Category: Computer Stuff

Simply add this script to an OU in your domain under computer login scripts, and reboot the computers. Once they start, they’ll automagically delete all user profiles from the computer except for admin, default user, all users, etc. The script can be easily changed to suit your specific needs.

Sadly, as much as I’ve used different flavors of Linux, and enjoyed playing around with them, I’ve never really gotten far enough to join my linux machine to a windows domain, and actually use it as a server. This is a great writeup on how to do just that. http://www.schooltechnician.co.uk/knowledge_base/linux/turning_your_linux_box_into_a_windows_compatible_server.html

Hopefully, this will help someone else out that has this problem. I was trying to find a way to clear out the temporary internet files of every user on every computer in a lab that I manage (read: 30 computers with 30+ profiles on each = nightmare), and could only find the setting that pertained…

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx Basically, it’s an interactive menu, that allows you to click on a Word 2003 command, and it will show you where that command is in Word 2007.  Useful for new users to the Office 2007 Suite…

http://www.kixtart.org/ What’s KiXtart KiXtart is a free-format scripting language and has rich built-in functionality for easy scripting. It supports COM (providing access to ADSI, ADO, WMI, etc) and thus is easily extensible. Since version 4.50 KiXtart comes with inbuild pre-tokenization system for faster loading and smaller scripts and providing some level of intellectual property protection…

If you have to do this, and I hope you don’t (I’m trying my best to avoid it), here are some really good resources. http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=35486 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=320202

There were quite a few things that I had to do in order to get this to work. Here’s a few commands, then I’ll provide links to all of the places that helped write the commands. Cmd prompt: (this command exports every contact in your AD Domain into a csv file called, “onlycontacts.csv”) CSVDE -f…

I don’t know why I have such an interest in HD Video today, I just do I guess. Here’s a link to Microsoft’s site about producing videos in their proprietary format. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/producinghdvideo.aspx *Note that the article is VERY old (2004), and even the products that they have linked on the site are not available anymore,…