Category: Windows 7
Disable Powerpoint 2016 extended display mode
Credit: https://web.archive.org/web/20240809174312/https://tips.timscomputer.com/disable-powerpoint-2013-extended-display-mode-via-registry/ Disable the extended display mode upon login, same as the link just modified the version from 15 to 16 Run the following as a batch file upon login @echo off reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\PowerPoint\Options /v UseMonMgr /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
With a faulty drive stop Windows from mounting
Credit: A Video from Linus Tech Tips reminded me of a way to stop Windows 7/10 from automounting drives If you have an issue with a hard drive (That is spinning up, doesn’t sound like its head is craching/clicking and a SMART tool like CrystalDiskInfo Standard edition shows its healthy) that simply appears to hang…
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…
Synctoy 2.1 setup batch script
This code was used to speed up the setup of SyncToy 2.1 (I see no reason to backup the entire user profile folder, but I hate having to setup multiple sync jobs). As Microsoft has not updated SyncToy it may not work on anything other than Windows 7. The script expects SyncToy 2.1 is installed…
Simple backup and restore scripts
Back when my workplace migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7, I became lazy and automated backing up and restoring a users profiles important files in a batch script. Here I backup to the drive H, this drive is pretty much our standard user drive. If the user does not have a H drive some…