Excel Macro to Periodically Check Windows Control Panel

[John Yazou]

Hi all,
My company has decided to perform some trickery whereby everynight, all computer settings would be changed automagically via some script to a standard.

Problem is, we have a machine which has a rather unique Internet settings (In the Ctrl Panel). Since its a 24/7 machine, as you can imagine, its quite tedious to come in every day just to re-enter the correct Internet settings.

I was thinking of running an Excel macro (yes, I know, a proper program would be better - but, company policy says no unauthorized *.exe can be executed).

Is there a way to write a macro which say every 1 hour checks the control panel settings, and resets the settings where necessary??

John

 

[nbrcrunch]

Hi John, sounds like you work for the same telecom firm I do!

sorry, but Excel VBA works only in Excel. However, you can circumvent the rule you spoke of by learning WSH (Windows Scripting Host).

I'm not sure what settings you need to keep in IE, but you might check to see if saving particular folders from IE and then writting scripts that restores those might help.