From the category archives:
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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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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Over the Thanksgiving holiday I found myself in a situation where I wanted to test some software (Dad wanted to install some free stuff, but I thought it might have spyware)…but I didn’t want to clutter the computer with the junk that might come with it. I thought about downloading a copy of VMWare. It […]
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A few weeks ago I showed you how to force automatic updates using a simple script. This week I came across another interesting tool that can manage automatic updates. Best of all it is free, and can be executed from the command line. It is called WUInstall. If you just want to see what updates […]
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Last week Travis emailed me about an interesting utility called CryPing: “..I use a TCP Ping utility instead of ICMP because it provide more flexibility and better results. The tool I use is CryPing..” He is right it being more flexible. Instead of the standard ICMP ping, you can ping an HTTP port on a […]
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James asked this week: “Hi Steve. I liked your script that automatically disabled the wireless card when the Ethernet was enabled. But I was wondering, how about a script that ran when a ping to a server timed out? “ This is not as hard as it sounds – we can use the ping command […]
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A while back Stacy asked: “Hi Steve. I was wondering if you knew of a way to get a windows product key from a script. I need it because we are trying to audit our windows licensing, and see if we have any duplicate keys” And by coincidence, I got this email from Matthew P: […]
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A few weeks back we released a tool that would allow users to easily see their local IP address. It can really save time when supporting users over the phone. Instead of telling them to click on start, then control panel, then, etc etc…you can simply say “Click on the star down by the time” […]
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