Scott Hanselman

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[Greg Reinacker's Weblog]

This is a FANTASTIC Concept.  I like my applications like I like my women - stylish, elegant, and sitting in the System Tray next to the clock.

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Trying to figure out installed versions/service packs of various things on your NT4 / 2000 / XP System?

I use:

• PSInfo from SysInternals (freeware)
  PsInfo is a command-line tool that gathers key information about the local or remote Windows NT/2000 system, including the type of installation, kernel build, registered organization and owner, number of processors and their type, amount of physical memory, the install date of the system, and if its a trial version, the expiration date.
• MDAC Component Checker
  Component Checker is a customizable tool that performs the following tasks - Identifies the current MDAC installation on a computer, Creates a series of reports about the files identified for the current MDAC installation, Removes the current MDAC installation after listing .dll conflicts and identifying programs that reference a given .dll.
• Shavlik's HFNetChkLT for patch management and yummy security goodness
• The MDAC Installation FAQ with version numbers and a compability matrix for all the Windows OSs (95, 98, ME, 2000, NT4, XP) and the MDACs (2.0, 2.1, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7)

Also, for finding the version of the the MDAC manually via regedit (from Network Simplicity)

Summary:
How to determine which version of MDAC is installed on a Windows machine?
Explanation:
Run regedit and search for the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
      \Software 
          \Microsoft 
               \DataAccess 
                    \Version

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Overhead on the 'Net/Quote of the Day:

"Our management style is largely one of deception..."

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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Who says Windows can't be reliable? This is a Windows XP laptop that is only being rebooted because I need to reformat it to use for a different task:

C:>uptime i3500
\i3500 has been up for: 319 day(s), 19 hour(s), 40 minute(s), 30 second(s)

[Adrian Bateman (VisionTech)]

You haven't installed a Microsoft security patch in the last 319 days it seems...

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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AvantBrowser: The Best IE Add-On I've Seen. Like many of you, I'm always looking for great software - something so useful you install it on friends computers when you're over for a visit. Avant Browser is one such software tool. It's a light-weight add-on for Internet Explorer on your desktop PC, and adds some excellent features for a price you can't beat: free (though I'd urge you to give the author a small donation if you use it). It's has a tabbed browser interface, integrated Google searching, a pop-up blocker that works better than anything else I've ever used, and it's very fast (some add-ons to IE slow it down). One thing I like in particular is that most pop-up Windows that you DO want work and they float in their original size (NetCaptor forces them to be "full size"). I've been installing this application on every computer I come across - it's that good. The author is also amazingly responsive - he releases new versions nearly every week, fixing bugs and adding new features. He even added F2/F3 tab navigation when I asked him too! Download the trial version to check out, and if you like it and use it, please support the author with a donation. [Pocket PC Thoughts]

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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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