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Danith posted:Here you go, clippy module for powershell PS C:\Windows\system32> Import-Module PowerClippy Import-Module : Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I can't get it to work 
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Our loving developers. I just found out for a ticket we've had open for 12 months where a client couldn't connect to our servers and was threatening to leave they've had a hack solution the entire time they just never told us about. Today they deigned to tell me it and lo and behold it works immediately. The solution was already in production, it was just a flag in the configurations file that they never mentioned existed. Their excuse was "oh it's a bit of a hack and we want to make a better solution when we get around to it". It's cool guys it was only a multi-million dollar client that was days away from cancelling no worries, it's all good 
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May 26, 2016 05:36
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Methanar posted:PS C:\Windows\system32> Import-Module PowerClippy Try it on your XP machine. No really, I believe it would use a library that was included with XP but not later versions. Think the search dog. (Get this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms695784%28v=vs.85%29.aspxv)
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May 26, 2016 05:40
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nielsm posted:Think the search dog. You can't make me.
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May 26, 2016 05:48
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nielsm posted:Try it on your XP machine.
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May 26, 2016 06:50
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"Our sales manager got a larger VDU. Now the ERP window is too small. How do I make the window larger?" (It's a god drat Windows window with god drat standard Windows window control button thing systems.)
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May 26, 2016 13:46
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I laughed, I cried, I laughed again. 
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May 26, 2016 13:50
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Dick Trauma posted:The Gateway had Win 7 32 and O2010 32. Most of the accountants need a Sage related Excel plugin that only works with 32 bit Office. I can teach you the Magic Button (there's actually two!) if you want. But you can only teach it to people who have brain cells. 
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May 26, 2016 14:12
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Arsten posted:I can teach you the Magic Button (there's actually two!) if you want. But you can only teach it to people who have brain cells. Don't ever buy a copy of ultramon. You will blow people's minds with 2 extra buttons!
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May 26, 2016 14:55
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Arsten posted:I can teach you the Magic Button (there's actually two!) if you want. But you can only teach it to people who have brain cells. I appreciate how this restriction excludes the primitive neural ganglia some users employ to barely slide by in their daily tasks.
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May 26, 2016 15:02
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Potato Salad posted:I appreciate how this restriction excludes the primitive neural ganglia some users employ to barely slide by in their daily tasks. You can't tell me you haven't ever met the human equivalent to mildew.
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May 26, 2016 15:35
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Arsten posted:I can teach you the Magic Button (there's actually two!) if you want. But you can only teach it to people who have brain cells. Unless they're the Power and Reset buttons I probably don't qualify for your offer.
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May 26, 2016 17:33
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Arsten posted:I can teach you the Magic Button (there's actually two!) if you want. But you can only teach it to people who have brain cells. Wait there's a second prostate?
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May 26, 2016 17:38
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Dick Trauma posted:Unless they're the Power and Reset buttons I probably don't qualify for your offer. Turn off automatic calculations - it'll only calculate when you go to save. If you are running with Hyperthreading enabled on the system, set the number of calculation threads to (Physical Cores - 1). Jerry Cotton posted:Wait there's a second prostate? That actually varies depending on how many men are in with your spouse right now. 
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May 26, 2016 17:43
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Arsten posted:Turn off automatic calculations - it'll only calculate when you go to save. How much is a battalion anyway?
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May 26, 2016 17:54
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Jerry Cotton posted:How much is a battalion anyway? Well, "battalion" is an operational unit - not a count - so it varies based upon which country and branch of service you want to use. Canadian battalions are 100-400 people. US Army is 0 to 1,200 people. US Marines are 500 to 1,200 people. Sorta like how "processor" can mean 1 to 64 cores.
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May 26, 2016 18:26
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Arsten posted:Turn off automatic calculations - it'll only calculate when you go to save. I knew the first one (users usually reject this option) but had never heard of the second. Thank you!
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May 26, 2016 18:46
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This is what Larches should have done when he quit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A4UGtM4hDQ
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May 26, 2016 19:04
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Dick Trauma posted:I knew the first one (users usually reject this option) but had never heard of the second. Thank you! Sad. That first option helps me on many an Excel file with 17 billion calculations. The second one is more of a general tweak because Excel still can't handle Hyperthreading. It just goes "Hey! Eight cores!" and tries to pin all eight at 100%. This actually slows down calculation time.
