How to determine what you want
DaleI was on a training course recently, and the trainer showed a chart something like this: If we focus on what we Don’t Want, that’s what we get To help…
I’m not going to miss this “I’ve bent a PIN” problem.
This, pictured right, landed across my desk today. The end user told me “I’ve bent a drive pin, can you fix it.” ‘Maybe’ The problem with trying to fix this…
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…
Removing old update backup files from Windows XP and Windows 7
Before I release a new Windows XP standard operating system image, I use a utility called “Windows XP Update Remover”. I do this to reduce the number of “$NTuninstall” directories…
What happens when you uninstall Internet Explorer 8?
It makes itself hard to reinstall itself. The install program looks at registry and decides, “heck, I’m already installed.” At least that’s happened when I had to reinstall it via…
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…
And I thought screen protectors were a waste of time and money
A gimmick just to try and extract more money out of uninformed consumers. But I was wrong. The picture on the left shows the assorted scratches (circled) my PDA has…
How to uninstall all versions of a particular piece of software.
We’re in the mist of doing an Adobe Acrobat Reader upgrade, and one of my co-workers found this place of code on the net. The vbscript loops though WMI’s Win32_Product,…
One way to anonymise live data for test use
Take your table/spreadsheet with your live data and sort ONLY the field holding the surname into A –> Z order sort ONLY the field holding the first name into Z…