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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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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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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:02 AM

How Can I Return the URLs Associated with My Internet Explorer Favorites?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I return the URLs associated with my Internet Explorer Favorites? -- DW Hey, DW. It’s time for annual performance reviews here at Microsoft, which means we Scripting Guys are supposed to be looking back and detailing all the
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Monday, May 01, 2006 12:43 PM

How Can I Determine the Size of All the Items Currently in the Recycle Bin?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the size of all the items currently in the Recycle Bin? -- T D-L Hey, T D-L. You know, if we wanted to, the Scripting Guys could probably change our name to the Recycle Bin Guys; that’s because we get so many questions
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:56 AM

How Can I Print Just the Text Area of an HTA?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have an HTA where information gets written to a text area. How can I print just the information found in that text area? -- DS Hey, DS. We want you to level with us here: are the Scripting Guys dead? We ask that because we saw the
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 6:29 AM

How Can I Get a List of All My Internet Cookies?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all my Internet cookies? -- ZO Hey, ZO. OK, we have to admit it: you tricked the Scripting Guys, and we fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. As soon as we saw your email - and the word “cookies” - there was
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Monday, April 10, 2006 7:11 AM

How Can I List All the Files on a User’s Desktop?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the files on a user’s desktop? -- BT Hey, BT. So you thought you could fool the Scripting Guys, did you? Well, you did, at least for awhile. As is so often the case with the Scripting Guys we took one look at your
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Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:50 AM

How Can I Auto-Delete Specific File Types from the My Pictures Folder?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I auto-delete specific file types from the My Pictures folder? If an error occurs with my fax machine, .drg and .txt files get added to My Pictures. I then have to delete these files before the fax machine will work again.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:42 PM

How Can I Tile the Windows on the Desktop?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that opens nine different command windows in order to monitor performance. How can I tile those windows horizontally after they’ve all been opened? -- AM Hey, AM. You know, one of the Scripting Guys might not be much
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:13 AM

How Can I Change the Caption for the My Computer Icon?

Hey, Scripting Guy! Instead of having the My Computer icon on the desktop read My Computer , I’d like to replace that with the name of the computer. Can I do that using a script? -- TG Hey, TG. We get asked this question quite a bit; apparently a lot
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Monday, October 04, 2004 10:31 AM

How Can I Print Text Files Using a Script?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a bunch of text files in a folder. Is there a way to print those files using a script? I know I can use Microsoft Word to print the files from a script, but I don’t have Microsoft Word installed on that computer. -- MA Hey,
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