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Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (7/24/09)

Troubleshooting a VBScript Script That Reports All Software Installed on a Computer Hey Scripting Guy! I am pretty new to use VBScript and seem to have hit a wall. I put together the script below to output a file containing all the software installed

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (7/17/09)

How Can I Query a Registry Value Remotely? I have a simple question: What is the equivalent to querying the MicrosoftIE_Summary WMI class in Windows Vista? I just need to get the version of Internet Explorer. One small problem though: The Windows PowerShell

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (03/20/09)

Troubleshooting an Active Directory HTA Hey, Scripting Guy! I have created an HTML Application (HTA) to prompt a support person for their administrative ID and password and a computer name that they wish to delete from Active Directory. The script uses

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (01/23/09)

How Can I Return File Names of Files Created in Less Than an Hour from the Current Time? Hey, Scripting Guy! I am attempting to write a script that looks at the creation dates of all files in a certain directory. If the files were created less than an

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (11/28/08)

“File Not Found” Error When Trying to Run a PowerPoint Presentation from the Windows XP Desktop Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem when I try to run a Microsoft Office PowerPoint slideshow that I have saved on the desktop of my Windows XP computer.

How Can I Wait Until One Application Has Quit Before Starting a Second Application?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that starts two applications; however, the second application can not start until the first program has finished running. How can I ensure that my second program doesn’t start until the first one ends? -- OR Hey, OR.

How Can I Determine Which Version of Word is Installed on a Computer?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine which version of Word is installed on a computer? -- RR Hey, RR. Turns out that this is a trickier question than you might expect. That’s because WMI does only a so-so job of retrieving information about the software
 
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