Windows Administration

Send an HTA greeting card that features a holiday tree with blinking multicolored lights and a "Happy Holidays" greeting. You can easily personalize the greeting.

If you need to know which files and registry keys have been modified during an installation, check out InstallWatch. It's free and simple to use.

This month's challenge is inspired by an email message: "I'd like to display user names with a space between the first and last name on our Welcome screens (just because I like the slick look of it...

The Windows System Assessment Tool encompasses much more than the Windows Experience Index--its command-line capabilities can help with troubleshooting.

If you need to document your Windows servers, try SYDI-Server, the SYDI version for documenting Windows computers. This tool provides detailed documentation—and you can't beat the price. It's free.

Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) includes UNIX and Linux binaries that you can run from a Windows command line or in a batch file. When you combine the SFU commands with the Windows For command, you...

Here's a VBscript script that retrieves a computer's memory and process information, then writes it to a nicely formatted Microsoft Word report. The report is customizable—you can even include an i...

This month's challenge is inspired by several e-mail queries from users. All of them asked the same question, in almost the same words.

When I tell people that I still use real reference books, I often get a response along the lines of "You know, all the information you need is on the web somewhere. I'm surprised you just don't sea...

Unlike most applications, Google Chrome is designed to install in areas that standard users can write to, so they can install this new browser without Admin rights. Here are the steps you can take ...