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• Mapped network drives read “Disconnected network drive”

  I upgraded my WinXP machine to WinVista and then upgrade my WinVista machine to Win7. Everything worked great. But I could no longer access network resources and my network shares read “Disconnected network drive” even though I could double-click and access them. This caused software installs to fail all over the place.
  The update to ZCM [...]

  Posted on Jan 29.10 to quickfix   

• Uninstalled program entry in Add or Remove Programs listing hasn’t be removed

  you’ve uninstalled a program but the corresponding entry in the Add or Remove Programs listing hasn’t be removed. This may be due to incomplete uninstall or poorly designed uninstaller itself.
  To manually remove the orphaned entries from the Add or Remove Programs applet,

  Click Start, Run and type regedit.exe
  Navigate to the following key:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows [...]

  Posted on Oct 09.09 to quickfix   

• Send control+alt+delete in a windows remote session

  if you need to lock a PC or pull up the taskmanager while in a remote session:
  CTRL + ALT + ESC

  Posted on Sep 23.09 to quickfix   

• Cannot find the Rundll32.exe file when you open Control Panel

  Error
  Windows cannot find C:\Windows\Rundll32.exe make sure you typed the name correctly and try again.
  Possible Causes:
  Reason 1: You have a virus or trojan that’s deleted this.
  Reason 2: Your antivirus has deleted rundll32.exe because your it was infected by a malicious program
  Microsoft Fix: To resolve this issue, follow these steps:

  Put the Windows XP [...]

  Posted on Mar 14.09 to it guy, malware, misc, quickfix, school   

• No more running exe, cmd and bat files from usb drive

  After a Halo 2 incident, I need a way to prevent students running exe, cmd and bat files from their usb drive. Note: The following information was found here and modified to suit my school situation.

  Posted on Jan 28.09 to batch script, hack, quickfix, school, services hack   

• USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista

  Q. I am having trouble with Flash Drives not mapping to the correct drive letter in windows when students put them into the computer.  Is there a way to set Windows to always use a selected drive letter?
  A. This is my solution. I’m putting it here because I can’t get to it without going around [...]

  Posted on Jan 26.09 to batch script, hack, helpdesk, it guy, quickfix   

• Network Scan

  Got an email from security concerning a virus. in the email last listed specific machines by ip address. not real helpful to list machines by IP address in a dynamic environment.

  Posted on Jan 12.09 to Wordpress Multi-user, antivirus, hack, imaging, it guy, manual labor, quickfix   

• Log into Novell and Workstation automatically

  i got a number of notebooks i need to set up. my issue is that my users don’t seem to grasp the idea of ‘workstation only.’ i found a quick and dirty hack to enable automatic login using novell. i won’t use this on teacher workstations, but i’ll selectively dole out this hack to laptop [...]

  Posted on Jan 06.09 to cms, netware, novell, quickfix   

• Disable Admin Bar plugin by Viper007Bond

  using the latest build of WPMu. I had an issue, though. There’s an admin bar plugin tucked away in the wp-admin to bring it closer to regular WPs functionality. The issue is that the bar displays options that are already in the sidebar. Plus, it blocked my turbo (GEARS) options. If you don’t like the [...]

  Posted on Dec 28.08 to plugin feature, quickfix, wpmu   

• Blackberry 8700C versus Youmail

  my BB kept showing the Voicemail notification icon even though i had no voicemails… i tried a hard reset and made sure all of my voicemails were deleted.

  Posted on Dec 26.08 to quickfix