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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 [...]

Maple 16 Installation Hangs on TTF font files

Posted Thursday, 7 March, 2013 by Mike Morawski in Software, Windows 7, Windows XP

I’ve heard very little of this issue yet I feel like it affects me every time I run Maple 16 installations. During an install, all will go fine until the installation reaches .TFF extension files. At this point, the installation will seemingly halt, or proceed very slowly. Something I noticed was that the more I [...]

Why GroupWise Time Input Appointment Button may be Missing

Posted Tuesday, 29 January, 2013 by Mike Morawski in Novell, Software, Windows 7, Windows XP

I recently had a client who could no longer enter in a time with the yellow clock button which helps set a time with a handy slider. I had tried a complete reinstall after running GroupWise Clean It 3.5 with no result as well. It turns out that a recently installed screen reader is to [...]

USMT: A Quick Run-through Guide

Posted Thursday, 27 December, 2012 by Mike Morawski in Microsoft, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7, Windows XP

Preface For this guide keep in mind that Microsoft has plenty of USMT articles to help out. They are well documented, however may be a slower read especially for most experienced administrators. The goal of this guide is to focus on the basics as quickly as possible to get one started that has had no [...]

Desktop fails to boot after ZCM Install on UEFI Systems /w GPT Drives

Posted Wednesday, 19 December, 2012 by Mike Morawski in Novell, Windows 7

Not too long ago I’ve seen Zenworks Configuration Management installed for two identical desktops with a OEM Windows 7 operating system and UEFI /w GPT. Everything appeared fine, until a reboot. At a reboot Windows 7 would fail to boot, would try to load the recovery tools, but fail again and again. I had no [...]

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