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If you search the Internet how to change the password in Windows using command line you’ll easily find command like one below: DO NOT USE IT! It doesn’t change the password, it resets it. When you reset the password this way, all things encrypted with user password are no longer accessible (unless you have the … Continue reading Changing user password from command line in Windows
This is the eighth part of the Availability Anywhere series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Connecting to SSH tunnel automatically in Windows Imagine that you’d like to run an interactive application on some remote server. This application should have access to UI and … Continue reading Availability Anywhere Part 8 — Running interactive application on a remote server from shell
This is the third part of the Availability Anywhere series. For your convenience you can find other parts in the table of contents in Part 1 – Connecting to SSH tunnel automatically in Windows Today we will enable PowerShell Remoting in Windows. This sounds like a trivial task (you can google up an “easy” solution) … Continue reading Availability Anywhere Part 3 — How to enable PowerShell remoting in Windows
Today very simple trick to capture whole output from Powershell. Let’s see those files: 1.ps1 2.ps1 3.bat 4.vbs 5.exe 6.exe Let’s now run this with powershell: Okay, we have all STD OUT and STD ERR streams. Let’s now try redirecting this to file: File content: Okay, so standard output was redirected correctly but standard error … Continue reading Capturing all output in Powershell
One of the most irritating thing in Windows is no way to prevent an application from stealing focus. There are multiple questions on Stack Overflow regarding the issue, there are rumors that Microsoft wanted to do something but they cannot detect it reliably. There are workarounds like ForegroundLockTimeout but ultimately there is no good solution. … Continue reading Decreasing pain of stolen focus