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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 [...]

GroupWise 8 Entry Point Error After Upgrade

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

Looks 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 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 [...]

LaserJet 2410/2420/2430 Series ToolBox Download

Posted Monday, 22 August, 2011 by Mike Morawski in Applications, Hardware and Circuitry, Windows XP

HP must not like their webspace being cluttered up with their LaserJet Toolbox software. It’s impossible to find! I noticed the frustration among forums from people about this. I work with a bunch of HP printers so I thought I can help out by uploading the 2400 series toolbox. Download 2400 Series ToolBox 59.0 mb [...]

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 [...]

Advanced XP Install – Complete Automation using CD and Network Share – My Complete Process with Code

Posted Wednesday, 15 December, 2010 by Mike Morawski in Applications, Scripting and Automation, Windows XP

Download If you wish to follow this article, please download the code behind it all here. Some of you can likely piece it all together by looking at the code alone, others can use my help below to gather how it works. XP_Automation.zip (1.22mb) Quick Introduction This one is a large subject, considering how much [...]

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