A lot of companies don’t want their employees (if they have administrator permissions on their windows machines) to update Windows by themselves. To get rid of numerous, annoying Windows pop-ups, reminding you to enable automatic updates, copy & paste the following code into your editor (notepad for e.g.), save it with the file extension “.reg” [...]
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Microsoft finally decided to offer its excellent MSDN Library for download. These are not outdated versions! The current version they offer is May 2006, which seems to be the most current one. Go get your MSDN Library here!
For those who don’t know what the MSDN Library is: It’s a great collection of documentation and sample [...]
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Having worked as a system engineer for the Windows platform for a few years, a few ideas recently came up my mind on what Microsoft should do to make Windows a better platform.
As I started to use Linux as my main platform about a year ago (I still use Windows for some tasks, but inside [...]
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Every Windows Administrator knows what Visual Basic Scripts or also called Windows Scripting Host Scripts can do to ease the burden of Windows System Administration. I’ve come across a script that consolidates most of the features you would ever want or need, like doing a hardware and software inventory of your networked computers.
The newest version [...]
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Have you noticed? Microsoft seems to acknowledge a few of its toughest competitors out there. Firefox and Linux for example. As you can see in the screenshot, Microsoft has enabled Firefox users as well, to install a “Microsoft Genuine Advantage” extension right into their favourite browsers. Well, as we all know, it’s not really an [...]
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Published on March 28th, 2007 in Windows, Windows Administration