Posted January 7, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 1 comment
Following on with my current theme of under-used tools I thought I would point out another little gem which provides the ability to pipe command window output to the clipboard. CLIP.EXE originally used to be a resource kit tool which found its way into the operating system in Vista and 2003 and allows you to easily
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Posted January 7, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 2 comments
I love the Windows 7 taskbar with it’s jumplists and other functionaility but one thing that really irks me is the messenger icon that hangs around even when i’ve got no active conversations. If you remember prior to Windows 7, if you minimized messenger the toolbar icon / button wasn’t there however with Windows 7,
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Posted January 5, 2010 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
A couple of things always seem to amaze me, the under-used power of some of the built-in Microsoft tools and even more so, the types of administrators who are not aware of them. WHOAMI.EXE is a perfect example of this, a tool that appears simple but can actually give you a huge amount of information…
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Posted November 7, 2009 by Jon Wallace | 1 comment
One of the little things that Windows 7 appears not to have which Vista did was a screensaver at the logon screen. A user recently inquired about how to enable this on the Microsoft Answers forum so I thought I would put together a little post to help… To enable the screensaver, first choose the
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Posted January 27, 2009 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
I had what seemed like a straight forward scenario which turned out quite the opposite, basically I wanted to enable the clock for all of the users logging into a machine. Great I thought, no problem, just hack in a StuckRects2 Settings registry value which has the clock enabled at logon right? Then, looking closely
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Posted July 29, 2008 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
Upon my travels I am amazed about the amount of people (techies) that I come across in the field who have never heard about Process Monitor let alone those who know about it but never use it. Now I understand that for many, this blog entry will be much to do about stuff you already
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Posted June 27, 2008 by Jon Wallace | 0 comments
Recently I had the pleasure of troubleshooting a rather interesting problem which appeared to be related to custom forms within Microsoft Outlook 2007. Custom forms allow a user to tailor various screens within Outlook (for example – the compose new message screen) to suit their own needs. In this case the creation of the form
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