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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I periodically refresh a Web page?-- TZ Hey, TZ. You know, the last couple of weeks have been very difficult for the Scripting Guys; after all, we were positive that one of us would be nominated to become the next Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. (We even bought the robes and everything, robes which -...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I access the files in the folder T:\Act and delete any files that have the string “current” somewhere in the file name?-- SC Hey, SC. We have to admit, the notion of deleting anything current has a certain appeal, doesn’t it? Well, not for the Scripting Guys, of course; after all, our lives are so perfect there isn’t ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a domain group to the local Administrators group?-- SS Hey, SS. You know, people think of the Scripting Guys as striding powerfully through the world of system administration scripting, confident, almost-arrogant in the knowledge that they can meet any challenge thrown at them. We like to think of ourselves as b...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I monitor the activity of a process to see if anyone is using it?-- AJ Hey, AJ. You know, this is one time when writing the script is actually the easy part of the answer. Although there are a couple different ways to do this, we opted to periodically check the cumulative amount of processor time used by an applicatio...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the groups in an OU?-- MK Hey, MK. You know, sometimes people ask us a question and then immediately apologize for having asked it, believing that the question is “way too easy for you guys.” In turn, that seems to imply that the Scripting Guys aren’t really guys at all but simply great masses of intellectu...