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	<description>Experiences in Princeton Departmental Computing Support</description>
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		<title>Prevent Automatic Reboot after Auto Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under the Group Policy in Windows XP Pro you can set a machine to apply its Automatic Updates but notify the user before an automatic reboot.  Under Local Computer Policy &#62; Computer Configuration &#62; Administrative Templates &#62; Windows Components &#62; Windows Update look for &#8220;No auto-restart for scheduled    Automatic Updates installations&#8221;.
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		<link>http://scadblog.princeton.edu/2007/08/03/prevent-automatic-reboot-after-auto-update/</link>
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		<title>Windows Validation Failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the Windows Advantage Validation Tool fails to install you can visit http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/whyValidate.aspx and validate manually via the web browser.  The page will request that you install the necessary ActiveX component and then you will be able to install Windows updates without the Validation Tool showing up as a separate update.
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		<link>http://scadblog.princeton.edu/2007/07/02/windows-validation-failure/</link>
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		<title>Daemon Tools prevents USB Drive Assignment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unable to do a clean installation, I was upgrading my last Win2k user last week.  All went well with the exception of the fact that this week they came back to me complaining that their USB flash drive was inaccessible in My Computer.  With hardware working properly and the drive accessible in Disk Management, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scadblog.princeton.edu/2007/04/12/daemon-tools-prevents-usb-drive-assignment/</link>
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		<title>Forcing FAT32 to NTFS Conversion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I tried to convert a FAT32 drive to NTFS only to find that I could not obtain permission to the convert.exe utility.  Whatever the cause of that annoyance, I wished to force a conversion after the machine&#8217;s next reboot.  It was only after I had booted into Safe Mode with Command Prompt that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scadblog.princeton.edu/2007/04/06/forcing-fat32-to-ntfs-conversion/</link>
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		<title>Sony Hibernation Crashes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have a Sony Vaio that repeatedly blue screens going into hibernation or standby and you are at your wit&#8217;s end try disabling the HDAUDIO SoftV92 Data Fax Modem with SmartCP device.  After applying all of the special-request patches from Microsoft and all of the latest drivers from Sony, this was the only step [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scadblog.princeton.edu/2007/04/06/sony-hibernation-crashes/</link>
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		<title>Inspecting dd Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[dd has a progress report function that is accessible when it is passed a USR1 signal.  While your dd job is running, run kill -USR1 &#60;dd PID&#62; and that should provide how far and how fast dd is running.
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		<link>http://scadblog.princeton.edu/2007/03/24/inspecting-dd-progress/</link>
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		<title>Remote Desktop &#038; the Princeton Domain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have a Windows XP machine that belongs to the domain and you attempt to set a Firewall rule to allow Remote Desktop through, don&#8217;t use the default subnet setting if you wish to accept those connections from your subnet.
I&#8217;ve had consistently rejected connections when using this setting and connecting from the same subnet.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scadblog.princeton.edu/2007/03/21/remote-desktop-the-princeton-domain/</link>
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		<title>Embedding Movies in LaTeX for PDF Presentations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The style file posted below allows you to embed a .MOV file in a PDF file.  This is useful if presentations are composed in LaTeX.  Paired with the hyperref package which accepts the syntax \href{run:external-command}, one can create very powerful, multimedia rich presentations that can automatically trigger events at the presenter&#8217;s command.
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		<link>http://scadblog.princeton.edu/2007/03/06/embedding-movies-in-latex-for-pdf-presentations/</link>
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		<title>Broken Visual Basic Scripts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ After a recent Windows Update a number of my VB/WMI scripts stopped working.  They would launch and immediately report the error &#8220;Library not Found&#8221;.  Unfortunately they failed to report precisely what library was failing to load, so after some general Google searching with regsrv32 in the query I discovered wbemdisp.dll was necessary.  Reloading the library [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scadblog.princeton.edu/2007/03/05/broken-visual-basic-scripts/</link>
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		<title>Elevated Privileges in Windows Explorer Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of IE7, you can no longer use the runas command to launch the browser as an administrator and then redirect it to the C: drive to have a temporary Windows Explorer session with elevated privileges.
The alternative is to run the following from the Run Dialog, which in the long run would have been easier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scadblog.princeton.edu/2007/02/09/elevated-privileges-in-windows-explorer-revisited/</link>
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