Scripting Blog [archived]

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June 2006 - Page 4 of 5 - Scripting Blog [archived]

How Can I List All the Tables in an Access Database?

June 8, 2006 Jun 8, 2006 06/8/06
ScriptingGuy1
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the tables in an Access database?-- KW(image) (image) (image) Hey, KW. You know, the best part about writing a daily column on system administration scripting is that people only see the finished result; they never see all the detours, dead-ends, and other frustrations we go through in order ...

How Can I Add Leading Zeroes to All the Lines in a Text File?

June 7, 2006 Jun 7, 2006 06/7/06
ScriptingGuy1
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a text file where each line is a set of characters like this: 56A63, 78A41, etc. I need to put leading zeroes in front of these strings in order to make them all nine characters long: 000056A63, 000078A41, etc. Oh: and my text file has 20,000 lines that need to be modified like this. How can I do all that ...

How Can I Return the URLs Associated with My Internet Explorer Favorites?

June 6, 2006 Jun 6, 2006 06/6/06
ScriptingGuy1
(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I return the URLs associated with my Internet Explorer Favorites?-- DW(image) (image) (image) Hey, DW. It’s time for annual performance reviews here at Microsoft, which means we Scripting Guys are supposed to be looking back and detailing all the many things we’ve done in the past year. Unfortunately...