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from Josh Rickard

Scripting Open Excel Sheets in Separate Windows

2018-08-07 Josh Rickard

If you work in an environment similar to my previous position, then you would know how often you hear certain complaints after upgrading people to new applications or Operating Systems. Well one of those complaints came from individuals that we upgraded to Office 2010. They were use to the option of opening up Excel Spreadsheets in separate windows, but in Office 2010 you can’t do this by default you have to make a few tweaks. My fix was to create a little Batch script that would alter the Registry and allow this to be done. I hope you enjoy…..

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Scripting Clean Java Temporary Install Files From User Profiles Win 7 Xp

2018-08-07 Josh Rickard

So I had an issue awhile back that need to be rectified and the fix was to clean out temporary install files from the Sun/Java folder in User profiles. This had to be done on about 700 machines, so I created this little script that cleans out these files and pushed it out to via AD. I hope you enjoy…..

Win 7 - Clean Java Temp Files CD C:\ CLS ECHO REM *** This DELETES temporary install files from the REM *** SUN/JAVA folder in User Profiles. REM *** Run this if you get a Pop-Up warning about your REM *** User Profile being too large. REM *** Click the corner [X ] to exit without running. REM *** Otherwise press the [Spacebar ] to continue. PAUSE DEL "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\*.*" /S /F /Q RD "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\" /S /Q DEL "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\*.*" /S /F /Q RD "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\" /S /Q CLS REM *** Folders are cleaned! PAUSE EXIT
Win XP - Clean Java Temp Files CD C:\ CLS ECHO REM *** This script is for Windows XP only it will NOT work on Vista or 7 REM *** This DELETES temporary install files from the REM *** SUN\JAVA and Local Settings\Temp folders in User Profiles. REM *** Run this if you get a Pop-Up warning about your REM *** User Profile being too large. REM *** Click the corner [X ] to exit without running. REM *** Otherwise press the [Spacebar ] to continue. PAUSE DEL "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Sun\Java\*.*" /S /F /Q RD "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Sun\Java\" /S /Q DEL "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Temp\*.*" /S /F /Q RMDIR "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Temp\" /S /Q CLS REM *** Folders are cleaned! PAUSE EXIT

Scripting Mount Printer at Startup Script

2018-08-07 Josh Rickard

So I had to come up with a batch script that would allow the user (in a lab) to select the printer that they wanted to use during that login session.  Pretty much this was placed in the startup folder on a few lab machines and every time someone would login (Deep Freeze Machines) it would ask them to select the printer that they wanted to print to.  It worked pretty well, I hope someone makes use of it.

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Programming Understanding Binary and Its Hexadecimal Values

2018-08-07 Josh Rickard

So one crucial concept that every programmer that enjoys or endures Assembly Language programming is the concept of Binary arthimetic and their corresponding Hexadecimal values.  Here is a great example that you can use to make sure that you understand their values and thus it will help you understand IP addressing as well.

Moving Away From Wordpress

2018-08-05

Hello Everyone, I have decided this past weekend to final move completely away from WordPress for my blog; and I’m 100% excited for this transition! I have decided to use GitHub Pages for my new blog.

I plan on migrating content to this new locaton, but in the meantime if you find any missing content that you have seen previously then please let me know and I will get it moved over ASAP.

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