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If you have laptops floating around that have a Windows fingerprint reader, you better take a closer look at them right now. Up until a few months ago, almost all laptop manufacturers have used the same software for their readers. The list includes Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gateway, Lenovo, MSI, NEC, Samsung, SONY, and Toshiba. The […]
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A few weeks back I wrote an article on how to get your Windows product key with a script. This script has a problem with 64 bit versions of Windows. Why? Because there is a feature in Windows that will redirect registry requests to a 32 bit key…unless you disable it. When the script tries […]
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Last week Travis emailed me about an interesting utility called CryPing: “..I use a TCP Ping utility instead of ICMP because it provide more flexibility and better results. The tool I use is CryPing..” He is right it being more flexible. Instead of the standard ICMP ping, you can ping an HTTP port on a […]
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James asked this week: “Hi Steve. I liked your script that automatically disabled the wireless card when the Ethernet was enabled. But I was wondering, how about a script that ran when a ping to a server timed out? “ This is not as hard as it sounds – we can use the ping command […]
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A while back Stacy asked: “Hi Steve. I was wondering if you knew of a way to get a windows product key from a script. I need it because we are trying to audit our windows licensing, and see if we have any duplicate keys” And by coincidence, I got this email from Matthew P: […]
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A few weeks back we released a tool that would allow users to easily see their local IP address. It can really save time when supporting users over the phone. Instead of telling them to click on start, then control panel, then, etc etc…you can simply say “Click on the star down by the time” […]
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A few weeks back, Patrick sent me an email showing a script he used to track what users had logged on to a machine. In his email he mentioned something: “.. If I am having a problem with a specific person I use “Activity Monitor” and log everything on that machine..” Thanks for the tip […]
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Yesterday I received an email from Andrew: “Hi Steve. I have been looking for a really simple utility. I am always on the phone with users, and sometimes it takes forever to walk them through and have them find their IP address or host name. I remember your post about BGInfo, but that program puts […]
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A few weeks ago I wrote an article about seeing who logged on to a computer. After many of you emailed me, I started to investigate how accurate the script was – and it turns out not so much. That script uses a WMI object to get its information. It returns what windows considers a […]
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Cynthia asks: “Hi Steve, I have been using profile generator for my organization for a while now, but a new issue has come up. We want to simply move users to a new exchange server host name, without deleting their current profile. Otherwise their PST files and other things attached to the profile will get […]
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