From the monthly archives:
I just finished helping a friend remove some pretty bad spyware from his system. In addition to the usual removal tools – AdAware, and Spybot I found the Autoruns utility from Sysinternals to be very useful. It is a comprehensive piece of software that will allow you to see every possible startup program in one […]
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When I worked as an IT administrator at a large company I cringed when I saw a message like this float by: Usually in the To field it was sent to “All Employees”. A large number of attachments work fine when everyone is directly connected to Exchange on the LAN. The problem arises when users […]
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Yes it is a strange error message. After removing McAfee Anti-Virus from one of my machines I kept getting this each time I launched Outlook: I thought I could stop the error by going into advanced options and disable the old McAfee extensions. Unfortunately – nothing from McAfee was there After doing some searching over […]
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ISO files are images of physical CD and DVD ROMS. You can use to burn them to disk. Microsoft now distributes many of their DVD, and CD ROMs from their website in this format. Many times you just want to pull a few files off the ISO without burning it to physical media. Microsoft has […]
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Microsoft has released an update for IE 7. The big news – it no longer requires Windows Validation. This means you can install it even if MS detects your copy of windows is not genuine. I downloaded it to see if there were any other differences. You can do the same by just downloading the […]
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The latest flaws in Acrobat reader have been annoying at best, and very dangerous to your network at worst. A few weeks back a security researcher claimed that he found a flaw that was in just about every version of Acrobat Reader that would allow him to take control of a PC. Petko Petkov, a […]
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After I wrote about the Office compatibility pack, a reader asked this question: I just saw your post on the compatibility pack. This seems like an ideal thing we can use here, but I can’t seem to locate the msi file so I can push it through the domain After doing some experimentation and using […]
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Many administrators are always looking for easier ways to deploy applications across their network. I find it amazing the number of times I have spoken with other Windows Admins, and they have never used the package deployment features of group policy. It works well, and I am going to walk you through a simple application […]
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Weather you like it or not, Office 2007 is slowly starting to creep into corporate networks around you. The biggest problem with this change is the totally different file format. A while back we released a command line utility, and added a feature to our Network Administrator product that could force your users to save […]
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The automatic login feature of windows is nice. It can be used for that machine you don’t need to lock down – or when deploying a system image that will reboot a few times during setup. If you are not familiar with the automatic login feature, it allows you to tell windows to automatically login […]
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