Many times a UNC path does not work properly in a command line bat file. This is a hold over from DOS, a compromise to ensure backward compatibility. I have found a little known command (At least to me). Actually there are two of them. PUSHD, and POPD Call PUSHD with a UNC share as […]
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Here is an interesting one. I found a way to take the %date% environment variable, and turn it into a valid string for a filename – without any extra programs or scripts. For the longest time I used a little utility I created to do this. The problem with that is the utility needs to […]
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We have just added a new feature to Network Administrator. It allows you to audit and verify that the Daylight Saving patch (For USA and Canada) has been installed. This works for our patch, and Microsoft’s. (It will even tell you when you have the older, incorrect version of the MS patch) In addition we […]
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I would have never thought we would have gotten so many emails for a Windows 98 DST Patch. If you missed it, we have created an unofficial patch for Windows 2000 that updates it to the new Daylight Saving Time enacted here in the United States. Microsoft is not providing one since Windows 2000 is […]
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Seems like we see a new one of these every day. The unfortunate fact is that you can’t really trust any attachment you get in your email these days. Microsoft has released security advisory 932553. It allows an attacker to execute code on your PC if they can get you to open a specially crafted […]
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Windows Vista is going to be released tonight. As I sit here writing this article it is only 3 hours, 3 minutes, 24 seconds before it is unleashed to the general public. It is times like this I get nostalgic and start thinking of the first time I got my hands on a copy of […]
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Since Vista was released to MSDN subscribers back in November I have started using it on my primary development laptop. I would love to run it in a VMWare session while I am developing, but it is still not possible to get Areo Glass to run this way (I need glass running to get our […]
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Update 1/18/2007 11:01 PM EST: I have received a few questions about this method – no it will not disable mice, or keyboards. It only disables storage devices attached to the USB port. This includes hard drives, flash drives, and any other type of USB storage device. And yes, if the user has administrator access […]
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The new version of Word saves documents in a different format. This is to facilitate all of the wonderful features it provides. Unfortunately this also means that documents saved will be incompatible with older versions. Yes…It is possible to go into settings, and change the default format to whatever you please – that includes the […]
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The recent documents list in Windows XP can be convenient. By default it is set to save the last 15 documents. Microsoft never provided an easy way to change the number of documents. To change the number of documents saved you will need to change a registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies You will need to add a […]
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