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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve a list of the System DSNs on a computer?-- RT Hey, RT. You know, there’s an old Hollywood superstition that suggests that famous movie stars always die in threes: if a famous star dies today, then according to legend two more famous stars are doomed to die in the next week as well. We don’t know if that’s t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine if the local administrator account has been renamed on a computer?-- KF Hey, KF. You know, our first thought was to tell you to use ADSI and try to bind to the local administrator account on the computer; if that failed, that would mean that there was no account named Administrator on that computer. In tur...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the current screen resolution being used on a computer? You know, things like 1600x1200 resolution, 16-bit color, that kind of information.-- FE Hey, FE. Remember when you were a kid and your mom would have that annoying habit of beginning a discussion by answering the question you didn’t ask? For example,...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the date and time that a process started?-- BM Hey, BM. We’ve got good news for you: not only do we have an answer to your question, but we’re not going to bore everyone with any more stories regarding our Colt League All-Star team. Nope, we’re no longer haunted by the fact that, in a tie game, we had the ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve information about the printer driver used by a specific printer?-- RW Hey, RW. Did you say something? Oh, right: printer drivers. You’ll have to excuse us today: the Scripting Guys (well, one of them anyway) are in mourning. That’s because the Colt League All-Star team he helped coached finished third in th...