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 System/Disk Backup in Vista using command line script

Microsoft has implemented a really neat feature in Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate, allowing you to perform a full disk or even system …

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 Open a command prompt with system rights in Vista (and XP)

First of all, download psexec from the Microsoft website. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/psexec.mspx …

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 Run explorer window with administrator rights in Vista

Easy, don't you think ?  Right click explorer(.exe), choose "run as administrator" and you're set ?    Nope - …

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 Enable incoming icmp (ping) in Vista

By default, Vista has the Windows Firewall is turned on. This means that all incoming connections are being blocked. This may be a good …

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 Howto reset offline files in XP and Vista

Windows XP Method 1 1. In Folder Options, on the Offline Files tab, press CTRL+SHIFT, and then click Delete Files. The …

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Corelan Research is a long-running cybersecurity research project focused on exploit development, vulnerability research and Windows internals.   Since 2009, we have published deep technical tutorials covering topics such as stack-based exploitation, heap exploitation, shellcoding, reverse engineering and debugging. 
These tutorials have helped thousands of security researchers, penetration testers, exploit developers and exploit dev trainers learn how modern memory corruption vulnerabilities work.