@Dashrender said in Script to Clean up Windows 10 Start Menu:
Interesting - I've been using the 1803 version of the script for 9 months now with zero problems. I'll post my script and XML later today.
Also, are you importing the xml with powershell? or are you referencing the xml with a registry setting? (either local or though GPO)
@Dashrender said in Script to Clean up Windows 10 Start Menu:
Interesting - I've been using the 1803 version of the script for 9 months now with zero problems. I'll post my script and XML later today.
Do you apply the changes for deployment / before the users logs in to the computer? or apply them to the user after they have logged in?
That's a huge road block for us.
@NashBrydges said in Interesting FreePBX Setup:
Why would he do this? This isn't a HA setup. His home DS918+ is a backup only. Recovery would likely mean purchasing a new Synology and recovering from his backups at home. Now, whether that's been done/tested, haven't asked and my guess would be no.
I am willing to bet his expectations are that he can.
@JaredBusch said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:
And a fully open virus network. ZT is at least limited tot he devices it is on.
How so? My VPNs are locked to IP address and/or 2FA.
@scottalanmiller said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:
@JasGot said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:
Put a RouterBoardOS RB260GS at each house and use a free ddns service. $35each and yo're done.
Or a Ubiquiti Edge Router Lite will work too, just more expensive.
I use the Ubiquiti ERL for IPSec into my house from the office, my phone, and my laptop. Love it.All more work and more money than easy and free.
Easy is relative. $70 for the two is only $10 more than he is currently paying for one year. Starting with month 15, it is free!
@NashBrydges said in Interesting FreePBX Setup:
Anyone else see a similar setup elsewhere?
Only in the story books. I wonder if he has every powered down the office Synology, and brought the home Synology in, to test his DR.
After three days of exploring this. I'm giving up. I can remove the tiles faster by hand.
I chose to forego all the existing scripts because they either don't work, or they uninstall items. There are too many hooks between too many apps to be confident in uninstalling apps without potential consequences.
With all the failures in modifying Start Menu items coming from Microsoft changes, I just can't take the chance that a production machine won't have an issue later (mostly with updates) because an app was removed.
I have also found that there is either no way (or the process is broke) to use XML to control the Start Menu for an existing user (without GPO).
And to top it all off, it appears the ability to modify the Taskbar is broke in 1803 or only works intermittently. Further, in all of the 100's of posts I've read, no one can actually provide a working example. It seems as though every time someone says "I got it working", some else says "post your XML", and they can't because it suddenly isn't working again.
I had narrowed the choices down to one:
Website: TimothyGruber.com
GitLab: https://gitlab.com/tjgruber/win10crappremover
but I was unable to make it work 100% of the time. I did not check to see if the unreliability was caused by varying levels of updates; I need it to work across all updates, because I need the start menu modification to work after the upgrade to 10 and before all the updates have taken place. I need to be able to go from 7 to 10 with a custom start menu in under an hour. If I have to wait for certain updates to apply, it could take two full days.
I'll keep searching for a solution, but for now, the Windows 10 upgrades are on hold.
@Obsolesce said in Script to Clean up Windows 10 Start Menu:
https://timothygruber.com/scripts/powershell/win10-crapp-remover-powershell-script-gui/
This one let's you get granular and has a GUI where you can import and export a start menu.
Well. I had high hopes for this. Or, better yet, my expectations were too high. After testing for two minutes, I've decided the app is not for me. Maybe I'll use it just to clear out the start menu with the Start Menu> Empty Start Menu XML template (I'll try that in a minute...).
The first thing I did was Check All on the Win10 crAPPs page and then Check All on the App & Privacy Settings page. Ran both removers and was left with this:
That's hardly a cleanup.
Oh, and I just tried the Empty Start Menu template....You can only apply it to new users.
Darn, I was so excited.
@Obsolesce said in Script to Clean up Windows 10 Start Menu:
https://timothygruber.com/scripts/powershell/win10-crapp-remover-powershell-script-gui/
This one let's you get granular and has a GUI where you can import and export a start menu.
I'm checking this out right now. It looks like it has promise. Too bad the author doesn't explain things a bit more.
@Dashrender said in Script to Clean up Windows 10 Start Menu:
There is a decrapifier script that someone posted on ML that I use for both deployment and non-deployment scenarios.
