From the category archives:
I came across a utility this week that you might want to add to your toolbox. It is called WinDirStat. The program will give you a detailed view of what folders and files are taking up the most hard drive space. When you run the application it will analyze your local hard drives for usage: […]
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If you are like me, you get roped into cleaning up messy computers. The problem I have seen lately is that many toolbars, helpers, and general spyware are no longer detected as spyware. They do this by making sure the application has an uninstall, and asks the user before installing the software. Still – that […]
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Hello Everyone, I hope your Friday is going well – I just wanted to put out this quick note to let you know we updated our SystemInfo.exe utility. If you don’t know what it is, you can read more about it here The update is in response to a few requests. Here are the new […]
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Chris emailed me this week and asked: “I was wondering how I could remotely execute a .reg file using Network Administrator?” At first I thought there might be an easy way using the remote execute option, but in order to import the file you need a copy of it on the remote machine. Instead, we […]
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Last year we released a tool called ‘SystemInfo’ that would allow users to easily see their local IP address, and other system information. It can really save time when supporting users over the phone. Instead of telling them to click on start, then control panel, and trying to guess which version of windows – you […]
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I got an email from Clair this week: “Hi Steve, We have been using the free edition of Network Administrator for quite some time. I was wondering if there was a way to get a report of all USB devices on a system?” This is a good question Clair. First let me show you how […]
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For a while now Network Administrator has had a plugin that allows you to force windows updates on remote machines. Many of you use it as a backup when your Windows Update Server (WSUS) is not working. Before our plugin would just run the standard update procedure, but this would break if the remote machine […]
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File and printer sharing is needed for a variety of Windows administration tools. Our Remote Control, and Network Administrator need it to do their work. If you want to use the remote execution tool PSExec from Microsoft, it needs to be enabled. The same is true for other utilities like the cool software over at […]
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Like me, you probably know that the file search in Windows is broken. I have found an alternative that is small, and fast. It is called ‘Everything’ It allows you to easily search for anything and everything on your system. Once you download and run the program, you just start typing what you are looking […]
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Almost a year ago I wrote about defraging drives from the command line. I got an email from John that week: “Hi Steve, I wanted to let you know about a free defragmentation tool. It is called UltraDefrag. It can defrag drives, Registry hives, and the paging file” It took me a while, but I […]
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