From the category archives:
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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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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Jonathan has been quite patient…I think he originally asked for this plugin last year. Just got another email from him recently: Hi Steve, I know you have been super busy especially around the holidays but I was wondering when that feature I had requested will be incorporated into the software, the one that disables the […]
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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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Since Microsoft broke Windows Search in Windows XP SP2, I have been looking for a simple alternative. I just want something that can search everything. I hate the fact that Microsoft insists on skipping over files that it thinks are not important, or might be too scary for me to look at. These days I […]
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For quite some time we have had a product called Profile Generator. It is a command line application that you can drop into a logon script. Once it is there, users can launch Outlook and get right into their email. No more setup wizards, and no more support calls for those users that roam from […]
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I received a message from Charles-André Hello Steve, First of all, keep on the good work, I really appreciate your newsletter. Second, I’m looking to find a way to know, during logon script, if a user is in a specific group. That way, a precise action, like a “net use”, could be done on that […]
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A few weeks back I wrote about a program that could backup drivers. Well that created a flood of emails – You all told me about your favorite driver backup program. One that stood out was Double Driver. You can get it from here: http://www.boozet.org/download.htm The application is simple, but powerful. Download and launch it: […]
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I came across an interesting utility called UNetbootin. It allows you to create bootable USB drives for many flavors of linux – but the part that interested me was the additional utilities you could write to a flash drive: Parted Magic – a partition manager that can resize, repair, backup, and restore partitions. SystemRescueCD – […]
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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 […]
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