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Useful Software

Belvedere Automates Your Self-Cleaning PC

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http://lifehacker.com/#!341950/belvedere-automates-your-self+cleaning-pc

Windows only: Keep your desktop or any other folder on your hard drive organized and under control with Belvedere, an automated Windows file management tool. Use Belvedere’s friendly interface to create advanced rules to move, copy, delete, rename, or open files based on their name, extension, size, creation date, and more.

Belvedere Automated File Manager

Chaos MD5

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Chaos MD5 is a free MD5 generator for Windows. Input any file into this free program and it will generate a MD5 checksum for that file. That simply means it generates an unique signature for each and every file.

Chaos MD5 does not require installation, simply copy it to the hard drive or USB device to run. The MD5 checksum that is generated can be used for file identification or integrity checks.

http://www.elgorithms.com/downloads/chaosmd5.php

NewSID v4.10

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As Mark Russinovich decided to retire this. Here it still is. I don’t totally agree with the retirement. We, even after using MDT for deployment, would still, rarely run into some weird network issues with a machine. Putting it down to possible SID issues, running NewSID would fix it.

NewSID v4.10

HASH starting with 07FA is for the zip file
MD5 Hash 07FA425D722FD5E63BFE6B1BAC26EC5B

HASH starting with 73E7 is for the newsid.exe file
MD5 Hash 73E708D1126E7AF86A4EF820C24D80E4

 

MD5 Hash created with Chaos MD5

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897418.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx

UPDATE: Should point out I’ve never used MD5 HASHes before so prob cocked that up, not sure. But file is clean, do a scan to check.

UPDATE 2: Thanks to Joe for pointing out the HASH above was off.  But I realise now the HASH I originally stated (which will state in the comment) is for the zip file.  To show it hadn’t been tampered with since downloading it ages ago from Microsoft when it was still available.  I’m going to add a HASH for the .exe as well.

Kon-Boot-To login to local admin in Windows when forgotten password

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http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/

About Kon-Boot
Kon-Boot is an prototype piece of software which allows to change contents of a linux kernel (and now Windows kernel also!!!) on the fly (while booting). In the current compilation state it allows to log into a linux system as ‘root’ user without typing the correct password or to elevate privileges from current user to root. For Windows systems it allows to enter any password protected profile without any knowledge of the password. It was acctually started as silly project of mine, which was born from my never-ending memory problems 🙂 Secondly it was mainly created for Ubuntu, later i have made few add-ons to cover some other linux distributions. Finally, please consider this is my first linux project so far 🙂 Entire Kon-Boot was written in pure x86 assembly, using old grandpa-geezer TASM 4.0.

Additional notes:

* Kon-Boot was designed to work on X86-32 architectures only.
* This utility was not designed to work with USB sticks, however you can try some unofficial methods to boot Kon-Boot from USB, check the USB tutorial on IronGeek or Raymond blog post.

Kon-Boot was presented on numerous places, it was featured in: Hak5 Episode-518, PaulDotCom Security Weekly Episode-158, WindowsITPro and others. Till the 13-07-2009 it was downloaded about 170.000 times.