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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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Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:20 AM

How Can I Use a Script to Automatically Queue Up Files That I Want to Burn to a CD?

Hey, Scripting Guy! In Windows XP, how can I use a script to automatically queue up files that I want to burn to a CD? -- BD Hey, BD. Well, unfortunately, we have some bad news for you: there’s currently no way to burn a CD using a script. You see, 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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Tuesday, February 07, 2006 9:40 AM

How Can I Determine the Drive Letter for the Drive My Script is Currently Running On?

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that runs off a CD and copies a bunch of files to a computer. However, in order to copy the files I need to know the complete file path, including the drive letter. How can I determine the drive letter for the drive
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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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Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:50 PM

How Can I Add a Shortcut to the Quick Launch Tray?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a shortcut to the Quick Launch tray? -- ZR Hey, ZR. Before we answer this question we need to first answer a different question. And here’s the answer: Frank “Home Run” Baker, who led the major league in homers four times,
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:30 AM

How Can I Retrieve the Path to the %windir% Folder on a Computer?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve the path to the %windir% folder on a computer? -- DS Hey, DS. Interesting that you should ask this question. This same question happened to be asked on an internal Microsoft mailing list just the other day, and the
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 5:57 AM

How Can I Change the Target of a Desktop Shortcut?

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the target that a desktop shortcut points to? For example, if I move a file from one server to another, I’d like be able to use a script to change the shortcut that points to that file. -- AK Hey, AK. This is an example
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