Whenever I have a chance I use my time diving into Windows internal binaries to uncover hidden functionality. This blogpost is dedicated to things I have discovered with the CMSTP.exe binary file. I found a UAC Bypass using sendkeys and a way to load DLL files from a Webdav server. I know the bypass I […]
I must say that NIC 2017 was an awesome event and I meet a lot of great people. Thanks to all the people working for NIC that made this such a great event. During my presentation, I did not get enough time to show all the things I wanted to (damn you demo gods), and […]
I received a lot of positive feedback on my previous post on accessing the clipboard from the lock screen using the wireless password field. https://msitpros.com/?p=3746 Just out of curiosity I tried other combinations on doing the same thing, and I found out another cool trick to do the same using the Narrator feature in Windows. […]
I discovered something interesting that I wanted to be shared with the rest of the world. Before you read any further, I want you to know that I did send an email to MSRC (Microsoft Security Response Center) about this. The answer I got was this: <quote>«In general, MSRC does not consider issues that require […]
In the spirit of sharing I thought I would share how I create virtual machines on Windows 10 using Hyper-v using differencing disks. I work with a lot of different customers and needed a way to quickly create new VM’s ready to go. A normal approach would be to have a deployment solution (MDT) running […]
A quick post about a little detail I noticed here the other day. I don’t know if you have noticed it, but there is a little difference on the file system in the RTM version of Windows 10 and the 1511 version. If you download both ISOs from Microsoft (RTM and 1511) and mount them […]
What a week, last week. Last week I experienced one of the strangest problems I have ever encountered and I ended up using Microsoft Premier Support. I have worked day and night for the past week so forgive me if I forget to mention something I tried during that week. Let me take you through […]
Just a quick and friendly tip. Often when I re-install my computer and I want to enable BitLocker, I want to save the recovery key temporarily to my C: drive. If you try to save to the desktop for example, Windows will complain and give you the following error message: This location can’t be used. […]
Hi folks. Got the following error when trying to run Sysprep in a Windows 10 installation. Sysprep was not able to validate Your Windows installation. Review the log file at %WINDIR%\System32\Sysprep\Panther\setupact.log for details. After resolving the issue, use Sysprep to validate your installation again. Investigating the log file mentioned shows the following. SYSPRP Failed to […]
If you try to run the command «wusa.exe c:\temp\file.cab /extract:c:\temp2\» you will in Windows 10 get this error: The reason Microsoft has removed this option is because of a security issue with the extract option. The reason I found out that this was removed was because I was trying to bypass UAC on Windows 10. […]