I recently had an issue completely removing Adobe Flash from computers in my environment. I got the infamous “InstallAX.exe is not marked for installation” error when running the uninstall, and this blog post by pointed me in the direction that I needed to delete registry keys from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTInstallerFeatures. Problem was that these keys were not […]
I have noticed that when you disable IE enhanced security in the server manager it is not disabled for the users. MS documentation also states that it will automatically be disabled for normal users. Here is the screenshots of the server manager part where you configure this: This GUI controls the behavior of the following […]
I got a challenge when trying to add some columns in the task manager under processes in a deployment for a colleague. He wanted to automatize so that every one got the same task manager view. I started out searching for scripts that would do this for me. Could not find any. Okay, so I […]
I guess you have seen this before: I wanted to prevent users from getting this. I see no reason why they should. I found the registry key that controls its behavior. I could not find any Group policy setting for this. (that’s strange) “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionDevice Metadata” Under this key there should be a REG_DWORD that is […]
I normally use preferences. The only problem with this is that it is actually a preference. This means that if the user wants to he can overwrite it. I know it will be set at next logon with preferences. But if you want a setting to be “persistent” on the user you can add the […]
Ever gotten this for apparently no reason? Well, this error is quite interesting. This error is triggered every time you have a capital CR in either the path to file or the file itself. You did not guessed that? Me neither. I stumbled over this problem in regards of OCR read pdf documents. Yepp….. OCR. […]
This is a how to guide on installation of BGInfo and ThightVNC. I know there are probably better ways of doing this, but this worked fine for me. First you need to download BGInfo and ThightVNC. http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897557 Then you install ThightVNC on a test computer. You need to do this in order to get […]
Let’s say you want to add a registry key while you are in windows PE. In order to achieve this we have to load the appropriate registry hive from the files under %windirsystem32config. Under the config folder there are these files that are interesting: Software – This is the HKLMSoftware hive System – This is […]