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MacOS – Script to remove old license from all users
With PyMol version 2.1 and below, the license needed to be located in each users home folder. Thankfully, with PyMol version 2.2 and beyond the license can be located centrally in: /Library/Application\ Support/Schrodinger/licenses (See: https://pymol.org/2/support.html? ) To transition from the … Continue reading →
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Windows – Start Menu layout for Windows 10 version 1809
Apparently, with Windows 10 LTSC version 1809 setting the Start Menu layout in the Profile user account no longer sticks through sysprep setup. I have, however, found another way to set the start menu layout: 1) Configure the start menu … Continue reading →
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Mac OS – Remove Inactive Users
Each user that logs into one of the macs I support takes up almost 500 MB of space for their “home” directory. With some of my macs having hundreds of users these home directories can fill up the disk. Also, … Continue reading →
Windows 10 – Removing old AD user account and profiles
There is apparently a way to delete accounts on systems that haven’t been used in over 30 days with an AD Group Policy setting. I found that this GP setting did not work on the Windows 10 systems I manage. … Continue reading →
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Windows – Clean the Default User Hive
Clean the Registry for the Customized Profile Log in as the local Administrator and run regedit Select to highlight it: “HKEY_USERS” Select Load Hive from the File menu Browse to your profile/template user directory and select “ntuser.dat” Enter “DU” for … Continue reading →
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Mac – Skip MS Office First Run
A web page that might offer a solution: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/82025/disable-office-for-mac-2011-first-use-registration
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Mac – Mavericks Template User Setup
For my Fall/Spring 2014 mac images I want to preserve the template user structure as much as possible in order to preserve the KeyChain process. This, I hope, will remove issues I am having with Chrome being unable to use … Continue reading →
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Mac – Mt Lion hides the user Libary be default
For some reason known only to Apple, Mt Lion (Mac OS 10.8.x) now hides the user’s library folder by default. This presents some issues for software that have been written to store information in this folder. So … To unhide … Continue reading →
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Mac – 10.7 – Hidden User Library Folder
For some reason Apple decided to hide the user’s Library folder. This is where quite a few user preferences and other settings are stored. To allow this folder to be visible, open a Terminal window and give the command: chflags … Continue reading →
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Mac – User Profile
To change the default user profile on a Mac with 10.5 or 10.6 … First create a user account and setup all the preferences you want. Set the Dock, change the desktop background, set up application preferences like the homepage … Continue reading →