Category: General Development

  • 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…

  • 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…