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Why do businesses send "do not reply" emails? This is so annoying. My Twitter account was hacked. It sure would be nice if I could let them know I did not change the email address.

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How to recover Ultravnc server password

HKLM\software\orl\winvnc3\default\password = 7fb09a95f8200ecb

Copy the encrypted password to a decoder like this one.

http://tools88.com/safe/vnc.php

Now I have the password and it works.

Quick script to backup Fortinet hardware on Windows.

bkup.bat

echo execute backup config ftp /fortiwifi-1 ftp.example.com  user pass >bkup.tmp

u:\putty 10.111.1.1 -l admin -pw admin-pass -m bkup.tmp

Repeat for next unit...

You need Putty and an ftp server. Now I type "bkup" and six devices are backed up in 30 seconds. I will make this a scheduled task later.

Explorer crashes with BEX64 when I create a shortcut in Citrix.

I need to create a shortcut to the local client C drive while inside Citrix. Every attempt results in this message.

This may be a bug in Citrix but here is my workaround.

J:\>echo explorer \\client\c$\Downloads > downloads.bat

Now I just double click on downloads.bat and it opens the client folder like a shortcut.

I tracked down a stolen laptop with LogMeIn Hamachi.

We install Hamachi and VNC on all of our laptops for remote support. A fairly new laptop was recently stolen. I started watching Hamachi and the laptop was online the next day. I don't know of a way to get the real IP address from Hamachi so I used VNC to watch the screen. The user just happened to be filling out a job application online so I saw the name, address, phone number... We passed the info along to the local PD, the laptop was returned and there was an arrest. Hamachi and VNC are great tools for business.

Note for next time:

I will use a screen recording app to make a video of the remote screen.

Adobe installers fail with a download timeout at 64%.

This has been an issue for a while. Windows XP, 7, and Windows server all fail to update. I did a some packet sniffing with no luck.

There is an option in my firewall to exempt a URL from monitoring. I have never had to do this but a couple of times in the past but it worked.

adobe.com - exempt

Now my firewalls no longer scan Adobe traffic for viruses and such but we can update Acrobat and Flash.

Moving virtual disks outside of vmware. The confusing flat files and descriptor files.

When using vSphere Datastore Browser, you will a see a large file like server1.vmdk. The file will be close to the size of the virtual machine. If you download the machine and move it to another vmware host, it will not work! There is a descriptor file that is hidden from the Datastore Browser.

This is my solution:

Enable SSH on the vmware host.

Use putty to connect to the host.

Find the location of the virtual machine.

cd /vmfs/volumes/my_datastore/server1

ls -l

Now I see two vmdk files.

server1.vmdk        (Small descriptor file. But this is the name of the large file earlier?)

server1-flat.vmdk  (Large flat file.)

mv server1.vmdk server1.temp

I renamed the descriptor file and now it is viewable in the Datastore Browser. Now I can download or backup my virtual machine. If you want to move to another host, rename the small file to the original name.

Note: There are other files you need to backup but they should work fine in the GUI.