Recent content by Tangent

*bump* No way to easily uninstall Office 2007 updates without going to Add/Remove? :(

At my work we're in the middle of migrating a few hundred users from Groupwise to Outlook 2007. The one snag we've run into is that one of the updates (KB946983) causes the email profile configuration to fail. When we ran into a Windows update that caused issues I wrote a batch file that easily...

Nope, couldn't get into BIOS at all. I ended up removing SP2 so I could use their XP disc and starting the reinstall from in windows. Ended up with the same result in the end, but it still irks me that I couldn't get it to boot from the CD. This was a couple year old machine, a P4 2.4.

I'm trying to reload XP on a Dell Inspiron 5100 for a co-worker but I can't get into the BIOS to change the boot order to start with the CD. The boot screen says to press F2, but it completely ignores that key, no matter how frantically I tap it. Even holding it down, then hitting the power...

There's one function I really love that WindowBlinds has: The ability to minimize windows by just right-clicking on any window's title bar. I don't really care about theming and I don't want to buy WindowBlinds for that one function. Is there any free app or registry tweak that will let me...

You've never heard it because you don't. The problem is that the guy I'm working with is convinced that you do for some unknown reason and won't take my practical examples as proof. That document should help, thanks!

The situation: At my work our My Documents folders are all automatically redirected to user folder on servers, which is great. The bad, is that one of the LAN admins I work with is insisting that for folder redirection to work, the Offline Files feature must be activated. This causes all sorts...

Beautiful! Much more elegant than the one I was cobbling together too. Thanks! :)

I really don't know a whole lot of anything about VBScript, I'm just dabbling at this point. What I'm trying to do is essentially combine a couple of sample scripts I found to perform the function I need. What I want to do is to be able to get the serial number of a PC on the domain by entering...

Perfect, thanks!

Won't that just return the currently logged on username? I want to be able to delete it from every user's desktop at once...

Background: At my work pretty much all users have admin rights to their PC. (That issue's above my paygrade otherwise it wouldn't be this way...) Some sections have PCs that are used by several different users during the course of the week. The problem is that there are a few people that have a...

Exactly Transient, your went into an eternal loop. Even though nothing else was open or running it came back with an error that there was an active process using the device so it tried again, got the same error, etc... :p

I'll try setting the newly mapped one to be persistent, hopefully that'll help. The problem is that the LAN admins here are cleaning up a horribly clutter active directory structure and group policies. I got put in a group that gets the h: drive mapped to a location that's not right for me only...

Here's what I've been using unsuccesfully: net use h: /delete net use h: \\server\share The delete command just isn't succesful most of the time...