“Our roaming profiles aren’t being saved …”
DaleI noticed this myself but wasn’t too worried about it as I was the only person affected. Then the problem started occurring to other people. Roaming profile problems can be…
VBscript to get the system uptime from a group of computers
One of our corporate customers doubted that we had computers being left powered on overnight. So I quickly wrote the script below to query each computer’s uptime. The record uptime? …
The strange case of the HP Presario CQ61 laptop
The user reported, When I use Microsoft Word, the keyboard randomly selected all text and deletes it. This doesn’t happen when I use an external keyboard. I’ve seen this behaviour…
So you’re missing the MSI source package
It is one of the great annoyances with Roaming Profiles and MSI-based installs, that if you reformat your PC, you can lose the link to your MSI package. Here’s today’s…
From Windows Vista, Microsoft changed the versioning of system files.
And that’s a good thing. A colleague at work today said You can tell whether a system file is a Service Pack 1 file based on the version number… Huh?…
The Proxy Server setting used by Internet Explorer and Google Chrome
can be found in the registry, in the ProxyServer entry, under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings key. This is useful, if for example, you need to swap proxy server when you are…
Internet Explorer 8 – users complained it was freezing
They were just upgraded from Internet Explorer 6. I have two guesses why this was happening: IE6 would have been freezing as well, but because website was in it’s own…
Office 2007 & 2010 reporting "File in use" on Novell Netware file shares.
We had a user complain that on Windows 7 and Office 2007, when they try to open a Office document on a Novell Netware fileshare, they were getting a "File…
Getting a list of users in an Active Directory group.
Like the write up I did on how to get a list of users in your domain, there are several ways to do this, but the method I prefer to…
Text mode drivers and Sysprep (on Windows XP)
I’m so glad we’ve moved away from needing to use Sysprep on Windows Vista / 7. But since I still support Windows XP and needed to add a Intel AHCI…