I got a note from Thomas: Like everyone else I’m always tweaking the network and I really appreciate newsletters…What I’m looking for is a good batch file the looks for changes to file folders on one drive and only updates those changes during a copy files to another drive. This is an excellent question. There […]
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For quite some time we have had a product called Profile Generator. It is a command line application that you can drop into a logon script. Once it is there, users can launch Outlook and get right into their email. No more setup wizards, and no more support calls for those users that roam from […]
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I received a message from Charles-André Hello Steve, First of all, keep on the good work, I really appreciate your newsletter. Second, I’m looking to find a way to know, during logon script, if a user is in a specific group. That way, a precise action, like a “net use”, could be done on that […]
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We have not said much about Enterprise Remote Control since Beta 1. That is because we have had our heads down in our keyboards busy improving and fixing. Here is the purchase link: Purchase an today To get a detailed look at what this product is all about, check out my announcement of beta 1: […]
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A few weeks back I wrote about a program that could backup drivers. Well that created a flood of emails – You all told me about your favorite driver backup program. One that stood out was Double Driver. You can get it from here: http://www.boozet.org/download.htm The application is simple, but powerful. Download and launch it: […]
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I came across an interesting utility called UNetbootin. It allows you to create bootable USB drives for many flavors of linux – but the part that interested me was the additional utilities you could write to a flash drive: Parted Magic – a partition manager that can resize, repair, backup, and restore partitions. SystemRescueCD – […]
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While researching for an earlier article, I came across a free utility from http://www.joeware.net It is called OldComp, and you can find it here It runs through active directory and finds old accounts. It is simple to use, and powerful, so careful what you do…because you could delete all your accounts if you are not […]
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I am always digging around in my files, and I realized It would be nice if I could pin my hard drive to the Windows 7 task bar. The only problem? When I drag my drive to the task bar it piles it under the folder icon: I wanted it under a one click icon, […]
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With the increased number of virus outbreaks lately, I wanted to find out what shares were open on my network. After some digging, I found a free tool from SysInternals that can give you a detailed report of all the shares and printers across your network. It is called ShareEnum, and you can download it […]
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I came across a cool site, it is called Ninite: http://ninite.com/ It has been a huge time saver for me. I had a dozen or so machines I had to setup for a friend over the weekend. Using this utility I cut down my time by creating one setup file with most of the applications […]
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