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Reboot a Windows PC Remotely.
TweetHere is an interesting problem I ran into today. Even a week after McAfee destroyed almost 700 of our workstations, I was cleaning up the mess. So here is the situation. I was remotely connected to a site in the middle of nowhere Ohio with a connection so slow it takes minutes to do things [...]
Full StoryInstalling MSI Packages with Elevated Privileges
TweetMy buddy Danny found this great tip for any Windows admin out there. You know how frustrating this can be so write this down! Clipped from: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsXP/RegistryTips/Security/InstallingMSIPackageswithElevatedPrivileges.html RunAs is a great way of temporarily elevating your privileges to admin level when you are logged on as an ordinary user. However, while you can right-click on [...]
Full StoryJoining a Computer to the Domain using a Script
TweetHere’s a quick tip for you Active Directory admins out there. You should already know how to join a domain via the GUI, but what about via the command line? To do this we will be using netdom. Go ahead and open your command prompt, type netdom /? and take a look at the options [...]
Full StoryWindows Quick Tip: Shared Folders
TweetHere is a quick tip on how to see what folders you are sharing over the network. See the windows key on your keyboard? Hold that and hit the R key. This brings up the Run Menu. In the run menu, type cmd like you see above and click ok or hit enter on your [...]
Full StoryA letter to laptop manufacturers
TweetI have an old ASUS Z71V laptop that is on its last legs. The old boy has handled well since I bought him in early 2005- a remarkable service of four years- but now he’s hacking and coughing and his video card is crapping out. Over the years of using my faithful ASUS, I’ve found [...]
Full StoryEncodeHD: Making iPhone videos easy.
Tweet EncodeHD has been sitting on my desktop for a while and I have no idea where I found it or how it got on my desktop. The only reason why I even clicked it is because now that I am effectively unemployed, or temporarily unemployed as the state of Florida defines it, I needed [...]
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