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Friday, October 09, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (10/9/09)

In this post : How Can I Change the Internet Explorer Title Bar? How Can I Create a Password Based on the User's First Name and Last Name? How Can I Bail Out a For...Next Loop When the Number 15 Is Reached? How Can I Modify an Executable File's Compatibility
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Friday, September 25, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (9/25/09)

Can I Find Out Who Has Access to a Group of Files and Folders? Hey, Scripting Guy! For security reasons I need to find out who has access to a certain group of files and folders. Using the Get-Acl cmdlet, I can get a list of which IDs and groups have
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can You Translate This VBScript to Windows PowerShell?

Hey Scripting Guy! I am wondering about something. I was looking on the Script Center Script Gallery, and I came across a pretty cool script that lists items that are in the user's profile. It is in VBScript. Can you translate it to Windows PowerShell
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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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Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:52 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Configure the Cmd Console via the Registry?

Hey, Scripting Guy! You know, it just dawned on me that Windows PowerShell uses the old-fashioned Fred Flintstone cmd console for its host application. Because this thing has been around forever, are there any registry settings I can use to configure
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:51 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Modify Registry Settings That Configure Windows Explorer?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Why does it feel like every single default setting in Microsoft Windows is wrong? It is so frustrating to me to spend five minutes changing all the defaults. For example, I open Internet Explorer and there are no system files. I look
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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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Friday, March 14, 2008 9:17 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Copy a File to a Removable Drive If I Don’t Know the Drive Letter of That Drive?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine if a computer has a removable drive attached to it and, if it does, copy a file to that drive? I have no way of knowing what the drive letter of that removable drive would be, assuming it even exists. -- SN Hey,
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:05 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Enable Users to Change File Extensions Using the SendTo Command?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Here’s what I would like to do. I would like to put a script in the SendTo folder that would enable a user to easily change the file extension for a file. (Typically our users hide the file extensions, which makes it difficult for
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Friday, February 01, 2008 7:35 PM

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Randomly Assign a Sound to a Sound Event?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there an easy way to randomize the selection of .wav files at the startup and shutdown of windows? -- DW Hey, DW. Last night as the Scripting Guy who writes this column was on his way home he stopped at a red light. (Which is yet
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:28 PM

How Can I Start a Process and Then Log the User Off When That Process Ends?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I write a script that starts a process, waits until that process ends, and then logs the user off the computer? -- AG Hey, AG. You know, the Scripting Guy who writes this column is never one to brag, mainly because he never
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:00 AM

How Can I Change the Text for the Marquee Screen Saver?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the text for the Marquee screen saver? -- SJ Hey, SJ. Greetings from the frozen wasteland formerly known as Redmond, WA. On Monday night a freak November snowstorm hit the Seattle area. However, instead of leaving
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Friday, September 15, 2006 12:46 PM

How Can I Tell if Any Internet Explorer Windows Are Open to a Particular Web Site?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine if I have any Internet Explorer windows open to a particular Web site? -- N Hey, N. Before we begin the Scripting Guys would like to state, for the record, that we have never tried to obtain each other’s phone records
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:26 PM

How Can Tell Whether the NumLock Key is On or Off?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell whether the NumLock key on a computer is on or off? -- KA Hey, KA. You know, there are two problems with being a Scripting Guy. (Three, if you count the amount we get paid for doing this.) For one thing, you always have
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Monday, June 19, 2006 6:16 AM

How Can I Write a Script That Prevents the Screensaver from Starting?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I write a script that prevents the screensaver from coming on? Sometimes I get interrupted for a couple minutes (say I get a phone call or something) and the screensaver kicks in, which promptly locks the computer. Is there
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