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A quick and dirty tip if you need to keep a Windows workstation or server console unlocked. This can be required for several purposes, good or bad. In my case, I’m working on a workstation to access network resources. I don’t have a login and cannot know the local password. Every time the screen gets [...]

I just read a blog post whick talks about a very nice small tool: WhyReboot?. Helas for us, often when we install a new application on a Windows system, the last message is: “To complete the installation, Windows must be rebooted“. In fact, it’s not the OS itself which requires this operation but the installation [...]

Now that I’ve a fully encrypted disk… Let’s stress it! Just after the encryption process, I started Windows Update and installed 22 (!) patches. This operation generated lot of I/O. The system speed was “normal” (well, slow but normal for a P3 system). No big issue! No software complaint. It’s fully transparent. After the performance [...]

623MB of patches? WTF!

The saga continues with my whole disk encryption test! I faced the problem described here: Soft errors on my drive which prevented TrueCrypt to perform its job correctly. In the forum, somebody used UCDB4WIN and successfully encrypted its disk. I used the same toolbox. It scanned my disk, found a bad soft sector and was [...]