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Script to remove printers

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I wrote this script to help a customer cleanup user profiles and remove unsupported printers. This script can safely be executed in each user session and works a treat. It stamps the registry after the first time it runs, so that it can be left in place to capture all users, whilst only ever removing the printers once. A nice polite message box will appear to let the user know that their printers have been removed and tell them how to add new ones.

If, however, you find that some printers just cannot be removed, try my other script to remove orphaned/stale printer objects.

Enjoy!

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Script to remove orphaned/stale printer objects

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I wrote this script to help a customer clean up old orphaned and stale printer objects from user profiles. This script can safely be executed in each user session and works a treat.

However, you may first want to try my script to remove printers the traditional way.

Here is the RemoveOrphanedPrinters.vbs script.

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Creating a Message of the Day banner using a HTA

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A customer asked me to assist with implementing a “Message of the Day” (MOTD) banner into their logon scripts. I had written one years ago that was part of a kix32 script, but found that it no longer worked with the wkix32 script processor. I guess that I could have debugged it and fixed it up, but it was old and tired, and needed a face lift. I was always keen to write one using a HTA (HTML Application), so took this opportunity to do so. In my opinion a HTML Application provides a far more professional look for the users.

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