Showing results for October 2005 - Page 4 of 5 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I center an HTA on the screen?-- BH Hey, BH. Well, we have an answer for you, although it’s not perfect: we can resize (if need be) and center your window, but there will be a momentary flash on the screen when all this happens. It’s not too terribly distracting and the net effect is what you want: the HTA will be cen...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine which version of Access was used to create an Access database?-- TW Hey, TW. You know, at least one of the Scripting Guys is a bit old-fashioned, to say the least. He doesn’t own a cell phone, and he won’t use drive-through windows. He wears his baseball hat forwards rather than backwards (!), and he absol...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I verify that none of my local user accounts have a blank password?-- TB Hey, TB. To begin with, we should point out that at least some of you won’t need to make this check on computers within your domain; that’s because you’re using password policies in the domain that would prohibit the use of a blank password. (For...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I set Word’s default file location to be the user’s home directory?-- LD Hey, LD. Ah, memories. There was a period of time when it seemed like every question we answered in this column was a two-part question: we’d always find ourselves doing things like showing people how to do task 1 (retrieve the user’s home direct...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! In one of my scripts I display an HTML page with information that I want my users to read. When they’re finished reading that page, they should be able to press a key and have the Web page disappear. However, instead of the Web page disappearing they get a message box with this message: “The Web page you are viewing is t...