Bestest Christmas Card!
DaleThis pleasant surprise was in the mail box yesterday: (It’s a hand-crafted Christmas, which Smee tells me that his better half takes ages to make.)
I hate grovelling around in Blue Screens of Death.
They’ll tell you why something crashed, eventually. And the data a crash dump gives you isn’t a matter of opinion. It is what is is. So it’s a good piece…
“You could use WMIC Product”
… suggested Adrian, of “Text Mode drivers and Sysprep” fame, in response to the “A script to list out the Add/Remove Program entries” post. Yes, that would work as well.…
Performance: Windows XP, the now “Classic” OS and Solid State Drives.
With my last post, I mentioned that there are 3 things you should do with SSD drives on Windows XP. I left 4 other things out, because I honestly didn’t…
Windows XP, the now “Classic” OS and Solid State Drives.
Solid State Drives, SSDs, are now becoming cheap enough that our corporate customers are ordering them with their new PCs. The first Windows operating system to support SSDs*, was Windows…
A script to list out the Add/Remove Program entries …
Created a script to dump out the contents of Add/Remove Programs. The output looks like this: The VBscript follows below the break: On Error Resume Next Dim strHost,sAddRemTmp,iRegRC Const strBaseKey…
Application FooBar.exe was randomly locking our computers.
The customer reported that their computer was being randomly “Locked” while they were typing. I’m sure our initial thought was “What are they smoking there?”. But we had some other…
Computer Associates eTrust ITM definitions not updating
I was researching (another) eTrust issue today, and found this (defunct) blog post by Brad Benner. Thought I’d save it from the memory hole. The virus definitions for one of…
OH&S question: “Are there limits on what we’re allowed to lift?”
Which, is often followed by "I thought there was a 15kg limit". Long story, short (in Victoria Australia), there isn’t any. But …. However, the Regulations require the employer to…
Resetting the "IE Browser Choice” preference.
We upgraded Internet Explorer to IE8. Foolishly enough, we assumed that on a Corporate Desktop, that users would only use Internet Explorer. Then the complaints from the vocal Firefox majority…