Archives for August, 2008.

Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips in Windows XP

By Howard | Published August 29th, 2008

I’m rebuilding my new Sony Vaio Z with Windows XP, and as usual there are a load of tweaks I need to make to the OS before I feel “at home” again.  Since the fingerprint reader software on the new build has an annoying habit of popping up info balloons on every boot – regardless…

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FindTheHole.vbs

By Howard | Published August 11th, 2008

Recently I needed to write a script that could locate a folder on a system that had particular characteristics.  I was looking for hidden folders that the logged on user had rights to read, write/append and execute on.  ie, they can drop a binary into the folder and then run it. This is the script…

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