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May 26, 2016 19:22
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I had someone bitching that MS had removed a function in the rules for Outlook 2010 that said "if *my email* is in the BCC field" and how annoying that was to their workflow. I pondered this for a second and realized the only way that could even happen is if you sent the email yourself  Pointing out there were rules for sent email just went flying over their head.
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May 26, 2016 20:39
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So, weird question. Anyone seeing lag/delays with Gmail (free or google apps) today/yesterday? We're seeing all kinds of weird issues, but I'm curious if other people are experiencing them.
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May 26, 2016 20:39
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LethalGeek posted:I had someone bitching that MS had removed a function in the rules for Outlook 2010 that said "if *my email* is in the BCC field" and how annoying that was to their workflow. Its sometimes useful to email yourself and then BCC a bunch of other people so that they cant see who else got the email. Now I don't know why you would have a rule for that but maybe they were doing it as a lazy way to automatically sort these type of messages.
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May 26, 2016 20:48
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OK so I haven't really done a ton of research into this but am I correct that Mozilla haven't released any GPO templates for managing Firefox? The only things I can find are either an add-on that then requires me to write the registry changes myself, and an ADM pack that hasn't been updated in 3+ years.
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May 26, 2016 20:54
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A ticket didn't come in: drinking at the track (ims carb day) all day tomorrow thanks to a vendor, and my boss canceled my pto request since I was planning on going anyways and told me to have fun; he'd hold down the fort.
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May 26, 2016 21:01
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"Yeah, we got this guy a macbook to use on your Windows network. He's in a building miles away from you that has nobody else you support. We want him hooked up to two monitors and a mouse that we found somewhere that doesn't work. We bought some adapters but we didn't ask any IT people so who knows if we got the right thing! Go make it work!"
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May 26, 2016 21:29
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Inspector_666 posted:OK so I haven't really done a ton of research into this but am I correct that Mozilla haven't released any GPO templates for managing Firefox? The only things I can find are either an add-on that then requires me to write the registry changes myself, and an ADM pack that hasn't been updated in 3+ years. Yeah afaik there's no ADM that works with modern Firefox. The best method I've found for configuring firefox is CCK2. It lets you either generate config\pref files to place in firefox's program files folder, or export the settings as an extension you can distribute to users. It certainly beats modifying prefs.js yourself.
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May 26, 2016 21:36
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Hungry Computer posted:Yeah afaik there's no ADM that works with modern Firefox. Ugh, I was hoping Mozilla had made this as easy as Google did with Chrome. I only need to force installation of one add-on, so making the CCK2 extension would be kind of redundant. Whatever, people will just have to do it themselves on the off chance they don't use Chrome as their primary browser.
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May 26, 2016 21:40
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Inspector_666 posted:OK so I haven't really done a ton of research into this but am I correct that Mozilla haven't released any GPO templates for managing Firefox? The only things I can find are either an add-on that then requires me to write the registry changes myself, and an ADM pack that hasn't been updated in 3+ years. This is why we switched to Chrome Enterprise company wide. Firefox was removed entirely. There is a added benefit that you no longer have to install or update the Adobe Flash NPAPI plugin, since Chrome has Flash built in and is updated along with Chrome 
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May 26, 2016 21:53
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A ticket came in!quote:"Our parent company made us install database security software that sits between our database and anything querying the database and now app performance is slower." Yep. That'll happen. (I honestly feel sorry for the guy. Everything has to be super-secure even if it doesn't contain sensitive data, because what if something happened and sensitive data ended up in there??!?! Causes a hell of a mess for their company, but there's not much we can do about it.)
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May 26, 2016 22:03
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Dick Trauma posted:I knew the first one (users usually reject this option) but had never heard of the second. Thank you! Why would anyone not turn on manual calculations on a big spreadsheet? I guess if they're hourly employees waiting a few minutes each time they type a character might let them do nothing all day, but I would throw my laptop through a window the second or third time it happened.
