Monthly Archives: August 2009

Use Excel to create easy batch jobs

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Nerd

Do you have to run a command on several servers remotely?  You can enter each command separately, but every good admin should know how to make life easier for him/her self.  For example, I wanted to use the psloggedon.exe tool … Continue reading →

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Use Excel to create easy batch jobs

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Nerd

Do you have to run a command on several servers remotely?  You can enter each command separately, but every good admin should know how to make life easier for him/her self.  For example, I wanted to use the psloggedon.exe tool … Continue reading →

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Change Firefox address search engine provider

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Nerd

Somehow… my default search engine in Firefox defaulted to Bing, and I wanted to change it back to Google, so I figured I’d show ya’ll how to do it too! In Firefox, type in about:config in the address bar, click … Continue reading →

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Install Windows 7 from USB Disk

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Nerd

I told you before about a utility that will create a bootable USB windows installer, but for all us command line junkies, this is just drop dead easy… Get a spare 4GB USB 2.0 thumbdrive, reformatted it as FAT32, and … Continue reading →

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Windows 7 Slow Remote Desktop (RDP) fix

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Nerd

As with Windows Vista, I ran across a random issue when using Remote Desktop, or RDP.  Sometimes, my mouse clicks were delayed by several seconds in the RDP session, and other times, it was OK.  I remembered finding this with … Continue reading →

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That was just dirty Microsoft…

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Nerd

I really hate “sneaky” installs.  Some software will try to install a browser toolbar, change your search engine, or change your home page.  Well, now I can add Microsoft to the list.  I installed the Microsoft Office 2010 Tech Preview, … Continue reading →

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Run Windows 7 without activating for 120 days

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Nerd

With just a simple command line, you can run Windows 7 for 120 days past the initial 30 days activation time limit  -that’s 4 months before you have to put in your key!  Just drop to the command line, and … Continue reading →

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