From the category archives:
I got a question from John this week: “A few of my clients are using a broadband connection with DHCP addresses for the public interface. Do you know of a script or program that can be used to monitor the IP address and send a email if the IP address changes?” Good question. It is […]
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If you have ever copied a large number of files on Windows, you know how frustrating it can be. Sometimes a simple error can cancel a huge job. Sometimes you might start a copy before leaving the office…only to find out that 10 minutes into it, Windows asks you if you want to replace a […]
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Windows Server Core is a stripped down version of 2008. It has no explorer, and most GUI functionality is removed. A great solution when you don’t want any extra software running on a production server. Soo much is missing that it can get frustrating when you just want to make a few changes before you […]
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I got a question from one of our customers this week, “Is there a way to run profile generator based on its workstation name? We want cached mode activated for laptops but not desktops. Or can you advise how this can be determined with the batch file?” Actually we have had a tool internally that […]
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I got a question from Thomas this week: Our office has a licensed copy of Network Administrator 3.0 which allows me to disable CD/DVD access. Is there an action that will allow me just disable the CD/DVD burn capability but still allow users to view files on CD/DVD? Burn..keep it from burning? Oops not that […]
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I have gotten this call before – A friend has a new computer. For a free dinner or maybe a few beers (Or Both!) would I help them move everything over? Sure no problem I say. Just a few word docs, and an email account. Hmm..an email account. This friend of mine has used Gmail […]
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On one of our servers we have a batch processing program. It is old and clunky, but it gets the job done. An irritating bug it has is that it leaves temp files around in the c:\windows\temp folder. One day we noticed the server was getting slow – finally realized that the temp folder had […]
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I got a question from a customer last week: Hi Steve, I just bought your program on Friday and I love it. I have one question though: Is there any way to use IntelliAdmin Network Administrator to set not only the VNC password but also the VNC view only password? We are using TightVNC 1.3 […]
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Over the holidays I had the joy of cleaning up a few computers. It is surprising how fast a system can get loaded with software that increases boot time. Normally I cleanup by hand using msconfig, and regedit. I was tired of disabling critical software by accident (Like printer helper apps), so I searched around, […]
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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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