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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]