Setting the dimming timeout in Windows settings

After searching for a while on the internet I’ve found how to change the Galaxy TabPro S screen dimming timeout.
You need to go to Settings – Extras – Galaxy Settings – AMOLED. The maximum timeout you can set there is 10 minutes. You can’t go any more then 10 minutes. This is done to protect your Samsung’s beautiful AMOLED screen from burnouts.

Workaround for manufacturer’s limit

I did find a workaround for that which I use only when I have non-static images (like games/presentations/videos) displayed.

Warning – use it at your own risk, and there is one (or two):

• You are needing with settings that manufacturer decided to limit.
• You will be touching Windows registry

Samsung Galaxy TabPro S – screen dimming timeout setting can be changed in registry by setting the Interval property under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Samsung\SamsungSettings\DimmingOption

Reverting back

Changing back to one of the values provided my Samsung (1, 5 or 10 minutes) can be done via Settings as described previously, no need to touch Windows Registry.

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Sometimes you would want to copy PuTTY hosts SSH keys between different users or machines. Having the keys stored will prevent the pop-up message in PuTTY (or Plink/PSCP) when you try to connect to the remote host for the first time.

Some of the cases you would want to do that is:

• Solution was developed and tested on one machine but will need to run on an other
• You want to carry you host keys from one machine to another

This article is about copying PuTTY SSH hosts keys focused on doing so on Windows machines.

Method

The Putty SSH hosts keys are saved in registry in

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys]

for the current user.
So if you are copying keys for the current user you are logged in with (but between different machines) its easy. Just export the relevant registry path and import it on the destination machine.

The problem raises when you want to copy keys to profile of a user other then the user you are currently logged in with.

Identify your destination in registry

• Open command line (on the target server) and run
  REG QUERY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\hivelist | findstr TARGETUSER
• For example I want to copy my keys to user ilya_adm

C:\REG QUERY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\hivelist | findstr ilya_adm
    \Registry\User\S-1-5-21-1229272821-1123561945-839522115-123456    REG_SZ    \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Users\ilya_adm\NTUSER.DAT
    \Registry\User\S-1-5-21-1229272821-1123561945-839522115-123456_Classes    REG_SZ    \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Users\ilya_adm\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat

• Note the GUID S-1-5-21-1229272821-1123561945-839522115-123456
• Due to the above the destination location in registry will be [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1229272821-1123561945-839522115-123456\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys]

Manually update the registry

You can manually duplicate a single host key entry by creating a new STRING value in the destination registry location ( [HKU\S-1-5-21-….-123456\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys]) and copy the Name and Value from the source location (HKCU\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys)

Export/Import PuTTY SSH Hosts keys

Perform with caution and preferably back up the destination registry location

• Export the they host keys from source location to a file.

From command line run

REG EXPORT HKCU\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys c:\temp\source.reg

• Open the c:\temp\source.reg file

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys]
"rsa2@22:123.xx.1237"="0x10001,0xaeda610d2dea35d252c8410cb6c7
"rsa2@22:123.xx.12319"="0x10001,0xd9f47896e1aaebb85d801ac5d75
"rsa2@22:123.xx.1238"="0x10001,0xf3ce0d57f72f09b4f48d23c763fe
"rsa2@22:123.xx.123213"="0x10001,0xd9f47896e1aaebb85d801ac5d7

• In the file the change the location to be the destination. for example

update
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys]
to be
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1229272821-1123561945-839522115-123456\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys]

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1229272821-1123561945-839522115-123456\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys]
"rsa2@22:123.xx.1237"="0x10001,0xaeda610d2dea35d252c8410cb6c7
"rsa2@22:123.xx.12319"="0x10001,0xd9f47896e1aaebb85d801ac5d75
"rsa2@22:123.xx.1238"="0x10001,0xf3ce0d57f72f09b4f48d23c763fe
"rsa2@22:123.xx.123213"="0x10001,0xd9f47896e1aaebb85d801ac5d7

• Save the file and import

From command line run

    REG IMPORT c:\temp\source.reg

Done

That’s it. Now you have the all the PuTTY SSH hosts keys from the source (user/machine) registry in the  destination (user/machine) registry.

Image by Brenda Clarke

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