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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the local users who have an expiring password?-- JM Hey, JM. Thanks for the question. Before we answer it, however, we have a question for you: you don’t by any chance have any spare dice lying around, do you? That’s right, dice, the kind you use when playing board games and craps and stuff like th...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell whether or not QuickTime is installed on a computer, and, if so, which version is installed?-- IU Hey, IU. You know, for some reason this column suddenly seems to have become a daily dancing column rather than a daily scripting column. After all, just yesterday we recapped the Scripting Son’s … dancing … exploi...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tack a prefix onto the telephone numbers of all the users in my domain?-- JB Hey, JB. It’s Monday morning as this column is being written, and the Scripting Guy who actually writes this column is still a bit tired from driving across the state and back in order to attend his niece’s wedding. Yes, yet another a weddi...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I read the contents of a text file, and then declare those contents as variables?-- TC Hey, TC. Before we begin, did you really ask us this question? We’re positive that you did, but, the way things have been going lately, we can’t be too sure. For example, by now everyone has heard that Scripting Guy Jean Ross went d...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I map drive X on a computer, but only if drive X isn’t already in use?-- PN Hey, PN. You know, this is almost too good to be true (but, sadly, it is true). The Scripting Guy who writes this column was busy writing this column. And because today just happens to be Friday the 13th the theme for the day was, as you might...