Month: November 2014

Script to delete specific IE cookies

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An old script to share :-) It will delete IE cookies specified in variable CookieName

'==========================================================================
' NAME: DeleteIeCookiesCraigslist
' AUTHOR: Nick Moseley , https://t3chn1ck.wordpress.com
' DATE  : 8/11/2011
'
' COMMENT: Deletes the cookies specified in variable CookieName
'==========================================================================
Option Explicit

Const CookieName = "EnterCookieName"
Const ForAppending = 8
Const HKLM = &H80000002
Const EnableLogging = True

' Basic objects
Dim oReg, oShell, oFSO, iCountFiles
Set oReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:StdRegProv")
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oFSO = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
iCountFiles = 0

'==========================================================================
' Begin log file etnries
'==========================================================================
If EnableLogging = True Then 
	Dim oVersionLog
	If Not oFSO.FileExists("C:\Windows\Temp\DeleteIeCookies.log") Then
		oFSO.CreateTextFile "C:\Windows\Temp\DeleteIeCookies.log"
	End If
	Set oVersionLog = oFSO.OpenTextFile ("C:\Windows\Temp\DeleteIeCookies.log", ForAppending, True)
	
	oVersionLog.WriteLine "Delete Craigslist cookies"
	oVersionLog.WriteLine "  => Began at " & Date & " " & Time
End If
'==========================================================================

' Get list of folders in C:\Users
Dim oUserFolders, oFolder, colFiles, oUserCookieFolder, oFile
Set oUserFolders = oFSO.GetFolder("C:\Users") 

For Each oFolder In oUserFolders.subfolders 
	DeleteFile ("C:\Users\" & oFolder.name & "\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies") 
	DeleteFile ("C:\Users\" & oFolder.name & "\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low") 
Next 

' End logging
If EnableLogging = True Then 
	oVersionLog.WriteLine "  => Total number of deleted cookies: " & iCountFiles
	oVersionLog.WriteLine "  => Completed at " & Date & " " & Time
	oVersionLog.Close
End If

WScript.Quit

Sub DeleteFile (sFolderPath)
	If oFSO.FolderExists (sFolderPath) Then
		Set oUserCookieFolder = oFSO.GetFolder(sFolderPath)
		Set colFiles = oUserCookieFolder.Files
		For Each oFile In colFiles
			If InStr (oFile.Name, CookieName) Then 
				If EnableLogging = True Then
					oVersionLog.WriteLine "  => Deleted " & sFolderPath & "\" & oFile.Name
				Else
					WScript.Echo sFolderPath & "\" & oFile.Name
				End If
				oFSO.DeleteFile sFolderPath & "\" & oFile.Name
				iCountFiles = iCountFiles + 1
			End If
		Next 
	End If	
End Sub
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Script to reset IE 8 zoom

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An old script to share :-)  It will help to fix an old problem that occurred in IE 8, if that’s even still around and in use today ;-)

'==========================================================================
' AUTHOR  : Nick Moseley
' COMMENT : This script will parse all User profiles on the computer, load their
' 	HKCU hive, then set the appropriate registry keys.
' HISTORY : 
'	1.0 (01/01/2009) - Original script
'	1.1 (04/07/2009) - Added code for default user profile
'	1.2 (06/07/2009) - Added code for writing changes to C:\Windows\Version Log.txt
'	2.0 (03/01/2010) - Added support/samples for DWORD values. Added custom
'		error codes to check for failed regkey or value creations. Added
'		a skip for svcdesktopauthclient account.
'	2.1 (05/04/2011) - FIxed the logging to not use asterisks
'==========================================================================
Option Explicit

Const ForAppending = 8
Const HKLM = &H80000002
Const sUserKey = "\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Zoom" ' Note: key must have a leading backslash
Const sDWORDValueName = "ResetZoomOnStartup2"
Const sDWORDValue = "1"

Dim oReg, oFSO, oFile, oUserSubkey, aUserProfiles, oShell
Dim sProfileLCase, sRegExe, sRegLoad, sRegUnload, sHiveName, sSubPath, sProfile, sValueName, sKeyPathUserProfiles, sValue, ReturnVal

Set oReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:StdRegProv")
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oFSO = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

'==========================================================================
' Begin log file etnries
'==========================================================================
If Not oFSO.FileExists("C:\Windows\Temp\ResetIe8zoom.log") Then
	oFSO.CreateTextFile "C:\Windows\Temp\ResetIe8zoom.log"
End If
Set oFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile ("C:\Windows\Temp\ResetIe8zoom.log", ForAppending, True)

oFile.WriteLine "Configuration of user settings for IE 8 Reset Zoom Level"
oFile.WriteLine "  => Began at " & Date & " " & Time
oFile.WriteLine "  => For each user profile, set " & sDWORDValueName & " (string) to " & sDWORDValue & " in HKCU" & sUserKey
'==========================================================================


