Having headed to Selsey for about 7:30 to see high tide in at 9:45, I set up and cast out. I was using combinations of rag, crab and squid and nothing was seeming to want to bite. Eventually at 11:45 I was getting what looked like my lead had lost grip again, so I wound […]
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Hayling Island – Langstone Side
April 27, 2011 
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I went to Hayling and parked in the car park next to the Langstone entrance. I walked along towards the front of the beach and set up near the entrance to the harbor due to too many people being around. I stayed here for a couple of hours and then after pulling in tonnes of […]
Continue readingClearing Profiles on a Windows 2003 Server
March 29, 2011 0 Comments
There is a tool that can be downloaded free which when scripted will allow you to clear out old profiles form the server it is run on. I have only used this on Windows 2003 Servers so far. The tool is called RemProf.exe. The idea of the tool is to remove the profile and hive […]
Continue readingDelete the Contents of a Folder with Powershell
March 28, 2011 0 Comments
The following commands will allow you to clear the contents of a folder, in this case the C:\Users folder, and exclude those folders you do not wish to delete: $dirs – Get-ChildItem C:\Users -Exclude Public,Default,Administrator,”All Users”,”Default User” $dirs | % {rd $_ -Recurse -Force} This could be usedto clean up Remote Desktop Severs or Cirtix […]
Continue readingReplicating Printer Drivers in XenApp 6
March 25, 2011 0 Comments
The following command will replicate the drivers whos name start with “hp uni” to the servers specified at the end of the command. The -confoirm at the end lets you confirm that each driver will be replicated or not: Manual Replication: Start-XAPrinterDriverReplication -drivername “hp uni*” -sourceservername desk05 -servername desk01,desk07 -confirm Confirm Are you sure you […]
Continue readingChanging the Default Installation Path for Applications
March 25, 2011 0 Comments
On occassion, some applications have to be installed in a non default folder location. When this happens the application usually doesn’t offer the chance to change it either. Changing the keys will change the location that the application will install to. For 32-Bit application change the keys in this location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion Keys: ProgramFilesDir ProgramFilesDir (x86) […]
Continue readingCut, Copy and Paste greyed out in Excel
February 23, 2011 3 Comments
Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V work fine, but you find that the above options are grayed out, try the following methods, one should help you out: Method 1: Open excel hit alt-f11 – This opens the VB editor hit ctrl-g – This opens the area for the current window Type this and hit enter: […]
Continue readingHide Default Location in Open/Save Dialogs
February 14, 2011 0 Comments
This is an addition, or rather Part 2 of the post: Hide Libraries in Windows Explorer View The information in this post allows for you as administrator to remove the options found in the Open/Save dialog boxes. This has been used for Microsoft Office 2003. See below: As standard: The options on the left can […]
Continue readingHide Libraries in Windows Explorer View
February 11, 2011 2 Comments
Libraries are a big part of Windows in recent versions and whilst they are useful on home computers, they can be difficult to manage for multiple users logged in on the network to Terminal Servers. You can use group policy to redirect them but as they are user control they can reconfigure them to look where […]
Continue readingChange Drive Icons for USB Attached Devices
February 11, 2011 0 Comments
During testing it was found tha the icon used for USB drives connected through a WYSE terminal was displayed as a floppy drive. This is purely because of the way that Citrix classes USB devices in its policies as floppy devices. As this icon isn’t really befitting of the connected device the following allows it to […]
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