Introducing RegExport: A Tool for Live Exporting Registry Keys and Entries to .reg Files
The idea for this new utility came to me when I misinterpreted a screenshot in a tweet that showed a .reg file side by side with a Registry…
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Two Way Group Policy Locator Tool
This article and the tool it introduces will likely be of interest only to Windows system administrators, IT security practitioners, and other members of the priesthood involved in…
Quickly customize your Citrix sessions dynamically with ICAceptor!
A recent Twitter thread by Trentent Tye of ControlUp, in which he describes temporarily renaming the Citrix Workspace app’s CDViewer.exe (the Connection Bar component) to gain the ability…
Sorting REG & INI files For Easy Comparison
Here is a great free sorting utility by Jacques Bensimon. Enjoy! A common task when troubleshooting Windows images and user profiles is comparing two exported Registry keys or…
Quick guide to understanding Windows Version Numbers
We refer to Windows versions using lots of different words and numbers, so after noticing a minor change in WinVer.exe’s display in the latest Windows 10 release, I…
Updated: Registry String Redirections / IPM Utility: Get@String 2.0
Back in 2011, Jacques Bensimon wrote this handy utility called Get@String. This utility is basically a decoder ring for those cryptic registry entries called Registry String Redirections. These…
Updated ‘This PC’ Namespace Item Creation Tool v1.5
Today, we have an update to the utility introduced in the previous article Creating ‘This PC’ Namespace Items. If you haven’t yet read it, it describes a Registry-based…
How to Create Volatile Registry Keys: New Utility!
Written by Jacques Bensimon While working on an upcoming post and the new utility it will introduce, I had the need to create volatile Registry keys. If you’re…
Citrix VDA Setup: What does “Create a master image” actually do?
Written by Jacques Bensimon: Ever wonder how selecting the below “Create a Master Image” option during VDA setup actually changes the installation? Well, I did wonder, and all…