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How can I quickly open Command Prompt (cmd) with elevated credentials in Windows Vista? As you’ve learned so far, Windows Vista has the built-in ability to automatically reduce the potential of security breeches in the system. It does that by automatically lower the administrative rights of users that are part of the local administrators group,…

If you format many floppy disks you know how tedious it is to get to the Format command. You have to first open either Windows Explorer or My Computer, then right-click on the floppy disk drive icon, and select the Format command from the shortcut menu. You can shorten this three-step procedure into a single…

You can also find the used IP Addresses on your network by use of GUI tools. There are many tools that can do that, but I prefer 2 nice, small and most important – free – tools: Net World Scanner Small, free and simple – this tool will list all IP addresses on a given…

Instead of manually pinging all IP addresses on your LAN you can use this nice command: Open Command Prompt and type: ​FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO ping -n 1 192.168.0.%i | FIND /i “Reply”>> c:ipaddresses.txt The “-n 1” is for only 1 ping packet to be sent to each computer. Change 192.168.0 to match…

The process of testing a remote server’s open or listening ports is called "Scanning". The Internet is full with various scanner and network suit programs, and many security related websites offer a lot of information about these programs, therefore I’ve decided to only write about a small number of my favorite programs, and only if…

If you want to see all the used and listening ports on a remote computer use the PORTQRY.EXE command, which is available on any Windows 2000, XP or Windows Server 2003 computer. PORTQRY.EXE reports the status of a TCP/IP port in one of the following three ways: Listening – A process is listening on the…

How can I quickly find MX Records for SMTP domains? MX is an acronym for Mail eXchange. MX is defined in RFC 1035. It specifies the name and relative preference of mail servers for the zone. MX is a DNS record used to define the host(s) willing to accept mail for a given domain. I.e….

You can also find the ports that are open on your computer by use of GUI tools. Here is a quick list of some of my favorites: Note: These tools will show you whatever ports are open or in use, but they are NOT scanning tools! If you want to have your computer scanned for…

Looking for a quick and relatively easy way to find local open ports? Read on as we walk you through the steps.

How can I quickly encrypt files by right clicking them? Regularly, to encrypt a file or folder with EFS, you’d need to go to the properties of the file or folder and click on the Advanced button, as seen in the following article: What’s EFS? You can tweak Explorer to have a new right-click add-on…