Vista's Network Identification "feature" has been one thing that has particularly annoyed me with Vista but I haven't heard that much hub-bub about it around the blog-o-sphere. I'm not one of those people that has been complaining non-stop about Vista, the Network Identification is just one thing that has been a consistent thorn in the side. Unfortunately, this also seems to be … [Read more...]
Make Firefox Extensions Work for New Versions
If you've become dependent on a few Firefox extensions, going without them can be painful. You have two options to try and make those extensions work if you went with the Firefox upgrade but your extensions haven't yet. These are more work-arounds than solutions and won't fix the problem if there's something architecturally different that prevents the extension from behaving … [Read more...]
AntiVirus 2009 Info
AntiVirus XP 2009 seems to be the latest surge of frequently encountered trojan viruses. You may stumble onto it on the web where it looks very real to the end user like the My Computer window with a scan occuring over top. There is a sequence of pop-ups that will all try to get you to download the file antivirus.v.1.exe. I've seen Google search results redirect to these … [Read more...]
Make a .msi from Firefox 3 setup.exe for Enterprise Deployment
A popular and convenient way of deploying software is to use Microsoft's Group Policy to assign packages (.msi files). I posted the various products I had found earlier with the post Making Setup.exe into Setup.msi. Mozilla does not offer a .MSI file for easy deployment and management. It seems to me that this would be a great direction for Mozilla to push for as it would make … [Read more...]
Use Remote Desktop to Control a Current Session
This is for Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003. If you want to use Remote Desktop to control a session already logged in at the console (physically at and logged into the machine) instead of starting a new session (Windows Server 2003 default) or kicking off the current user (Windows XP default), use the following commands to achieve this. Problem: I am logged … [Read more...]