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Tend to sometimes get the “Error Code 5: Access Is Denied“, or the “Requested operation requires elevation” when using command prompt in Vista.

There’s an easy way around this however!

Step 1:

Find Command Prompt in your start menu directory (Usually Start>>All Programs>> Accessories>>Command Prompt) and Right Click on it…

Step 2:

Click “Run as Administrator” in the menu. Command Prompt should open up normally, but when you try the same command again, it should work fine!

If you aren’t the Administrator for the computer (You don’t have Administrator rights), then you may have to enter the Administrator’s passwordfor this to be successful.

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Some people at the Security and Cryptography Lab at Switzerland’s EPFL have managed to capture the EMF (Electro-Magnetic Radiation) comming from wired computer keyboard. OK, we all know that if we used a wireless keyboard that any old FBI Agent - or hacker could easily catpure the signals being transmitted by the keyboard. But now they have figured out how to capture the pressed keys from a wired keyboard.

What next? They’ll be able to see what I’m doing on my screen too? It’s not that far fetched.

The tests were run in a fairly EMF free zone (There were no other devices around such as monitors, mobiles and other devices that give off strong electromagnetic waves), they were also, but the looks of it were using a unidirectional antenna (A “Tunnel Vision” antenna).

The expirement was tested on laptops with the embedded keyboards, and external USB/PS2 keyboards. They have so far managed to work out 4 different ways to grab our data fom a range of approximately 20 meters.

I believe this is just the start of this sort of technology. Hmmm… this gives me even more of a reason to live inside a faraday cage…

Below is a screenshot of the working software from the video:

Here’s a picture of one of the larger antenna’s used:

There are some videos on this site about this.

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Well, there’s no reason why you’d really want to do this, unless you were up to no good, or are a security engineer. But we don’t agree that knowledge is bad, we agree that the people that use it for wrong are the ones to blame =).

So if you will do bad or break the law by reading the following, then it is entirely your own fault! We take no blame.

Any way, what this exploit does is allow any user (Including the Guest account) to get logged on as the SYSTEM account. The SYSTEM account is above even administrator. Once in you can change passwords, see all files etc etc. The problem with this is that it only works on XP, it has been fixed for Vista.

All that you will need for this exploit is access to command prompt (Or really, to execute commands, which can be done easily), and access to the at command.

Now, for the record, I’m logged on as “Administrator” for this tutorial.

Step 1:

Click “Start” >> “Run“.

Step 2:

In the Run command Textbox, type “cmd” to bring up the Command Prompt window.

Step 3:

In the Command Prompt window type:

at time /interactive “cmd.exe”

Where time is the time plus one minute. So in my example the time is 4:16PM, I typed into the Command Prompt Window:

at 4:17PM /interactive “cmd.exe”

Since 4:17PM is one minute after 4:16PM.

If you get the error “Access is denied” then you’re out of luck. The network administrator has disabled the at command.

Step 4:

Close Command Prompt and wait…

…

When the time that you set has come, you will see another Command Prompt Window come up.

You will notice that the title is no longer “c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe” but instead “c:\windows\system32/svchost.exe“.

This is good!

If it hasn’t come up then go back to step 1.

Step 5:

Almost there, this is the fun bit!

Without closing the new Command Prompt window, press Ctrl+Alt+Del and bring up task manager.

In the processes tab you will see a process called “explorer.exe“. Right-Click that and select “End Process Tree” from the menu.

Everything should now dispear, including the start bar, everything! Except for one thing… The Command Prompt window.

Step 6:

Simply type “explorer.exe” into the Command Prompt window and press enter. The start bar, and everything else should return.

Step 7:

Once everything has come up, click on “Start“. You will notice something very awesome…

You are logged on as SYSTEM! You have full system rights too (To that local computer).

Enjoy!

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Have you ever forgotten the password to one of the accounts on your computer? You wish there was some way to get back into it to get back all your files and settings?

Well you’re in luck today!

Just follow these steps, and you’ll be back in in no time:

Step 1:

Click the start menu and open up “Run”, Vista users can just type “Run” into the search field.

This will open up command prompt.

Step 2:

To get a list of the users currently on your computer just type “net users” into the command prompt screen.

Or in my case:

Step 3:

From here you can change the password easily. Here’s an example:

net user administrator *
net user “John Doe” *

Or in my case:
net user “Slyke” *

You will be asked to enter in your password twice.

You won’t be able to see what you’re typing (Not even the password mask stars come up). So make sure you get it right, twice.

Step 4:

Here’s a screen shot of what it will look like if you’ve done everything correctly:

Step 5:

Logoff and then try to login with the account that you just changed the password for!

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So your the only user on your computer and you want to have the security of your own password, but you don’t want to have to wait for all your startup programs to launch when you first boot up. You wish there was just some way to have your computer startup, load all your programs, but be secure so that it does it all in the background of the login screen and you don’t have to wait for it.

Paying something like $50 for a program such as Tweak UI is just out of the question, wouldn’t you agree? Well, luckily for you, you can do this for free! Just follow the next couple of steps in this post and you will have your dream in no time.

Lets get started!

Step 1:

Go to your desktop and right-click any where that has no file, so that it brings up the default right-click menu.

Select “New” from the menu, then select “Shortcut“. “Shortcut” is located just under “Folder“.

Step 2:

Windows will now ask you to specify the location for the shortcut.

Copy and paste the following into the location. If you wish to type it, please note that it is cAsE SeNsItIvE.

%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

Make sure there are no trailing spaces at the beginning or end of the line.

Click “Next” to continue”

Step 3:

Change the default name for your shortcut from “rundll32.exe” to anything that you want. I called mine “Lock“.

Then click “Finish“.

Step 4:

Now double click on your newly created shortcut and it should lock your computer. It will not log you off.

Just type your password back in on the logon screen and you will see! If it comes up with an error, then delete the shortcut and go back to Step 3.

Step 5:

Right-click on your shortcut and select “Cut” from the menu.

Step 6:

Click on the start menu and then go to “All Programs“. Find a folder in there called “Startup“, right-click on it and select “Open“.

Step 7:

Now, right-click any where in the “Startup” folder and select paste. You will see your shortcut be placed in there.

Step 8:

Click on the “Start” menu and select “Run“.

Vista Users can type “Run” into the search field in the start menu if it isn’t present.

Step 9:

OK, so, if you’re using Windows XP you have to type “control userpasswords2” as the run command and click “OK”

Vista users do the same:

If the security window comes up in Vista, just click “Continue“.

Step 10:

You will see a window come up called “User Accounts“.

Uncheck the tick box that says “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer“.

Then click “Apply“.

You will be asked to enter in the password twice for your username.

Enter your password and click “OK“.

Click “OK” again on the user accounts screen.

Step 11:

That’s it! You’re done! If you want to test this, restart your computer. You will see it load up, then it will bypass the logon screen, loggin you on, then it will lock your computer still loading up all your startup programs!

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