From the yearly archives:
After I wrote about the Office compatibility pack, a reader asked this question: I just saw your post on the compatibility pack. This seems like an ideal thing we can use here, but I can’t seem to locate the msi file so I can push it through the domain After doing some experimentation and using […]
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Many administrators are always looking for easier ways to deploy applications across their network. I find it amazing the number of times I have spoken with other Windows Admins, and they have never used the package deployment features of group policy. It works well, and I am going to walk you through a simple application […]
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Weather you like it or not, Office 2007 is slowly starting to creep into corporate networks around you. The biggest problem with this change is the totally different file format. A while back we released a command line utility, and added a feature to our Network Administrator product that could force your users to save […]
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The automatic login feature of windows is nice. It can be used for that machine you don’t need to lock down – or when deploying a system image that will reboot a few times during setup. If you are not familiar with the automatic login feature, it allows you to tell windows to automatically login […]
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I ran across this last week while helping a bank determine what Windows patch broke one of their internal applications. This meant I was manually installing different patches one by one (Including SP2 for XP) – and looking for them on Google. In one of my searches I came across this search result: Now looking […]
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I continue to be surprised by the number of people still using Windows 95/98/ME. I asked people earlier to let us know if they were interested in a 9x patch (For New Zealand), and we have gotten so much email we have had a hard time answering it all. Your wish has been answered and […]
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Actually I lied. Actually a double-click. But that doesn’t sound like a good title…so there :=- It is really simple, and this will work under Windows XP, and 2003 – not sure if it will work under Vista, but I would imagine the UAC prompt would ruin the whole experience. Open notepad and put in […]
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After creating the IE 7 Tweaking tool we seem to get loads of questions about IE 7. One of the latest was about setting multiple home pages in IE 7 from the command line. Hmm. Before someone asked I never had thought about it. If you look into the settings of IE 7, you can […]
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I stumbled across a cool utility provided by Microsoft. It is actually a Sysinternals tool created by Mark Russinovich. If you are the type that likes to get every sliver of performance out of your system – then this is for you. It is called PageDefrag It essentially allows you to defragment the page file, […]
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I was upgrading my home network over the weekend, and one of the changes I wanted to make was the location of the favorites folder. Unless you are using roaming profiles, your favorites folder will always be on your local hard drive. This means that if you login to more than one computer you will […]
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