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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve just audit failures, warnings, and errors from my event logs?-- OG Hey, OG. You know, just for the heck of it, we decided to check the event logs on one of our computers to see whether this was a task worth doing. In the Security event log on this machine we had 42,815 events; of those, just 286 were failur...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I center text in an Excel cell?-- MV Hey, MV. You know, every now and then we get asked a question and we think to ourselves, “Wow, how many times do you suppose we’ve answered this question?” And, of course, when we go to double-check we find out that we’ve never answered that question; instead, it just seems like we...

Hey, Scripting Guy! In an HTA, how can I remove an item from a list box?-- LW Hey, LW. You know, we Scripting Guys are forward-thinking guys and, as such, we never look back. Did we put an item in a list box? If so, there must have been a darn good reason for that and we’d never even consider removing it. What’s done is done, you know; we can’t ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I clear the logon script path for all my users?-- TF Hey, TF. You know, during in a momentary bout of insanity one of the Scripting Guys once agreed to play his son in an Xbox college football game. “It’s really easy to play,” noted the Scripting Son, who then proceeded to provide a brief tutorial on how to run, pass,...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I check to see if a user exists in an NT 4 domain?-- PA Hey, PA. You know, if you were to ask us, “How do you back your car out of your driveway?” we’d probably tell you that - after checking all the mirrors - we turn so that we’re facing directly out the back window of the car and then slowly and cautiously begin bac...