Windows 2000 had Active Directory folders.
DaleIn Windows 2000 you could create a shortcut to an Active Directory resource, and turn it into an Windows Explorer view. One of my (now long gone) predecessors worked out…
Deleting those files forever.
If you followed my posts on un-deleting files, you now know that when you delete a file, you can often recover it. A reader asked in email “So can you…
An easy way to do a PDF to Word conversion
Don’t you just hate it when, after you’ve spent quite a few hours on doing something, some smarty pipes up a suggestion which meant you’ve just lost those hours. So…
Windows Update website – Error 0x800C0002
Had this error while trying to update a Windows 2000 SP4 test box. As it’s a test box, it has the bare minimum installed. Microsoft’s solution? clean the Internet Explorer…
Printer toner
Printer toner, depending on who you ask, is cancerogenic. Or not. The Material Safety Data Sheets I’ve seen, say not. But I still wouldn’t breath toner in. Now some of…
Remove hidden data from Microsoft Office documents.
I was sent a word document with "hidden data" in it. "Hidden data" in Microsoft Word documents can be one of several bits of information, such as hidden data, change…
Reading the end of a log file with PowerShell
I needed to read the last line of a log file. PowerShell made it very, very, easy. All you need to do is Get-Content the file, and then pipe it…
Backup mistakes I’ve made.
Confessions can be good. Here are mine around backup mistakes I’ve made. Copy “new” backup disk over the “old” backup disk. The “new” disk was blank! I (almost) “lost” 5…
How to extract device drivers from your PC.
Use Driver Magician. Why? Well sometimes you’ll get a laptop from a manufacturer, and to remove all the crapware, you’ll want to reformat the laptop. Reformatting is normally the best…
Lonely little SMS 2003 .PCK files
The call came in: Noddy22 has less than 5% disk space left. Our Microsoft SMS 2003 servers are getting a bit tired, and we really don’t want to replace them…