Although these are rares cases, you might have some scenarios where you want to modify something on the system before you install your MSIX package. One example that I’ve stumbled upon was a user who had old MSI versions installed on the machine and these left a lot of user […]
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Everybody knew that Flash was getting an EOL (End Of Life) on the 31st of December 2020, and patches to remove the OS Flash were created since October last year. The KB4577586 support page explains that this KB only removes Flash from the Windows operating system, not the additional one […]
In a previous article we had a look on how you can set folder permissions by using VBScript and the Secedit tool which comes natively in the OS. But if you work in PowerShell, it doesn’t make sense to make a separate VBScript just to set permissions. PowerShell adds […]
In a previous article we had a look on how to close a specific java process. If you have multiple Java applications opened and start up the Task Manager, you will only see the Java.exe process running, and you cannot know which process belongs to which application. So if you […]
In a world where we have so many cloud solutions for backup (like OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive, etc), there might be still people like me who like to keep their personal files somewhere safe offline. Now, i usually keep my important files on a network attached storage, but for this […]
In many infrastructures, the Microsoft Store is disabled or removed completely from the machine. In this article we are going to take a look on the different methods you could use to achieve this. Method 1: Group Policy Probably the easiest method to disable the Store is via […]
Before we dive into how to apply permissions with VBScript, we must first understand what secedit is. The secedit tool comes by default with Windows Os. Secedit configures and analyzes system security by comparing your current security configuration against specified security templates. To apply permissions with secedit, all that is […]
Tableau Reader is a free desktop application that you can use to open and interact with data visualizations built in Tableau Desktop. Filter, drill down and discover. It is a very popular application which can be found in many enterprises. However, I’ve seen many cases where IT Pros will struggle […]
During the packaging of a certain application, there might be cases where a specific configuration file must contain some dynamic settings. For example, let’s assume that you need to write a specific IP, or a specific location in a config.txt file during installation, and let’s assume the configuration file has […]
The hosts file in Windows OS is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses. The hosts file is used to resolve hosts names before DNS, and it can be found in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\. It’s not very popular nowadays for applications to place anything in this file, back in […]
If you are working in a company which has many java applications and you do a lot of installers, you might end up in the situation where, during the install or uninstall process you might want to close a java process. However, if you open up task manager you will […]
Python is cool, easy to use, and one of the most popular programming languages out there. But python has a big downside when it comes to running scripts. First of all, a normal user doesn’t have python installed on his machine. Second of all, it’s tricky for a simple user […]