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Friday, September 11, 2009 12:01 AM

Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (9/11/09)

Share this post: Hey Scripting Guy! I stumbled across the TechNet Script Center recently while trying to solve a problem I had at work. I had heard about scripting, of course, but had never taken the time to learn about it. I was able to find a script
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Friday, January 23, 2009 9:32 PM

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
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Monday, October 15, 2007 1:00 AM

How Can I Determine the Percentage of Free Space on a Drive?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the percentage of free space available on the drive where a script is running? -- GS Hey, GS. And hey, welcome to another edition of Scripting Guys Trivia , the Internet game show in which the Scripting Guys get
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 4:54 AM

How Can I Create a Logon Script That Will Open a User’s Mapped Drives?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a logon script that will open a user’s mapped drives? -- KZ Hey, KZ. You know, a lot of people think we decided to write this column because we wanted yet another way to tell people about scripting. That’s partially
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Monday, May 08, 2006 6:52 AM

How Can I Map Network Drives Based on a Computer’s Site?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I parse information in a text file, and then use that information to map network drives based on a computer’s site? -- BH Hey, BH. We’ll be with you in a second - we’re still replaying last night’s baseball game, in which the
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:13 PM

How Can I Determine the Drive Label of a Drive?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Given the drive letter, how can I determine the drive label? -- PM Hey, PM. You know, after sitting around all winter, checking his watch every 15 minutes or so just to verify the date and time, the Scripting Guy who writes this column
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Monday, February 13, 2006 4:51 AM

How Can I Determine When a Removable Drive Gets Connected?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when a USB flash drive gets connected? -- PS Hey, PS. OK, we admit it: the Scripting Guys are lazy. (Especially on a Friday, which is the day when we have to write our Monday column.) There might be a way to monitor
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:42 AM

How Can I Determine Which Users are Using the Most Disk Space on a Drive?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine which users are using the most disk space on a drive? -- PW Hey, PW. Interesting question. In theory , you could probably do this by retrieving a collection of all the files on a drive, checking the owner, determining
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Monday, May 23, 2005 5:44 PM

How Can I Correlate Logical Drives and Physical Disks?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I correlate logical drives and physical disks? -- LB Hey, LB. We’ll make a deal with you: we’ll show you a script that can tell you which logical drives are found on which physical disks, and you promise not to say, “Wait,
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Monday, January 24, 2005 1:11 AM

How Can I Determine the Next Available Drive Letter on a Computer?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the next available drive letter on a computer? -- TW Hey, TW. Interesting question, and one that crops up from time-to-time. In the old days, when users only had drives A, B, and C, this was easy; you could pretty
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