Category: Windows
Georgia Telnet or SSH generate a list of users for GS_L_User.txt
Georgia Telnet can restrict the number of users that connect to Telnet or SSH. I am lazy so I tend to generate a list based off our user logon scripts folders, however I do of course take a backup and test it afterwards. echo Change to the drive where your Georgia logon scripts are located…
Creating a shortcut to a non existent location on Windows
Credit: ServerFault Credit: Craig Tolley I came across the need to create a shortcut to a non existent file share (Where a wireless network had a different ip range on a different site). I thought Windows would let shortcuts for SMB shares be created if they didn’t exist, but Windows 10 insisted the share had…
Display the old USB Device Removal Tab
Credit: Waseemulla S on Microsoft Answers I had a USB device that I could not unload, I prefer the old dialog box anyway and found it is still possible to show this box in Windows 10. The forum post above has the answer, however according to someone was a very poor answer. For me the…
Batch script to help with launching files for correct version of Windows
We encountered an issue during a migration to Windows 10 where I had missed a program which had hard coded links, these no longer worked due to Microsoft Access being a newer version. I generated a simple script so we could change the hard coded links to allow it to select the correct version, all…
Generate a text file with subfolders in a location on explorer
I needed to generate a list of folders and their subfolders, I used a simple command for dir command and slapped into a text file. Below replaced with the folder you want to get the list from (i.e C:\Users\Default) and replace with where you want to save a textfile (i.e C:\textfile.txt). dir /b /s /a:d…
Getting a Kodak i160 to work on a KEC 1582t card in Windows 7
We had an issue where a Kodak i160 scanner would appear when a Windows 7 machine booted but then disappear after the Kodak i160 scanner went to sleep. The Kodak scanner was using a Kofax Virtual Rescan driver, after some checking it turned out the machine was using a standard fire wire driver for the…
Sage Line 500 EDI IN Intermediary tables inner join on sql query
On ocassion I need to look at what is in the EDI IN modules intermediary tables, scheme.eiordtm has an annoying key_code which it combines multiple objects. It also doesn’t always have the same amount of characters. As the key_code on scheme.eiordtm starts with the key_code from scheme.eiorhdm all I do is find out how many…
Display advanced properties of scheduled tasks in command line
The following command requests a detailed display of the tasks on the local computer. It uses the /v parameter to request a detailed (verbose) display and the /fo LIST parameter to format the display as a list for easy reading. You can use this command to verify that a task you created has the intended…
A simple batch file which compresses every folder into a 7z Archive
For backing up old files I tend to sort into lots of different folders, anything I am finished with I put in a 7zip Archive The following batch makes use of a For loop in the batch, uses 7-zip with Ultra Compression and names the archive the same as the folder. for /D %%X in…
Rebuild a V1 DBCapture Database Queue
We have an issue where on a rare occasion a scan from V1 DBScanner to DBCapture can corrupt the queue and cause DBCapture Admin to state it is unable to open a document rendering the whole application unusable. I have a batch script to perform some maintenance. Over time I have commented out lines which…