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Disabling Adobe Flash Player updates

Dale April 19, 2010 0 Comments

Fast on the feels of the Acrobat Reader post I wrote, Flash Player decided to start annoying the users with Arghhhhhhhh! Adobe has a “new” method to disable auto updates.…

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Internet Explorer Security Tab Restrictions

Dale April 16, 2010 1 Comments

One of our web developers contacted me, and asked how they could look at the settings for the Trusted Zone in Internet Explorer.  The Custom Level and Default Level buttons…

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Disabling Acrobat Reader updates

Dale April 15, 2010 1 Comments

At home, Adobe Acrobat Reader auto-updating is a minor annoyance.  As in the wife saying, “Acrobat is prompting for an upgrade again.”.  My wife does not have Admin privileges, so…

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Bypassing the TrueCrypt Rescue Disk check requirement.

Dale April 7, 2010 0 Comments

Update: TrueCrypt 7 and later will allow you to bypass this check. TrueCrypt, the freeware open source disk encryption product, allows you to encrypt your whole hard drive.  TrueCrypt calls…

Code Cutting How To SMS

Deleting computers from SMS 2003 (and perhaps SCCM 2007), with a script.

Dale March 31, 2010 3 Comments

Below is a script which will delete a list of computers from SMS 2003.  And quite possibly SCCM 2007 as well (not tested).  It was originally taken from the SMS…

Code Cutting How To PowerShell

And here’s the PowerShell: Pinging a computer script

Dale March 25, 2010 3 Comments

The first thing you might notice is that the PowerShell version is a bit shorter. 3 lines of VBscript code, compared to 1 line of PowerShell script. That is, 1…

Code Cutting How To vbscript

VBscript: "Pinging" a computer.

Dale March 24, 2010 0 Comments

If you looked at yesterday’s post, carefully I’ll admit as WordPress loves to mangle the display of <CODE>; you might have noticed that I check to see if a computer…

Code Cutting How To PowerShell

PowerShell: Reboot remote computers

Dale March 23, 2010 0 Comments

It looks like it’s going to be a week of scripting blog posts.  Today’s script is used to reboot a list of remote computers.  Sometimes, when deploying security patches, the…

Code Cutting How To PowerShell

PowerShell: count of files in a directory

Dale March 22, 2010 8 Comments

With PowerShell, I needed to get a count of files in a particular directory.  This is what I came up with. # # Get a count of files in a…

BlackBerry How To

How to “CTRL-ALT-DEL” a BlackBerry

Dale March 10, 2010 1 Comments

To reset your BlackBerry, three simple keys are all you need to know. Left alt, Right shift and Right del.  Pressing those three keys, at the same time, will cause…

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