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March 31, 2006Mar 31, 200603/31/06Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use a script to lock the Taskbar?— RK
Hey, RK. One of the Scripting Guys was a computer support person at the University of Washington when Windows 95 was released. This Scripting Guy has two lasting memories of those days.
March 30, 2006Mar 30, 200603/30/06Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I temporarily pause a script in an HTA?— TJ
Hey, TJ. You know, throughout history people have spent an enormous amount of time and energy searching for the meaning of life. The Scripting Guys have never taken part in this quest.
March 29, 2006Mar 29, 200603/29/06Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the IP address assigned to a computer?— RW
Hey, RW. To tell you the truth, this is a very difficult question for the Scripting Guys to answer. Not because this is a hard script to write;
March 28, 2006Mar 28, 200603/28/06Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I disable the Keep Printed Documents attribute on a printer?— JJ
Hey, JJ. You didn’t mention which operating system you’re trying to do this on, but we hope it’s a Windows XP or Windows Servers 2003 computer.
March 27, 2006Mar 27, 200603/27/06Hey, Scripting Guy! I know that when I run a script I can use code to determine whether the script is running under WScript or CScript. What I can’t figure out is this: how can I determine the default script host on a computer before I run a script?—
March 24, 2006Mar 24, 200603/24/06Hey, Scripting Guy! Sometimes I type commands in the Run dialog box that I’d like to retrieve later on. I know the most recent commands I used are cached somewhere; that’s because they show up when I start typing in the Run dialog box.
March 23, 2006Mar 23, 200603/23/06Hey, Scripting Guy! My daughter has a flash-card style program that gets its list of words from a text file. How can I write a script that will open that file and automatically shuffle the list of words?— SN
Hey, SN.
March 22, 2006Mar 22, 200603/22/06Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the users who have an alternate recipient (altRecipient)?— SA
Hey, SA. You know, one of the great things about being a Scripting Guy is that we don’t ever have to know what we’re talking about;
March 21, 2006Mar 21, 200603/21/06Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I search a Word document for any of 305 different words and highlight these words if they are found?
— SB
Hey, SB. This might be hard for you to believe, but the rest of the technical writing community doesn’t exactly hold the Scripting Guys in awe.
March 20, 2006Mar 20, 200603/20/06Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of installed device drivers, their version number, and their date?— SH
Hey, SH. You know, as we’re writing this column the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is in full swing.
