Category Archives: How I Do IT

Turning off User Account Control, or You’re Damned Right I’m an Expert

Posted on December 29, 2009 by under Computers How I Do IT Security Software Windows 7

My biggest gripe about Windows 7 is the impact User Account Control has on the command line. Unless you turn UAC completely off, every time you run something on the command line that Microsoft has deemed requiring your password – … Continue reading →

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Convert Unicode Files to ASCII

Posted on March 19, 2009 by under ASCII How I Do IT Unicode VBScript

I had a situation at work recently where I needed to mine some Unicode-formatted HL7 files for data.  For my purposes, I really needed the files in plain text format.  Here’s the VBScript I used to convert the HL7 files … Continue reading →

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Using Taskkill to End Remote Processes

Posted on March 11, 2009 by under How I Do IT

You can kill processes on a remote computer by using the taskkill command. Run ‘taskkill /?’ on a command line to see all the options. We use SpySweeper on all our workstations at work. It occasionally hangs during a scan, … Continue reading →

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A VBScript ‘Wake on LAN’ Project

Posted on March 10, 2009 by under How I Do IT VBScript

Note: WordPress does weird things to punctuation, so don’t copy and paste the scripts in this post. For your convenience I’ve packaged the three scripts as plain text VBS files in a ZIP file, which you can download here: VBScript … Continue reading →

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