Knoppix Linux

What I dislike is the actual recovery CD itself, and I don't think I'm the only one who feels that way. While the Windows Recovery CD does an adequate job with a few tasks (i.e., resetting an MBR, replacing a boot.ini file, or restoring def...

While the Windows Recovery CD can restore a default boot file, unlike Knoppix, it won't let you edit it directly. Back in the old days of Windows, you could change many different startup settings by editing .ini files that were in the ro...

There are many utilities on the market designed for backing up and restoring files on Windows systems. Windows even comes with its own backup software preinstalled. These utilities are good only if you can actually use them. It is not uncommo...

4, you can edit, delete, and move files on your NTFS partition—jobs that are difficult with the Windows Recovery CD! While the Linux kernel has been able to read NTFS partitions for some time, writing to them has always been considered ver...

QTParted gained the capability of resizing NTFS only recently, so if you use an older Knoppix CD, you might need to use ntfsresize, which requires more work and is more error-prone. QTParted is a GUI frontend for the command-line program pa...

Use Knoppix as your locksmith to reset the password to a new value or even completely erase it. User accounts have an interesting history in Windows. The Windows 9x series did offer usernames and passwords, but every user could overwrite...

g., deleting the registry keys put in place by a virus or worm) without booting into Windows. The chntpw tool mentioned in [Hack #75] works by changing the values in the Windows registry. This tool uses the same ability that allow yo...

One of the functions of the Windows Recovery CD is to restore system files that have been corrupted. Basically, the CD extracts the default versions of these drivers from .cab files stored on the CD and overwrites the versions on your system....

Through the use of the live-software installer, Knoppix provides a solution to this catch-22. Viruses and worms are a common problem in the computing world today. It seems every other day a new virus or worm comes out, and anti-virus vendo...

It seems like new vulnerabilities for Windows, or software running on Windows, appear every few weeks. The worst vulnerabilities are remote exploits that give the attacker full Administrative privileges on a machine. Worms that exploit these ...