Microsoft windows 7 comes with a wide range of system tools to support various user tasks and system tasks. Whenever these utilities are invoked by typing the corresponding executable in search box, a window popsup and an icon gets pinned to tray. Here is a brief summary of various tools and their uses :
1) sdclt.exe - Backup And Restore Files. If we type sdclt.exe in search box, Backup and restore window popsup
2) dxdiag.exe - DirectX diagnostic tool. Microsoft DirectX is a set of API to support various multimedia tasks. It is especially useful in game programming. OpenGL is the open source software which has same functionality as directX. OpenGL can be used with Linux and it is free. When dxdiag.exe (or) dxdiag is typed in search box, following window popsup. A violet X icon is pinned to tray automatically
3) cleanmgr.exe - Disk cleanup utility used to cleanup unwanted files
Windows 7 File Admin Privilege
I own a PC in which I’ve only one account. It is the default administrator account. I tried to perform some admin activity on files like C:WindowsSystem32Driversetchosts and c:Windowssystem32Driversetclmhhosts file. I wanted to configure certain IP’s and website addresses. I tried opening the file and I got the Access Denied message. Here are some interesting workarounds that I found to work in this case
1) Right click the hosts file. Clicked on properties tab. Click on Security tab.
2) Click on user account which needs permission. click Edit
3) This opens the security window. Change permissions. Click Apply. click OK
4) We’re finally done. We can now open the file using program we want
This is similar to Linux permissions where we change the permission using chmod +rwx command where r-read, w-write,x-execute respectively
Here is another method to do this
1) Click on start. Click on Accessories
2) Right Click on Notepad and open the file
3) Navigate to the etc file. Try opening it
This hack works on the fact that if an application executable is triggered as admin, we can run all the programs based on that application (notepad in our case) with admin privilege.
1) sdclt.exe - Backup And Restore Files. If we type sdclt.exe in search box, Backup and restore window popsup
2) dxdiag.exe - DirectX diagnostic tool. Microsoft DirectX is a set of API to support various multimedia tasks. It is especially useful in game programming. OpenGL is the open source software which has same functionality as directX. OpenGL can be used with Linux and it is free. When dxdiag.exe (or) dxdiag is typed in search box, following window popsup. A violet X icon is pinned to tray automatically
3) cleanmgr.exe - Disk cleanup utility used to cleanup unwanted files
Windows 7 File Admin Privilege
I own a PC in which I’ve only one account. It is the default administrator account. I tried to perform some admin activity on files like C:WindowsSystem32Driversetchosts and c:Windowssystem32Driversetclmhhosts file. I wanted to configure certain IP’s and website addresses. I tried opening the file and I got the Access Denied message. Here are some interesting workarounds that I found to work in this case
1) Right click the hosts file. Clicked on properties tab. Click on Security tab.
2) Click on user account which needs permission. click Edit
3) This opens the security window. Change permissions. Click Apply. click OK
4) We’re finally done. We can now open the file using program we want
This is similar to Linux permissions where we change the permission using chmod +rwx command where r-read, w-write,x-execute respectively
Here is another method to do this
1) Click on start. Click on Accessories
2) Right Click on Notepad and open the file
3) Navigate to the etc file. Try opening it
This hack works on the fact that if an application executable is triggered as admin, we can run all the programs based on that application (notepad in our case) with admin privilege.
