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  http://www.tweaknow.com/BestFreeApps.php I agreed with all of the applications listed in this site, other than their MS Office alternative. Im a loyal OpenOffice man myself. (http://www.openoffice.org/) I also scower this site when searching for alternatives to expensive software packages. Just the other day, it helped me locate a great mind mapping freeware application. Lastly, I use this site to find freeware applications that I inject into boot media or use  [ Read More ]

Just two simple scripts I wrote up to disable number lock on Windows 7 and Windows XP. They import the Default hive and then set the InitialKeyIndicator setting to “0″. Win XP Script: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 On Error Resume Next ‘==========VARIABLE ASSIGNMENTS========================= Dim objFSO, objShell, sCurPath Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")   strCommand = "reg load HKLM\defhive ""C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\NTUSER.DAT""" objShell.Run  [ Read More ]

In many Organizations, the AD support team is separated from the team in charge of Imaging.  The AD team naturally is protective with their setup and fight any GPO setting that would result in more responsibility to their staff.  So that leaves us in some occasions having to turn to Local Group Policy to apply the settings we want.  I’ve recently come across some great tools provided by Microsoft (very quietly) for Government usage.  [ Read More ]

Received the “SMS Collection Evaluator failed to process Collection Settings changes” error in SCCM on the “SMS_COLLECTION_EVALUATOR” Component. The fix was simple and simply overlooked during the SCCM installation: 1. Open the ADSI editor. 2. Browse to the “System Management” container. Should be listed under the “System” container. 3. Right-Click on the “System Management” container and click on the “Properties”. 4. Click on the “Security” tab and review if the  [ Read More ]

I ran into a need from a customer to run an application installation that resulted in MDT cleanup scripts to fail. In this event, I figured, the best bet is to perform this installation after the MDT CleanUp process is complete. 1. Remove the portions of LTICleanUp.wsf and Litetouch.wsf scripts that remove the “AdminAutoLogon” values: LTICleanUp.wsf: (starting at Line 124) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 oLogging.CreateEntry  [ Read More ]