Disable USB Drive Usage on Windows
Published By rsivanandan On Thursday, April 26th 2007. Under Windows
With the evolving USB drive technology the prices are coming down as well. All my friends I know do have a USB stick with them, may it be a 2GB one or 128MB.
So on a PC running Windows XP SP2, how do you disable the USB sticks??? Questions come this ... Continue Reading
Find all Installed Hotfixes…
Published By rsivanandan On Monday, April 16th 2007. Under Windows
An interesting question that came up was, how do I find out what all are the installed hotfixes on my computer. So the most obvious is to go to control panel->Add Remove programs and look through it.
Or else there are couple of other methods, one being the Windows Management Interface;
Open a command prompt and run this;
wmic qfe list full /format:htable >C:\hotfixes.htm
That will add all the hotfix information to the file 'hotfixes.htm' (Source ::
Or else, you could write a simple vbscript to fetch the information as the one
below from Windows Scripting Center;
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strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & ... Continue Reading
2nd Birthday
Published By rsivanandan On Friday, April 13th 2007. Under Life in general
Just back from Hometown after my kid's second birthday. Wasn't an enjoyable trip since had to run around arranging stuff, calling people and busy buying stuff. Anyways there is this satisfaction - It was done good! ... Continue Reading
