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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I ran across this last week while helping a bank determine what Windows patch broke one of their internal applications. This meant I was manually installing different patches one by one (Including SP2 for XP) – and looking for them on Google. In one of my searches I came across this search result: Now looking […]
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I continue to be surprised by the number of people still using Windows 95/98/ME. I asked people earlier to let us know if they were interested in a 9x patch (For New Zealand), and we have gotten so much email we have had a hard time answering it all. Your wish has been answered and […]
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Actually I lied. Actually a double-click. But that doesn’t sound like a good title…so there :=- It is really simple, and this will work under Windows XP, and 2003 – not sure if it will work under Vista, but I would imagine the UAC prompt would ruin the whole experience. Open notepad and put in […]
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After creating the IE 7 Tweaking tool we seem to get loads of questions about IE 7. One of the latest was about setting multiple home pages in IE 7 from the command line. Hmm. Before someone asked I never had thought about it. If you look into the settings of IE 7, you can […]
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