What sites I logged in to using my Facebook credentials

Visit www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications to see what applications and websites you’re logging in to using your Facebook credentials. You have 3 tabs to look at: Active: You recently logged into them with Facebook. These are active apps and websites that can access your Facebook data you chose to share with them. Use this list to: 1) View and update the…

May 5, 2018 · 2 min · 252 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

How to start Word with a specific template

Open Word the usual way. In the template selection view, select the template you want and click Create. For example, Blog Post. When Word opened your document, click Save As and select Word Template in the Save as type drop-down box. Path should change automatically to your Custom Office Templates directory. Give your template a…

April 8, 2018 · 2 min · 318 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

How to use Word for Blog publishing

Start your Office Word application. It works with any version starting with Word 2007. While you’re in the new template selection view, search for “blog” in the “Search for online templates” field. “Blog post” template should be listed. Click it and then select Create button. On first run only, you’ll be asked to register your…

April 4, 2018 · 3 min · 458 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Uninstall software on remote computers using WMIC

Recently, I wanted to install Nokia Ovi Suite to several computers in a company that started to have problems with their internet provider; it’s a third day when they do not have internet connection. So I thought it’s a good idea to show them how they can use their Nokia E72 phones to connect their…

April 16, 2013 · 2 min · 310 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Find computer name for a remote computer using PSExec

Let’s say you know the IP address of a computer but you don’t know the hostname. Seems to be an easy task with ping –a, if you have a working DNS If not, you can try the following approach: Create a cmd file on client’s computer. Say in \IP\C$\Windows\Temp\FindHostname.cmd Edit FindHostname.cmd. Type in: echo %computername%…

April 15, 2013 · 1 min · 71 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Open local group policy settings on a remote system

From Run or Command Prompt window: gpedit.msc /gpcomputer: Computername

April 8, 2013 · 1 min · 9 words · Vitalie Ciobanu

Find computer model and manufacturer using remote WMI

In case you need to find the computer model and manufacturer of a remote computer, just use the following command in a command prompt window: %windir%\System32\wbem\WMIC.exe /node:”ComputerNameORIpAddress” ComputerSystem Get Model, Manufacturer If you need to specify user credentials, use the following command: %windir%\System32\wbem\WMIC.exe /node:”ComputerNameORIpAddress” /user:”domain\username” /password:”password” ComputerSystem Get Model, Manufacturer

January 18, 2010 · 1 min · 50 words · Vitalie Ciobanu