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May 2009 - Helge Klein Helge Klein

  • Folder De-Localization with Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM)

    Windows user profiles prior to Vista / Server 2008 contain localized folder names. End users expect that, of course, but admins tend to hate it because automated management becomes much more difficult. How can this dilemma be resolved? End users only...
    Published May 27 2009 by Helge Klein , 966 views, 0 comments
  • File Copy Performance to USB Drive Oscillating Between Fast and Slow

    I just had the “pleasure” of having to copy the contents of a terabyte USB disk to another similar USB drive. At first, I did not give this simple task much thought. I plugged the USB cables in and made my faithful Total Commander do the work...
    Published May 26 2009 by Helge Klein , 1,293 views, 0 comments
  • Hard Links and Permissions / ACLs

    Commenter Lee asked how ACLs are evaluated when an object has multiple hard links. I replied with comments of my own, which turned out to be wrong after I did some experiments. Here is what I found out about hard link permissions and believe to be true...
    Published May 14 2009 by Helge Klein , 851 views, 0 comments
  • Cleaning up the Mess Left Behind by Multiple EFS Certificates

    In case you have (un?)wittingly been juggling around with multiple EFS certificates like me, you may feel a strong urge to clean up the mess. Which mess? It can happen quite easily that different files are encrypted with different keys. In addition to...
    Published May 13 2009 by Helge Klein , 860 views, 0 comments
  • Tales from the Crypt - EFS and the Upgrade to Windows 7 RC

    How can you mess up a simple OS upgrade by using encryption? Simple. Here is what happened to me when I upgraded my Windows 7 beta system to the RC version. Upgrade? I’ll do that in my Sleep, ha ha! As you may have read (here, here and here), I...
    Published May 12 2009 by Helge Klein , 881 views, 0 comments
  • How to Find and List Unsigned Executable Files

    Executable files can (and should be!) digitally signed. Without a digital signature you can never be sure the files on your hard disk have not been tampered with. There is really no exception to this rule, except maybe smaller open source projects that...
    Published May 04 2009 by Helge Klein , 811 views, 0 comments