' Begin configuration of existing user profiles
sValueName = "ProfileImagePath"
sKeyPathUserProfiles = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"
sRegExe = "C:\Windows\system32\reg.exe"

oReg.EnumKey HKLM, sKeyPathUserProfiles, aUserProfiles

' Existing User Profiles
For Each oUserSubkey In aUserProfiles
    sSubPath = sKeyPathUserProfiles & "\" & oUserSubkey
    oReg.GetExpandedStringValue HKLM,sSubPath,sValueName,sValue
  
    sProfile = Split(sValue, "\")
    sProfileLCase = LCase(sProfile(2))
  
    If sProfileLCase = "system32" Then
    	oFile.WriteLine "  => Skipped user profile: system32"
    ElseIf sProfileLCase = "localservice" Then
    	oFile.WriteLine "  => Skipped user profile: localservice"
    ElseIf sProfileLCase = "networkservice" Then
    	oFile.WriteLine "  => Skipped user profile: networkservice"
    ElseIf sProfileLCase = "serviceprofiles" Then
    	oFile.WriteLine "  => Skipped user profile: serviceprofiles"
    ElseIf sProfileLCase = "svcdesktopauthclient" Then
    	oFile.WriteLine "  => Skipped user profile: svcdesktopauthclient"
    Else
    	sHiveName = "TempHive_" & sProfileLCase
    
    	' Load user's profile hive into a temp location
    	sRegLoad = " LOAD HKLM\" & sHiveName & " """ & sValue & "\ntuser.dat"""
    	oShell.Run sRegExe & sRegLoad, 0, True
    
    	' Call subroutine to change registry key
    	SetConfigUserHive (sHiveName)
		oFile.WriteLine "  => Set user profile: " & sProfileLCase
    
    	' Unload user's profile hive
    	sRegUnload = " UNLOAD HKLM\" & sHiveName
    	oShell.Run sRegExe & sRegUnload, 0, True
    End If  
Next

' Default User Profile
sHiveName = "TempHive_DefaultUser"
sRegLoad = " LOAD HKLM\" & sHiveName & " ""C:\Users\Default\ntuser.dat"""
oShell.Run sRegExe & sRegLoad, 0, True
SetConfigUserHive (sHiveName)
oFile.WriteLine "  => Set user profile: Default User"
sRegUnload = " UNLOAD HKLM\" & sHiveName
oShell.Run sRegExe & sRegUnload, 0, True

' End logging
oFile.WriteLine "  => Completed at " & Date & " " & Time
WScript.Quit (oFile.Close)

Sub SetConfigUserHive (sTempHive)
	Dim sTempHiveKeyPath

	' Path of registry keys
	sTempHiveKeyPath = sTempHive & sUserKey

	' Create registry key if the value doesn't already exist
	If oReg.GetDWORDValue(HKLM, sTempHiveKeyPath & "\", sDWORDValueName) <> 0 Then
		ReturnVal = oReg.CreateKey(HKLM, sTempHiveKeyPath)
	End If

	' Create DWORD Value
	ReturnVal = oReg.SetDWORDValue(HKLM, sTempHiveKeyPath & "\", sDWORDValueName, sDWORDValue)
End Sub

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Script to disable NIC power save features

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An old script to share :-)  It will parse the list of available network adapters to then disable power save features.

'==========================================================================
' NAME: SetNetworkPnPCapabilities
' AUTHOR: Nick Moseley , https://t3chn1ck.wordpress.com
' COMMENT: Parses list of available network adapters to then disable power
'	save features.  For more info, see Microsoft KB837058
' VERSION HISTORY:
'	1.0 (05/09/2011) - Initial script
'	1.1 (05/10/2011) - Fixed logical bug within the If statement for Wan/Lan
'	2.0 (05/10/2011) - Added logging into registry for future inventory
'	3.0 (08/17/2011) - Commented out changes to disable NIC power save as
'		this needs to be enabled in order to support WOL
'==========================================================================
Option Explicit
Const ForAppending = 8

Dim oShell, oWMI, colNetworkAdapterItems, sNetworkAdapterReg
Set oShell = CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")
Set oWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colNetworkAdapterItems = oWMI.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_NetworkAdapter")
sNetworkAdapterReg = "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\"

' Logging
Dim oFSO, oVersionLog
Set oFSO = CreateObject ("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oVersionLog = oFSO.OpenTextFile ("C:\Windows\Temp\SetNetworkPnPCapabilities.log", ForAppending, True)
oVersionLog.WriteLine "Configuration of Network Adapters"
oVersionLog.WriteLine "  => Started (" & Date & " " & Time & ")"

