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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the duplicate files (that is, files with the same file names) in a folder and its subfolders?-- GK Hey, GK. We have to apologize, but you picked a bad day to ask a question. That’s because the Scripting Guy who writes this column is working on his biography for inclusion in the “Madison Who's Who...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I reset the revision number of a Microsoft Word document back to 1?-- JL Hey, JL. You know, a lot of people think the Scripting Guys have lost their edge. “You guys used to write all these crazy scripts that used all these weird and wacky workarounds in order to solve problems,” they say. “Now you just write boring ol...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to get a list of all the users in an OU and its subOUs, then change their email addresses so those addresses only user lowercase letters. How can I do that?-- TB Hey, TB. You know, we had to think twice before going ahead and answering this question. That’s not because this a particularly difficult question for u...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to “clone” a local group; in other words, I want to create a new group that contains the same members as the original group. However, I can’t find any sort of copy command that would let me do this. How can I copy the membership of a local group to a new local group?-- SO Hey, SO. Before we begin, we should take ...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a domain group to a local group?-- DR Hey, DR. Before we begin today, any chance that we could borrow $5 billion, at least until the next payday? Admittedly, it’s not our habit to go around asking for money, especially an amount of money as big as that. However, we just learned this morning that the Weathe...