How to run the Windows XP installer in safe mode and delete the autorun.inf file?
how to run the windows installer in safe mode? how to delete the autorun.inf file?  

Answer Question   |  November 16, 2010  3:19 PM
AutoRun, AutoRun.inf Trojan, Windows installation, Windows XP, Windows XP installation

System Center Environmental Monitoring
does microsoft’s system center have environmental monitoring capabilities?

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2010  3:02 PM
Microsoft System Administrator, Microsoft System Center, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, Remote Environmental Monitoring

Error message on startup of Excel 2003 workbook
Could anyone tell me what the following error message means and how i could fix it? Cannot find XLQUERY.XLA!Register.DClick, which has been assigned to run each time [file name]key is opened. Continuing could cause errors. Cancel opening [file name]key?

Answer Question   |  May 18, 2011  11:51 AM
Excel 2003, Excel error messages, Excel workbooks, XLA

Boot Windows 7 in Safe mode
I surely want to boot Windows in safe mode. Sometimes Windows boots faster than I press F8 key. 

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2010  10:03 PM
Boot failure, Safe Mode, Windows 7, Windows 7 performance, Windows Boot Disk

Remove double qoutes from text file using SED in SQL 2003
This goes along with my previous question “How to remove specific lines from a text files using either vbs or bat.” I am having issues removing the double quotes our app uses in its export as a separator for some fields. The command I use in ssed is ========CODE=================== “s/”//g” =========END OF CODE============ But it [...]

Answer Question   |  November 10, 2010  9:20 PM
SQL Server, SQL Server 2003, Text manipulation, Windows XP Professional SP3

Keeping Network Admin from accessing users’ home directories
We do not want our network administrator to have access to users home directories. How can we make this happen?

Answer Question   |  November 19, 2010  3:54 PM
Administration, Administrative privileges, Data Center in 2010, Data Center management, Home Directory, Network administration, Network Administrator

Proper way to take an IIS website down for maintenance
What is the proper way to take an IIS website down for maintenance?

Answer Question   |  November 10, 2010  3:50 PM
IIS, IIS installation, IIS Server, Website maintenance, Website security

CL to change object owner of files in IFS whose directory name changes monthly
We have a vendor software package the creates a new directory each month in the IFS – ie /photos/201001 for January 2010.  Documents are stored in the directory for a given month and are owned by the user who created them.  We would like to write a cl that can be run monthly to change [...]

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2010  3:10 PM
CIFS, CL programming, IFS, IFS Commands, IFS Directory

Windows XP corruption
My windows xp corrupted.  How to repair.

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2010  7:55 AM
Windows errors, Windows XP, Windows XP boot failure

Temporarily disable remote administration sessions in Windows Server 2003
Is it possible to temporarily disable remote administration sessions on a windows server 2003 so no one or specific admins can not use remote desktop to get in for a set period of time?

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  9:09 PM
Remote administration, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 administration, Windows server administration, Windows Server Remote Access

Setting up RAID 1 +0 on a Dell Server that doesn’t support it
How can we setup raid 1+0 on a dell server that software does not support it? Poweredge 6600, perc3 raid card. Windows 2003 R2.

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  9:06 PM
Data Center in 2010, Data Center management, Dell servers, PERC Arrays, PowerEdge, RAID 1, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2

Unable to Refresh Pivot Table if Datasheet in Excel 2007 is not open.
I have several Pivot Tables linked to several like spreadsheets, respectively.  When I refresh a Pivot, I get an error that excel is unable to open the file (that the table is linked to). If the file is open, I can refresh.  My problem is each spread sheets contain huge amounts of data. Is there [...]

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  7:41 PM
excel, Excel 2007, Excel 2007 functions, Excel 2007 workbooks, Pivot Table Refresh, Pivot tables

VBscript for Windows Server 2003 SP2
Hi! im pretty new to vbscript and would like to know if any of you know a good book to buy or a website with reference guides im wanting to rewrite all my logon scripts for my school from scratch and make it work for me! now im used to “for dummies” guides but i [...]

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  7:10 PM
Scripts, VBScript, Visual Basic Script, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows XP Professional

We’ll trade you an Xbox 360 for your knowledge!
The holidays are approaching and so is your next chance to win an Xbox 360 by simply doing what you do around IT Knowledge Exchange. Between today and December 15th, the three members who accumulate the most knowledge points will win some great prizes:   1st Prize: Xbox 360 with 250GB hard drive & Kinect [...]

Answer Question   |  December 1, 2010  3:12 PM
AS/400, Business Intelligence, Channel, CIO, Contests, CRM, Database, DataCenter, Development, Exchange, Giveaways, IT answers, Knowledge Point Challenge, Knowledge Points, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Mobile, Networking, Oracle, SAP, Security, SQL Server, Storage, Virtualization, VoIP, Windows Server, XBOX Contest

JavaScript Error Through a VPN Connection
Hey all, I am having an issue with a data repository we set up to be accessed inside the company and for our affiliates outside through the use of a VPN. Now the site loads fine using the local address inside the network but when someone remotes in through the VPN site the page just [...]

Answer Question   |  November 19, 2010  3:09 PM
Cyberoam, Firewalls, IE8, Internet Explorer 8, Java, JavaScript, Javascript error, VPN

Powershell scripts
I need a powershell script for the following: 1 – Pulling disk space from a server (all drives capacity and space left) 2 – Pulling MS CAL’s from our License Server (All CALS purchased and CALs used, etc…).

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  6:29 PM
Disk space, MS CALs, PowerShell, PowerShell Scripts

Copy Table in SQLPLUS
How to copy a table from an access database using sqlplus

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  2:18 AM
Access, Access Database, SQL tables, SQLPlus

Why does Excel keep crashing?
I have a relatively small file used for work. It contains 20 worksheets (most have very little information, or none at all, which all work fine except for one of them. It WAS working fine, but now every time I try to add or delete a row (which I have to do often) Excel ‘encounters [...]

Answer Question   |  April 19, 2013  5:12 PM
excel, excel 97, Excel error messages, Windows XP

Visual Basic scripting
how can i run batch files using vb scripting

Answer Question   |  November 5, 2010  2:07 PM
Batch files, VB script, VBScript, Visual Basic Script

Word 2003/2007 VBScript fails in 2010 (background printing) – help!
Hi script wizzards…, i cobbled this together from info on the web but i dont know hardly anything about scripting – i’m a COBOL propgrammer! Works with word 2003/2007 (has been for some time) but not in word 2010. The background printing commands fail (e.g. objWord.Options.PrintBackground = False). It works without them but then word [...]

Answer Question   |  November 15, 2010  6:59 PM
PDF Files, RTF, Scripting, VBScript, Visual Basic Script