' Get all objects and take action on network adapters
Dim oItem, sIndexValue, sLomValue
For Each oItem In colNetworkAdapterItems
	If InStr(lcase(oItem.Name),"wan miniport")=0 _
	  And InStr(LCase(oItem.Name),"microsoft isatap")=0 _ 
	  And Trim(oItem.Name)<>"RAS Async Adapter" _
	  And InStr(LCase(oItem.Name),"cisco")=0 Then 
		If oItem.Index < 10 Then
			sIndexValue = "000" & oItem.Index
		Else
			sIndexValue = "00" & oItem.Index
		End If
		
		' ****************************************
		' IMPORTANT: NIC power save as needs to be enabled in order to support WOL
		' Configure/disable Power save on NIC
		'oShell.RegWrite sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue & "\PnPCapabilities", "56", "REG_DWORD"
		'oVersionLog.WriteLine "  => Disabled network adapter power save on device """ & oItem.Name & """"
		'oVersionLog.WriteLine "     Set PnPCapabilities (dword) to 38 in " & sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue
		' ****************************************
				
		' Configure/enable WAN/LAN switching
		sLomValue = ReadRegistryKey (sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue, "LOM")
		If sLomValue<>"1"  And sLomValue<>"null" Then
			oShell.RegWrite sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue & "\LOM", "1", "REG_SZ"
			oVersionLog.WriteLine "  => Enabled WAN/LAN switching on device """ & oItem.Name & """"
			oVersionLog.WriteLine "     Set LOM (string) to ""1"" in " & sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue
		End If		
	End If 
Next 

' End
oVersionLog.WriteLine "  => Completed (" & Date & " " & Time & ")"
WScript.Quit (oVersionLog.Close)

Function ReadRegistryKey (sReadKey, sReadValue)
	On Error Resume Next
	Dim sGetValue
	sGetValue = oShell.RegRead (sReadKey & "\" & sReadValue)
	
	If Err.Number <> 0 Then
		ReadRegistryKey = "null"
	Else
		ReadRegistryKey = cstr(sGetValue)
	End If 	
End Function

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Script to Disable WiFi Device

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An old script to share :-) Below is an example script that was once used to disable WiFi devices on desktop computers attached to the LAN, but that came with a built-in and enabled WiFi device.


'==========================================================================
' NAME: DisableWifi
' AUTHOR: Nick Moseley, Archstone
' COMMENT: Determines if a network adapter device is wireless/wifi and then
' executes a devcon command to disable the device. This should only target
' Vostro desktops where there is wireless adapter
' VERSION HISTORY:
' 1.0 (05/13/2011) - Initial Script
' 2.0 (05/25/2011) - Added logging into registry for future inventory
'==========================================================================
Option Explicit
Const ForAppending = 8

Dim oWMI, oShell, colItems, oFSO, oFile
Set oShell = CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")
Set oWMI = GetObject ("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colItems = oWMI.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_PnPEntity where name like '%wireless%' or name like '%wifi %'")

'Start logging
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.fileSystemObject")
Set oFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile ("C:\Windows\Temp\DisableWifi.log", ForAppending, True)
oFile.WriteLine "Disable wireless network adapter"
oFile.WriteLine "  => Started (" & Date & " " & Time & ")"

' If count=0 of the collection, then no wireless devices found
If colItems.count=0 Then
oFile.WriteLine "  => WARNING: Wireless network adapter not found!"
Else
Dim oItem, sDeviceType
oFSO.CopyFile oFSO.GetFile(Wscript.ScriptFullName).ParentFolder & "\devcon\i386\devcon.exe ", "C:\Windows\Temp\devcon.exe"
' Parse the collection of wireless devices to be disabled
For Each oItem In colItems
sDeviceType = UCase(Left(oItem.DeviceID, 3))
If sDeviceType = "PCI" Then
oShell.Run "C:\Windows\Temp\devcon.exe disable ""@" & oItem.deviceID & ""
oFile.WriteLine "  => Disabled " & oItem.Name
oFile.WriteLine "     Device ID: " & oItem.DeviceID
End If
Next
End If
' End
oFile.WriteLine "  => Completed (" & Date & " " & Time & ")"
WScript.Quit (oFile.Close)

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Script to enable NIC magic packets

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An old script to share :-)  It will enable magic packets for NIC devices.

