Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell if the screen saver is active and, if so, how long it has been running?-- MS Hey, MS. Interesting question; we don’t think we’ve ever been asked that before. And at first it had us stumped; after all, there aren’t any WMI classes or COM objects for managing the screen saver, and we didn’t know of any event that...
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I modify a disk quota entry under Windows 2000?-- CL Hey, CL. We have some good news and some bad news for you. The bad news is that we’re doing one of those good news-bad news things that nobody ever likes. The good news is that you actually can modify a disk quota entry on a Windows 2000 computer. You can’t do this ...
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the songs (and their artists) in the Windows Media Library?-- KF Hey, KF. Three words: practice, practice, practice. You know, the old joke about how do you get to Carnegie Hall and this is kind of a music-related question and Carnegie Hall is where they play music and we were just trying to be cute...
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the printer port for a printer? For example how can I change it from FILE: to LPT1:?-- HK Hey, HK. Despite the Scripting Guys reputation as sophisticated intellectuals - really? We don’t have a reputation as sophisticated intellectuals? Really? This is very distressing. Anyway, what we were going to say is th...
Hey, Scripting Guy! In Microsoft Word, how can I change the file locations for User Templates and Workgroup Templates?-- SB Hey, SB. At least one of the Scripting Guys has always had a lifelong fear that he would write, say, the greatest novel ever written, except that no one would know about it or care about it. Well, not until he died, of cour...
