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Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

How Can I Get Yesterday’s Date?

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m writing a script, and I need to know yesterday’s date. I can use Date() to figure out today’s date, but how do I figure out yesterday’s date?-- SS(image) (image) (image) Hey, SS. You’re right; it’s easy to determine today’s date using a script: But what about yesterday’s date? Listen, we’ve ...

Registry Script Doesn't Work

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I tried writing a script to read data from the registry, but I keep getting this error: (image)   Do you have any idea what's wrong? I'm running Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 1, and this is the code I'm using: -- LW, Omaha, NE(image) (image) (image) Hey, LW. The error you are getting (80041010) means...