by Alex Verboon
Well then it’s time now to get familiar with it. Since about 2 years Intel is shipping vPro technology, but still many people aren’t familiar with this technology or haven’t even heard of it at all, for those I recommend Read More …
Today I have come across the topic BITS which stands for Binary Intelligent Transfer Service which is a file transfer technology that is included in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. What is nice about BITS is that Read More …
Today some e-mails where exchanged on how to best script registry permissions. Depending on what you want to achieve here’s a couple of tools that can be of help. SetACL.exe http://www.helge.mynetcologne.de/setacl/index.htm http://setacl.sourceforge.net/ SubinACL.exe http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E8BA3E56-D8FE-4A91-93CF-ED6985E3927B&displaylang=en Regini.exe http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237607
In my earlier post "Automating Regional Settings configuration" I described how to script the Regional Options settings for Windows XP using a rundll command. For Windows Vista there is a similar trick using the following command: control intl.cpl,, /f:“filename.xml” Details Read More …
When launching Windows Explorer, by default the driver letters are being displayed behind the volume / share name. Some people, like myself don’t find this very convenient and want to see the drive letters in front of the volume / Read More …
If you are sure about what you are doing and you want to speed up the installation of multiple security patches or applications, you can use the following WMI command to disable Windows XP system restore. on error resume next Read More …
I posted this a couple of years ago into the MyITforum site and received plenty of replies on this, as at that stage it was an unknown trick. Below the trick how to enable the Windows XP quicklaunch bar by Read More …
Today the following options exist to automate BIOS configuration for HP clients:The Client Management Interface allows you to use WSH to retrieve and set BIOS settings like in the example below which changes the Ownership Tag. Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = 16 Read More …
For Windows XP, regional settings can be applied by using the following method: Create an answer file that contains the [RegionalSettings] section items you want to modify, and then save it (for example, as c:\regopts.txt). Create a batch file by Read More …