2009/09/15

WGR614 Wireless Wierdness - Netgear - DSL Hardware

Thank you! I couldn't figure out why the Wireless light (LED) on the front of my brother's WGR614 router wouldn't go on and why I had no wireless signal. Come to find out, if you don't go through the entire wizard (which you can't if you don't have the router conencted to both a WIRED PC and your internet connection) OR you don't check the one little bubble under "Basic Settings" that says "No" under "Does your internet connection require a login" then it won't turn on wireless.
WGR614 Wireless Wierdness - Netgear - DSL Hardware

2009/09/14

Domain Names, Web Hosting, VPS Hosting, and SSL Certificates - MyDomain

Does anyone know of a good free domain service? I just need domain and email forwarding. My current provider MyDomain deleted my list of good email addresses with no warning. They don't provide backups for free users.

Well, that's all fine and dandy unless you are the ones deleting the list!! ARRGGGHHHH!!!!

2009/09/03

List of Rundll32 shortcut commands for Windows Vista.

List of Rundll32 shortcut commands for Windows Vista.
Somewhat self explanatory. Basically, how to do certain tasks within the command prompt of Windows Vista.

Bruce's Printing Pages

Bruce's Printing Pages
Also one other helpful page
Another nice page that discusses adding a network printer for all users on a computer, whether they already have a profile or not. Here's an example script that will prompt you for your location (if you have multiple servers) or if you are using a windows shared printer and adds it. Please credit me if you use parts of this script.

@ECHO OFF

REM Last edited 9:26 AM 5/9/2007
REM Created by Sean A. Flesch
REM 585-262-1715
REM Monroe Community College
REM sflesch@monroecc.edu
REM
REM Add or remove a network printer, including
REM a shared printer from a PC, for ALL
REM users of a PC, even future users
REM
REM This is helpful for re-imaged PCs with
REM multiple users who cannot all be setup
REM at the same time
REM


set campus=
set server=
set pname=
set action=
set complete=

:getaction
cls

SET /P action=[Are you Adding or Removing a printer? (A/R)]
if '%action%'=='A' goto getlocation
if '%action%'=='a' goto getlocation
if '%action%'=='R' goto getlocation
if '%action%'=='r' goto getlocation
goto getaction

:getlocation
ECHO .
ECHO You are about to add a network printer for all users of this pc
ECHO .
ECHO B - Brighton
ECHO D - Damon
ECHO L - A printer that is installed locally on another PC and shared
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO *** If you are connecting to a Printer installed locally on another PC ***
ECHO *** there can be no spaces in the share name ***
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO .

SET /P campus=[Please choose Brighton or DCC or Local (B/D/L)]
if '%campus%'=='b' goto B150
if '%campus%'=='B' goto B150
if '%campus%'=='d' goto D150
if '%campus%'=='D' goto D150
if '%campus%'=='L' goto Decal
if '%campus%'=='l' goto Decal
goto getlocaction

:B150
set server=MCC-B150
goto getprint

:D150
set server=MCC-D150
goto getprint

:Decal
ECHO .
ECHO .
set /P server=[Computer Name where shared printer is]
if '%server%'=='' goto Decal

:localshare
ECHO .
ECHO .
SET /P pname=[Printer Name as shared from that PC]
if '%pname%'=='' goto localshare
goto checkaction

:getprint
ECHO .
ECHO .
SET /P pname=[Printer Name eg P-30-5106-01]
goto checkaction

:checkaction

if '%action%'=='A' goto addprinter
if '%action%'=='a' goto addprinter
if '%action%'=='R' goto removeprinter
if '%action%'=='r' goto removeprinter
goto getaction

:addprinter

ECHO .
ECHO .
SET /P confirm=[Please confirm you wish to add PRINTER %pname% from SERVER %server% to all users (Y/N)]
if '%confirm%'=='Y' goto confirmedadd
if '%confirm%'=='y' goto confirmedadd
if '%confirm%'=='N' goto getaction
if '%confirm%'=='n' goto getaction
goto addprinter

:confirmedadd

RUNDLL32.EXE PRINTUI.DLL, PrintUIEntry /ga /n\\%server%\%pname%
ECHO Printer was added - restarting services.
ECHO .
goto finish

:removeprinter

ECHO .
ECHO .
SET /P confirm=[Please confirm you wish to remove PRINTER %pname% from SERVER %server% to all users (Y/N)]
if '%confirm%'=='Y' goto confirmedremove
if '%confirm%'=='y' goto confirmedremove
if '%confirm%'=='N' goto getaction
if '%confirm%'=='n' goto getaction
goto removeprinter

:confirmedremove

RUNDLL32.EXE PRINTUI.DLL, PrintUIEntry /gd /n\\%server%\%pname%
ECHO Printer was removed - restarting services.
ECHO .
goto finish

:finish
sc stop spooler
sc start spooler

ECHO You may have to refresh your printer folder to see
ECHO the new printer
ECHO .
ECHO .
ECHO If you received a windows error, the printer name was
ECHO probably not entered correctly
ECHO .
ECHO .

set /P complete=[All done? (Y/N)]
if '%complete%'=='Y' goto end
if '%complete%'=='y' goto end
if '%complete%'=='N' goto getaction
if '%complete%'=='n' goto getaction

:end

Using AutoRun with a USB Flash Drive (SamLogic CD-Menu Creator - Article)

Using AutoRun with a USB Flash Drive (SamLogic CD-Menu Creator - Article)
Nice article on how to setup a USB drive to autorun.
Basically include text file called Autorun.inf file on your drive with the following lines:

[AutoRun]
OPEN=
ICON=
ACTION=
LABEL=

After OPEN you put the name of the program you want to start
After ICON you put the name of the file that has an icon that you want to use for the drive
After ACTION you put in plain text a description of what your program will do for the end user
After LABEL (optional) you put a "name" for your USB Drive

For more details, check out Microsoft's page.