Turn-Off Vista Search-Indexer

Blog post at ‘MyDigital-Life’ (Might be useful if you need to turn off Vista Search-Index feature)

Windows Vista starts to crawl and index files on hard disks right after installed with a low priority background process. If you notice that your hard drive activity LED light is constantly flashing even if computer is idle, this is probably due to indexer at work.

Remote Desktop Connection Software Download

DOWNLOAD – msrdpcli.exe [Size = 3.4 MB]

This software package will install the client portion of Remote Desktop on any of the following operating systems: Windows 95, Windows 98 and 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000. (This is the same version of the client software as in Windows XP Service Pack 1.) When run, this software allows older Windows platforms to remotely connect to a computer running Windows XP Professional with Remote Desktop enabled.

This package provides flexible deployment options of the full Terminal Services Client, including auto-repair through Windows Installer technology and application publishing via IntelliMirror™ management technologies or Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS).

Remote Exploit – Penatration TOOLs

THIS – DESCRIPTION FROM HERE
BackTrack is the most top rated linux live distribution focused on penetration testing. With no installation whatsoever, the analysis platform is started directly from the CD-Rom and is fully accessible within minutes.

It’s evolved from the merge of the two wide spread distributions – Whax and Auditor Security Collection. By joining forces and replacing these distributions, BackTrack has gained massive popularity and was voted in 2006 as the #1 Security Live Distribution by insecure.org. Security professionals as well as new-comers are using BackTrack as their favorite toolset all over the globe.

Download BackTrack from HERE

There is an alternative in the form of a vmware applicance HERE (BT3 658MB dl)

AND; There is a vm BackTrack BETA Ver4 HERE (About 1100 MB dl)

RDP

Windows XP Remote Desktop Connection software

Instructions – Getting Started from the Micro$oft website

Remote Desktop in Windows XP Professional provides remote access to the desktop of your computer running Windows XP Professional, from a computer at another location. Using Remote Desktop you can, for example, connect to your office computer from home and access all your applications, files, and network resources as though you were in front of your computer at the office.

Download the Client Software HERE!

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for older systems, Windows 95, Windows 98 and 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000. (This is the same version of the client software as in Windows XP Service Pack 1.) When run, this software allows older Windows platforms to remotely connect to a computer running Windows XP Professional with Remote Desktop enabled.

OTHER NOTES:

Here is an interesting looking alternative, and the paragraph introduction is pasted below, (I might follow this up later on).

Overview
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop.

Supported servers include Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows NT Server 4.0. rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward.

Network Infrastructure

Network Infrastructure:
Enumerate Domain Info Here; http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx

London Internet Exchange – Linx.net

LINX Aggregated Traffic Statistics

This page shows the aggregated traffic that flows across all LINX switches and sites, together with what is probably an underestimate of the additional traffic that flows bilaterally between members across the LINX private interconnect (PI) service. The current figure shown is an aggregate of that provided to us by members during 2007.

WINDOWS SYSTEMS AND NETWORK ADMINISTRATION
Free Windows security tools every admin must have
By Kevin Beaver, CISSP

M$ Deployment

Just a quick note to myself to RE-Visit this  -  Vista / Windows-7 / Server / Technet / Deployment site again soon.  (The video provides a nice introduction, and overview for image deployment).

Spammy _ URLs

OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES;

DEFINITION: (Spammy Types of URLs – Is an ongoing topic that is rather large in itself – AND beyond the scope of this little comment, sorry to anyone that might be offended by this, but once again, I dont have time to Translate Chinese, or Read, or investigate possible intruders onto my blog, BUT; I will make exceptions to this ‘rule’, if anything unfriendly starts appearing ANYWHERE)

EXAMPLES; (Of spammy type of urls found so far – munged and pasted below)
http -:- // – www -.- elcohkg.com/
http -:- // – www -.- elcojp.com/
http -:- // – www -.- findonblogs.com/
http -:- // – www -.- elcoes.com/

TESTING:  (Internal Link to GRD – Blog – Comments + SpammyURLs)

I have to create a new category for this topic – This is a topic to be expanded upon – AFTER completing some other ‘major – projects’.

Pre-boot service partition

www-370.ibm (Model-R61)
How to use the pre-boot service partition to recover your software

The following article describes the functions and usage of the software recovery mechanism contained on your hard drive:

Note: The service partition can be accessed by pressing the Access ThinkPad or Access IBM button during startup.

* ThinkPad G40, G41
* ThinkPad R40, R40e, R50, R50e, R50p, R51, R51e, R52, R60, R60e, R61
* ThinkPad T20, T21, T22, T23, T30, T40, T40p, T41, T41p, T42, T42p, T43, T43p, T60, T60p, T61
* ThinkPad X30, X31, X32, X40, X41, X41 Tablet, X60, X60s, X60 Tablet
Note: The instructions stated below will not apply for these ThinkPad systems.

THIS-SECTION and URL; (Might be useful)

Lenovo Hard Drive Quick Test is a diagnostic tool that tests the hard drives in Lenovo ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, ThinkStation and Lenovo 3000 computers running Windows XP or Vista released after January 2004.

AND; Troubleshooting by topic – Desktops

Network Diagramming Tool

Network diagramming tool Visio-2007

Interested in seeing the cost of visio-2007? – click-here (Opens in a New-Window), and then on ‘South-Pacific’ (If you want the price in AUD, Australian dollars $) -

AFTER; (entering details and email) – Ended up at Data3 This site FAILs in basic navigation – I can not find what I am looking for and have given up at this point in time.  (There are easier ways to get a price on Visio-2007) – This has been more an exercise in exploring Data3 – Smoke & Mirrors – VERY Flashy ‘Corparate’ Website. (It has lots of eye-candy, and maybe I have missed something), ..

Freeware

Great Freeware and Commercial Software from 2BrightSparks

The Blurb / Advert for the software that I currently need to download. This software is very GOOD, but it can be used in a manner that can cause problems if the user is NOT careful in setting up HOW to sync files.

SyncBack Freeware V3.2.19.0 [1.77 MB] | DOWNLOAD |
SyncBack is our freeware program that helps you easily backup and synchronize your files to: the same drive; a different drive or medium (CDRW, CompactFlash, etc); an FTP server; Network; or a Zip archive.