I was reading about the iKAT tools; I came across their set of binaries that don’t obey GP. These are awesome and if you couple them with the base64 file encoding proxy I wrote a while ago. With this you should be able to get full cmd access on just about any environment where you have internet access. the tools included in the iKAT package are:
cmd.exe
command.com
control.exe
cscript.exe
explorer.exe
ipconfig.exe
osk.exe
rasphone.exe
regedit.exe
runonce.exe
sc.exe
taskman.exe
taskmgr.exe
wscript.exe
And the complete zip is mirrored here.
Tag Archives: Windows
My first impressions of windows 8 were somewhat exactly what I expected the install was great. I deleted my partitions and hit go. Went to sleep. Low and behold it was not waiting for me at some pesky config screen asking about my timezone. It was done I had to do a few house keeping configs like create accounts and put in the wifi settings but none of the hassle that xp and 7 installs had. Now I was installing this on an older machine a hp-210 netbook to be exact. It has a tiny dual core 1Ghz Intel atom and only a couple of gigs of RAM. Which is well within the system requirements for a 32bit OS. Wanting to try out this metro hooha I clicked on a metro app and was greeted by a message stating that my resolution was to low in face it was only about 178 pixels to low. I figured they all couldn’t be broken for something like a screen resolution but they were, all except the new faithful looking desktop app. So clicking the desktop app I have a task bar without the start button. I need a start button. It did however show me in a handy tooltip if I corner my mouse I get a settings dock. Finding me screen resolution settings I tried to up it so I could use the metro apps. But my screen only supports up to 600 pixels so just like every operating system I ever use it requires some hacking before it works like they say it does. I found the regKey “Display1_DownScalingSupported” after a bit of googling it’s a Boolean either 1 or 0 and setting it to 1 allows you to set your resolution beyond that of your screen with some funky downscaling majik but IMO it looks like crap on my 1024×600 screen but the metro apps now work. And after all this I still don’t like this new crazy interface.
GUIDs are the Globally unique Identifiers used by windows to install and identify software; they are used in the registry to ensure that keys used that piece of software are unique, a normal guid will look like this {XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX} but this guid is only one of the ways software will identify it’s self in the registry. You can also have a compressed GUID which you can get from a normal GUID by following this process
The first group of eight hexadecimal digits are placed in reverse order:
ABCDEFGH becomes HGFEDCBA
The same is done with the second group of four hexadecimal digits:
IJKL becomes LKJI
The same is done with the third group of four hexadecimal digits:
MNOP becomes PONM
In the fourth group of four hexadecimal digits, every two digits switch places:
1234 becomes 2143
In the last group of 12 hexadecimal digits, again every two digits switch places:
Lastly remove all {} ans -’s
python function to do this for you
compress_guid=(lambda guid:"".join(map(lambda x: x[::-1],guid[0:3])+map(lambda x:''.join([x[i:(i+2):][::-1]for i in range(0,len(x),2)]),guid[4:])))
compressed GUIDs occur in various places in the registry common ones being
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesInstallerProducts
and somewhere under
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT