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Windows – Launch program each time you login
To start a program each time you log into a windows computer … Create a shortcut to the program on the desktop (find the program in the program files folders and “right-click” on it …) Click on the Windows Start … Continue reading
Windows – Adding printers in Windows XP
To add printers system-wide in Windows XP you had to use a odd set of commands: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314486 Thankfully, this has gone away in windows 7 with the use of group policy user preferences ….
Windows – AD Management with PowerShell
Apparently, it is now possible to manage the AD with PowerShell. Since the GUI for active domain users and computers can typically only make changes one account at a time, this powershell access could be handy when you have to … Continue reading
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Software – Matlab 2011
Building a deployable and completely silent software installer for Matlab on windows is a bit of an adventure . Clearly, each installation is different so I don’t think I can give a detailed step-by-step recipe here for every circumstance. I … Continue reading
Software – Mathematica 8
Basic instructions for building a silent installer for Mathematica 8 can be found at: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/InstallingMathematica.html We use a network wide license server to license this application. To create the license file “mathpass” on windows – install the application and then … Continue reading
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Windows – Firewall Settings with GPO
Firewall settings can be controlled from with group policy … (more on doing this for specific applications like LabStats in a bit … ) See: http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2010/07/how-to-manage-windows-firewall-settings-using-group-policy/
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Bootcamp – Stop Bootcamp Help window popup
On a windows install using bootcamp on the Mac, users will see an annoying bootcamp help dialog box which isn’t really helpful at all to them. Lab users have no permissions to do anything with bootcamp so showing them this … Continue reading
Bootcamp – Hiding Mac volume from Windows
Reports are that since Bootcamp version 3 or so you can now read and write to the macintosh partition from your windows environment. This is less than ideal in a shared computer lab. Renaming the file: c:\windows\system32\drivers\applemnt.sys and then restarting … Continue reading
Windos 7 – GPO – Printing
Previously, printer mappings for multiple users on a single windows computer was a bit difficult. In order to make the print queues available to multiple users you would have to use some arcane “RUNDLL’ command lines. Now a set of … Continue reading
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Windows 7 – GPO – Time Service
I like to set my computers to a known and near time server. Certain functions, like KeyServer access for software asset management, have been “temperamental” about time … here is the group policy setting I use to force the time … Continue reading
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