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Abort PE Startup in MDT 2010 and Return to OS

Posted Friday, 9 December, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows XP

A quick annoyance and one that I always forget. For anyone using MDT getting stuck with MDT loading up time after time and not knowing how to abort the PE load-up here’s the simple trick: In PE environment, hit F8 to load up a cmd prompt. List out the directories (dir) and use command rd [...]

Disable Grammar, Spell Check, Thesaurus (Proofing) in Office 2010

Posted Tuesday, 6 December, 2011 by Mike Morawski in Applications, Microsoft, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7, Windows XP

Recently I’ve seen more Office 2010 at the work place and I noticed that the same technique for disabling the proofing tools I used in my last article for 2007 did not cut it. Microsoft put an even more impervious anti-corruption techniques in place, putting an end to my breakage of the proofing files hoping [...]

MDT 2010 LiteTouch Runs Task Rather than Showing Wizard

Posted Tuesday, 29 November, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Microsoft, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7, Windows XP

One issue I’ve seen happen to me many times with MDT is having it fire off to a Refresh install without me even telling it to do that. I realized this only happened in a certain circumstance. Deployment Summary NOT skipped The desktop went through a refresh via MDT The desktop left running at the [...]

MDT 2010 Renaming Folders within Applications Folder

Posted Friday, 11 November, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Microsoft, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7, Windows XP

After working with MDT 2010 for awhile and having a standardized approach to how I name my application folders, I was a bit ticked at some of the older application folders which didn’t follow my convention. Not a big annoyance but, one that can be fixed rather quickly. I’m sure I’m not the first in [...]

Office 2007 Bug: Opens File After Minimizing and Maximizing or Switching Applications

Posted Tuesday, 8 November, 2011 by Mike Morawski in Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows XP

A new, never seen before problem I encountered was when I was helping one of my favourite clients with a new desktop. She would merely double click on any Excel file, and be shown nothing more than the screen below. Hm. Though she did find a temporary work-around. Switch to some other application, then switch [...]

Windows File Decompress Tool

Posted Friday, 4 November, 2011 by Mike Morawski in Applications, Microsoft, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7, Windows XP

This is a quick utility I whipped up in AutoIt for scanning a hard drive for compressed files. Basically this was originally planned to be used to check how many files were compressed during a Windows Disk Cleanup operation to see how much was affected. There is also a quick decompress option which runs the [...]

How I solved my WMP12 and Xbox Shared Video Problem >:(

Posted Wednesday, 17 August, 2011 by Mike Morawski in Microsoft, Windows 7

Windows Media Center isn’t playing nice with me so I opted to go with the simpler Xbox 360 approach. Oh yea, that ones been causing pain for me as well as it failed to show the videos I had linked in the library (exactly where I left off when I had the exact same intentions). [...]

How To Run Script after MDT 2010 Deployment Finish

Posted Tuesday, 12 July, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Microsoft, Scripting and Automation

I needed a quick way to run a script after certain task sequences. MDT doesn’t really have a way to do this after everything completely finishes. I took my own approach, being a programmer I did modify litetouch.wsf. Here’s what I did, for anyone interested. Open up litetouch.wsf in the deployment share scripts directory, find [...]

Dell Unknown Device Driver – NTN0530

Posted Wednesday, 22 June, 2011 by Mike Morawski in Hardware and Circuitry, Microsoft, Windows 7

Fresh install of Win7 on a Dell Inspiron 2305 and all the drivers Dell linked me to did NOT resolve all unknown drivers. The missing one: Winbond IR Receiver (NTC5572D) Here you go. (12.1mb) Needed if you have a device in the device manager with Error Code: 28. Viewing the properties of it in the [...]

Office 2007 Disable Spell Check for Exams or Quizzes

Posted Wednesday, 30 March, 2011 by Mike Morawski in Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows XP

Update (12/9/11): Office 2010 now has a solution here. I was recently trying to disable spell check for use in an exam lab. I found nothing too helpful online. One thing to do is to go into word options, and disable it under proofing. However, this would be easily overcome by any student that knows [...]

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