I had a little trouble with an HP Printer driver that was causing the Vista PCs to hang at logon.
Without going into the specifics of the problem (which comes down to poor HP drivers), I needed a way to ensure that the driver wouldn’t be active the next time that a user logged onto a [...]

Sometimes it might be necessary to remove Sentinel’s Ranger software from a computer with the minimum of fuss. Even though there is a removal user account. For instance, this may not work.
So here’s a handy script to automitcally disable Ranger on a workstation. This returns some Windows settings back to normal and backs up the [...]

Vista’s UAC prevents standard users from installing printer drivers by default. This can cause a problem, especially if you use a logon script or group policy preferences to add shared printers to the user profile.

Luckily there’s a quick group policy fix that will allow users to add printers without any prompt. Once configured, you should be able to log on with a user account that automatically adds the printer without a hitch.

Once you have your domain and group policies set up, it can become frustrating to constantly have to remember to move a new computer into the correct OU.
Luckily in Windows 2003 and above, you can set a default OU:
redircmp ou=ComputersOU,dc=mydomain,dc=com
Remember to replace the path with your own domain’s OU path. Also, your domain has to [...]

I needed to delete a chunk of cookies today – but I didn’t want to delete them all.
Thankfully there is a handy command that is within Windows versions after XP such as Server 2003 and Vista that will enable to clean up without too many problems.
The forfiles command will allow you to set a specific [...]

Fed up with the BBC iPlayer? Well this article explains how to download BBC videos straight to your computer to watch in your favourite video player.