Some Notes on the Machines

An overview:

http://www.ervik.as/index.php/microsoft-mainmenu/terminal-server/1964-using-multiple-monitors-in-remote-desktop-session

A truly excellent system cleanup utility:

http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html

Lots of info concerning offline files, here:

http://offlinefiles.blogspot.com

This little bit of shareware can be very helpful for some laptop users:

http://www.wctc.net/~jodeand3/tygi.html

To prevent problematical files from being cached, go here in group policy:

Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> Offline Files

and set up the entry “Files Not Cached”.

Do a start/run, and type in the below.  Note the lack of a space between oobe and msoobe!

oobe/msoobe /a

This works in recent Windows versions, but not in XP Home:

tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq myapp.exe" 2 > NUL | find /I /N "myapp.exe" > NUL
if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" echo Program is running

This was copied shamelessly from here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/162291/how-to-check-if-a-process-is-running-via-a-batch-script

To create an uber-super-duper control panel in Windows 7, which contains icons for a huge variety of configuration and tweaking, create a folder with this name:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

and then look inside!

If you get activation errors or issues, the first (and usually the last) thing to try is to re-enter the Windows key. In Server 2008 this can be done from the window which comes by right-click on My Computer and Properties.

If, on attempting to install software, we receive a digital signature error, the following is probably for us:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822798/