Yet another Tech Blog » Windows Administration

Get rid of those annoying Windows Pop-ups

Martin — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:36:36 +0000

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” and execute it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center]
“AntiVirusDisableNotify”=dword:00000001
“FirewallDisableNotify”=dword:00000001
“UpdatesDisableNotify”=dword:00000001
“AntiVirusOverride”=dword:00000000
“FirewallOverride”=dword:00000000

easy & free Windows System Administration using ManagePC

Martin — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:00:18 +0000

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 of ManagePC is built using VB.net, so you will need the .Net Framework 2.0, the older version is still available though.
Take a look at ManagePC here, I’m sure you will appreciate it a lot. If you know any other useful admin tools or script, post a comment!