Some Notes on the Machines

Dial out from most Windows applications:

http://support.shoretelsky.com/articles/Product_or_Feature/ShoreTel-Sky-App-Dialer

And dial out from major web browsers:

http://support.shoretelsky.com/articles/Product_or_Feature/ShoreTel-Sky-Web-Dialer

Try Control-Alt-F.

This:

https://github.com/raboof/realtimeconfigquickscan

is really intended for use to test realtime kernel audio configurations. However, the Perl script above does form a very good overall Linux performance optimization test, you can ignore a few items you may not need.

If you get “permission denied” trying to delete printers, delete everything relevant in all of these places (leaving the folders of course):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers\PushedPrinterConnectionStore\*
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Connections
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers

restart the spooler, refresh the Devices and Printers window, and you may be done, the involved printers will probably vanish. If they don’t they will be deletable at this point. If there are multiple user profiles on the PC, you will have to delete them in the other profiles. On some machines, some of the folders won’t exist, and this is perfectly fine.

You have a scanner and a printer; let’s use them as a copier:

http://icopy.sourceforge.net/

Interesting material here:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn529134

Currently a third-party app does it well:

https://helgeklein.com/free-tools/delprof2-user-profile-deletion-tool/

DELPROF was part of the Server 2003 Resource Kit, also here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=901a9b95-6063-4462-8150-360394e98e1e&displaylang=en

Manual updates for all versions are available:

http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/ProductUpdates.aspx

Here:

http://syncthing.net

is a very real roll-your-own DropBox solution, very cross-platform. It is not turnkey yet, but it does work very well indeed, both LAN-local and over the Internet.

Sometimes, when QuickBooks installs its server piece, the service account (QBDataServiceUserXX) is set up as a Standard user. Set it as an Administrator to fix lots of things. This is done in the User Accounts area in Control Panel. It can take a while to make the change.