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Hey, Scripting Guy! In previous columns you’ve shown us how to present users with a dialog box that enables them to select files. Is there any way to show them a dialog box that only lets users select folders?-- LP Hey, LP. You know, you’ve come to the right place: the Scripting Guys have just what the doctor ordered. Actually, we have the Brows...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete data from a spreadsheet yet keep all the formatting?-- TB Hey, TB. From your email it sounds like you have a script that periodically replaces data in a spreadsheet with new, up-to-date values. The spreadsheet has been preformatted, and what you’d like to do is delete all the old values - thus making room for...

Hey, Scripting Guy! In my logon script how can I determine the name of the domain controller that authenticated the user?-- CK Hey, CK. You know, one of the unwritten rules for being a Scripting Guy is that you should never do anything hard more than once a week. (Why is this an unwritten rule? Mainly because we were all too lazy to write it dow...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the local area connection that’s associated with a particular IP address?-- SH Hey, SH. Believe it or not, this is a fairly complicated procedure, and for two reasons. To begin with, we have to use two separate WMI classes - Win32_NetworkAdapter and Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration - in order to retrieve ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the amount of disk space set aside for Internet Explorer’s temporary files folder?-- AD Hey, AD. The first draft of this column we were able to bang out in no time; after all, it consisted entirely of this: Beats us. But after discussing how valuable an answer like that would be to our customers, and after re...