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  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...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the files in a folder, ordered by creation date?-- CL Hey, CL. You know, if we were ambitious and hard-working, we’d sit down and write you a script that uses WMI to return all the files in a folder. That script would grab information about all those files and store that data in a disconnected recordset. We...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use a script to determine if a particular patch has been installed?-- GM Hey, GM. You know, not too long ago this would have been a question we might have “accidentally” dropped in the wastebasket and pretended never to have seen. Why? Well, back in the old days the only way to get information about patches, hot fix...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the user logon name for a user named John Smith?-- FR Hey, FR. You know, we’d like to tell you how to determine the user logon name for a user named John Smith, but we can’t: that’s because we have a specific list of names representing the only user names we can reference in one of our sample scripts. Unfo...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find all the drives mapped to \\server1\share and remap them to \\server2\share? -- H T-S Hey, H T-S. You know, not too long ago Malcolm Gladwell published a book called The Tipping Point. Loosely speaking, the book posited that something could be ignored for the longest time, at least until it reached the so-called...