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If you have a client that needs computer help and has an internet connection, you need this software! It has a built-in chat, whiteboard tools, hell you can even re-boot the machine in safe mode and still work on it!  Even better, you can have the program remove itself from the client PC when you’re done…

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…