Recently, I had a task that required 100s of folders to be compressed into individual archives. Manually this would have taken several days. I found a script and modified to suit my needs. I chose 7-Zip command line edition as it is only one file and offers the highest compression. 7-Zip is available at here. The only other file needed…
Read More »This little script will fix the Windows could not search for new updates Error Code 80245003 error message. It also serves another purpose. Whenever I create a new image, I want to eliminate as much clutter as possible for the smallest possible image. Sometimes the SoftwareDistribution folder can contain 100s of megabytes of files that are unneeded for an image….
Read More »Several years ago, I came upon a script that would recursively traverse through a folder tree and create a M3U playlist for each folder respectively. I slightly modified the script to fit my requirements. This script will look for MP3 and WMA files and create a M3U file. For the desired results, put the script in the root folder of…
Read More »The Prefetch folder is used to increase the speed in loading times for applications that have already been executed. There are several problems with thought process. The folder is never purged leaving old and unwanted clutter in that folder that will eventually slow down the computer. Another annoyance, is that this is yet another folder that maintains tracking of what…
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VWMware folders can get congested with log files, file fragmentation, and bloated file sizes. To remedy this, there is a utility available through VMware called VMware-mount-5.5.0-18463.exe. This utility will also work with version 6 of VMware (tested!). It offers among other things, several command line tools for handling VMware files. Along with a couple of handy scripts, that I have…
Read More »The Hewlett Packard TSGI-IR01 is the OEM version of the USB Microsoft eHome Infrared Transceiver. The device driver is supplied by Microsoft and included with the Windows MCE, XP, and Vista operating systems. It is because of that, HP did not have to supply their own driver. The device driver does work for the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition…
Read More »eTrust Antivirus features are grayed out and access is needed. From the images below follow a single registry key change and all access becomes available. No reboot necessary. Using regedit, the format is: Using AutoIT, the format is:
Read More »Automatic Updates completely grayed out. This script will reinable those features. Formating the regedit keys into AutoIT format:
Read More »Automate Network Drive Map at Boot not login Although this is a nice writeup. It does not work. When I originally created this process, I tested several times with success. Somewhere over time, critical updates and service packs broke this process. I will leave this article as is as it may help in some other design. Support AutoIT v3 (Freeware)…
Read More »All over the internet are the same instructions and the same Perl script to backup and clear the eventlogs. However, the Perl script does not clear the eventlogs. Under each of the explanations is the clear function is not implemented. The Issue The original code only backups Application, System, and Security eventlogs. Over the years, the newer OS versions of…
Read More »Internet Explorer 7 features a few changes to the interface that vere away from the “classic” look. Here are a few registry tweaks that will make the IE7 look and feel appear more like the traditional IE6 layout. Internet Explorer 7.0 Registry Tweaks and Customizations Standard toolbar in default position with search Standard Toolbar Above Address Bar Move the standard…
Read More »ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. However, to use this application in a commercial environment a license key is required for a nominal fee. I wanted to get this application and license key out to the registered user community as quickly as possible and with little intervention on the…
Read More »This simplified script offers the purpose of starting PXE, TFTP, and Ghost in an appropriate order. When the Ghost imaging is complete, the services for PXE and TFTP will also terminate. This is useful in an environment where some workstations are set to PXE boot. This will prevent unanticipated access to the PXE server. Also, a one click method to…
Read More »Not an easy answer to find, however, AutoIT is capable of allowing secure HTTP, FTP, or HTTPS downloads using a script. The following script worked for me.
Read More »Beyond Compare® is the ideal tool for comparing files and folders on your Windows or Linux system. Visualize changes in your code and carefully reconcile them. Beyond Compare is available at Scooter Software. A license was purchased to support a large user community. I wanted a means to simplify the distribution of this application with the license file. I chose…
Read More »Once compiled into an executable, the username and password is fairly safe. Yes, there are very rare decompilers out there, but safe to the normal user community. I chose this method of VBS2EXE type applications since those applications have a tendancy to extract the data in pure text either in local folder or temp folder. This method extracts to memory….
Read More »The method provided by ieSpell to register multiple users simultaniously over a mobile network was not a viable solution. I created this little script to simplify the task. I needed another script to remove registration from user systems who no longer require the application.
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