Showing archive results for March 2005

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine which version of Internet Explorer is installed on a computer?-- MG Hey, MG. Probably the best (and definitely the easiest) way to do this is to use WMI; after all, using WMI makes it as easy to get this information from remote computers as it is to get it from the local machine. Here’s a sample script tha...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the domains in a forest?-- NS Hey, NS. Any time you want information about Active Directory your best bet is to go right to the source: simply ask Active Directory to provide you with this information. Here’s a sample script that binds to the global catalog for the domain Fabrikam.com and searches ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell whether a file exists on any CD or DVD drive connected to a computer?-- GH Hey, GH. Well, one way to do this would be to search the entire file system - including any mapped network drives - and check to see if a file (let’s call it Budget.xls) can be found anywhere. Assuming you find such a file, you can then ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete a single registry value? I don’t want to delete the entire registry key, just one value.-- BF Hey, BF. Registry terminology can be a bit confusing, thanks in large part to those of us here at Microsoft (we tend to use a different set of terms when we talk about the registry than the rest of the world does). S...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell how many days there are between two dates? For example, if I have a log file that says an application started on January 1, 2005 and that the application ended today, is there a way to determine how many days the application ran?-- AL Hey, AL. You know, in the second Hey, Scripting Guy! column ever written ("Ho...