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- Dell Laitutde D600: Configure Setup is Disabled
trying to image a Dell Latitude D600. Damned thing had an admin password set to it, which I didn’t have. These files will solve your issue.
DST CD ISO: Down load this zipped image. unzip it and burn it to a CD.
- Kiosk Mode in Microsoft Internet Explorer
I build a small PHP based time clock for my teachers. Look, I am not coder. So I dropped XAMP on an old pc, loaded my clock and BOO-YAH – pleased administration. I’ve locked the PC down every way I know how.
disabled all usb ports
physically disabled cd room
lock surfing via hosts file
made localhost the default [...]
- User Groups Overview
This document is an additional fact sheet on the differences between various user groups in Windows XP. Please read the documentation on Domain and Passwords in Windows XP before reading this document.
Every user account on a Windows XP machine is part of a local user group on that computer. A user group is a set [...]
- Moving data PC to PC pt1
i’ve been looking for a migration utility that will move programs, files, drivers and desktop settings. I recently upgraded/replaced 200 PCs in various places around my main school. I still need to upgrade my adminstrators’ PCs. unfortunately, they have years worth of sensitive data and software that can not be replaced. I tired Laplink PC [...]
- Trojan horse IRC/BackDoor.SdBot4.GYM
Today my entire school district was stricken by a worm. The symptoms involed:
loss of sound card in device manager
deletion of audio drivers
TCP/IP corruption
It’s been eating our network all week. I’m not sure how, but the bug was propogating via our network. To stop this, I’ve been imaging machines as I find them. Then I’d recreate [...]
- Word 2k7 stalls after splash screen
So today I got about 1k calls before the first bell had rung. Word was hanging up all over campus.
I thought it was the virus scan, but no dice. I thought it was an update pushed down from downtown – no dice.
As it turns out, all the printers in my print list were error’d out. [...]
- Stupidity Disclaimer
Had a run in with a teacher who needed to know why I’d removed the ability for users to log into the network without their Novell logins. In essense, why’d I get rid of the Workstation Only button?
#1 – I don’t work for you. I don’t owe you any answers. Take your questions to the [...]
- A Curse on Windows Vista
It’s funny how things cascade out of control. Our school was hit by lightning. It fried an archaic, windows 95 machine which was running out time clocks. No problem, I figured I’d knock together a small php/mysql based timeclock based on one I’d found on the ‘Net. My hack is working in testing on my [...]
- Use Regedit to Control “Workstation Only” Functionality
uh-oh, I staged 20 laptops for my vice principal to take to a conference. We had some bumps, but everything imaged ok. Then, while verifying my fix, I realized that there was no way for anyone to log into the computer sans Novell. My updates had removed the option to log into the workstation. How [...]
- Like Christmas in June
I have a really great principal. He’s provided me with all the tools I need to do my job and then he’s gotten out of my way. I appreciate that. Like today:
We have a photo lab with 24 network drops. Unfortunately, all the drops are along the same wall and complete inaccessible to to most [...]
