Hello All, A quick post to let you know that we have released Remote Control 4.4. This is a bug-fix release. We made sure we cleared through all of the issues raised by current customers before moving forward with anything new. Here is what we fixed: -Shutdown under Vista/Windows7/2008 does not disconnect the remote client […]
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I have a group of log files that I need to upload every day to an archival server. For a long time I have been doing this by hand. I wanted a way to do this without using any extra software – just the default tools available in windows. I found a clean solution that […]
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I got a question this week from a reader: Steve, we have a locked down environment and I have just about everything set the way I want it, but I still need to find a way of keeping users from deleting their Internet Explorer history. Sometimes we need to do a review of their computer […]
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One of the issues when deploying Microsoft Outlook is that there is always some form or wizard that needs to be completed before a user can start accessing their email. Even in Outlook 2010, there are still setup pages the user has to fill out. This can get especially annoying if you have users that […]
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I was reading an article at PCMag about PatchMateXP. They have had all the patches for XP on one convenient CD. Unfortunately for PatchMateXP, this breaks a license with Microsoft and they shut themselves down before they got into legal trouble. This got me thinking – is there a way to get MS Updates on […]
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I installed Windows 7 on my ASUS Atom N270 Before I did that, I recorded how long it took to do a few things: -Copying a 45 MB file over the network -Boot Time -Shutdown Time -Memory used at idle, after startup -IE Launch time Then, after I installed Windows 7, I did the same, […]
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Purchase Network Administrator 2.9 for only $99 per administrator (50% off since you are a reader of my blog), and when it is released you will receive 3.0 Free. Just follow this special link We have been hard at work building a new version of Network Administrator, and have been taking many suggestions from you. […]
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About a year ago I purchased a nice little machine from ASUS. It is an Atom N270: When I opened the box, the machine was preloaded with Windows XP. It performs well with XP, and has 1 GB ram, and a 160 GB hard drive. A big mistake I made was installing Vista on it […]
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I was installing the Windows 2003 Resource Kit today, and I ran across these two command line programs that come with it: cdburn.exedvdburn.exe I started poking around, and I realized they both could be used to burn ISO files from the command line. For a test, I downloaded a random ISO from MSDN, and gave […]
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I got my shiny new copy of Windows 7 today from MSDN. It became available to MSDN subscribers earlier this week. If you have access then give it a spin, there are some excellent improvements over Vista. I installed it today to test some of our software. One issue, that is also in Vista, is […]
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