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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
I found a free tool from Microsoft that lets you search for event log entries across your network. It was released quite some time ago, but still works with the newest versions of Windows. It is part of a download package called Security Guide Scripts Download. You can get it from here: Security Guide Scripts […]
As promised, IntelliAdmin Enterprise Remote Control Beta 1 is now available for download. For those of you in a hurry, here are bookmarks that will allow you to jump to the information you want Description Instructions Pricing Download Links Bug Reports Description What is it? It is a remote administration solution that allows you to […]
Lately many of you have been emailing us about getting our Remote Control product to work with Windows 7. If you install the agent manually, or via an MSI group policy – not much to do, it should work right out of the box. Many of you like that automatic install feature, and Microsoft has […]
Back in 2007, I wrote an article about an error that you get in Outlook when you have too many attachments of the same name: Even Outlook 2010 has this problem. In the article, I walk you through deleting these files by hand. It is not an easy thing to do. You need to open […]
If you have ever had to reload your system, then you know the pain of trying to find all of your drivers. I ran across a free tool called “Driver Backup” It allows you to backup all of your current drivers, and it will even generate a special install script that you can run to […]
I got a question from Mark last week: “Steve, I was wondering if you could add a plugin to Network Administrator that would disable control panel access. I know it is not the best way to keep people out, but it would save me a lot of headaches” Actually, I have gotten a few requests […]