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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?—
