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Hey, Scripting Guy! At work we need to use a proxy server to connect to the Internet; when I take my laptop home to work, however, I don’t need to use a proxy server. I know I can use the Internet Options in Control Panel to change between using a proxy server and not using a proxy server; is there any way to switch between the two using a script...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Our auditors have suggested that we randomly pick projects to examine and ensure that each project was completed and signed off per company policy. Because these projects are numbered sequentially I thought maybe we could write a script that would randomly select the project numbers for us to audit. Can you help us with that?-...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I access Active Directory on a specific domain controller?-- SD Hey, SD. You know, one of the cool things about Active Directory is that you usually don’t need to access the directory service on a specific domain controller. Because Active Directory information is replicated between all the domain controllers in ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I lower the priority of a process using a script?-- HS Hey, HS. As many of you know, all processes are not created equal; instead processes are assigned priority values. Processes with a high priority are executed more often (and thus appear to run faster) than processes with a lower priority. For example, both the ke...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I display the vertical and horizontal resolutions of a .JPG file?-- ST Hey, ST. This is a very commonly-asked question, and for the longest time we had no answer for it: nothing built into the operating system seemed capable of returning this information, and even Dsofile, a COM object released by the Microsoft Office...