Packaging IE9

Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 9 simplifies the creation, deployment, and management of customized Windows Internet Explorer 9 packages. IEAK 9 can be used to configure the out-of-box Internet Explorer 9 experience for your users, and to manage user settings after you deploy Internet Explorer 9.

 

Ref #
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/gg615601.aspx

Steps :

 

1. Install IE 9 on the respective build .

2.Install IEAK .choose the license type’ Internal Distribution via a corporate Intranet’.

3.Run internet Explorer customization wizard 9

4.Select the required options and add\remove features etc..from the wizard.

5.In Media selection, Select ‘File’

5.The output will be an MSI file which will be getting stored in the destination location you have chosen in the wizard.

 

During Uninstall if you want to retain the previous version use the following command;

FORFILES /P %WINDIR%\SERVICING\PACKAGES  /M Microsoft-InternetExplorer-*9.*.mum /c “cmd /c echo uninstalling package @fname && start /w pkgmgr /up :@fname /norestart”

Win 8 Release preview -Start Menu

Start Menu can be still enabled with Win 8 Release preview.
Here is a free downloadable,http://lee-soft.com/vistart/

World IPv6 Day -June 8th, 2011

An initiative designed to test readiness for the transition to next generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) from the now all but obsolete IPv4.

Read More Here

Windows 8 on October 2012

Good News Friends!

The below article in softpedia by Marius Oiaga gives a heads up that Windows 8  is going to officially release on October 2012.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-8-Availability-2-to-3-Years-after-Windows-7-205249.shtml

 

I think the repackagers\build engineers are really enjoying the frequent releases of new OS from Microsoft which makes their job safe and bringing quite lot of opportunities. !!

Last few years repackagers are really having a good time to learn new technologies and most of them enjoying the challenges too.

InPrivate Browsing Using IE 9

InPrivate Browsing helps prevent Internet Explorer from storing data about your browsing session. This includes cookies, temporary Internet files, history, and other data. Toolbars and extensions are disabled by default.

You can open a IE window in private mode using the following command.

iexplore -private

Microsoft Windows XP EOS Countdown Timer.gadget

Large number of organizations are still using Windows XP.The end of support of this platform is on 2014.

You can check how many days are remaining using the  gadget from Microsoft.

You can download this gadget by  clicking here.

 

• Supported Operating Systems:Windows 7;Windows Vista,Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit, any edition

VB Script : Remove an entry from Hosts File

 

On Error Resume Next

Set wshshell = createobject("wscript.shell")

Line1="0.0.0.0.0   TEST"
Call RemoveValues(Line1)

 

 

Sub RemoveValues(Line)
    Dim varFile         ‘Variable to store the values of the file
    Dim varFileLines    ‘Variable to store the current line read from the file
    Dim WshShell        ‘Object pointing to the WScript
   
    ‘Initializing the WScript object
    Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.shell")
    ‘System root
    SysRoot = WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%SystemRoot%")
    ‘File Path
    sFileName = SysRoot & "\system32\drivers\etc\Hosts"
  
    Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(sFileName, 1)
   
    ‘looping through the Hostss file
    Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
        ‘Reading a line from the Hosts file
        varFileLines = objFile.ReadLine
        ‘Checking for the search string
        If Trim(varFileLines) <> Line Then
            ‘Building the string without the search string
            If Trim(varFile) = "" Then
                varFile = Trim(varFileLines)
            Else
                varFile = varFile & vbCrLf & Trim(varFileLines)
            End If
        End If
    Loop
    ‘Closing the file object
    objFile.Close
    Set objFile = Nothing
    ‘Creating the file without the search string
    Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(sFileName, True, False)
    ‘Writing the lines into the file
    objFile.WriteLine varFile
    ‘Closing the file object
    objFile.Close
    Set objFile = Nothing
End Sub