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Many times in the past I had to run an interactive command-line shell under the Local SYSTEM account. That is, a CMD window on your desktop running under the system account. This technique is extremely useful in many cases, for example to debug ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED...

Accidentally, I just discovered an interesting web page with all sorts of curious (downloadable) projects developed by various teams from Microsoft Research: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/

What is your favorite method of launching CMD.EXE as Local System? I found the following method after a little experimentation. Just run the command below to create a generic service called TESTSVC. C:\>sc create testsvc binpath= "cmd /K start" type...

Here at Microsoft we have lots of discussion groups, probably in the order of thousands. And I am not sure about how many emails are going daily on these groups but you got the idea. Now, since I always liked to have a peek in everything, I ended up being...

One interesting things about NTBackup in XP and Windows Server/SBS 2003 is that is has two operating modes: with shadow copy and without shadow copy. First, NTBackup will try to create shadow copies of the involved volumes and try to copy stuff from these...

An interesting article about various uses of the RFID technology: http://www.primidi.com/2004/11/20.html and its associated Slashdot link . But, I actually have a different wish from RFID. I always dreamed of some "smart" hand-held RFID scanner that could...

I think this is a good topic for a debate. So what is the best way to use the event log? The classical thinking is that a well-designed event log entry should contain only very easy-to-read, easy-to-follow, pertinent observations such as "the disk space...

A funny read at the beginning of the week: http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html

The rules are the following: 1) Before starting the test, you choose the computer + OS you want, etc. 2) Then, I give you a certain file. 3) You need to create a self-extracting EXE for it, that is always smaller than the original file. You can use any...

OK, probably you already had your latte this morning but here is nice puzzle: Let's say that a rectangle is "rational" if the ratio between the width and height is a rational number. Now, proof that a rectangle is rational if and only if the rectangle...

Calvin Hsia presented a method to detect a device arrival in Visual Fox Pro. The code looks pretty long, even for a C++ programmer like me :-) I am wondering if there is a shorter variant... Here is a similar code VBScript, which uses WMI events: ...

This morning, while listening to some boring songs on C89.5, I was thinking that it would be great to have some sort of an "feedback" mechanism. Something extremely simple and dumb, that every radio should have - two buttons: a red and a green one. If...

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I was just looking this morning to beta.search.msn.com - the MSN guys did an amazing work. I thought we went to catch up google but now it looks like we are way ahead in terms of usability. But this is just my personal opinion - go ahead and take a look...