Monthly Archives: January 2022

Case of the Windows 11 SystemSettings.exe Crash

Collecting user mode dumps with dumptype set to 2 via Windows Error Reporting registry configuration as documented here Noticed two SystemSettings.exe crashes, both with similar stack traces. The following information was logged in the Windows application event log: Normally some … Continue reading

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Generate New Password Hash for VB6 App with WinDbg

Application logon details for an application had been lost. Some quick investigation could see the credentials were stored in a SQL database with an 8 byte salt and 8 byte hash converted into XML. Tried to guess a few potential … Continue reading

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Block Game in PowerShell Console with ANSII Escape Sequences

Here is a simple game that runs entirely in the PowerShell console and uses ANSII escape sequences for graphics. Available on github here https://github.com/chentiangemalc/PowerShellScripts/blob/master/BlockGame.ps1

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