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Month: November 2011

Scriptomatic on Windows 7 Solved

Posted on November 20, 2011February 13, 2016 by Alan

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…

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Floppy Drive Settings for Virtual PC

Posted on November 16, 2011September 12, 2020 by Alan

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…

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RunAs context menu item for scripts and HTAs

Posted on November 16, 2011November 16, 2011 by Alan

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

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Fixing Windows Update problems on multiple computers

Posted on November 10, 2011March 9, 2015 by Alan

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.

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Upgrading to Windows 7

Posted on November 9, 2011May 10, 2023 by Alan

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…

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