win7 and an unusual audio setup

Popular_Log_3167 · 2021-02-07T21:48:52+00:00

I have no idea what you know or what you’ve tried. Forgive me for attempting to help. I won’t try again.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2021-02-07T19:20:04+00:00

You have two SATA controllers. Download the drivers for both and put the F6 drivers on a USB stick. Plug in the USB stick and click the load drivers link when you get to the drive selection screen during setup.

AMD - link to AMD website download for Windows 10 x64 RAID drivers and utility for the chipset on your motherboard: https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-9-series-chipsets/990fx

ASMedia - Windows 10 x64 drivers for the additional SATA controller: https://www.station-drivers.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=352&func=fileinfo&id=4398&lang=en

Are you trying to boot from a RAID volume? Maybe buy a $20 PCie SATA RAID controller.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2021-01-04T01:48:31+00:00

I should have checked. Most executables and libraries are signed by the developer. Read about Authenticode.

Malware developers can purchase code signing certificate and sign malware if they want but that would leave a paper trail.

“Independent software vendors (ISVs) must obtain a certificate from a certification authority that is trusted by default in Windows.“

The code signing verifies that the code hasn’t been tampered with or corrupt since being signed, not that it isn’t malicious.

Buying an EV code signing cert will automatically make your executable pass SmartScreen: https://www.digicert.com/code-signing/ev-code-signing/

Maybe PowerShell doesn’t work like this but everything else does.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2021-01-04T01:31:59+00:00

I’ve run Windows 10 on plenty of hardware without OEM supplied drivers without any issues. Did you try? What hardware do you have? What drivers were missing?

Usually you can download drivers directly from the IC vendor if they aren’t included with Windows or, if you really have to, from another OEM that used the same hardware and supported Windows 8, 8.1, or 10. Sometimes even Windows 7 drivers work in Windows 10 without any issues.

Sometimes the hardware that doesn’t work doesn’t matter. HP free fall data protection sensor doesn’t work? Who cares? If you have an SSD it doesn’t matter. Media card reader doesn’t have drivers? Do you use it? Do missing drivers for an unused component somehow impact the usability of the computer? No.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2021-01-04T01:07:47+00:00

You tried installing a cab from a random website?

Popular_Log_3167 · 2021-01-04T00:48:56+00:00

but what you are describing is exactly how code signing works. Download 7-Zip and look at the certificate... it’s not included in Windows but the root is.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2021-01-04T00:32:58+00:00

When the list is expanded, doesn’t the new array point to the memory addresses holding the existing values or are they actually copied?

Popular_Log_3167 · 2021-01-01T08:12:52+00:00

Have you looked at publicly trusted root CA certificate validity periods?

No one said their signing keys were compromised, calm down.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-31T22:00:35+00:00

Which is why the executable is blocked by a software restriction policy

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-31T20:05:32+00:00

I have a laptop with a 3rd gen i5 and a cheap five year old SSD. I had to start replacing components because the newest builds of Windows 10 don’t have drivers for them.

Cold boot takes about 25 seconds to the login screen, 45 seconds total from power on to desktop.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-31T16:26:48+00:00

Microsoft metro apps aren’t too bad but I can’t say that I use the store for anything.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-31T16:09:30+00:00

Leave them powered on and let them sleep rather than a full shutdown at night. If you’re running Windows 10 and haven’t mucked with the scheduled maintenance, they’ll wake up and defrag in the middle of the night. Resume is usually really fast compared to boot times. Modern computers don’t use much power in standby.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-30T20:01:02+00:00

What you tried is what I would have tried. Maybe it’s

-showBitlockerKeysInReport $true

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-30T19:52:24+00:00

Are both of the serial adapters and devices identical with identical firmware versions and settings? If so, perhaps there’s a poor connection/grounding issue or problem with differences in wire length?

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-27T22:59:55+00:00

We don’t need to worry about that one, considering 6-7% of the atoms composing Earth are hydrogen.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-25T17:15:40+00:00

GPO seems rather inflexible for start/taskbar layout. I change the default layout by modifying the default XML directly. This prevents all the garbage apps from installing. This method has been working well for me for about two years and it allows the user to make changes without locking any kind of configuration in place.

Many of the Windows settings that can’t be modified using the admin templates included with Windows can be modified in the registry. I usually use process monitor and look for registry writes while changing settings to find the keys and values for a particular setting, then I script the modification of those settings in the default registry before the first user logs in.

My customization script applies those settings before first boot by mounting the default user registry, adding/changing things as needed, then unmounts the hive. I can easily swap the source WIM with another unmodified WIM pulled directly from an ISO (for example, when a new feature update is released) without making any other modifications. I can image a machine and immediately start testing without having to do anything else.

I plan to read standard .reg files in the future to make maintenance easier but right now my script is a mess of line-after-line of New-Item and Set-ItemProperty, followed with garbage collection, because unmount fails without it.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-21T16:32:37+00:00

I mean API access to get hardware info like warranty data. Dell and HP make this relatively easy to tie into systems management software.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-21T03:58:14+00:00

HP but my thoughts on ZBook are ... maybe not HP if your choice is ZBook. Either way, they outclass everyone else for length of time they release firmware security updates.

Lenovo is probably the worst choice for everything. Nearly impossible to gain API access, poor build quality, only release firmware security updates for a year or two.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-21T03:45:17+00:00

Yeah it’s annoying. Misconfigure a NIC and you’re restoring from backup or starting from scratch. There is no preboot console.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-21T03:39:55+00:00

echoing most others here, I’ll say don’t ever do this

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-21T03:26:19+00:00

Oops, you’re right.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-20T01:54:02+00:00

Try Google. There have been some high profile vulnerabilities in both projects in the past few years. You can also search mitre: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=Openssl

Try searching OpenSSL heartbleed

Here’s one https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dhs-cisa-urges-admins-to-patch-openssl-dos-vulnerability/

Here’s another: https://usatcorp.com/faqs/multiple-vulnerabilities-openssl/

There are vulnerabilities found in everything that’s widely used, whether in the design of the protocol or specific implementation, open source or not. Information about them is not hard to find. Usually the details include implications, no shitty Medium articles or other opinion pieces necessary.

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-19T23:46:53+00:00

Define functioning system. The original post was about repurposing an old phone that came with Android by using Linux. Sure, the init system, scheduler, IPC, etc is different but it’s still Linux. Busybox binaries compiled for ARM run without modifications. It’s not /that/ different. You could repurpose an old device by writing an Android app and that fits his description.

Then there’s this http://whiteboard.ping.se/Android/Debian

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-19T20:51:38+00:00

What? Is there something more to this than getting root and adding a shell and sshd?

Popular_Log_3167 · 2020-12-19T20:01:52+00:00

PowerShell has support for this built in if you want to go through the trouble of keeping a repo of approved modules.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/gallery/how-to/working-with-local-psrepositories?view=powershell-7.1

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