Some Notes on the Machines

A good bit of time can be saved using this procedure:

1. Collect the SysInspector log using these instructions
2. Collect the installation error logs using these instructions
3. Attach them both to the ticket you will create at this location.
   Select Customer Care – Business Support, Installing/activating an endpoint product, I am trying to install ESET endpoint antivirus or ESET endpoint security.

The above provided by the excellent Jared Dexter.

1. Run the MSI (at this writing, eea_nt64_enu.msi) directly.
2. Once the GUI populates, it will list any conflicts detected, address accordingly.
3. After install completes, open ESET. Navigate to Setup, and choose “Import and export settings…”
4. Import the XML provided by the server.

The above provided by the excellent Jared Dexter.

We start with ddrescue:

http://www.technibble.com/guide-using-ddrescue-recover-data/

and go to testdisk:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

And then there’s safecopy, photorec, mhdd, whdd, and scrounge-ntfs.

Here’s Flash Player:

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html

and here’s Reader:

http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/

The tool required below, subinacl, is not supported under Windows 7. The “Windows Repair (All in One)” from Tweaking.com:

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/windows_repair_all_in_one.html

does either most or all of the job of the below. But the tool is still available and reportedly works:

http://www.petri.co.il/subinacl-download-deployment.htm

Original text of this article is below.

Sometimes, due to all sorts of different causes, registry entries and system files acquire problematical permissions, wherein they cannot be changed, added-to, deleted, or read deleted by anyone, including either Administrator or System. Sometimes this can result in random bits of Windows denying permissions to administrators and others. In these cases, you need to get this:

SubInAcl

This is said to be part of the Windows Resource Kit for Windows 2003, but I have found that if I install the whole 2003 reskit, it doesn’t work. Once you have installed the above, run the following commands from its install folder, or copy/paste them into a batch file and run it.  There is no interaction involved, they just run.  It can take an hour or more, but the results can be very good.

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f >> %temp%\subinacl_output.txt
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f >> %temp%\subinacl_output.txt
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f >> %temp%\subinacl_output.txt
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_USERS /grant=system=f >> %temp%\subinacl_output.txt
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG /grant=system=f >> %temp%\subinacl_output.txt

subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f >> %temp%\subinacl_output.txt  
subinacl /subdirectories %programfiles% /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f /grant=users=e >> %temp%\subinacl_output.txt
subinacl /subdirectories %windir% /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f /grant=users=e >> %temp%\subinacl_output.txt

Use the following as a script wrapper:

#!/bin/bash
ssh -Y -C -c blowfish $1

It turns compression on, and also sets up Blowfish encryption which is much more responsive than the default.

“Autoruns”:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

is the most complete of all.

Try the registry merge here:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/197908-power-plan-specify-default-all-users.html

The one under the caption “To Allow Users to be able to Specify Their Own Power Plan”. Tried lots and lots of things, this worked. Its contents are below. After the merge you may have to log off and on or even reboot, before the fix will be operational.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings]
"ActivePowerScheme"=-

It has to be installed:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969708/en-us

Excellent instructions here:

http://www.itquibbles.com/sql-sbsmonitoring-high-disk-usage/

What is needed, in sum, is to rebuild the SBSMonitoring database.