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May 26, 2016 22:09
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Inspector_666 posted:OK so I haven't really done a ton of research into this but am I correct that Mozilla haven't released any GPO templates for managing Firefox? The only things I can find are either an add-on that then requires me to write the registry changes myself, and an ADM pack that hasn't been updated in 3+ years. Try FrontMotion Firefox
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I've got a warehouse situation where it's a pain in the rear end to to actually press ctrl alt del to sign into windows. It would be much easier if the guys were able to just scan a barcode glued nearby. Has anyone ever made/used a barcode that represented ctrl alt delete? I tried creating a barcode with the ascii values for ctrl alt and del but it didn't quite work. For whatever reason just keeping the machines permanently signed in or disabling the ctrl alt del screen through GPO are not acceptable solutions. -- Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle computers that are in extremely dusty and dirty locations? There are some small passively cooled machines around but they die off at close to the same rate as some of the larger fan cooled ones. Oddly it's particularly the hard drives that seem to be dying. I would think it would be a heat related issue but it seems to be the hard drives that can't handle the dust.
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May 27, 2016 00:03
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Small form factor machines from nearly any manufacturer + SSDs should solve your problem. The Tiny/SFF machines are often fanless.
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May 27, 2016 00:08
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Methanar posted:I've got a warehouse situation where it's a pain in the rear end to to actually press ctrl alt del to sign into windows. It would be much easier if the guys were able to just scan a barcode glued nearby. Methanar posted:Does anyone have any suggestions on how to handle computers that are in extremely dusty and dirty locations? There are some small passively cooled machines around but they die off at close to the same rate as some of the larger fan cooled ones. Oddly it's particularly the hard drives that seem to be dying. I would think it would be a heat related issue but it seems to be the hard drives that can't handle the dust. I've found in a dusty shop environment, those computers that passive cool to the entire case (with the internals protected by air filters on all the air entry places) and then bolt those to a steel desk or steel rolling cart does wonders. The heat dissipates to a huge surface area that is a lot easier to convect away. Plus, the shop guys can be told to blow it off every so often, taking care that they don't unseat the air filters. As for hard drives, I've found that vibration in a shop environment does them in. The shops I work with are typically heavy equipment and machinery shops, so you may not have that issue - but swapping to an SSD would probably be quite useful.
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May 27, 2016 00:14
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If you're up for a project, I found this: http://www.instructables.com/id/One-Key-Keyboard-Hack/
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May 27, 2016 00:17
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devmd01 posted:A ticket didn't come in: drinking at the track (ims carb day) all day tomorrow thanks to a vendor, and my boss canceled my pto request since I was planning on going anyways and told me to have fun; he'd hold down the fort. Sup Indygoon. We had our company track outing last week and I snagged some tickets for the race last minute. Gonna get my European racing on.
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May 27, 2016 00:37
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Methanar posted:I've got a warehouse situation where it's a pain in the rear end to to actually press ctrl alt del to sign into windows. It would be much easier if the guys were able to just scan a barcode glued nearby. Adjust the sign out on idle to two hours. Blow out the PCs once every few months and simply realize that warehouse PCs live in a rough environment and will die more often. Though admittedly one of my shipping PCs is a dinosaur.
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May 27, 2016 00:55
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Why would anyone not turn on manual calculations on a big spreadsheet? I guess if they're hourly employees waiting a few minutes each time they type a character might let them do nothing all day, but I would throw my laptop through a window the second or third time it happened. Because they are idiots that think that turning off auto recalc means going back to 1988 and Lotus 1-2-3. Doesn't matter if it will resolve the horrible performance issues with their hellspawn spreadsheets.
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I only need to push 2 add-ons, and folks need to have vanilla Firefox for testing/support. I'm just going to tell my manager that people will have to do it themselves, it's overall a moot point anyway since nobody I know of in the company uses Firefox as their primary browser over Chrome.
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Methanar posted:I've got a warehouse situation where it's a pain in the rear end to to actually press ctrl alt del to sign into windows. It would be much easier if the guys were able to just scan a barcode glued nearby. How is your barcode scanner configured? A lot are configured to press enter or tab after scanning a code. This could interfere with your CTRL-ALT-DEL scanning. I'd take a look at SSD's for your dusty location computers. Have you thought about putting them in industrial dust enclosures designed for PC's?
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