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Exploring the benefits of using Windows Terminal

17 January 2023 Richard Wallace 0

Windows Terminal is a powerful and versatile tool that can be used to manage your Windows operating system. It is a command-line interface (CLI) that allows users to access and control their Windows systems from […]

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Map a network printer in a logon script

25 April 2007 Richard Wallace 0

As long as your printer is networked, connected to a print server and shared, then mapping the printer via a logon script is fairly easy. Firstly consider adding an echo line of text to inform […]

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Map a network drive in a logon script

25 April 2007 Richard Wallace 0

There are two ways to map a network drive and each is more useful in a different situation. Method 1 This way is the more efficient of the two and most useful if the network […]

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Set clock by logon script

25 April 2007 Richard Wallace 0

To set you client machines to the same time, simply decide on a server to use as the time source. Then consider adding a echo message to inform the user of what is happening. For […]

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How to copy files to client machines via a logon script

25 April 2007 Richard Wallace 0

This can be very handy when you have set a group policy to display a certain background image/file. Lefts say your group policy is configured to set everyones background to a image file called back.jpg […]

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