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Hey, Scripting Guy! When I use WMI to query for network cards on my laptop, it comes back with 32 network cards. 32! I am not lying. My laptop does not even have 32 slots, so how does it have 32 network cards in it? How can I find information about the "real" network cards on my laptop? I figure I should only have two: the wired NIC and the wi...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I came into work this morning and my computer was running, and it was logged in. Of course I have a locking screen saver, and the screen was locked, but I am positive that I logged out and shut down my computer last night before I went home. Now I am wondering if someone logged into my computer. I know about the security log...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to run the same WMI queries against multiple computers on our network. Can I do this with Windows PowerShell?- KB Hi KB, Not only can you do this with Windows PowerShell, but you will be surprised at how easy it is to do. If you can create a text file in Notepad, you can run your multiple queries against multiple ser...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I think I might have a problem on my server. When I go into Task Manager, all the processes that are eating up the most CPU time and the most memory are the stupid svchost.exe process. I know this is the Service Host process and that it is being used by multiple services, but how can I know what is really going on in there?- ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! We have this problem at work. Users seem to always be losing their mapped drives. It is a real mess, and we spend a couple hours every morning trying to help the users remap their drives. We have more than 160 logon scripts, and it seems that one logon script maps a drive, and then another remaps the drive somewhere else. To ...