Category: Windows Technologies

Desktop, Repackaging, Windows Technologies

Viewing and Analyzing the Executables (.exe)/Console Applications developed in .Net without Source Code

Most of the .Net developers would probably know, how to view or analyze a third party console application that is developed in .Net.  This capability/skill would be required for various other roles like application re-packagers/integrators and Security Analysts/Researchers, etc.,.  Here I’d be briefing about how to view the compiled Intermediate Language (IL) (Microsoft calls as a managed code) code of any executable (.exe application) that is developed in .Net. Microsoft provides a tool named Ildasm.exe (Microsoft Windows Intermediate Language (IL) disassembler).  This tools shipd along with the .Net developer IDE Visual Studio and you can have this downloaded from Microsoft.  […]

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Windows Technologies

Windows Default Administrator User login Password

Windows 7 Enterprise install from CD, would prompt for a Username and the respective System name auto-populated as <username>-PC but it doesn’t prompt you for a password to set for the given username.  The default password is <Blank>.  One needs to manually reset the password to a certain value for better security practices.   Windows Server 2012:  You’ll be asked to set a password for the default built-in administrator account.     Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2:  You’ll be asked to set a password for default admin account “Administrator”.  It will let you continue the install even if you set […]

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