In the case of non-deployment, You need to run this script as the first user on the system, preferably an account that won't actually be used.
https://community.spiceworks.com/user-groups/windows-decrapifier-group
I checked this out. Lot's of talk about it, mostly about how it is intended to be run prior to sysprep, and how it will not remove anything from the user profile it is being run under.
How are you running it for stand alone and more importantly, the user you are logged in as?
What do you present to the end user as the start menu when you roll out (non Deployment scenario) Windows 10 to them? And how do you do it?
There has to be a way to scrub all that garbage with a quick scrip. Especially the links to the Online Office and Office 365 stuff. (We deliver desktop versions with the machine).
@travisdh1 said in ZentriOS??? What could it be?:
@JasGot said in ZentriOS??? What could it be?:
Well, that was easy! I received an e-mail a minute later from my JuiceBox, saying it was offline. JusiceBox is the Class 2 Charging Station for our car.
Great, IOT plugged directly into our vehicles. Talk about upping the anti for security!
Indeed. It'll all work without it. But the app is too cool to resist!
@NerdyDad said in ZentriOS??? What could it be?:
@JasGot said in ZentriOS??? What could it be?:
Well, that was easy! I received an e-mail a minute later from my JuiceBox, saying it was offline. JusiceBox is the Class 2 Charging Station for our car.
Wait!!! How did you get an email from it if it is offline? Did you get an email from a mothership saying its dependent was offline?
Exactly, but around here we call it Big Brother!
Well, that was easy! I received an e-mail a minute later from my JuiceBox, saying it was offline. JusiceBox is the Class 2 Charging Station for our car.
@dbeato said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@JasGot said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@dbeato said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@JasGot said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@dbeato said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
@JasGot said in Looking to migrate backup service to Unitrends.:
We've been a Cloudberry Provider for many years. We have some customers on Unitrends.
We are in the process of moving all our customers to Datto. It's partner channel only, so you'll have to find someone to work through.
We are putting an appliance onsite; with forever cloud copy.
I hate Unitrends for a plethora of reasons, and I just don't have a high level of confidence in Cloudberry anymore.
Also, I do like the idea of the onsite appliance for quick recovery rather than downloading fro the cloud (current Cloudberry setup).
Datto's backups are all stored P2V, you can spin up a VM of someone's PC or your server in about 40 seconds. I like this part.
Datto restore aren't that fast as far as I have tried and we have many appliances.
In what way? The VMs sitting on our local Datto appliance are up and running in about 40 seconds.
Same for those we spin up in the cloud.Now bringing a full system restore down from cloud storage can only be as fast as your ISP connection.
What are your resources on the VM? Like are you running a VM with 80 GB of Data or TB of Data?
Most are 150GBish
Yeah, That I can spin up fast. But we have some clients with VMs that have about 2 to 4 TB so 40 seconds is not that realistic for that size but still fast.
Have you considered splitting their OS from that much data?
I just blocked it in the AP, we'll see who yells.....
I am working on a toshiba Flashair w03 card (a dastardly little device) and while scanning for it on my lan I found a device I do not recognize.
Th MAC comes back as:
4C:55:CC - Zentri Pty Ltd
After looking up Zentri, I find it is so generic there may be no way to know what it is.
Any thoughts?
Anyone run in to this thing before?
If you hit is with a browser, you see this:
@WrCombs said in Microsoft Security Essentials - Script?:
So I actually fixed this,
I uninstalled and reinstalled and then a restart fixed my issues@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Security essentials is having issues today.
Service wont stay started.
and again
However now -
I have about 6 sites called in about this same issue.is there a way to write a script to restart the PC's tonight after hours to update this so the issue goes away?
shutdown /r /f /t 36000 will reboot in ten hours. Adjust to your needs.
@Dashrender said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:
@dyasny said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:
- Free-ish medicare
You know this doesn't exist anywhere - right? If it's free - it's paid by taxes.. Now that said - I have no clue what the actual typical tax rate is in Europe say compared to the USA ( I know that my tax rate between state and Fed is around 17% - that doesn't seem right, but this is based on my actual pay, not the post standard deductions pay, which would clearly be much higher.
Don't forget the sales tax, gas tax, airport tax, and hotel tax, etc... you probably pay quite often. It all adds up. Americans pay a lot more tax than they think they do.
