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Windows 8 OS

PowerShell tips – part 024.

You can access the certificate store using MMC or using CertMgr.msc command. This will show you all certificates in the Local Machines Personal Store:

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PS C:\Users\catafest> Get-ChildItem -path cert:\LocalMachine\My

This will show info about one certificate result on the first PowerShell command:

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PS C:\Users\catafest> Get-ChildItem Cert:\LocalMachine\My\XXX | Select @{N='StartDate';E={$_.NotBefore}},
>>    @{N='EndDate';E={$_.NotAfter}},
>>    @{N='DaysRemaining';E={($_.NotAfter - (Get-Date)).Days}}
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StartDate                  EndDate                                DaysRemaining
---------                  -------                                -------------
6/2/2019 8:17:27 AM        6/2/2022 8:17:27 AM                              -24

Also, you can test many PowerShell commands about certificates, like:

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PS C:\Users\catafest> Get-PSDrive cert | ft -AutoSize
PS C:\Users\catafest> Get-ChildItem Cert:\LocalMachine\Root\ | where{$_.Friendly
Name -eq 'DigiCert'}
...

For the remote servers, we… Read More »

Windows – Windows 8.1 activation settings commands.

Use these commands with administrator privileges. I’m using a licensed Windows 8.1 purchased with my old laptop, and I found these commands useful for information about activation settings:

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C:\Windows\system32>slmgr.vbs /dli
 
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr.vbs /dlv
 
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr.vbs /rilc

The last command show all licenses for your Windows.

Windows – fix with SFC using the Windows recovery media.

Most users know how to use the SFC command and in this tutorial, I will show you how to fix it with Windows recovery media. The Windows recovery media can be downloaded from the Windows official website, see the Window 10 download. The System File Checker known as the SFC command can be used on… Read More »

Security – PVS‑Studio.

The development team comes with this intro: PVS‑Studio is a static analyzer on guard of code quality, security known ad SAST, and code safety. PVS‑Studio detects various errors – typos, dead code, and potential vulnerabilities (Static Application Security Testing, SAST). The analyzer matches warnings to the Common Weakness Enumeration, SEI CERT Coding Standards, and supports… Read More »

Programming with FASM – ComboBox Control – part 002.

In the last FASM tutorial I add a simple ComboBox without items. In this tutorial I will add two items and one button to show the output of selected ComboBox. The source code is similar with the source code from the last tutorial. I commented the source code rows for a good image of development… Read More »

C# – First steps with C# and .NET – part 006 .

Today, I wrote this article – tutorial because I read much about C# programming and I tested myself the position of freelancer into the area of programming. In my opinion, a good programmer is a freelancer with skills in the management of information and knowledge in the areas of technologies. According to the definitions and… Read More »

Windows – Intro into windows platform and Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

Today I start learning UWP named Universal Windows Platform and this is the subject of this short intro tutorial. In the past, I used the old Windows Forms and the new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) has a very similar operation to build the forms. About the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a UI framework that… Read More »