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I have been playing around with Windows 8 a lot lately. As I browse the forums at Microsoft, I have realized that they are not going to bring the start menu back. No matter how much people complain, they simply refuse. I heard there is a registry hack that can bring the start menu back. […]
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Back in May John asked: “Hi There Is there a tool that can run and provide a list of “last logon” with date and time, I need something to show like a activity list. It would help re-deploying PC’s from one location to another based on use.” I am glad you asked about this John. […]
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Elizabeth asked this week: “Hi Steve, I have been using the free version of Network Administrator for quite a while and I really like it. I was wondering, is there any way you could use this to show me the percentage and amount of space that is free on the C drive of computers on […]
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We have been working hard on a new remote execution engine for Network Administrator It really is a difficult problem to tackle with Windows 7, Vista, and 2008 in the mix. UAC, and other security features make it nearly impossible get something like this to work properly – but we have come up with some […]
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Yesterday Microsoft Released the latest Windows 8 preview. I have been reading some of the Microsoft blogs, and although this release still has the Aero interface (That glassy look)…according to a blog post by a Microsoft Employee this will be gone in the final release: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/18/creating-the-windows-8-user-experience.aspx He even went on to say: “…(The Vista and […]
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A while a go Wil asked the question: “Is there a tool available in Windows 7 to check and measure wireless signal strength. It would show where your weak areas and dead spots are, using whatever card is built into the PC. Thanks” We actually have had our own tool to do this internally for […]
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Back in November we released a free cron service for windows What is it? It is a task scheduler that uses the same format as the unix cron service. The motivation for this tool was that the task scheduler built into windows did not have a good way of moving jobs from one computer to […]
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Ryan asked this week: “I have a scenario where an application starts when a particular user (generic admin account) logs on to the console. The problem is that when the same user account is also used to login to an RDP session, on the same server, the service tries to start again, and breaks…Is it […]
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This week Nathan asks: “Hi Steve, I hope you can help me with this one. I am trying to get a report on what programs and ports are allowed in the firewall on machines across my network. I don’t want to just enable group policy, since it might break something. If I can get a […]
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A few months ago I received an email from Steve in Ontario: “…I want to round out this junk cleaning by trashing empty directories as well. I have found all sorts of approaches to this, but none are elegant. I am old-school, having started as a UNIX system programmer some … 40 years ago:-) So, […]
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