I have been writing HTA files for a years as a way to improve the appearance of some of my scripts. MSDN has a good article from May of 2011 about the power and utility of HTA files. After moving to Windows 7 x64, I was disappointed to find that one of my favorite HTA…
Month: November 2011
Floppy Drive Settings for Virtual PC
Earlier I wrote about using WinImage to preserve floppy disk data. In my continuing adventure with Windows 7 x64, I found that DOS programs will not run under x64. What DOS program do I like to use? The WordPerfect Editor from the WordPefect Shell. (Curious? You can get it here). Why? Because it allows you…
RunAs context menu item for scripts and HTAs
I have consolidated a couple of registry files that enable a RunAs context menu item for VbScript, JScript, and HTA files. Scripts_HTA_Runas_reg.txt
Fixing Windows Update problems on multiple computers
I have my WSUS Repair HTA for working on single systems, but how about multiple computers? For that I run WindowsUpdateFix.cmd. You can execute this many ways. I use SCCM or PSExec.
Upgrading to Windows 7
We have been slow at work in our adoption of Windows 7. I use my laptop as my primary workstation, and I had “cheated” when I upgraded from XP to Vista and then Window 7 32 bit. My new OS was to be Windows 7 64 bit, and there is no upgrade path. Before I kicked…