Vista’s UAC prevents standard users from installing printer drivers by default. This can cause a problem, especially if you use a logon script or group policy preferences to add shared printers to the user profile.

Luckily there’s a quick group policy fix that will allow users to add printers without any prompt. Once configured, you should be able to log on with a user account that automatically adds the printer without a hitch.

I needed to delete a chunk of cookies today – but I didn’t want to delete them all. Thankfully there is a handy command that is within Windows versions after XP such as Server 2003 and Vista that will enable to clean up without too many problems. The forfiles command will allow you to set [...]

Notepad++ is a very handy tool. It rocks. What is annoying is that if you have it installed on a server, then you have to run NPP before opening the intended file that you want to edit. Well, no more! Using the power of Group Policy Preferences (which also rocks). First of all, install NPP [...]

So, Vista’s been out for a while now - some people think it’s great (usually they are selling it), some think that it’s pants. Now, I’m not far from the front of the queue when it comes to raving about Linux. Ubuntu was the second Linux distro that I have tried, and I’ve stuck with it [...]

I’ve had a problem lately whereby various roaming profiles have the Computer window appear when users log into Windows Vista. I messed around with a load of settings to try and work out what it was – I thought that as the problem only manifests itself in Vista with the new profiles, maybe it’s mis-interpreting [...]

One of the tricky things about managing Favourites for users on a network is that it’s a nightmare to easily deal with the varied requirements of users. Generally, you would set up favourites on a Windows network to do one of the following: Leave them as they are. Users can add and remove their own [...]