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Rich
Just another IT guy.
HP ThinState Capture and Deploy Keyboardless
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Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer 11
Thought this was unscientifically interesting on my Windows 8.1 x64 system... Homepage is t.msn.com. This is 1 minute after launching them and letting them sit "idle".
Dragging Hot Virtual Keyboard on Chrome
Working on a solution today to have the Hot Virtual Keyboard Chrome extension allow user to drag the keyboard without it disappearing.
Launch Chrome and Load a Local Extension
There are over 1,000 command-line switches to the chrome executable. This particular switch allowed me to load an extension from the command line by giving it a path…
Set Internet Explorer Proxy Settings Globally
Here's a registry file to set the Internet Explorer proxy settings globally for all users on a computer. This should work with Internet Explorer 8, 9, 10 and…
Test Cisco ASA VPN Authentication
Had an issue with a user that was failing to log into the VPN from remote. Couldn't initially figure it out while at home while troubleshooting the authentication. …
iPhone SMS/MMS Text Message Backup
I'm working on a tool, inspired by the need to wipe my iPhone but first backup my SMS/MMS text messages for retention purposes.
Reading View for Internet Explorer 11
A new feature of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 8.1 is Reading View. Reading view is available in the immersive version of Internet Explorer, not the desktop version. …
Fight DoS and DDoS With Linux IPTables
Found this on my G+ stream today and thought it was worth keeping around to play with in the future at some point.
Get Application GUID Using WMIC
Here is a quick command to get all the application GUID's on the current system using WMIC command and put them into a CSV for import into Excel.
Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive Using Diskpart
A few steps to make a bootable USB flash drive using the diskpart command. Requires an elevated command prompt.
Windows Embedded 8 System Requirements
This is a quick reference for me for Windows Embedded 8 versions system requirements. All the information can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee504814(v=winembedded.70).aspx.
Windows 8 File History
If you enjoyed Windows 7 Previous Versions feature, Windows 8 changes this up completely. It is now called File History and is not accessible from the Properties context…
Check if Your Linux Server is Affected by Windigo
To find out if your Linux server is affected by the Windigo campaign, you can run the following command.