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 There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.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 June 2005 - Page 5 of 5 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Jun 2, 2005

How Can I Display More Than 1,023 Characters in a Custom Message Box?

ScriptingGuy1

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to create a custom alert box that has over 1,000 characters in it. The message box used by Wscript.Echo can hold all the characters, but I can’t change the message box title. I can change the title of a message box used by the VBscript MsgBox function, but it won’t hold all my characters. Can you help?-- KB Hey, KB. Ta...

Jun 1, 2005

How Can I Retrieve the Path to the %windir% Folder on a Computer?

ScriptingGuy1

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve the path to the %windir% folder on a computer?-- DS Hey, DS. Interesting that you should ask this question. This same question happened to be asked on an internal Microsoft mailing list just the other day, and the answer given (not by one of the Scripting Guys we hasten to add) was an extremely complicated ...