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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a series of strings that look something like this: xxxxyyyyyyxx. How can I extract just the y’s?-- JB Hey, JB. And, yes, it is a Friday. But, hey, it’s just a coincidence that we happened to pick an easy question on a Friday, the day we’re itching to get out of here and go home and spend the weekend watching football a...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell which users are connected to a print queue?-- RE Hey, RE. You know, if your printers are anything like the ones the Scripting Guys are used to working with then it’s easy to tell which users are connected to a print queue: all you have to do is walk into the printer room and see who’s in there frantically looki...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the size of a page file?-- HM Hey, HM. You know this is a somewhat unusual question for us. Why? Because there’s a very easy and straightforward answer, which doesn’t involve weird workarounds, doesn’t need to be accompanied by a bunch of excuses, and works the same on Windows 2000 as it does on Windows XP an...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell whether a logon script is running on a workstation or on a server? If the script is running on a server, I want to skip a portion of the script.-- RT Hey, RT. You know, a few years ago one of the Scripting Guys helped a fellow Microsoft employee set up a computer lab that this other Microsoft employee needed fo...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get the total number of items - and the total size - of all the items in my Inbox and Sent Items folders?-- CS Hey, CS. You know, one of the Scripting Guys has a foolproof method for determining this information. What does he do? Nothing; instead, he just sits around and waits for the inevitable email from the Excha...