Joseph Spurrier

After a bit of research, I’ve decided to move all my domain names from GoDaddy to NameCheap to save money.

Whenever I get a new computer, the first thing I do is format the hard drive to remove all the manufacturer bloatware and then install the operating system of my choice.

When was the last time you pulled your Credit Report?

Please read if you want to know how to upgrade your *ROOTED* HTC Thunderbolt from a rooted ROM to the 2.11.605.9 update.

If you are trying to extend the Boot or System Partition on a Windows Server 2003 server, you can use a Windows Server 2008 CD to accomplish the task.

I’m pretty excited about Windows 8.

This article is a compilation of many different articles.

I’m going to let the metrics do the talking on this review.

Below is a guide I wrote because I needed to remember the process to create a bootable CD.

Amazon recently added a new feature to their existing cloud platform called Amazon Cloud Player.

After 20 hours of waiting for my Thunderbolt, I happy to say I’m very impressed with the phone.

Great article on themes for Android.

While troubleshooting Outlook 2007 today, I found a great article with a few hidden tools.

One error which plagued a number of systems was a scenario where Windows Update would sit frozen and never install any updates.

If you want to read every little thing Windows attempts to do when you login or logout of the operating system, place the code in a *.REG file and double click.

Run these commands to re-register the DLLs.

Learned this one in a Forensic class.

If you have users that try to log in without ensuring the correct domain is selected in the dropdown box, run the registry file below to set it to automatically default to the correct domain.

If you would like to send an email from the command line, modify the code below to fit your needs.

If you are having issues with you current Windows Desktop for any reason, a quick fix is to run this script.

Here is a very quick and dirty way to monitor a server over an extended period of time.

Run these commands if it seems like Windows 7 is not receiving updates.

Run the commands below to resync your PC time to the government’s time server.

If you need to search a group of files for a certain string of text, place the below script in a *.CMD file which resides in the same folder as all the files you would like to search.

Previously, we received Bulk Load errors in SQL because they computers were not trusted to run a Bulk Load operation from another server.

Ok, I borrowed this one from somewhere and modified it to fit my needs.

If you have a service change that needs to be made quickly, use the command line to remotely change services.

When inefficient SQL queries are run over and over again by a web application, sometimes you will see an errors message similar to one of the following: > A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly.

Paste this command into command prompt and it will allow IIS to display 32bit web code: cscript %SystemDrive%\inetpub\Admin\Script\sadsutil.vbs set w3svc/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 1

Here is a powerful one.

Do you hate the little reminder to reboot your system every 15 minutes after Windows updates your system?

On a Windows system, sometimes the print queue can cause applications that use printers to hang, specifically Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Word.

The script will automatically backup all the user files in My Documents, Desktop, Favorites, and the default PST location.

Although this sounds like a difficult task, it is much easier than you may think.

One neat feature of scripting is the ability to make changes to a large number of objects at one time.

As I was building a LinuxFromScratch.org distribution, I wanted to ensure all my file permissions, owners, and groups were correct.

This is an error message I’ve seen a few time.

On a Linux system, usually when an Invalid ELF Header message appears it means one of the libraries cannot be loaded.

At the heart of every Linux distribution is the kernel.

In Linux, there are a number of good package managers.