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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the songs (and their artists) in the Windows Media Library?-- KF Hey, KF. Three words: practice, practice, practice. You know, the old joke about how do you get to Carnegie Hall and this is kind of a music-related question and Carnegie Hall is where they play music and we were just trying to be cute...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the printer port for a printer? For example how can I change it from FILE: to LPT1:?-- HK Hey, HK. Despite the Scripting Guys reputation as sophisticated intellectuals - really? We don’t have a reputation as sophisticated intellectuals? Really? This is very distressing. Anyway, what we were going to say is th...

Hey, Scripting Guy! In Microsoft Word, how can I change the file locations for User Templates and Workgroup Templates?-- SB Hey, SB. At least one of the Scripting Guys has always had a lifelong fear that he would write, say, the greatest novel ever written, except that no one would know about it or care about it. Well, not until he died, of cour...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I insert a Wingding symbol into a Word document?-- RC Hey, RC. In case you’re wondering, there were two reasons why we decided to answer your question. First, we just liked the phrase insert a Wingding symbol. (No, we don’t know why we liked it, we just did.) Second - and by far most important - this is an easy one, o...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the uptime for a server?-- LF Hey, LF. This is an easy one. After all, we’re assuming you’re talking about a Windows server, and Windows servers never go down, right? Therefore, the uptime must be forever. Problem solved. Well, OK, we suppose that maybe a Windows server could go down (probably because a no...