If you import a self-signed certificate into the Trusted Root Certificate Authorities store you will not get certificate warnings for that certificate. Nice to know when you are working with servers that generate self-signed certificates.
Author Archives: Morgan Simonsen
Morgan’s list of great (free) applications and utilities
So I thought I would put together a list of the stuff I use. Mostly as sort of a memo to myself, but if anyone finds this useful, so much the better. Name Description Audacity Sound file editing Paint.NET Image editing HashCheck Checksum verification/creation MyDefrag Defragmentation VirtualDub Video edition Foxit Reader PDF Reader/PDF Ifilter 7-Zip …
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Morgan’s collection of Windows keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcut Does what Works on Notes Win+P Brings up the dual-monitor settings. Windows 7 Win+X Launches Windows Mobility Center Windows Vista, Windows 7 Win+L Locks computer Windows XP and above F2 Rename file/folder Windows In Windows Explorer More to come… Link to a KB article that lists a lot of shortcuts: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/126449
PGP
A PGP clone that works on Windows: GPG4Win Display GPG info: gpg.exe –version Importing your old PGP keys Open a DOS Window (run CMD.EXE) cd to the directory where your PGP keyrings (pubring.pkr & secring.skr) live. Import your PGP keys to GnuPG: gpg –import secring.skr gpg –import pubring.pkr You’ll need to go in and assign …
Getting WHOIS information on Windows
WHOIS is a query/response protocol that is widely used for querying databases in order to determine the registrant or assignee of Internet resources, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system number. Usually WHOIS queries are performed with a command line client and such a client is almost always a …
Playing with Windows XP Mode RTM
The Windows XP Mode Base VHD file (Windows XP Mode base.vhd) is stored in C:\Program Files\Windows XP Mode. The Differencing disk is stored, by default, in C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Virtual PC\Virtual Machines.
Dual postings
For several reasons I have decided to start publishing my blog posts to both my own, privately hosted, SharePoint Blog and my Windows Live Spaces account. This will be the first such post. The URLs of the blogs are: SharePoint Blog: www.simonsen.bz/blog Windows Live Spaces Blog: http://morgansimonsen.spaces.live.com/blog/
Some thoughts on Active Directory OU structure design
Over the years I have been involved in quite a few Active Directory deployments and restructures. On these projects much time is always spent, or should be spent, on designing the OU structure. The main thing about OU structure desing is to keep thing simple. Some organizations like to take the organizational chars and copy …
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Viewing the result of boot time chkdsk runs
Whenever chkdsk.exe runs during boot time it is often difficult to see the result before Windows reboots again (which is the default behavior). The whole of chkdsk’s output is saved in the Application log as an Information event, with source Winint and an event ID of 1001.
Not something you generally want to see…
“General failure”, that’s helpful. My on-board Atheros L1 Gigabit NIC sucks. There is really no other way to put it. Every Atheros chip, be it wireless or cable, I have had the misfortune to come across has been worthless. You should think that Ethernet and Wi-Fi should be pretty well understood concepts by now. Not …