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Windows 8 Product Key Finder

September 15, 2014 1 min read

I use pkeyui (h/t Rick Nash) to find the Windows 8 product key for reinstallation purposes. Works well and has not failed me in about a half dozen…

Office.com Online using WinForms

August 8, 2014 2 min read

This isn't true API access, just a WebBrowser control. I'm looking into the API though which would require me to register my Application even though it's not a…

Change User-Agent in WebBrowser Control

August 8, 2014 1 min read

This snippet of code worked when tested in VB.NET application I'm working on. It will set the User Agent string for the duration of the control. Private Property…

Restrict Access to Only Email/OWA Access

August 6, 2014 2 min read

An existing user in a Windows domain was moving companies (to a parent company) that is not part of the infrastructure.  After the employee left his account was…

Exchange 2003 and Outlook over RPC HTTP

August 4, 2014 1 min read

I got to setup my first ever Exchange 2003 RPC HTTP configuration today. That was fun. Included installation of some Windows Server 2003 features, a new self-signed SSL…

Windows Language Pack Direct Download Links

July 30, 2014 15 min read

These are the official direct download links to Windows 8.1, Windows 8, and Windows 7 language packs. How to Install Language Pack on Windows 8 or Windows 8.1…

Windows 8 PC Reset

July 25, 2014 1 min read

Note If you upgraded your PC from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 and your PC has a Windows 8 recovery partition, resetting your PC will restore Windows 8. You’ll…

Internet Explorer Developer Preview

July 23, 2014 1 min read

Microsoft has released (6/16/2014) Internet Explor Developer Channel which includes features/enhancements that will probably make it to the next release of Internet Explorer, 12. Internet Explorer Developer Channel is a…

Extract KB Number from WSUS Excel Report

July 22, 2014 1 min read

While reviewing my WSUS reports (exported to Excel) I found that I could streamline extracting the KB article from the exported report using a basic formula in Excel.Here's…

Crypto Ransomware CTB-Locker (Critroni.A)

July 22, 2014 2 min read

Move over CryptoLocker, there's a newer and meaner kid on the block. CTB-Locker, or Curve-Tor-Bitcoin Locker, makes use of the Tor ((Tor is free software and an open…

Total Editing Time in Microsoft Word

July 18, 2014 1 min read

So I stumbled upon a feature (that's been around for a long time) for myself today when looking at the properties of a Word document.  I saw this…

Windows Update Error 800B0001

July 17, 2014 1 min read

I got the following error attempting to check for updates against my WSUS server from a Windows 7 system. Looking closer at the WindowsUpdate.log file (C:windowsWindowsUpdate.log), I see…