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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use one script to monitor for the creation of four or five different processes?-- BC Hey, BC. You know, it’s too bad you didn’t ask how you could monitor four or five TV shows at the same time. Had you done that we would have had the perfect answer for you: get yourself a teenaged son. Although the Scripting Dad is ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a line between the existing paragraphs in a Word document?-- GB Hey, GB. You’ll have to forgive us if we seem a little distracted this morning; shocking as this might seem, the Scripting Guy who writes this column may have made a monumental mistake. In yesterday’s column he joked about an email he received that ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use Windows PowerShell to pull records from a Microsoft Access database?-- SB Hey, SB. You know, you’re lucky to get this question answered; after all, this looks as though it’s going to be the very last Hey, Scripting Guy! column ever. To be honest, that came as a bit of a surprise to us, too: we hadn’t planned on ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine whether Terminal Services is enabled on a Windows Server 2003 computer?-- DD Hey, DD. You know, it turns out to be true: good things will come to those who wait. According to the front page of The Seattle Times, people who are grouchy and cantankerous today are more likely to be considered wiser and more i...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a file which includes a number of file names. All of these names consist of a series of numbers followed by a .zip file extension; for example, 1234.zip, 5678.zip, etc. How can I write a script that locates all these file names and then saves just the names to a second file?-- RS Hey, RS. You know, numbers are very imp...