'==========================================================================
' NAME: EnableNICMagicPackets
' AUTHOR: Nick Moseley , https://t3chn1ck.wordpress.com
' COMMENT: Parses list of available network adapters to then disable power
'	save features.  For more info, see Microsoft KB837058
' VERSION HISTORY:
'	1.0 (05/09/2011) - Initial script
'	1.1 (05/10/2011) - Fixed logical bug within the If statement for Wan/Lan
'	2.0 (05/10/2011) - Added logging into registry for future inventory
'	3.0 (08/26/2011) - Modified the disable NIC power save to instead be
'		enabled, so as to support Wake On LAN. Windows network devices
'		should have selected (on Power Management) option ""Only allow a 
'		magic packet to wake the computer""
'==========================================================================
Option Explicit
Const ForAppending = 8

Dim oShell, oWMI, colNetworkAdapterItems, sNetworkAdapterReg
Set oShell = CreateObject (""WScript.Shell"")
Set oWMI = GetObject(""winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2"")
Set colNetworkAdapterItems = oWMI.ExecQuery (""Select * from Win32_NetworkAdapter"")
sNetworkAdapterReg = ""HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\""

' Logging
Dim oFSO, oVersionLog
Set oFSO = CreateObject (""Scripting.FileSystemObject"")
Set oVersionLog = oFSO.OpenTextFile (""C:\Windows\Temp\EnableNICMagicPackets.log"", ForAppending, True)
oVersionLog.WriteLine ""Configuration of Network Adapters""
oVersionLog.WriteLine ""  > Started ("" & Date & "" "" & Time & "")""

' Get all objects and take action on network adapters
Dim oItem, sIndexValue, sLomValue
For Each oItem In colNetworkAdapterItems
	If InStr(lcase(oItem.Name),""wan miniport"")=0 _
	  And InStr(LCase(oItem.Name),""microsoft isatap"")=0 _ 
	  And Trim(oItem.Name)<>""RAS Async Adapter"" _
	  And InStr(LCase(oItem.Name),""cisco"")=0 Then 
		If oItem.Index < 10 Then
			sIndexValue = ""000"" & oItem.Index
		Else
			sIndexValue = ""00"" & oItem.Index
		End If

		' ****************************************
		' IMPORTANT: NIC power save as needs to be enabled in order to support WOL
		' Configure/enable Power save on NIC. Value 256 (dec) converts to 100 (hex) in registry.
		oShell.RegWrite sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue & ""\PnPCapabilities"", ""256"", ""REG_DWORD""
		oVersionLog.WriteLine ""  > Enabled network adapter power save on device """""" & oItem.Name & """"""""
		oVersionLog.WriteLine ""     Set PnPCapabilities (dword) to 100 in "" & sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue
		' ****************************************

		' Configure/enable WAN/LAN switching, possible when subkey LOM exists
		sLomValue = ReadRegistryKey (sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue, ""LOM"")
		If sLomValue<>""1""  And sLomValue<>""null"" Then
			oShell.RegWrite sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue & ""\LOM"", ""1"", ""REG_SZ""
			oVersionLog.WriteLine ""  > Enabled WAN/LAN switching on device """""" & oItem.Name & """"""""
			oVersionLog.WriteLine ""     Set LOM (string) to """"1"""" in "" & sNetworkAdapterReg & sIndexValue
		End If		
	End If 
Next 


' End
oVersionLog.WriteLine ""  > Completed ("" & Date & "" "" & Time & "")""
WScript.Quit (oVersionLog.Close)

Function ReadRegistryKey (sReadKey, sReadValue)
	On Error Resume Next
	Dim sGetValue
	sGetValue = oShell.RegRead (sReadKey & ""\"" & sReadValue)
	
	If Err.Number <> 0 Then
		ReadRegistryKey = ""null""
	Else
		ReadRegistryKey = cstr(sGetValue)
	End If 	
End Function

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Script to configure IE setting for auto detect LAN

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As I was recently doing some cleanup of old files and or scripts that I’ve written years ago, I came across the below script to change a users IE auto detect LAN.


' This script launches IE (hidden) then changes the auto detect LAN settings
' Written by Nick Moseley on 1/10/11

Const HKCU = &amp;H80000001

Dim oReg, oShell
Set oReg= GetObject(&quot;Winmgmts:root\default:StdRegProv&quot;)
Set oShell = CreateObject (&quot;WScript.Shell&quot;)

' Launch IE
Dim sIeExe
sIeExe = &quot;&quot;&quot;C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe&quot;&quot;&quot;
oShell.Run sIeExe, 0, False
WScript.Sleep 30000

' Get the binary regkey
Dim sKeyPath, sValueName, sKeyValue, iRetVal1, iRetVal2
sKeyPath = &quot;Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections&quot;
sValueName = &quot;DefaultConnectionSettings&quot;
iRetVal1 = oReg.GetBinaryValue (HKCU,sKeyPath,sValueName,sKeyValue)

' Set array position 9 to value 9
sKeyValue(8)=1

'write new value to registry
iRetVal2 = oReg.SetBinaryValue(HKCU,sKeyPath,sValueName,sKeyValue)

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