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October 29, 2004Oct 29, 200410/29/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell whether a value exists in the registry on a remote computer?— AL
Hey, AL. Full disclosure time: even though we go by the name The Scripting Guys, we don’t claim to know everything there is to know about scripting.
October 28, 2004Oct 28, 200410/28/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a CSV file?— LF
Hey, LF. For those of you who aren’t up on your acronyms, CSV is short for comma-separated-values file, a text file in which individual elements are separated by commas. For example,
October 27, 2004Oct 27, 200410/27/04Hey, 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,
October 26, 2004Oct 26, 200410/26/04Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there a way to retrieve just Failure Audit events from the Security event log?— KA
Hey, KA. Interesting, isn’t it: any time the subject is failure, people turn to the Scripting Guys. What makes you think we know anything about failure?
October 25, 2004Oct 25, 200410/25/04Hey, Scripting Guy! A while back you showed how we could use the InputBox function to prompt a user to enter a value we could then use in our script. What I’d like to know is, is there any way I can take that value and use it in another script?—
October 22, 2004Oct 22, 200410/22/04Hey, Scripting Guy! Is it possible to have a hyperlink to a Web page in a message box?— CB
Hey, CB. Sounds like you want to display a message box to users and, ideally, you’d like to include a hyperlink they could click on for more information.
October 21, 2004Oct 21, 200410/21/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How do I determine the OU a user account belongs to?— CO
Hey, CO. Ah, yes: the OU a user belongs to. No doubt a lot of you are thinking, “Well, there’s probably an OU property of some kind in Active Directory that gives you that information.
October 20, 2004Oct 20, 200410/20/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use a script to show me all the files in a folder? And then how can I modify that script so it shows me all the files in any subfolders of that folder?— CS
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October 19, 2004Oct 19, 200410/19/04Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change a read-only file to a read-write file?— WR
Hey, WR. We don’t mean to shock you, but how can you change a read-only file to a read-write file? Why, by using a script, of course!
October 18, 2004Oct 18, 200410/18/04Hey, Scripting Guy! I’d like to be able to read through a text file, select the lines that begin with a particular word (like Failure), and then save only those lines back to the same text file. Is there any way to do that?—
