This is a fully functioning point of sale system written in VB6, utilizing an MS Access database. Overview I wrote this way back in 2003 for a friend, who actually used it in his business for quite a number of years. The only reason it went away is because he needed something more robust, with a multi-location and… Read More »
I was going through some of my old code during a backup process, and I stumbled across this mostly complete help desk application I wrote about 13 years ago. Maybe someone can get some use out of it? This app began life as most of my code does, to solve one of my own problems. In this case,… Read More »
Creating an Access database with VB6 should not be intimidating, and it is much simpler than you might think. Four lines of code will do the job. In your project, simply create a refrence to the latest Microsoft DAO Object Library. On my installation, this is shown as Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Libary. Once the necessary reference is made, simply… Read More »
Yes, building people. This program, meant to demonstrate the use of a few different methods, builds random person data (Address, phone, etc). I didn’t build this for someone to build false identities for nefarious purposes, although it could probably be used for that. Nay, I built this to demonstrate the use of a few different concepts in Visual… Read More »
In an interesting design choice, Get-Process lets you work with processes on remote machines, but Stop-Process does not. This cmdlet uses WMI to stop a process on a remote machine.
A function to create a new Hyper-V virtual machine using WMI, with the ability to create the VM on a remote host. Also allows for specifiying the target location.
This script does nothing more than search a list of computers for a specified user profile.
Turns on Maintenance Mode for a specific computer monitored by SCOM (System Center Operations Manager). Ensure that the OperationsManager module is available on the computer from which this script is executed.
Nothing magical here, just a little something to help get the attention of whoever is at the keyboard on a remote machine. This function will allow you to pop up a message on a LAN-connected computer.
Returns the parsed output of netsh wlan show network mode=bssid in psobject form. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Requires Vista/2008 or higher, or XP SP3 with a hotfix (I can’t recall which one, sorry.)