Software Listing of Author : "Technet.microsoft.com"
- PipeList
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00


Did you know that the device driver that implements named pipes is actually a file system driver" In fact, the driver's name is NPFS.SYS, for "Named Pipe File System". What you might also find surprising is that its possible to obtain a directory listing of the named pipes defined on a system. This fact is not documented, nor is it possible to do this using the Win32 API. Directly using NtQueryDirectoryFile, the native function that the Win32 FindFile APIs rely on, makes it possible to list the pipes. The directory listing NPFS returns also indicates the maximum number of pipe instances set for each pipe and the number of active instances.
To demonstrate the listing of named pipes I've written a program called PipeList. PipeList displays the named pipes on your system, including the number of maximum instances and active...
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- Download Size: 40 KB
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- Platform: WinOther, WinServer
- PsGetSid
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00


PsGetsid allows you to translate SIDs to their display name and vice versa. It works on builtin accounts, domain accounts, and local accounts.
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- Download Size: 1648 KB
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- Platform: WinOther
- ZoomIt
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00


ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations.
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- Download Size: 276 KB
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- Platform: Windows 7, WinOther, WinServer, WinVista
