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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I hide the command window when executing a command like net localgroup Administrators?-- AA Hey, AA. You know, before we begin we’d like to take a few minutes to recognize all those faithful readers who read the Hey, Scripting Guy! column each and every day. Hey, June; how’s it going? No, that’s pretty much it. Maybe ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a new Excel spreadsheet at midnight each night? I’d like each spreadsheet to have a file name similar to this: 6-1-06.xls.-- DH Hey, DH. You know, often-times the simplest approach is also the best approach. For example, the other night the Scripting Son was having a frustrating baseball game: in his first tw...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I rename a local user account on a Windows XP computer?-- TY Hey, TY. You know, nowadays the “in” thing is to poke fun at Microsoft and Windows XP. We know: we’ve seen the new commercials from that one computer company. (Remember, the computer company that used to be good, a long time ago?) But as much as we Scripting...

Hey, Scripting Guy! For purposes of testing, I often need to create multiple user accounts like this: pgeorge01, pgeorge02, etc. How can I write a script that automatically creates the next account in the sequence; that is, pgeorge03?-- RG Hey, RG. You know, after our last experiment went horribly, horribly wrong, we vowed never to get involved ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a silly question for you: how can I tell whether a .GIF file is a regular old picture file or an animated picture file?-- WW Hey, WW. To begin with, there’s no such thing as a silly question. We’ve always believed that - well, come to think of it, last summer a neighbor’s smoldering firework caught one of the Scripting...