Showing archive results for 2005

Hey, Scripting Guy! In my HTA, I would like to query a computer for a list of local user accounts, then dynamically create a list box containing those accounts. How can I do that?-- BN Hey, BN. You know, if you’d ever seen the Scripting Guys in … action … you’d think twice about asking us a question about doing things dynamically. But as long as...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the icon for an existing shortcut?-- DF Hey, DF. You know, the Scripting Guys (some of them, at least) are old enough to remember a time when you would never even think about changing an icon; after all, back in those days having any icon at all was considered cool. (And if you had flying toasters on top of t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Given a specific date, how can I determine the beginning and ending date of the previous month? In other words, given 8/11/2005, I need to get back 7/1/2005 and 7/31/2005.-- PH Hey, PH. You know, this was a tough question for us: after all, as Microsoft employees we’re always looking forward; we never look back. Last month? W...

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 ...