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What is ophcrack? Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms. Features: » Runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, ... » Cracks LM and NTLM hashes. » Free tables available for Windows XP and Vista/7. » Brute-force module for simple passwords. » Audit mode and CSV export. » Real-time graphs to analyze the passwords. » LiveCD available to simplify the cracking. » Dumps and loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition. » Free and open source software (GPL). http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/  

Finding All Hosts On the LAN From Linux / Windows Workstation Linux: @ Root Prompt type: for ip in $(seq 1 254); do ping -c 1 192.168.1.$ip>/dev/null; [ $? -eq 0 ] && echo "192.168.1.$ip UP" || : ; done Output: 192.168.1.1 UP 192.168.1.1 UP 192.168.1.2 UP 192.168.1.5 UP ...... ... .. 192.168.1.254 UP Windows:   c:> for /L %I in (1,1,254) DO ping -w 30 -n1 192.168.1.%I | find "Reply" or FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO ping --a --n 1 10.0.1.%i | FIND /I "Reply">> c:\lanipaddresses.txt    

************** For Windows: ************** netsh wlan show networks mode=ssid and netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid ************* For Linux: ************* To display WiFi signal strength in the terminal, you can run this command: watch -n 1 "awk 'NR==3 {print \"WiFi Signal Strength = \" \$3 \"00 \"}''' /proc/net/wireless" watch -n 1 cat /proc/net/wireless iwconfig "Interface-Name-Here"          example:         iwconfig wlan0         or         iwconfig wlan1         or         watch -n 1 iwconfig wlan1    [for continuos observation of the link] Wifi Signal Strength(Link Quality) in Percentage: while [ 1 ];do clear;echo "WiFi Signal Strength (Link Quality)";a=$(/sbin/iwconfig wlan1 | grep "Link Quality" | awk '{print $2}' ...

Turn On your PC Press F8 repeatedly and go to Safe Mode Logon as per normal (note: Administrator password is usually blank, but hopefully you know your password) Allow the Desktop to fully load (answering "Yes" to continue into Safe Mode) (note: This is just a long way of saying go to Safe Mode) Click on Start - Run Type in exactly: rundll32.exe syssetup,SetupOobeBnk (and click OK) (note: one space, after "rundll32.exe " also the Oo are two letter o's in "oobe"; capitals and comma are important) Wait a couple of seconds (although you will Not see any change) Restart your PC normally (Start - Shutdown - Restart - Ok) You are now able to go to Normal Mode again (For another 30 days !!!) Do whatever you like, you're back to Normal.

Download Win-XP Mode for Windows 7 directly from Microsoft website. No Windows Validation required: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/2/C/72C7BAB7-2F32-4530-878A-292C20E1845A/WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe Next Step: Download Windows Virtual PC : http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/5/5/0554AE99-785F-45CB-B1F2-0E3ED1E6117D/Windows6.1-KB958559-x64-RefreshPkg.msu  

If your computer is having Win XP installed and its "Network Share" is unable to open in any other computer in your network, then: 1- Start Button > Administrative Tools > Services > locate "Network DDE" and ensure that Start Up Type is "Automatic". If it's shown as "Disabled", right click the "Network DDE" entry and use the Properties Tab to set it to "Automatic". 2- Then do the same for the "Network DDE DSDM" service. 3- Start both Services. 4- Restart computer.

1: VirtualLab Data Recovery VirtualLab Data Recovery ( Figure A ), which sells for £25, is designed to be an all-purpose data recovery utility. Besides supporting the ual FAT, FAT-32, and NTFS file systems, it supports Mac HFS / HFS+ and even NFS. In addition, it supports data recovery on devices such as USB flash drives and camera memory cards. In my opinion, its most useful feature is the ability to make a sector-by-sector copy of a failing hard drive. This allows you to focus on the recovery process without having to worry about the hard drive degrading further or failing completely in the middle of your recovery efforts. Figure A VirtualLab Data Recovery 2: File Scavenger - Data Recovery Utility File Scavenger - Data Recovery Utility ( Figure B ) is another tool for recovering lost data. Like most disk repair utilities, File Scavenger (which sells for £32) can retrieve data from corrupt volumes. However, the tool’s main emphasis is on recovering dat...

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/tour/overview/ Unlimited Possibilities Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment. Always up. Always on. Windows Azure delivers a 99.95% monthly SLA and enables you to build and run highly available applications without focusing on the infrastructure. It provides automatic OS and service patching, built in network load balancing and resiliency to hardware failure. It supports a deployment model that enables you to upgrade your application without downtime. Open Windows Azure enables you to use any language, framework, or tool to build applications. Features and services are exposed using open REST protocols. The Windows Azure client libra...