Mike Morawski – Technical Bloggings

Finding Last Logged in User in Windows XP (And Novell)

Posted Sunday, 12 May, 2013 by Mike Morawski in Microsoft, Novell, Scripting and Automation, Windows XP

Something I’ve toyed with in a bit is a script to work with Novell’s login system to reset the last known user logged in to the next default upon login. Not for purposes of hiding anything, but simply to make the login process easier (especially if something was changed between network and local login modes). [...]

How to Fix unresponsive ‘Add Media’ in WordPress

Posted Saturday, 4 May, 2013 by Mike Morawski in WordPress

Recently, out of the blue and for unknown causes, I’ve had one of the WordPress sites I manage refused to open up the Media Gallery. No changes had supposedly been made to the server according to the web host and furthermore not much has changed other than content for the WordPress installation. The symptom I [...]

Hiding User Accounts on Windows 7

Posted Wednesday, 1 May, 2013 by Mike Morawski in Microsoft, Windows 7

User accounts in Windows 7 can easily be hidden from showing up within the Windows Login as well as the control panel user administration. The easiest way to do this is to set a simple value within the registry. The registry patch will essentially look like this: All that needs to be done is to [...]

How to Start Your Webcam in Windows 7

Posted Tuesday, 30 April, 2013 by Mike Morawski in Windows 7

In Windows XP (SP3) you could actually go and view a preview of your webcam through My Computer. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Windows 7 does not have any built in web camera software as far as I am aware of. Why isn’t this a Part of Windows 7 I [...]

Silent and Unattended Install Script Listings

Posted Thursday, 18 April, 2013 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Microsoft, Novell, Scripting and Automation, Software, Windows 7, Windows XP

Introduction I have a long history of automating programs, particularly installs. Most of these installs are AutoIt scripts which make life much easier than using the traditional batch programs. AutoIt is a free program and will make compiling these to an EXE a simple task. For those looking to use a different script, looking at [...]

Adjusting Registry and receiving a “SecurityException was unhandled: Requested registry access is not allowed”

Posted Tuesday, 2 April, 2013 by Mike Morawski in Applications, Microsoft, Scripting and Automation, Software, Windows 7, Windows XP

If you are trying to modify the registry via a Visual Studio program there are two big things you need to do to ensure that it is done right. First, you must be running as a user account with privileges. In Windows Vista or later, you will likely have to elevate the program to run [...]

Disable Zenworks Adaptive Agent ZCM Icon on Desktop

Posted Tuesday, 2 April, 2013 by Mike Morawski in Novell, Software, Windows 7, Windows XP

Something I’ve read in the past on some Novell forum that I thought I’d share. I haven’t actually gotten around to testing this, and I’m not quite sure what versions this ‘workaround’ will work with. I would only recommend trying this out on a test system as I believe Novell stated this was something that [...]

Changing DNS Suffix via C# Program or Script

Posted Tuesday, 2 April, 2013 by Mike Morawski in Applications, Microsoft, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7

I have been automating a bit more recently regarding desktop deployments. DNS and DNS Suffix were two items that needed adjustment Thankfully setting the DNS for an adapter was quite simple and I could just utilize a batch file like so: Well lets just figure out the netsh command for DNS Suffix. Oh wait, there [...]

Adding Aux In to Factory Stock Ford Ranger Radio

Posted Friday, 29 March, 2013 by Mike Morawski in Automotive, Hardware and Circuitry

I’ve had an urge to upgrade my radio in my 1999 Ford Ranger, my dedicated winter vehicle. Fortunately my car which comes out in the summer has a system I am now yearning to live without: Auxiliary input. Seeing as I spend enough on upgrades for my car, I set out to a budget approach [...]

Where does RDF (Resource Description Framework) Data Come From?

Posted Thursday, 7 March, 2013 by Mike Morawski in Data Structures

I was undertaking a project that I shouldn’t have. I was curious about analyzing some data regarding food nutrition. It wasn’t so much the nutrition facts I needed, it was the odd interest I had wondering what the hell ‘RDF’ format was. I assumed just some weird, usual tabular boring data, confined and strict. I [...]

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