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 [...]
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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 XPDisable 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 XPRecently 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 XPOne 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 XPAfter 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 [...]
GroupWise 8 Entry Point Error After Upgrade
Posted Tuesday, 8 November, 2011 by Mike Morawski in Applications, Windows 7, Windows XPLooks like there is somewhat of a rough road for those upgrading from GroupWise 7. One error I saw with no absolute resolution posted online gave me a bit of fun. Error being the following: procedure entry point ??OCLdapConnect@@QAE@PADHOH@Z could not be located in the dynamic link library GWLD0132.dll Don’t try a reinstall by itself. [...]
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 XPA 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 XPThis 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 7Windows 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). [...]
Dell Unknown Device Driver – NTN0530
Posted Wednesday, 22 June, 2011 by Mike Morawski in Hardware and Circuitry, Microsoft, Windows 7Fresh 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 [...]
MDT 2010 – Renaming Administrator Account (Including for Sysprepping)
Posted Thursday, 9 June, 2011 by Mike Morawski in MDT, Scripting and Automation, Windows 7If you are using Microsoft Deployment Tools you may be looking for a way to rename the administrator account, here I will show how to rename for a Standard Client Task Sequence and a Sysprep And Capture Task Sequence. Standard Client Task Sequence: Open up your task sequence and find the Eject CD task. Create [...]
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