March, 2010
What You Need to Know in a Mixed 32-bit and 64-bit Environment
When you transition from a 32-bit Windows environment to a mixed environment of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, you need to understand processor architectures. You also need to look out for some potential pitfalls.
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February, 2010
Get, Set, and Clear Computer Descriptions With Ease
With this VBScript script, you can quickly check, set, or remove the description for a remote or local computer. You can even use it to check or clear the descriptions for multiple computers.
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January, 2010
Prevent Scripts from Running on Servers
Use VBScript to prevent scripts from running on a specific type of machine.
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December, 2009
Making a Logon Script Expire
A simple date check loop, demonstrated with an at-logon printer audit, lets you make self-limiting additions to scripts.
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November, 2009
Solving PowerShell Argument Input Errors with Wrapper Scripts
Passing arguments that need quotes around them into PowerShell scripts isn't always straightforward, but these solutions will help you achieve drag-and-drop simplicity.
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November, 2009
Retrieve Information from Open Browsing Sessions
If you need to retrieve information from an open Internet Explorer (IE) browsing session, try Get-IEUrl.ps1. With this PowerShell script, you can get and save web pages' URLs, titles, text, and even IE objects.
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October, 2009
Tool Time: WinDirStat Simplifies Finding Where Your Disk Space Is Going
If you need to find out why a hard drive is running out of free space, try WinDirStat. This free tool provides multiple views of file-space usage.
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September, 2009
Find Document Handlers for Specific Users
Trying to find out what application really opens a document for a user on local or remote machine? This code can help.
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August, 2009
Tool Time: Export PDF Text with Pdftotext
If you occasionally need to export text from .pdf files to .txt files, try pdftotext. This free command-line tool automates the export process.
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July, 2009
Tool Time: Portable Text Editing with PrimalPad
SAPIEN Technologies' new free text editor is a better text editor than Notepad. It has complete VBScript highlighting support and is truly portable.
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February, 2009
How AddressBasedPrinter.vbs Works
Here's a brief look at how this VBScript script creates site-specific printer mappings.
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February, 2009
Create Site-Specific Printer Mappings for Mobile Users
Providing local print services for mobile users can be problematic in small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) with multiple sites. Here's a solution that automatically determines which site a mobile user is in, then maps the appropriate printers at that site.
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December, 2008
4 Ways to Help PowerShell Find External Tools
Learn how to help PowerShell locate external tools, saving time and keeping you organized.
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October, 2008
Whip Script Data Into Shape
Two simple functions let WSH scripts export dictionary data to an XML file and read it back with no extra work.
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July, 2008
Use Cmd.exe's Start Command to Simplify Setup Automation
Use the Start command and a batch file to simplify small-scale software deployment, prevent accidental omissions, and significantly reduce contact time.
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July, 2008
Customize the Size of Taskbar-Button Groups
In Windows Vista and Windows XP, taskbar buttons from the same application are grouped. However, you have no control over when grouping starts or ends. Here's how you can gain control and have the taskbar buttons group when you want them to.
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July, 2008
Clean Up Your Shortcut Names
If you want to change the verbose names Windows automatically uses for new shortcuts, you can modify a registry setting to make new shortcut names cleaner and use a simple script to clean up existing shortcut names.
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July, 2008
Use Batch Files to Automate Application Installation
You can chain together most modern software applications by using simple installer paths in a batch file;and by adding command-line options documented by other system administrators, you can often completely automate the installation.
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June, 2008
How to Significantly Speed Up Tasks That Involve Querying Computers
A network query to an inaccessible remote machine can take up to a minute to time out on its own. You can eliminate this wasted time with a simple PowerShell script.
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June, 2008
Use the .NET WebClient Class in PowerShell Scripts to Access Web Data
PowerShell doesn't have any cmdlets specifically designed to download Internet data, but you can use the Microsoft .NET Framework's WebClient class in PowerShell scripts to access this data.
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