From the category archives:
A friend of mine forgot his password for his Windows 7 computer, and needed to get back into it. I remembered years ago when I was working as a contractor, there was a little Linux utility that would allow you to boot from a floppy and reset windows passwords Lucky for him, that utility is […]
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I got a question from Jonathan: Hi! I have a feature request (For Network Administrator). Is it possible to add classic search when windows desktop search is installed by default? I prefer classic search, as do my users, though the desktop search is more useful for email, the majority of my users search for files […]
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I had a test machine I was setting up this week. SQL Server 2008 was one of the applications I needed to install. The only problem, is that I could never get past the pre-requisites: Digging deeper, the true cause of the message was “There are pending file changes. Please reboot”. After 3 reboots and […]
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Last week I wrote how to FTP the contents of a folder by just using a batch file. We had a few good suggestions on how to improve that script. Listening to those suggestions, I have come up with this updated version: @echo off rem =============================== rem = FTP Script Made by = rem = […]
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I got a question this week from a reader: Steve, we have a locked down environment and I have just about everything set the way I want it, but I still need to find a way of keeping users from deleting their Internet Explorer history. Sometimes we need to do a review of their computer […]
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I was reading an article at PCMag about PatchMateXP. They have had all the patches for XP on one convenient CD. Unfortunately for PatchMateXP, this breaks a license with Microsoft and they shut themselves down before they got into legal trouble. This got me thinking – is there a way to get MS Updates on […]
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Purchase Network Administrator 2.9 for only $99 per administrator (50% off since you are a reader of my blog), and when it is released you will receive 3.0 Free. Just follow this special link We have been hard at work building a new version of Network Administrator, and have been taking many suggestions from you. […]
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About a year ago I purchased a nice little machine from ASUS. It is an Atom N270: When I opened the box, the machine was preloaded with Windows XP. It performs well with XP, and has 1 GB ram, and a 160 GB hard drive. A big mistake I made was installing Vista on it […]
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I was installing the Windows 2003 Resource Kit today, and I ran across these two command line programs that come with it: cdburn.exedvdburn.exe I started poking around, and I realized they both could be used to burn ISO files from the command line. For a test, I downloaded a random ISO from MSDN, and gave […]
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I got my shiny new copy of Windows 7 today from MSDN. It became available to MSDN subscribers earlier this week. If you have access then give it a spin, there are some excellent improvements over Vista. I installed it today to test some of our software. One issue, that is also in Vista, is […]
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