A Treasure Trove of Technology Tidbits
Recently, I was given a generic user network login to use. But, I was performing computer security tasks and needed to have administrative access in order to check various settings. As a result of my needs, the network administrator gave me access to an “administrator command prompt”. Since I was not a local administrator on […]
I am always writing documentation and creating screen shots. Today, I came across a new (to me) application which does a great job taking screen shots. In addition to being quite feature rich, the application is completely free to download, using a GNU GPL (general public license). The new screen shot capturing application is called […]
Well, DOS scripting is not dead. Today, I had another reason to jump down to the DOS prompt and write a little scripting code. Basically, I was attempting to automate an installation which had several pieces and this was the easiest avenue to completion. Dusting off old DOS command knowledge, I figured out that I […]
There are a lot of ways to lockdown Internet Explorer. And, by default IE takes a portion of the free available disk space for its temporary files. The problem I encountered today was that I was running out of disk space on a Windows 2003 server. Removing temporary Internet Explorer files was a logical step, […]
In Windows XP, there was a folder in which you could place desktop icons, and these icons would be available to every user on that computer. At first, it’s not obvious where the equivalent functionality lies in Windows 7. But, I found it, and I thought I would share my knowledge. Window XP: Use Windows […]
Today, I needed the Dell Service Tag from a desktop. The Dell website tells me how to physically find this tag. That’s great, except I was not sitting in front of the desktop in question — I was miles away and remoted into it. Plus, what happens if the tag is physically disfigured? This post […]
Today, I needed to reboot a Windows Terminal Server, but there were users still attached. Before rebooting, I wanted to give them an opportunity to save their work. Also, I wanted to let them know that the server would be back up very shortly, within 10 minutes. So, I wondered, what is the best way […]
So, last week, I created a scheduled job in Windows 7. I setup the job using the wizard to run daily. To my surprise, it never ran, so I had to go investigate why it was failing. In the History tab, the job was failing with “Task Start Failed” and error value: 2147943645. Turns out […]
I have a customer who is upgrading users to Windows 8. As you must already know, Windows 8 removed the Start button in order to make the GUI “cleaner”. Well, many users are finding that “clean,” in Microsoft’s case, means unusable, and so they are asking for the missing functionality. Although you can hover on […]
So, I was trying to open the HP iLO (integrated Lights Out) remove console from Internet Explorer (IE). Normally, this results in a new web browser window, a warning that the certificate installed on the HP server is “unsafe”, and then a nice window showing me the server. Not this time. This time, I received […]