If you have an original game cd/dvd and want to know which copyprotection was used on it – maybe to find a NOCD or whatnot – I sometimes even find this interesting from an intellectual point of view, then this utility might just assist you in identifying what copyprotection that is keeping you from playing “Battlefield Bad Company 2” without the DVD inserted. It won’t break/crack anything, just identify which copyprotection was used. Freeware and all that jazz.
I just had a few hours of cold-sweat experience with my Windows 7 installation;
I had to remove my machine from the domain and reinsert it into a new domain with the same name. This ought to be straight forward, it however proved to be a nightmare 😐 No matter what I did the above error was presented to me again and again “You have been logged on with a temporary profile” even after deleting the profile under c:\users\<profilename> the error kept coming.
Well a bit of googling came up with the solution (intended for Vista but works for Win7 also);
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947242
To resolve this problem, follow these steps:
- Log on to the system by using an administrative user account other than the user account that is experiencing the problem.
- Back up all data in the current user’s profile folder if the profile folder still exists, and then delete the profile folder. By default, the profile resides in the following location:
%SystemDrive%\Users\UserName
- Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
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If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.
- Locate the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
- Under the ProfileList subkey, delete the subkey that is named SID.bak.
Note SID is a placeholder for the security identifier (SID) of the user account that is experiencing the problem. The SID.bak subkey should contain a ProfileImagePath registry entry that points to the original profile folder of the user account that is experiencing the problem.
- Exit Registry Editor.
- Log off the system.
- Log on to the system again.
After you log on to the system, the profile folder is re-created.
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After this I could login without a temporary profile..
I just learned of a new antivirus/malware cleanup CD/iso, with support for NTFS and more.
Trinity Rescue Kit can be obtained from here;
http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 or http://trinityhome.org/
It sounds like a cool CD with numerous cleanup utilities, definitely worth a visit. I for one is going to download a copy and check it out.
Do you have a temporary directory on your pc/server, you know one of those places where you put stuff to look at later but always forget to delete again? It is likely that your answer is yes, but the more important question ought to be how do I automate cleanup of this directory?
There are numerous ways to do this, but I’ll just give you one here – google the rest if you are not satisfied..
It’s actually not as hard as it sound, you need to download a utility called “forfiles.exe” (put it in c:\windows\system32 or similar) and then create a script much like this (here I presume the directory to cleanup is C:\tempdata);
rem Delete files on the server older than 14 days.
forfiles -p c:\tempdata-s -d -14 -c "cmd /c del /Q /F ""@FILE"""
or
rem Delete files older than 90 days
forfiles -p c:\tempdata-s -d -90 -c "cmd /c del /Q /F ""@FILE"""
And that is about it 🙂
Now this is cool although a bit pricey at around US$ 35.000, your very own drone helicopter with an attached digital camera, you can then take neat pictures from 50 meters altitude… maybe spy a bit on that neat blonde that lives next door when she is at the pool 😉 oh well we can all dream 🙂
An American firm is going its own way in combating the world’s CO2 crisis, not by building hybrid or electric cars but rather improving the existing combustion engine by as much as 33-50%. This is achieved by heating and optimizing the gas injection into the engine. Very interesting I would say. For more see here; http://www.tscombustion.com/index.html
Judging from this video you had better be on good terms with your girlfriend when playing PS3 🙂
Need to learn even more about IT security, well here is a few hints for you;
http://getmon.com
http://www.irongeek.com/security-podcasts.php
All very cool 🙂
We have all heard about the Wii, and some even of project Natal for the Xbox 360. But news to me was that Sony is rattling their sable in this scene also and preparing a motion controlled controller to theirPS3 (much like the Wii controller just light controlled instead). My friend René showed me this cool video clip where you can see what is installed for PS3 owners, it does look really cool indeed.
If you have ever worked with .MSI files you must have touched Microsoft’s utility ORCA. Well it proves there is an alternative to this with a few extra features Super ORCA, so if you ever mess with .MSI files you may want to give Super ORCA a spin at http://www.pantaray.com/msi_super_orca.html