I ett gammalt inlägg skrev jag hur man kommer åt linux partitioner från windows. (http://jorgen.bertholdsson.com/2007/10/15/mounta-en-ext3-disk-under-windows) Det fungerar lysande under äldre windows versioner men nu när windows 7 har landat så verkar det vara lite krångligare. Efter lite googlingar och klurande så har jag kommit fram till detta, rätta mig gärna om jag har fel då jag inte själv har en windows 7 att testa med.

Se till att köra programmet under kompabilitetsläge, det verkar hjälpa.

I’m using Windows 7, and I wasn’t able to run FS-driver because the program gave me an error about compatibility. I emailed the author and he told me (within a few hours) that people should run the program in compatibility mode for Windows Vista. Sounds like this would be a good way.

I had already done it another way by the time he’d emailed me. What I did was use ext2-fsd, and seems to have worked fine. The only problem I had was that I got the dreaded BSoD on the first reboot — but only once. Rebooted a few more times with no blue screen.

Confirm ext2-fsd to work somewhat with Win7.

Fungerar inte längre, din Windows XP Home kommer att säga till dig att du försöker manupulera systemet och därmed bryta mot licensavtalet.

Hittade även ett fel, där det står where ControlSet00X is the one with the highest number så ska det egentligen stå where ControlSet00X is CurrentControlSet.

Om du behöver köra Remote Desktop på din XP Home maskin så går inte det.

Jag upptäckte det och började googla, dom flesta träffar pekade till en sida som låg hos www.mydigitallife.info… den sidan svarar inte så här kommer deras guide som jag hittade cachad:

After installing Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional Edition onto a computer, officially it’s impossible for user to convert, or upgrade from Windows XP Home to Pro edition, or downgrade from Windows XP Professional to Home edition without reformatting and reinstalling the operating system from clean and fresh state.

A lot of people always associate conversion of Windows XP edition to illegitimate or privacy reason, but sometimes, there may be legitimate and genuine reason for change, such as customer, who all the while using Windows XP Home Edition (HE) finally buy a genuine license product key for Professional edition to replace the illegal pirated version installed, or user receives additional license as gift, but don’t want to go through clean install Windows XP again, or want to keep using the computer with all data intact without interruption.

Here’s a trick to convert and turn Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Pro Edition, from within the operating system without going through installation again. Ok, let’s be frank. The hack doesn’t actually install and add in all the features from Windows XP Professional that Windows XP Home lacks of, such as Remote Desktop Server (see guide to install Remote Desktop on XP Home) and Group Policy Editor (GPedit) utility tools, which has been removed on Windows XP Home edition. Some functions which turned off and disabled via integrated switches which read from registry flag whether it’s Home or Professional edition, such as EFS, RAID support and ability to join domain, may or may not work after migration. Basically, the trick only work to let Windows XP recognizes itself as Professional edition.

To convert and upgrade Windows XP Home to Windows XP Professional, follow procedure below.

1. Open Registry Editor (regedit).
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet00X/Control/ProductOptions, where ControlSet00X is the one with the highest number.
3. Delete the ProductSuite registry key.
4. Then, create a new DWORD value and named it as Brand.
5. Set the “Brand” value data as 0.
6. Reboot the system.
7. On boot up after the BIOS screen, press F8 to display Windows XP Startup Menu.
8. Choose Last Known Good Configuration (LNG) and hit Enter.

Windows XP will start up as usual. After logging into the desktop, check the system properties to verify that it’s now Windows XP Professional.

Ramlade över ett smart program som finns i Windows XP (kanske i andra windows också) Det använder man för att kontrollera services, starta stopp kolla status, osv.

sc.exe visar hur man använder programmet:

DESCRIPTION:
SC is a command line program used for communicating with the
NT Service Controller and services.
USAGE:
sc <server> [command] [service name] <option1> <option2>…

The option <server> has the form ”\\ServerName”
Further help on commands can be obtained by typing: ”sc [command]”
Commands:
query———–Queries the status for a service, or
enumerates the status for types of services.
queryex———Queries the extended status for a service, or
enumerates the status for types of services.
start———–Starts a service.
pause———–Sends a PAUSE control request to a service.
interrogate—–Sends an INTERROGATE control request to a service.
continue——–Sends a CONTINUE control request to a service.
stop————Sends a STOP request to a service.
config———-Changes the configuration of a service (persistant).
description—–Changes the description of a service.
failure———Changes the actions taken by a service upon failure.
qc————–Queries the configuration information for a service.
qdescription—-Queries the description for a service.
qfailure——–Queries the actions taken by a service upon failure.
delete———-Deletes a service (from the registry).
create———-Creates a service. (adds it to the registry).
control———Sends a control to a service.
sdshow———-Displays a service’s security descriptor.
sdset———–Sets a service’s security descriptor.
GetDisplayName–Gets the DisplayName for a service.
GetKeyName——Gets the ServiceKeyName for a service.
EnumDepend——Enumerates Service Dependencies.

The following commands don’t require a service name:
sc <server> <command> <option>
boot————(ok | bad) Indicates whether the last boot should
be saved as the last-known-good boot configuration
Lock————Locks the Service Database
QueryLock——-Queries the LockStatus for the SCManager Database
EXAMPLE:
sc start MyService