This is a very simplistic VBscript I hacked together to help deploy the patches for MS08-078 / KB960714. In brief it checks the registry to see if Internet Explorer version 6 or 7 is installed and then runs the appropriate updater.
Things you should know:
Automatic updates will probably do this for you
The script does no error [...]
Download: Security Update for Internet Explorer for Windows XP w/ IE6 (KB960714)
Download: Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB960714)
Security Bulletins: MS08-078
Knowledge Base (KB) Articles: KB960714
Yet another Sony mystery. Undocumented in the included paperwork, as far as I can tell.
Oh yeah, if you want a recovery disk, you need to call in the first 30 days after purchase to get one free. After that, it’s voicemail hell to get to a live body, before you can send them more money [...]
Hit F2 + F3.
Why Sony chose to go with this goofy key combo is beyond me…
One of my favorite tools is Sysinternals’ (Microsoft) Contig commandline utility to make files contiguous. However, it’s a pain having to type the full path to the file or directory you want to contig, so I fooled around until I came up with these two tricks:
To create a Send To item that will contig a [...]
Like a lot of people, I like to carry around a collection of apps on my thumb drive. But, sometimes I forget to bring it or don’t have an available USB port to work with. In any case, here’s a list of a few sites that have Portable Apps:
http://www.portablefreeware.com/
http://portableapps.com/
http://tinyapps.org/
http://www.dailycupoftech.com/usb-drive-systems/
Tell me about others in [...]
I had an Averatec 3250H1-01 that shutdown after a few minutes running. Sometimes it would last long enough to get into Windows & other times it would barely make through the BIOS self-test.
I immediately suspected a power supply/battery problem, since that was the original issue. But, after a little thought, I decided to see [...]
UnixKit for Windows is a toolkit of Unixlike programs for Microsoft Windows. Unlike CygWin, it does not require installation. In fact, it leaves absolutely no traces on the host machine when you’re done using it.The -tiny branch presently includes:arc arj bash bunzip2 bzip2 bzip2recover cat chmod cksum cp csplit cut dd df diff du file [...]
This has been driving me crazy – how to get a decent Time & Date stamp in a batch file. After much Googling and experimenting I came up with this.
This was tested on XP Pro with English (United States) Regional Settings and will likely not work if your Regional Settings are different. Take a look [...]