Author: --Anand--

Being in Silicon Valley for years, I became a IT Infrastructure Geek by experience and surrounded by other Geeks everywhere. I try to help others by the solutions I found on odd occasions.

Delete the Internet Cache when closing Internet Explorer every time


How many time do you clean your IE cache? Never, huh! You should start purging the cache once in a while for so many reasons.  But it takes many steps and mouse clicks to do the task. Never fear...there is automatic way to clean the cache folder when you closing the Internet Explorer every time. … Continue reading Delete the Internet Cache when closing Internet Explorer every time →

Lock the Screen while watching Videos in full screen mode


This is one cool trick in Windows Media Player in Vista, Locking the screen when watching the video in full screen mode. When you watch DVD movies or other videos in Full screen mode, Windows media player goes to Window mode or you pressed the keyboard accidentally.  In my case, my kids pressing the keyboard … Continue reading Lock the Screen while watching Videos in full screen mode →

Dealing with “Name Change” for a user or group in Active Directory


Female employees get married and change their last name. DL might change their display name. I have been asked few questions about this change like "I still see the old name in Exchange System Manager", "Outlook doesn't reflect the name change". I would do the following things in order. a) Change the User's Name in … Continue reading Dealing with “Name Change” for a user or group in Active Directory →

Dealing with Non-English characters in VBScript


I wrote a VBScript to deal with file and folders in a given path. I am going to explain the issue related to "Non-English" characters in file name and how I resolved. Filename or contents have NON-English (Unicode) characters. VBScript functions like "OpenTextFile", "WriteLn" and "ReadLn" are encountering below error. Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Invalid … Continue reading Dealing with Non-English characters in VBScript →

How do I change the Environment Variable in Vista?


One of my friend called me and just to tell me how much he hate Vista. I asked him the 'hate' details. He wanted to install a home grown software and part of the setup process is to create "Environment Variable" manually. He couldn't find where to add the environment variable. His company developers gave … Continue reading How do I change the Environment Variable in Vista? →

How to send “Executable file” via E-mail?


I came across few occasions users wants to send executable files via E-Mail with valid business reasons. Nowadays, everyone blocks any executable extensions in e-mail attachments. If your company is not blocking the executable attachments, IT guys are not with the times. Any ways, even if the user zip the executable file, some companies strip … Continue reading How to send “Executable file” via E-mail? →

How do you change Scripting Engine in Windows? (“You are not using CScript for the scripting engine. Screen messages will be surpressed.”)


Another day in paradise. I got this error when I was trying to run XCACLS.vbs which is a Microsoft utility to read/change permissions on files and folders.  This utility (XCACLS) has lot of more options than CACLS.exe. I got the following error on my XP machine when running XCACLS.vbs file. There is even a spelling … Continue reading How do you change Scripting Engine in Windows? (“You are not using CScript for the scripting engine. Screen messages will be surpressed.”) →

Mysterious Missing – Never received E-Mails


One of my fellow System Administrator complained about few emails which he never received, like the mass emails sent within our company.  He also never saw any mails generated from system like alert emails. At one time, he said he saw an email briefly on his Windows Mobile and it's gone mysteriously from his Inbox. … Continue reading Mysterious Missing – Never received E-Mails →