Virus removal tools
DaleA short list of various virus removal tools I’ve used: Sophos – Virus Removal Tool Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool Windows Defender Offline
Slow startup and/or logon times with Windows 7?
Our users were complaining of slow startup and logon performance with our Windows 7 fleet. We got Microsoft in. One of the things they recommended was deploying two hotfixes: An…
400 Bad Request and Internet Explorer.
The customer reported that they were unable to access our company intranet site. They were getting an "400 Bad Request" error from Internet Explorer. So what did I do? I…
Busted laptop–one of those Family/Friends/Neighbour deals.
The friend reported that their Windows 7 Dell laptop was bluescreen-ing. Now this was going to be a post about how simple it was to fix, but as it turns…
iPhone call diversion
For some strange reason, the call diversion features on the Apple iPhone are a bit lacking. On Android, you’re able to easily set diversions based on “No answer”, “Busy” &…
Using Visual Basic to read though a set of registry keys.
The problem we have with a corporate deployment of Acrobat Reader, was that we need to uninstall various older versions of Acrobat Reader. Normally to do this, you need to…
Code to launch an Internet Explorer window from VBscript.
set IE = WScript.CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") dim ObjTitle IE.Navigate("about:blank") IE.Document.Title = "Software Update" IE.FullScreen = 1 IE.Left = 0 IE.Top = 0 IE.MenuBar = 0 IE.Toolbar = 0 IE.StatusBar = 0 IE.Width …
“Push customized printers down to XP client machines in domain environment?”
This is a copy of a post which was on Ask MetaFilter, August 2, 2006. In a Windows Server 2003 domain environment, is there a way to push printers to…
Hand-held scanners are still crap, even at $99
Saw this advertised the other day: This portable scanner is a magic wand that will scan and capture books, photos, letters and important documents. Scans without the need to have…
Lane Filtering
Update November 2015: VicRoads advice is that this practice is not legal ie. You are not allowed to lane filter between traffic and an adjacent kerb. Update January 2016: Lane…