The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Scripting Blog [archived]

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

How Can I Add a Web Site to the Trusted Sites Zone?

February 14, 2005 Feb 14, 2005 02/14/05

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a Web site to the Trusted Sites zone in Internet Explorer?-- NR(image) (image) (image) Hey, NR. As it turns out, trusted sites are actually stored in the registry; consequently, adding a Web site is simply a matter of creating and configuring a new registry key. For example, suppose you want to ...

How Can I Use a Wildcard Character to Delete Folders?

February 11, 2005 Feb 11, 2005 02/11/05

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete folders based on a wildcard character? For example, how can I delete all the folders whose name starts with December?-- RR(image) (image) (image) Hey, RR. Well, that depends. If you’re running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, you can actually use a wildcard character to identify and then ...

How Can I Disable the Guest Account on a Computer?

February 10, 2005 Feb 10, 2005 02/10/05

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine whether or not the Guest account is enabled on a computer and, if it is, disable it?-- PR(image) (image) (image) Hey, PR. At last: a question for which there is a very simple, very straightforward answer. This isn’t to minimize the importance of the task: in general, it’s highly ...

How Can I Change the Target of a Desktop Shortcut?

February 9, 2005 Feb 9, 2005 02/9/05

ScriptingGuy1

(image) 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(image) (image) (image) Hey, AK. This is an example of a scripting problem that’s actually pretty easy...

How Can I Find and Replace Text in a Text File?

February 8, 2005 Feb 8, 2005 02/8/05

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! From the command line, how can I use a script to open a file and replace text; for example, how can I replace all instances of “Jim” with “James”?-- JW(image) (image) (image) Hey, JW. As we’ve found out numerous times when dealing with text files, there is no obvious way to do this; that is, there is ...

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