Category: General Development
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HWSecret – A high secure password manager with no backdoor
A password manager that lives on my own machine, in my own file, behind my own master password — with no cloud, no account, no telemetry, and, most importantly, no back door. It sits quietly in the system tray, fills login forms in Edge from a keystroke, keeps secure notes blurred until I ask for them,…
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GimmeNote – A tiny Outlook add-in that lets you pin a note to any mail
A tiny Outlook add-in that lets you pin a note to any mail, conversation, or appointment — kept as a real file on disk, opened in the editor you choose, and flagged with a colored category so you can spot at a glance which items carry a note. Why I Built This My inbox is my memory,…
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HWPad – A fast, modern little text and HTML editor for Windows
A fast, modern little editor for Windows — with a clean rounded window, a proper settings dialog, and everything remembered between sessions. It happily handles a throwaway plain-text snippet and a genuinely formatted note, and it now does the formatting the way the web does: as real, WYSIWYG HTML. Think of it as the notepad…
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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…