PowerShell 7 Taking 30+ Seconds to Open After Windows Update — Root Cause Found
PowerShell 7 Taking 30+ Seconds to Open After Windows Update — Root Cause Found A deep-dive diagnostic that led to an unexpected culprit: a corrupted …
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TinyLoad v6 — split opcode tables, encrypted dispatch, and control flow flattening
TinyLoad v6 is out. if you haven't seen it before — it's a PE packer for Windows. one .cpp file, no dependencies, MIT. repo here . v5 hardened the stu…
I built a Windows optimizer that refuses to run if Outlook is open
I wrote a PowerShell script that hardens and tunes Windows 10/11. Pretty standard stuff. Disables telemetry, kills bloatware, tweaks the registry for …
UpdateBlockerProTray: A Lightweight, Stable Windows Update Blocker That Actually Works
I built a small utility to solve one of the most annoying Windows issues. I've always been frustrated by Windows Update automatically re-enabling itse…
Docker Desktop Won't Start After a BIOS Update? Check This First
I spent way too long troubleshooting this. Reinstalled Docker Desktop multiple times, wiped config folders, checked WSL, verified Hyper-V — nothing wo…
Deep inside the COM: Reading Windows ROT Without Asking Permission. Detective story
This is Part 4 of the "Inside the Running Object Table" series. Parts 1-3 covered the public COM API and rpcss internals. This one is about going furt…
Auditing Windows security from a Python script, no pip install needed
I had a problem. I wanted a Windows security audit script I could drop on any machine, run as admin, and walk away with a readable report. Just a sing…
Stop Typing Your Slack Messages — Use Your Voice Instead (Windows)
I type fast. Around 90 WPM on a good day. But even at that speed, I am constantly falling behind in Slack. Slack is a different kind of typing. It is …
KESTREL: AD enumeration that doesn't announce itself
The tooling problem is embarrassing Everyone in AD security uses BloodHound. It's good at what it does, attack paths, delegation chains, ACL edges. No…