Prevent Silverlight from showing up under Windows Updates One thing that’s annoying is that Windows 7 with SP1 and Windows 8 and 8.1 all have Silverlight baked into the OS for minimum functionality. The truth is though that most people never use it unless they are running Netflix which is also in the process of […]
Category Archives: Windows 8
Cisco AnyConnect wont connect after installing on Windows 8 or 8.1
Cisco AnyConnect wont connect after installing on Windows 8 or 8.1 If you receive any of the following error: Cisco AnyConnect wont connect after installing on Windows 8 or 8.1 will not able to establish a connection to the specified secure gateway Please try connecting again. The VPN Client driver has encountered an error Cannot initiate […]
Get list of software installed from a remote computer WMI and PowerShell
Get list of software installed from a remote computer WMI and PowerShell Ever wanted to Get list of software installed from a remote computer via WMI and PowerShell Open PowerShell and run the following command: Get-WmiObject -Class “Win32_Product” -ComputerName RemoteHost -Credential localhost\LocalUser | Export-CSV (Join-Path $home “SoftwareList.csv”) Now to understand how this all ties together. Get-WmiObject -Class […]
Get list of software installed from a remote computer via WMIC from DOS
Get list of software installed from a remote computer Have you ever needed to get a quick local inventory of installed software across your network? You can use the WMIC command from the DOS CLI. Simply run the following command: wmic /user:”localhost\UserName” /password:”UsersPassword” /node:”RemoteHostname” product get name,version,vendor You can copy and paste this to a […]