Windows 10: How do I disable touch-guard on an MSI laptop in Windows 10?

Trieu Tran · Jul 12, 2019

Hello!

I just recently got an MSI GS65 Laptop, and I'm wondering how I can turn off touchguard, that's what it's called in dell laptops but it basically disables the touchpad while typing, but I want to disable this function because if I'm playing a game or something without a mouse, then it makes it extremely hard to do if I'm pressing the WASD Keys while not being able to use the trackpad.

Thanks!

:)

Brink · Jul 12, 2019

Credential Guard lab companion

If you have heard about Credential Guard in Windows Server 2016 (and in Windows 10), but do not have an environment to try it out, here is a lab environment we built for you to play.

Lab access

The link will lead you to a sign up page, after that, you will see the following labs listed for Windows Server 2016:

Windows Server 2016 labs

There are 3 exercises in the “Implementing Breach Resistance Security in Windows Server 2016”:

Credential Guard

Remote Credential Guard

Device Guard

This blogpost will walk you through the Credential Guard lab details.

After click on the link of Breach Resistance lab, you be required to sign in and then you can launch the lab:

Sign-in

Launch page

It takes a few minutes to create the VMs, and once it has done, you will see the following machines prepared:

Initialize

DC: domain controller, which is not used for this exercise.

SRV01 and SRV02: both are Windows Server 2016, and used for the lab exercise.

Lab exercise – Explained

The steps are listed in the Content section:

Content

This lab is structured to cover the following in sequence:

Understand how attackers can use the hash in memory to gain access to domain controllers

Configure Credential Guard

Verify the hash in memory is protected using Credential Guard

You can follow the steps listed under the content section to complete the lab, the intent of the blog, is to break the procedures into groups, to help you understand the exercise better.

Prep the hash

Lsass.exe is the process which handles user logon, it stores the user credential information in its memory. The memory is cleared when the machine starts up. In this lab environment, all the virtual machines start at the time lab launches, when you logon to the machine, you will only have the logon user credential information in memory. In order to demonstrate an attacker gaining user access using other account’s hash, the first part of the lab is to simulate a server which has been running for a while, different users had remotely or locally connected to it, therefore, lsass memory stored many different user credential information.
This is accomplished by step 1-8.

Retrieving credential hash

Mimikatz is a popular tool for retrieving lsass memory information. The tool has been copied to the lab machines, step 9-13 walk you through the process of dumping lsass memory using Mimikatz.

Pass the Hash

Pass the hash is a hacking technique that allows an attacker to authenticate by using the underlying NTLM, instead of specifying the user password. In step 14 to 24, you will extract LabAdmin hash from lsass using Mimikatz, and use the hash to open a PowerShell console, and perform a couple of operations using the LabAdmin privilege:

Add a user to the domain admin group

Open remote PowerShell connection to a domain controller

Both operations could not be performed by the logon user. But using the hash of the LabAdmin, an attacker will be able to do it using the information retrieve from Lsass memory.

Configure and verify Credential Guard

Step 25 to 36 illustrate the steps to configure credential guard, then verify its status using msinfo32.exe and PowerShell.

Step 37 to 43 goes further to use Mimikatz to show the hash in Lsass is now encrypted using Credential Guard.

More info

The exercise illustrated the benefit of Credential Guard in Windows Server 2016 as well as Windows 10. For more information, you can find here.
Click to expand...

Source: Credential Guard lab companion Datacenter and Private Cloud Security Blog

See also:

Enable or Disable Credential Guard in Windows 10 Windows 10 Security System Tutorials

Verify if Credential Guard is Enabled or Disabled in Windows 10 Windows 10 Security System Tutorials

KeithBenicek · Jul 12, 2019

Can't complete upgrade on MSI model A6000 laptop to Windows 10

I you had bothered to go to the MSi manufacturers website for model compatibility, as Microsoft suggests in their literature, you would have found the MSi list of their Windows 10 compatible products.

Windows 10 MDA Microsites

NONE of the A Series Notebooks are listed and therefore are NOT upgradeable because Win 10 Drivers are not available and some hardware may physically be incompatible.

I too have an A6000 Series MSi and I'm just fine with Windows 7, with no touch screen on the A6000 and very little other difference between 7 and 10, there really is no reason to upgrade to 10.

RockstarBruski · Jul 12, 2019

Synaptics Touch pad blinking MSI GT70 laptop with Windows 10

Well it looks like the same problem that was happening over 2 years ago has resurfaced again with Synaptics Touch pad blinking MSI GT70 laptop with Windows 10. My laptop was working just fine for the past year or so and did an update today (2017-08-10)
and the touchpad started rapidly blinking and mouse on touchpad won't work. Only way I can stop it from blinking is to press the escape key a couple of times and the touch pad button to turn off the touch pad. MSI has no listing of a touchpad windows 10
driver for my laptop. I've removed the synaptics touchpad driver from programs control panel but it comes back on the next windows update and restart. I've changed the settings under the control panel device hardware to not install device drivers / apps
whatever but from what I read this is hit and miss in blocking it from reinstalling. The two year old problem (linked below) thread has been locked but you can read it. There's been no real solutions to that thread so I'm not sure why it was locked,

Anyway anyone have any real solutions other than complain to Microsoft and MSI about not providing a solution to this 2 year old problem?

Howto disable updating: synaptic pointing device driver

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