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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Showing results for March 2005 - Page 5 of 5 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Mar 2, 2005

How Can I Create a Folder on the Start Menu?

ScriptingGuy1

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a folder on the Start menu? I want the folder to be named the same as the %username% environment variable.-- SB Hey, SB. As we are wont to do, we’re going to break this question down into subtasks. We’ll explain how to do each of these subtasks, then at the end put the pieces together to create a single scrip...

Mar 1, 2005

How Can I Use a Multi-Select Dialog Box in a Script?

ScriptingGuy1

Hey, Scripting Guy! Awhile back you showed us how to use a File Open dialog box in our scripts. At the same time you said you’d show us how to use a multi-select dialog box. Did you just forget about the multi-select dialog box?-- AA Hey, AA. Yes, we … forgot … about the multi-select dialog box. (Saying we forgot sounds better than saying, “No, ...