How to Change your Internet Homepage on Internet Explorer 7

This one is a rather simple one to do, but you’d be surprised at how many people I see who have not changed their homepage from Ninemsn.

Click on Tools then Internet Options.

Type in website you want to change your homepage to and click on Ok at the bottom.

If you want to have multiple webpages open up when you start Internet Explorer you can place all the websites you want on its own line and they will open up in their own tab as shown below.

Find users who have not logged in for a period of time in Active Directory

You can easily see which users have not logged into your Active Directory domain for a period of time by using the Saved Queries functionality built into Active Directory on Windows 2003 server.

Open Active Directory Users and Computers and right click Saved queries shown below and select New -> Query.

On the New Query screen below. Give your query a name (and also a description if you wish) and click Define Query…

(If you do not want to gather the information from the entire domain, you can click on the “Browse…” button to only select the Organisational Unit you want.)

Chose an option from the “Days since last logon” drop-down box. This gives you the option of 30, 60, 90, 120 or 180 days which would suit most cases. Then Click OK and then OK again

Now under our saved queries folder we can see our query which we just created. If you click on it all the matching users will appear on the right hand side of the screen.

Note: This feature is also available from the Find screen (With the domain selected choose Action -> Find) by selecting “Common Queries” from the Find drop-down menu. But it does not save your query for later use.

sprtcmd.exe – Dell Support Center

This Dell Support Center software comes installed with Dell laptops (and presumably desktops). I’ve had issues with laptops not shutting down and you need to click an “End Now” dialogue on a restart or shutdown of the computer.

When you try and uninstall this program from “Add/remove programs” from within the control panel you will get an error message. To overcome this issue, press Ctrl+Alt+Delete, click on Task manager button (if may automatically automatically open up without having to click on the Task Manager button).  On the Processes tab, find “sprtcmd.exe” and highlight it. Now click on the End Process button on the bottom right hand corner.

You should be now be able to uninstall this program using the Add/Remove Programs icon within the Control Panel.