Hardened tools

Then, you will see the main Hardentools window. It's very simple, you just click on the "Harden" button, and the tool will make the changes to your Windows configuration to disable a set of features that are risky. Once completed, you will be asked to restart your computer for all the changes to have full effect. Note: You can select the expert settings checkbox to be able to select or deselect specific harden measures. Please only use this if you know what you are doing. In case you wish to restore the original settings and revert the changes Hardentools made for example, if you need to use cmd.

Selecting "Restore" will start reverting the modifications. This comes in handy if you have started a newer version of hardentools and you want to make sure the most current features are applied to your user. Please note : the modifications made by Hardentools are exclusively contextual to the Windows user account used to run the tool from.

In case you want Hardentools to change settings for other Windows users as well, you will have to run it from each one of them logged in. If started on the command line an error similar to the following appears:. We are also working on a command line interface to remediate this. In cases you get this error, you can use the hardentools-cli. You can find here a full list of contributors.

Skip to content. Star 2. Branches Tags. Could not load branches. Could not load tags. Latest commit. Git stats commits. Failed to load latest commit information. Nov 15, Added gitignore. Sep 4, Risk control measures Ensure all workers who use steel tools or implements are aware of limitations when striking hardened surfaces. Investigate alternatives to using manual handling tasks that would otherwise require loosening by physical impact.

Ensure that a hazard identification and risk assessment is conducted. Where the risk cannot be eliminated, ensure it has been minimised so far as is reasonably practicable. Only authorised workers should carry out repair and maintenance tasks. Hardentools will then try to determine whether it was launched with Administrator privileges, and if not, ask you to elevate.

This is required in order to perform certain changes that only Administrators can. Then, you will see the main Hardentools window. It's very simple, you just click on the "Harden" button, and the tool will make the changes to your Windows configuration to disable a set of features that are risky. Once completed, you will be asked to restart your computer for all the changes to have full effect.

By checking "Show Expert Settings" you are able to select and deselect which the changes Hardentools is going to perform. You shouldn't do this unless you are sure of what you are doing. In case you wish to restore the original settings and revert the changes Hardentools made for example, if you need to use cmd. Similarly, click it and wait for the modifications to be reverted.

If you feel confident in doing so, you can also choose which particular changes you want enabled or disabled. Please refer to our GitHub to learn more about all the different options.