Posting again

Decided to start posting here in public again.

Topics I could fill in on, over the past year cover a lot of Windows configuration issues - especially security related ones. As to programming, the new .NET stuff of most interest is probably LINQ. But I have been doing more shell programming and will put up some notes about it.

Along the way I have found a lot of useful utilities...

Disk and File management utilites:
Bulk Rename (recommended by Scott Hanselman)
DU.EXE by SysInternals guys now at Microsoft
FolderSize - freeware by a curmudgeonly Brian Oraas at foldersize.sourceforge.net

Multiple great utilities by Nir Sofer @Nirsoft.net:
Particularly his terrifc RegScanner utility. I've never seen anything like it!
Boy does it run fast. And you can restrict searches in a multiplicity of ways.
There was a command line registry grep tool, but I've lost track of it.


And regarding security the standard Microsoft utilities...
CACLS.EXE, XCACLS.EXE, and especially SUBINACL.EXE.
I have had to become pretty familiar with these to keep running LUA.