Deleting missing or dead iTunes music entries
For whatever reason, I ended up deleting some MP3 files from my music storage, and my iTunes Library still had (now “dead”) links to the Read More …
Category: vbscript
Getting a list of users in an AD Group. using Vbscript.
I much prefer using Quest to do this (see this post), but I needed to use Vbscript as I had to output the results into Read More …
Using VBScript to read though a set of registry keys
I’m currently doing another deployment of Acrobat Reader, this time with VBScript. I wrote about using Visual Basic to do that here. Function CheckForPro Read More …
“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, Read More …
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:
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 Read More …
Writing log files with VBscript.
With some of our recent software deployments, we’ve used VBscript to install the software package(s). We have a dedicated team which develops these installation scripts. Read More …
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 Read More …
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 = Read More …
“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 Read More …