a directory listing.

Using a custom error page

 Everyone at one point or another encounters the dreaded "HTTP 404 - File Not Found" error message. Perhaps the user followed a broken link, or mistyped the URL of the page they were looking for. The default error page is usually quite ugly. However, it is possible to use a custom error page for this or any other HTTP error. This can be done by placing the line below in your .htaccess file:

 

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.mysite.com/404.html

 

Replace "http://www.mysite.com/404.html" with the URL for the page you want the user to see when they request a missing file.

 

It is important that your custom "file not found" page returns the HTTP 404 status code, otherwise your site could be penalized by the search engines. You can do this by adding the following PHP code at the top of your 404 page.

 

header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");

Denying access to a directory

Sometimes, there may be directories on your website that the user shouldn't be able to directly request files from. For example, you may have a directory that stores data files for your scripts, or a set of PHP includes. Placing the lines below in the .htaccess file for that directory will block direct requests for those files:

Order Deny,Allow

Deny from all

 

The first line ensures that the deny directive is evaluated before any allow directives that may have been defined elsewhere in the directory hierarchy.

Redirecting requests

Over time, files on a website may get moved or renamed. Rather than letting the user to see a 404 error message when requesting the old file, you can redirect them to the new file using the following directive:

Redirect permanent /old.php http://www.mysite.com/new.php

The permanent keyword indicates that an HTTP 301 ("resource has moved permanently") status code should be returned to the web browser. Replace "old.php" with the path to the old file, and "http://www.mysite.com/new.php" with the URL to the new file.

PHP configuration

Lastly, .htaccess files can be used to change PHP settings when running as an Apache module. Such configuration is performed using the php_value and php_flag directives. Use the later when the setting takes a boolean value. For example, to turn off register globals from .htaccess, use the following line:

php_flag register_globals off

The following directive can be used to turn off magic quotes for all PHP scripts in a directory:

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off

To enable or disable error reporting, use the php_flag directive to set the display_errors flag. Enabling this flag will cause error messages to be displayed in the browser, e.g.:

php_flag display_errors on

To hide error messages from the end user, simply disable the display_errors flag:

php_flag display_errors off

 

Ham Info

Published: 23 January 2012 23 January 2012

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Add a HTML Link with no underline

Published: 27 November 2011 27 November 2011

use the deceleration of style="text-decoration: none;" after the URL link. See source below

 

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