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Thursday, February 05, 2009 6:04 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Hide My Desktop Wallpaper?

I give a lot of presentations, and the background picture of my baby alpaca, while fascinating to me, probably does not have the same level of attraction to my clients. I know I can mouse around and change the desktop picture to some bland color, but
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Monday, December 01, 2008 8:29 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Have Computer Configuration Information Written to an HTML File?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to obtain some basic configuration information from my computers on the network. It would be nice if the script would write the output in an HTML file that we could copy to our internal Web server. This would give us easy access
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Monday, March 20, 2006 2:58 PM

How Can I Get a List of Installed Device Drivers?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of installed device drivers, their version number, and their date? -- SH Hey, SH. You know, as we’re writing this column the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is in full swing. But don’t worry:
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Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:06 PM

How Can I Get Just the User Name When Using the Win32_ComputerSystem Class?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m using the Win32_ComputerSystem class to get the name of the logged-on user. The name comes back formatted like this: Domain\Name . How can I extract just the user name? -- KW Hey, KW. As our much-beloved and highly-respected editor
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Monday, May 09, 2005 12:50 PM

How Can I Create a Shortcut in My Network Places?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a shortcut in My Network Places? -- KP Hey, KP. You’ll have to excuse us if we sound a little out of breath; we’ve been running around like crazy looking for a complicated and highly-technical solution to this problem.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2004 3:36 PM

How Can I Change the Screensaver Timeout Value?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I use a script to change the timeout value for the screensaver on a computer? -- JN Hey, JN. For some reason, Microsoft’s scripting technologies come up a little short any time you’re talking about Windows settings and components,
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