Technical

Dual screen switcher icon - Dell Laptop with Intel wideo card

2010-05-26T11:08:00.000-07:00

The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) allows hotkeys to be used to switch screens around (and other things) while in dual-screen mode. To do this, it runs a hotkey manager. Dell has injected some code somewhere that recognises when the hotkey manager is running and the dual-screen mode is active, and imposes their own arrow icon button into the title bar.

I had half-suspected the Intel GMA hotkeys may be involved, and had disabled them through the GMA interface, but this still leaves the manager itself running.

Solution - in the short-term, check the active processes in Task Manager and locate hkcmd.exe. Kill this process, and the arrow goes away, but will come back next time you reboot (or login?).
To get rid of it permanently involves removing an entry from the registry (always export your registry before tinkering with it - just in case). Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete the hkcmd.exe element, then reboot.

Remove the Blogger Navbar

2010-03-16T10:51:00.001-07:00

Insert

#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}

After the tag and before the

IP Subnet Calculator

2010-01-28T06:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.subnet-calculator.com/subnet.php?net_class=A

IP Subnet Calculator

The IP Subnet Mask Calculator enables subnet network calculations using network class, IP address, subnet mask, subnet bits, mask bits, maximum required IP subnets and maximum required hosts per subnet.

Results of the subnet calculation provide the hexadecimal IP address, the wildcard mask, for use with ACL (Access Control Lists), subnet ID, broadcast address, the subnet address range for the resulting subnet network and a subnet bitmap.

For classless supernetting, please use the CIDR Calculator. For classful supernetting, please use the IP Supernet Calculator. For simple ACL (Access Control List) wildcard mask calculations, please use the ACL Wildcard Mask Calculator.

Note:
These online network calculators may be used totally free of charge provided their use is from this url (www.subnet-calculator.com).

Outlook 2007 - Apply Free/busy publishing across an organization

2010-01-24T19:26:00.000-08:00

Step 1 Download the office Administrative Template files link below

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=92d8519a-e143-4aee-8f7a-e4bbaeba13e7&DisplayLang=en - 2007 Office system Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool version 2.0

Step 2 extract files to a folder by double clicking on AdminTemplates.exe and following the prompts.

Step 3 Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.

Step 4 Right-click domain name, and then click Properties., Click the Group Policy tab. In the Current Group Policy Object Links for domain name list, select Default Domain Policy.

Note The Default Domain Policy Group Policy object is used here as an example. A new policy can also be created to apply the settings for all the users in the domain.

Step 5 Click Edit, and then expand User Configuration in the left pane. Right-click Administrative Templates, and then click Add/Remove Templates.

Click Add, and then go to the location the Admin templates.exe files were extracted and under \ADM\en-us

Step 6 Click Outlk12.adm, click Open, and then click Close.

Step 7 Expand Administrative Templates, and then expand Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. Expand Tools | Options, and then expand Preferences. Expand Calendar options, and then click Free/Busy Options. In the right pane, double-click Options. In the Options Properties dialog box, click Enabled. In the Months of Free/Busy information published list, select the value.

Note If you do not want to change the default value for the Months of Free/Busy information published list, select the Prevent users from changing Months of Free/Busy information being published check box.

Step 8 Click Apply, and then click OK.

Step 9.Update the Group Policy settings. To update the Group Policy settings in Microsoft Windows Server 2003, follow these steps:

a. Click Start, click Run, type cmd in the Open box, and then click OK.
b. At the command prompt, type gpupdate /target:user /force, and then press ENTER.
c. At the command prompt, type exit, and then press ENTER.

To update the Group Policy settings in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, follow these steps:

a. Click Start, click Run, type cmd in the Open box, and then click OK.
b. At the command prompt, type secedit /refresh user_policy /enforce, and then press ENTER.
c. At the command prompt, type exit, and then press ENTER.

Batch file to copy file and append date

2010-01-18T08:27:00.001-08:00

Set CurrentDate=%Date%
Set CurrentTime=%Time%
Set YYYY=%CurrentDate:~10,4%
Set MM=%CurrentDate:~4,2%
Set DD=%CurrentDate:~7,2%
Set Source=C:\Identipass\identipass.mdb
Set Destination=E:\Data\Identipass_%YYYY%%MM%%DD%.mdb
Copy %Source% %Destination%

SMS Remote Control Permissions

2010-01-18T06:49:00.000-08:00

Go to Site Settings > Client Agents > "Remote Tools Client Agent" properties.
Under the Security tab go to Permitted Viewers.
Either add the user names individually; or you may want to consider creating a Domain group like...
"SMSRemoteControl", add the username to that; and add SMSRemoteControl to the Permitted viewers list.
Allow up to 24 hours for the modified policy to filter down to all clients adding this new permitted viewer.

Developer Tag in Microsoft Office 2007

2010-01-14T08:38:00.000-08:00

Right click on the Excel (or any office 2007 application) menu (not the ribbon, but the menu with Home, Insert, Page Layout, etc.).
Select "Customize Quick Access Toolbar"
Go to Popular area in the form that shows up.
Check the box that says "Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon".

Windows 7 GodMode and Other Folder Shortcuts

2010-01-14T05:45:00.000-08:00

This feature allows you to create a folder which then gives access to a large number of shortcuts. This feature is intended to give developers quick access to areas of the operating system. You can create the folder as follows:

1. Create a folder on your desktop

2. Name it DevLinks.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

What ever you put before the period (.) will be the name of the folder created on the desktop

When you enter the folder you will see a long list of shortcuts to areas within the operating system. It should be pointed out that there are no new tools within this folder – the shortcuts in this folder link to tools, utilities and interfaces that are already available and can be found in Control Panel – it just puts them all into one big list and categorises them.

Below is a list of additional useful folders that you can create using the same process described above. The folders have been named accordingly to give you a clue as to what each one does:

LOCATION.{00C6D95F-329C-409a-81D7-C46C66EA7F33}
BIOMETRIC.{0142e4d0-fb7a-11dc-ba4a-000ffe7ab428}
POWER.{025A5937-A6BE-4686-A844-36FE4BEC8B6D}
NOTIFICATION.{05d7b0f4-2121-4eff-bf6b-ed3f69b894d9}
CREDENTIALS.{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
NETWORKAPPS.{15eae92e-f17a-4431-9f28-805e482dafd4}
DEFAULTS.{17cd9488-1228-4b2f-88ce-4298e93e0966}
ASSEMBLIES.{1D2680C9-0E2A-469d-B787-065558BC7D43}
WIRELESS.{1FA9085F-25A2-489B-85D4-86326EEDCD87}
NETWORK.{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
DRIVES.{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}
PRINTERS.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}
REMOTE.{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}
FIREWALL.{4026492F-2F69-46B8-B9BF-5654FC07E423}
PERFORMANCE.{78F3955E-3B90-4184-BD14-5397C15F1EFC}

http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys/archive/2010/01/08/windows-7-godmode-and-other-folder-shortcuts.aspx

The "Show Desktop" icon is missing in Windows XP

2009-12-15T11:07:00.000-08:00

Copy the following lines into a text file (using notepad);

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Save the file to your as Show Desktop.scf