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Windows – Pieces for Visual Code and browsers.

Pieces is a first-in-kind productivity suite that optimizes developer tools and eliminates the chaos of context switching. You can find it on this webpage. Will come with extensions for browsers and Visual Code.

Windows – ReactOS another Windows O.S.

ReactOS is a free and open-source operating system for amd64/i686 personal computers intended to be binary-compatible with computer programs and device drivers made for Windows Server 2003 and later versions of Windows., read more on Wikipedia. If you have old hardware then this is a good idea to use your Windows applications with ReactOS. The… Read More »

Programming with FASM – reading from file.

In the last article tutorial, I wrote about how to write a message to a text file named file.txt. Now, I will show you how to read that message. You must use the ReadFile function defined after fileapi.h, in WIN32AX.INC. The text is shown in modal dialog – has some limitations in terms of mode… Read More »

Windows – Process Hacker tool.

Process Hacker is a powerful free and open-source process viewer. There are two versions, 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64), and help users to see the Windows processes and comes with some features and plugins …

Programming with FASM – writing to file.

In this simple example, I will show how to write a file using the assembly programming language with FASM, known as flat assembler. You can use the FASM editor with the FASMW.EXE executable. Open this editor and use this commented source code:

;define format of exe file
format pe console 4.0
;include file WIN32AX
;http://flatassembler.net/docs.php?article=win32
include 'INCLUDE/WIN32AX.INC'
; define data for code
.data
 ;this will be the filename of file
 filename db 'file.txt',0
 ; this string will be write on the file
 buffer_text db 'This is a test by Catalin!'
 ; this is the size for WriteFile based on buffer_text
 buffer_size = $ - buffer_text
 ; define a space
 bytes_to_write dd ?
; the code for running
.code
 main:
 invoke  CreateFile,filename, GENERIC_WRITE, 0, 0, 4, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0
 ;https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-writefile
 invoke  WriteFile, eax, buffer_text, buffer_size, bytes_to_write, 0
 ;https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-exitprocess
 invoke  ExitProcess, 0
.end main

;define format of exe file

format pe console 4.0

;include file WIN32AX

;http://flatassembler.net/docs.php?article=win32

include 'INCLUDE/WIN32AX.INC'

; define data for code

.data

;this will be the filename of file

filename db 'file.txt',0

; this string will be write on the file

buffer_text db 'This is a test by Catalin!'

; this is the size for WriteFile based on buffer_text

buffer_size = $ - buffer_text

; define a space

bytes_to_write dd ?

; the code for running

.code

main:

invoke CreateFile,filename, GENERIC_WRITE, 0, 0, 4, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0

;https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-writefile

invoke WriteFile, eax, buffer_text, buffer_size, bytes_to_write, 0

;https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-exitprocess

invoke ExitProcess, 0

.end main

Each step is describe in the source code. Run and test with… Read More »

Windows – GodMode shortcut.

Windows let you create a shortcut with most windows maintenance features. Just create a new folder on your desktop and rename it with this:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

1	GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

This can be scary!

Windows – Qemu emulate Raspberry Pi ARM in Windows 10.

If you want to try the Raspberry Pi ARM operating system in Windows 10 then you need to install the Qemu free and open-source emulator. I used this version qemu-w32-setup-20220419 from the official webpage. After installation, you need to download in the same folder with the qemu installation this software kernel-qemu-4.4.34-jessie and the Rasberry Pi… Read More »

Windows – full screenshot with browser developer tool.

Every modern web browser includes a powerful suite of developer tools. Sometimes you want to take a screenshot of the entire document, the web page that can only be accessed in the Chrome browser or another browser that uses the web tool and you cannot use an online website or a chrome extension. You can… Read More »