If you need to know what sub domains a domain has and where these subdomains point to then the Bellicus Sub-domain Discovery feature can be useful for a quick anwser. Useful in situations where you dont know the domains and may not have access to the domain registars portal. After downloading the latest version from www.bellicus.co.uk launch the program, head to the Domain Information section, choose the Sub-domain Discovery tab and start scanning the domain in question as shown below. A list of … Continue reading →

The Computer Browser service starts then stops, this may happen in Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7! A quick summart of Computer Browser service – The service maintains a list of the domain/workgroup name the computer is in, and the protocol being used for each computer on the network segment being served by the computer running the browser service. A master browser is elected from the group. The master browser is responsible for collecting host or server announcements, which … Continue reading →

Logon Logoff Event Reader is a small and very basic utility I have wrote which reads the Windows Security hive and lists the logon and logoff events. These can be filtered both by user and within a timeframe, and then saved to a CSV file. Before running the program note Microsoft .NET 3.5 framework is required. The original need for this program was for use with a Terminal Server, however it will run on most flavours of the Windows operating system, … Continue reading →

Like me, you may have run into the problem that when you go to Start > Run and type in “cmd”, you are getting prompted with an “Open With” dialog which is asking what program you would like to open cmd with. This problem can occur when there is another file named CMD on your system, typically in your profile folder. To help locate the rouge file causing the issue you can run the following command in the Run dialog … Continue reading →

Ever get stuck with the screen below? Where you want to install a printer but can’t find the driver .inf only an executable bundled with various vendor software you don’t want installing or perhaps the bundled software won’t detect your printer so you need to enter these manually. Not a problem. Like a .zip file an .exe is a compressed file containing several other files and whats more we can open an executable, with a program such as 7-zip, to … Continue reading →