Deploy a Disk Cleanup Policy

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Aug 102012
 

Early today I was looking for a way to automatically run Disk Cleanup on multiple computers in a domain. I found the /sageset switch which allows you to define the options you want to use in conjunction with /sagerun, but none of the articles mentioned anything about saving the settings for use on multiple computers. Using Regshot 2.0 unicode on Windows XP I determined the settings are saved in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\VolumeCaches

There is a key for each category and a StateFlags dword value for each configuration made using /sageset. The StateFlags value has a number after it that corresponds to the /sageset number. By exporting a the VolumeCaches key and merging in before running cleanmgr /sagerun, you can easily deploy a Disk Cleanup policy. I won’t have time to thoroughly test this on different machines until Monday, so USE WITH CAUTION.

Automate UPC creation with PHP and Barcoding.com

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May 072012
 

Here’s a basic script I made that uses PHP, cURL, and barcoding.com. It reads UPCs from csv files (or just a list) and sends a request to barcoding.com. Barcoding.com then returns an image with the barcode. Keep in mind barcoding.com is a free service and isn’t designed to be used in the way this script uses it, so please use it carefully.


<?php
$file = 'upcs.csv'; // Path to CSV file
$field = 0; //Column number of the UPC (0 if in the first column, 1 for the 2nd column, etc)
$output = 'C:\\upcs\\'; //Directory to save outputted UPCs to

$csvFile = fopen($file, "r"); //open the csv file for reading
while($data = fgetcsv($csvFile)) { //for each, add upc to array
if(strlen($data[$field]) === 12) { //prevent from adding data that isn't a 12 digit upc
$upcA[] = $data[$field];
}
}
fclose($csvFile);

function saveBarcode($url, $code) {
global $output;
$url = "http://www.barcoding.com".$url;
$ofile = "$output$code.png";
if(@$out = fopen($ofile, "x")) { // prevent problems when the file already exists
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $out);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($out);
}
}

function makeBarcode($code) { //generates barcode image from upc using barcoding.com
$url = "http://www.barcoding.com/upc/buildbarcode.asp?cpaint_function=BuildBarcode&cpaint_argument[]=$code&cpaint_argument[]=9&cpaint_argument[]=5&cpaint_response_type=TEXT";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$url = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
saveBarcode($url, $code);
}

foreach($upcA as $upc) {
makeBarcode($upc);
}
?>