Category: General Development
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ADMXComparer – Take Control of Administrative Template Changes from the Command Line
Group Policy Administrative Templates (ADMX/ADML) are constantly evolving. Every new Windows release, browser version, or feature update introduces changes—new settings, removed settings, or sometimes even a reorganization of templates. But answering simple questions like: …is surprisingly difficult with standard tools. This is exactly where ADMXComparer comes in. 🔎 What is ADMXComparer? ADMXComparer is a C#…
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UpdateWindows – Take Control of Windows Updates from the Command Line
Keeping Windows systems up to date is essential—but not always transparent or easy to automate. Which updates are installed? Which ones are missing? Which cumulative update (LCU) is actually active on a system? And what exact OS build is running on that machine? To solve these problems, I built UpdateWindows.exe — a lightweight .NET Framework…
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Understanding Windows Settings URIs and How to Use Them in Enterprise Environments
Windows provides a powerful and flexible management framework that enables organizations to configure, restrict, or simplify the Settings experience for their users. One of the key mechanisms behind this framework is the ms-settings: URI scheme — a consistent, internal navigation system that defines how each Settings page in Windows is accessed. If you have ever…
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StayAwake (Updated)
Good day everyone! Some time ago, I created myself a little tool to prevent my computer from going to sleep or standby. I worked with it the last couple of years but lately I thought about an option to disable the tool at a certain time, like “Keep my PC alive until 7 pm and…
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Stay awake!
From time to time it appears that I need to keep my PC running and prevent it from going to sleep. There are a couple of places where screen timeouts and standby/sleep options can be configured: Engery options, screen saver, system idle timeout, just to name the most common ones. To get rid of it…
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PCRDump
When running into Bitlocker recovery issues I always used the tools PCPTool (written by Stefan Thom) and Win7PCRv2 (actually I couldn’t figure out who coded this one) to dump the TPM PCR registers. On some devices with newer Win 10 builds (1709 onwards) the tools were throwing errors. PCPTool complained about a too small buffer…