combined IT ramblings
This week I needed to clear the ‘logon script’ field of all AD users (who had one set). While working on the code, I noticed you couldn’t just do ‘ objUser.scriptPath=”” ‘ as this would result in an error. So this was done with PutEx. The following will search for each… Read more »
This is a little known reghack: When Windows stores files in a folder on an NTFS partition, it still creates so-called 8.3 file names for compatibility with 16-bit Windows programs. When a folder has more than 4000 file entries, it becomes noticeable that access performance decreases. When the folder has more… Read more »
You are sure that the text files in a folder contain a certain string, but the Windows Explorer search doesn’t return anything! WTF? Maybe, the files just have an extension which Windows doesn’t recognize, and are therefore skipped. This is a hack to enable Windows Explorer to search in all… Read more »
Want to get rid of those nasty balloon tips, hovering over the task tray? Here’s the registry command:
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reg add "HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced" /t REG_DWORD /v EnableBalloonTips /d 0 |
If you’d wish to re-enable them again, this is the code
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reg add "HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced" /t REG_DWORD /v EnableBalloonTips /d 1 |
Annoying: You want a command shell, but there is no folder in view in the Windows Explorer, just the files in the folder you want the shell to start in. This is a modified version of the DosHere.reg file that allows just that by right-clicking on any file system object:… Read more »
Situation: You have an application server, but its network name is like abcx0143.domain.intra, which is just too hard to remember for your users. You have created a DNS alias like shares.domain.intra, but when you try to open the shared folders through that alias, it won’t work.. 🙁 BUT! There is… Read more »
Want to get rid of the popups that appear on your Windows Print server when print jobs are to be retried? Type the following command in any command prompt window:
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reg add HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPrintProviders /v RetryPopup /t REG_DWORD /d 0 |
And for those who want to enable them:
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reg add HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPrintProviders /v RetryPopup /t REG_DWORD /d 1 |
This article addresses one specific use case for recursion in batch: Recursively looping through a directory (also called a folder) and its sub directories. Normally, this is a pain, and it took me a while to come up with an algorithm that works. For recursion to work correctly, you need:… Read more »
One of the annoying things in Windows XP/2003 and later, is that the construct
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if not exist c:\test\*.* echo No files! |
does not work as expected if c:\test is empty. This seems to be due to the fact that Windows regards the “.” and “..” file entries as valid files (even though, technically they are directories),… Read more »