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Using AppLocker on Windows 7 to lock down what applications can run.
Jan 14th
This is a Windows 7 only feature don’t be jealous…
Do you want to lock down what applications the kids can run on your shinny new Windows 7 computer? Well they have a little known feature built into the latest and greatest version of Windows. It takes a little know how to get it going but that is what we are here for – right?
First set up the machine in question with the applications you want on it. Install the versions you want to run. Then we will need to open up the Group Policy editor or Local Security Policy Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in.
- Click Start, type secpol.msc in the Search programs and files box, and then press ENTER.
- In the console tree, double-click Application Control Policies, and then double-click AppLocker.
- Right-click Executable Rules, and then click Create Default Rules.
- AppLocker rules are automatically created .
To get into AppLocker and more advanced setups check out this page from Microsoft entitled AppLocker step by step scenarios http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee791835%28WS.10%29.aspx.
Find out who is unfollowing you on Twitter.
Jan 12th
You ever have a conversation with someone, or perhaps stood in front of a group of people and in the middle of whatever you are talking about, someone gets up and walks out. It hurts a little, and is rather rude. Well, unfollowing people is sort of like that.
Granted, sometimes it is warranted. I mean, I have posted about tools to do mass unfollows to keeps your Twitter stream nice and fresh, but you don’t want people unfollowing you right? I mean, you are not a spam bot, so people should stick around to hear what you have to say right? Double standard much? That is besides the point.
Well, here are two tools that will snitch when someone unfollows you so you know who the jerks are:
- Goodbyebuddy: Goodbyebuddy will DM you when someone unfollows you. So far they claim to have busted over 2759413 unfollowers. To use this service, all you have to do is follow @GoodByeBuddy.
- Twitterless.com: Twitterless tells you who stops following you and graphs your follower history over time, making this info available in a variety of useful views. Once again, all you have to do is follow them to get started. @tless.
Know of any other Twitter tools to give you the goods on those walking out on you? Let us know in the comments!
[Via Bauer-Power.net]
Open Windows Control panels from the command line.
Jan 12th
So Johnny command line needs to be cool and open his computer management console or maybe just his services how can he do it?
Here you go little Johnny Command Line:
- Computer Management – compmgmt.msc
- Component Services – comexp.msc
- Disk Managment – diskmgmt.msc
- Device Manager – devmgmt.msc
- Disk Defrag – dfrg.msc
- Event Viewer – eventvwr.msc
- Group Policies – gpedit.msc
- Local Security Settings – secpol.msc
- Local Users and Groups – lusrmgr.msc
- Performance Monitor – perfmon.msc
- Resultant Set of Policies – rsop.msc
- Shared Folders – fsmgmt.msc
- Services – services.msc
And for the n00bs hit Start—Run—type anyone of these commands (include the .msc extension) and viola… Console Magic
Display the up time of a workstation or server.
Jan 6th
Do you ever need command line access to see how long a Windows Server has been up for? This morning I did. I needed to prove that a machine (Windows Server 2003) was up last night at 3 am when a critical process was going down. Someone flucked up and it sure wasn’t me! So…
Using one of my favorite command line commands NET I will show you quickly how to display your Windows up-time:
net statistics workstation
This will show you a similar screen to this:
The first line across the top shows when the machine was last rebooted along with some other geeky goodness. Do you have an easier/quicker/more obscure way of doing this?
_TheObscureAdmiN_
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