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You can customize the sidebar of the Finder window by adding other icons that make it even more powerful. For example, if you use Photoshop a lot, just open the window where your Photoshop application resides, drag the Photoshop icon right over to the sidebar, and the other icons in the sidebar will slide out of the way.Now you can use this window kind of like you would the dock — to launch Photoshop, just click on its icon in the sidebar, plus like the dock, you can even drag-and-drop images you want to open right onto the sidebar’s Photoshop icon.

There are four types you can have.

1. Group Policy logon / logoff scripts.
2. Group Policy Computer startup / shutdown scripts.
3. Domain User logon scripts.
4. Local user logon scripts.

Type 1 script executes when a USER logs on or logs off. And it executes with that user privilege.

Type 2 script executes when the COMPUTER starts up or shuts down. It executes in context of “Local System Account”.

Type 3 script executes when a domain user logs on. The difference is type 3 works on all Windows versions whereas type 1 only works with Windows 2000 and up.

Type 4 script: the name says itself. It only executes when the user logs on locally.

As not to go off topic with this post I have removed most of everything else in this script apart from anything relating to drive mappings.

Please note I am no expert in scripting and the information below should be properly tested if you intend to use it.

The script below maps drives for uses in two ways. First off, it will give all users the default shares and there home drive (P, S, X).

Then it checks what groups a user is a member of and attaches the appropriate drives. (W, U, Z, M, L)

Drives M, L attach to another server and also use different logon credentials. If you required another drive with different credentials, you could try…

On the line

Dim WSHShell, WSHNetwork, objDomain, DomainString, UserString, UserObj, Path, objNetwork, objNetwork1

Add another value “objNetwork2”

Then find in the script below and copy and paste it to a new section. Then replace all the 1’s with 2’s.

Amend the username, password and the share to reflect the desired connection. And fingers crossed it should work.

Set objNetwork1 = WScript.CreateObject(”WScript.Network”)
strLocalDrive1 = “L:”
strRemoteShare1 = “\\server\share”
strPer1 = “FALSE”
strUsr1 = “username”
strPas1 = “password”
objNetwork1.MapNetworkDrive strLocalDrive1, strRemoteShare1, strPer1, strUsr1, strPas1

‘ —— Script START ——

ON ERROR RESUME NEXT

Dim WSHShell, WSHNetwork, objDomain, DomainString, UserString, UserObj, Path, objNetwork, objNetwork1

Set WSHShell = CreateObject(”WScript.Shell”)
Set WSHNetwork = CreateObject(”WScript.Network”)

‘Automatically find the domain name
Set objDomain = getObject(”LDAP://rootDse”)
DomainString = objDomain.Get(”dnsHostName”)
WinDir = WshShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(”%WinDir%”)

‘Grab the user name
UserString = WSHNetwork.UserName

‘Bind to the user object to get user name and check for group memberships later
Set UserObj = GetObject(”WinNT://” & DomainString & “/” & UserString)

‘Grab the computer name for use in add-on code later
strComputer = WSHNetwork.ComputerName

‘Disconnect ALL mapped drives
Set clDrives = WshNetwork.EnumNetworkDrives
For i = 0 to clDrives.Count -1 Step 2
WSHNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive clDrives.Item(i), True, True
Next

‘Give the PC time to do the disconnect, wait 300 milliseconds
wscript.sleep 300

‘Map drives
‘Note the first command uses the user name as a variable to map to a user share.

WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive “p:”, “\\server\users\” & UserString,True
WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive “s:”, “\\server\standards”,True
WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive “X:”, “\\server\company”,True

‘Now check for group memberships and map appropriate drives

For Each GroupObj In UserObj.Groups
Select Case GroupObj.Name
‘Check for group memberships and take needed action
Case “grp-Admin_tools”
WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive “w:”, “\\server\share”,True
WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive “u:”, “\\server\share”,True

Case “grp-temp-user”
WSHNetwork.MapNetworkDrive “w:”, “\\Server\Share”,True
Case “grp-FTP-root-rw”
Set objNetwork = WScript.CreateObject(”WScript.Network”)
strLocalDrive = “M:”
strRemoteShare = “\\server\share”
strPer = “FALSE”
strUsr = “username”
strPas = “password”
objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive strLocalDrive, strRemoteShare, strPer, strUsr, strPas

Case “grp-ftp-root-r”
Set objNetwork1 = WScript.CreateObject(”WScript.Network”)
strLocalDrive1 = “L:”
strRemoteShare1 = “\\server\share”
strPer1 = “FALSE”
strUsr1 = “username”
strPas1 = “password”
objNetwork1.MapNetworkDrive strLocalDrive1, strRemoteShare1, strPer1, strUsr1, strPas1

End Select

Next

‘=====================================
‘Add On Code goes above this line

‘Clean Up Memory We Used
set UserObj = Nothing
set GroupObj = Nothing
set WSHNetwork = Nothing
set DomainString = Nothing
set WSHSHell = Nothing
Set WSHPrinters = Nothing
Set objNetwork = Nothing
Set objNetwork1 = Nothing

‘Quit the Script
wscript.quit

‘ —— Script END ——

in Georgia, USA! according to Google analytics!

So I thought I would post a couple of links to some ’stuff’ in your state,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)

http://www.georgia.gov/

If you check multiple email accounts from one gmail address, you will probably have had this problem at some point.

So you have got two addresses, your main account test712@gmail.com and dontspamme@gmail.com.
When an email is sent to dontspamme@gmail.com you want to respond with the same address not your default (main acocunt) test712@gmail.com.

To do this got to your account settings at the top right of the page, then select accounts.  In the section send mail as section look for When I receive a message sent to one of my addresses:

You now have two options
Reply from the same address to which the message was sent
Always reply from my default address (currently test712@gmail.com)
Select the correct one for you and your gmail is now the way it should be.

Please remember that you can, if you want select the email account to send from when composing a message!

One function that is under used in windows is the SUBST command.  It allows you to map a drive letter to a local folder.  This is useful when you are dealing with large directory paths or you want a quick and easy way to access a frequently used folder.

I will use a relativity short folder structure here but you will still be able to see the benefit of this command.

If we have a bunch of files located in the folder C:\- data\code\project\USB (graphic1) each time we want to use them we need to navigate through the folder structure to access them.  Surprisingly time consuming…

Would it not be easier just to go to a driver letter like T:\?

Sure it would, so let get it done!

1. Fire up the command prompt
   1. CLICK start > run
   2. Type CMD and click OK
   3. You should now be presented with the command prompt screen
2. Assign a drive letter to a folder (graphic2)
   1. Type subst t: “C:\- data\code\project\USB” (you can substitute t: for any free drive on your system)
   2. Type t: press enter or check it through windows explorer (graphic4)
3. Show subst options(graphic3)
   1. Type subst /?
4. To display a list of current virtual drives.
   1. Type subs

If you suffer from acute command line phobia you can check out the great utility visual-subst this will do everything you need from the comfort and security of your well loved GUI.

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