How To: Force Windows Recycle Bins to Empty for Every User on a System

If you have multiple user accounts on your Windows computer and are running low on space, you can easily empty the recycling bin for all users with a single command line, assuming your user account has administrator privileges. Try one of the two command lines below depending on your operating system.

How To: Move WSUS Database and Content Directory

Having been implemented before my time the server on which the WSUS \Content volume resides ran out of space the other day. This of course needed to be rectified as soon as possible and the only way to do so in my case was to move the database over to another partition on the same drive (the location it should have been installed on in the first place). However in order to do so I first needed to move the WSUS contents folder and then the susdb database itself. The following are notes on the process that I took as it's likely something that will likely come in handy again sooner rather than later.

How To: Install Google Chrome Extensions via ADM/ADMX Group Policy

Having recently written about the ability to Deploy Google Chrome Policies via ADM/ADMX Group Policy I thought it would be interesting to show you how to force install Google Chrome Extensions via ADM/ADMX Group Policy.

User profile not loaded (Event IDs 1530, 1533 and 1534)

I received this interesting error at work this week while trying to log into a terminal server running Windows Server 2008 SP2 "Your user profile was not loaded correctly".

How To: Disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC)

One of the first things I needed to do when we were configuring our latest Windows Server 2008 was to turn off the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC).

How To: Deploy Google Chrome Policies via ADM/ADMX Group Policy

Having recently moved our organisation to Google Apps for Business and shifted to Google Chrome from the ever old fashioned Internet Explorer, the ability to administer certain controls over the web browser from a centralized place become ever slightly more difficult. Luckily however, Google has acknowledged the need to be centrally administered in corporate environments using Active Directory and Group Policy to easily complete this task.

Using the below step by step guide you too will be able to centrally manage all your Google Chrome browsers using your Active Directory and Group Policy.

How To: Repair or Reinstall .NET Framework 3.5

There are times when the .NET Framework can get corrupted on a computer. There are a number of reasons why one should repair the .NET Framework but the simplest of them is the fact that it is corrupt.

To repair .NET Framework 3.5 refer to the instructions below. It is suggested that you log into the problem computer to repair. This way you can get some good feedback on whether the repair actually worked.