Disabling Adobe Flash Player updates
DaleFast 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.…
Internet Explorer Security Tab Restrictions
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…
Disabling Acrobat Reader updates
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…
Bypassing the TrueCrypt Rescue Disk check requirement.
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…
Deleting computers from SMS 2003 (and perhaps SCCM 2007), with a script.
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…
And here’s the PowerShell: Pinging a computer script
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…
VBscript: "Pinging" a computer.
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…
PowerShell: Reboot remote computers
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…
PowerShell: count of files in a directory
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…
How to “CTRL-ALT-DEL” a BlackBerry
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…