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Paul Davey's Blog

Fixing Problems in an I.T World.. With A Hammer and Sticky Tape..

January 2007 - Posts

  • Windows Vista : Scripting Vista and whats new

    Here you'll find scripting information and resources related to Windows Vista. Lets hope that they keep adding more scripting content

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa905055.aspx

     

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  • Find CDROM Drive in Windows PE (Script)

    Nothing amazing. just a piece of useful code. Works out the CDROM Drive letter in Windows PE (not the X Drive, but anything mounted on the CD outside of that) and then runs something from it.

    Thought I would share..

     

    ' ***************************************************************
    ' * Script to find the CDROM Drive in Windows PE
    ' * and then launch a process from it
    ' * Paul Davey                                                 
    ' ***************************************************************

    Set FileSystemObject = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") 'Create a filesystem object
    Set Drives = FileSystemObject.Drives 'Create a drives collection
    Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WSCript.shell")

    ' Create an array of letters that are CDROM Drives
    Dim cddrvletter ' Holder of the CDROM drive that contains the GHOST files.

    For Each DiskDrive in Drives

     If diskdrive.drivetype = "4" Then ' This drive is a CDROM Drive
      If diskdrive.driveletter <> "X" Then ' X Is the CDROM OS Disk, we dont want this one.
       cddrvletter = diskdrive.driveletter
      End If
     End If
    Next

    ' Run the program from CD
     wshshell.run cddrvletter & ":\notepad.exe", 1, True

    ' Clean up after ourselves
     Set Drives = nothing
     Set FileSystemObject = nothing
     set wshshell = nothing

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  • Vista SP1 Due To Ship Later In 2007

    Saw this reported. I didnt get one of the emails like some people did. Personally I dont understand why it is apparently so hush hush..

     News Here :- http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=208

    And sign up for TAP :- http://bink.nu/Article9325.bink

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  • Many Thanks to Brian!

    Brian,

    I had to write this *publically* to thank you for the Blogcast tops that you sent out. The top arrived 2 days before Xmas, so I took it upon myself to wear it over XMAS!

    I also want to thankyou for all the effort and hard work that you put in to the Blogcast site in 2006. The site is really growing and changing as I am sure that everyone here will agree. I look forward to seeing what 2007 brings and wish you and the site further success in 2007.

    here is a picture of little Matt, me and the fabled T - Shirt!

    http://www.blogcastrepository.com/photos/paul_davey/picture4099.aspx

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