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Windows Hotpatching Monitoring Service (hpatchmon)

These are some quick notes from my Windows 11 Workstation PC.

Files :

• hpatchmonTask.cmd
• hpatchmon.dll

Services:

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Roger Ebert's list of Great Movies:

• Ballad of Narayama
• Monsieur Hire
• Veronika Voss
• Spirit of the Beehive
• Mulholland Dr.
• The Life of Oharu
• Cléo from 5 to 7
• Spirited Away

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Build Python 3.13 on Windows

The build itself is fairly straight forward. Download the source, and goto the "PCBuild" directory in the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt. Once there, here is the build command:

build.bat -e -p x64 --disable-gil

Building with JIT Support

To build with JIT suport, Clang-18 is required.

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Installing Win11 without TPM

• press Shift+F10 to get cmd, and start regedit
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup
  • Create LabConfig key
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\LabConfig
  • Add following DWORD32 keys with a value of 1:
    • BypassTPMCheck
    • BypassRAMCheck
• BypassSecureBootCheck

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:: https://superuser.com/questions/171917/force-a-program-to-run-without-administrator-privileges-or-uac
:: @kbandla
@echo off
IF "%1%"=="" (
    echo [!] Error: Need full path to the program. Aborting.
) else (
    echo [*] Copied AppData path to clipboard
    echo %LOCALAPPDATA% | clip
    cmd /min /C "set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER && start "" %1"
)

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! 2022-11-15 https://www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com###contentContainer
www.youtube.com###primary > .ytd-two-column-browse-results-renderer.style-scope
www.youtube.com###secondary

! 2023-01-28 nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com###gateway-content
www.nytimes.com###app>div>div[class^="css-"]>div[aria-hidden="true"]+div[class^="css-"]
www.nytimes.com###app>div>div[class^="css-"]:style(position:static!important)

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msiexec /a %1 /qb TARGETDIR=%2

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Was curious why VLC took so long to startup. Launched it in windbg, to find it load about 400 DLLs.

0:014> lm
start             end                 module name
00007ff7`977b0000 00007ff7`978a8000   vlc        (export symbols)       C:\Users\kbandla\vlc\3.0.16-win64\vlc.exe
00007ffe`203c0000 00007ffe`203d9000   libvisual_plugin   (deferred)             
00007ffe`203e0000 00007ffe`205b4000   libprojectm_plugin   (deferred)             
00007ffe`205c0000 00007ffe`2060f000   libgoom_plugin   (deferred)             
00007ffe`20610000 00007ffe`20625000 libglspectrum_plugin (deferred) 

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(venv) kbandla@ashburn:/tmp$ binwalk MksWifi.bin

DECIMAL       HEXADECIMAL     DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
29640         0x73C8          LZMA compressed data, properties: 0xC0, dictionary size: -1929314304 bytes, uncompressed size: 850403574015 bytes
94901         0x172B5         LZMA compressed data, properties: 0xC0, dictionary size: 44892160 bytes, uncompressed size: 9097839549 bytes
276851        0x43973         LZMA compressed data, properties: 0xC0, dictionary size: 553779200 bytes, uncompressed size: 550036902400 bytes
295640        0x482D8         HTML document footer
296676        0x486E4         HTML document header
298088        0x48C68         LZMA compressed data, properties: 0x64, dictionary size: 0 bytes, uncompressed size: 167772160 bytes

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package
{
   import flash.display.Loader;
   import flash.display.Sprite;
   import flash.events.Event;
   import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
   import flash.events.SecurityErrorEvent;
   import flash.net.URLLoader;
   import flash.net.URLRequest;
   import flash.system.Capabilities;