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September 2009 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Create Microsoft Access Reports of Stopped Services?

September 30, 2009 Sep 30, 2009 09/30/09
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(image) (Portions of this article previously appeared in the Microsoft Press book, Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide.)<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I am interested in collecting information about processes that are stopped on my systems. I would like to ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Create Microsoft Access Reports of Running Services?

September 29, 2009 Sep 29, 2009 09/29/09
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(image) (Portions of this article previously appeared in the Microsoft Press book, Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide.) (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I would like to be able to write a listing of the services that are running to a Microsoft Access database. I would then be able to use the report writer from Microsoft Access to produce some ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Use Windows PowerShell to Find the Status of Services on My Computer?

September 28, 2009 Sep 28, 2009 09/28/09
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(image) (Portions of this article previously appeared in the Microsoft Press book, Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide.) (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I would like to use Windows PowerShell to obtain information about the status of services that are configured on my computer. Do you have any hints you could share? -- LB (image) Hello LB...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I “Unlock” a Read-Only File, Edit it, and Make It Read-Only Again?

September 24, 2009 Sep 24, 2009 09/24/09
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(image) (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a number of files that we need to access at work from time to time. To protect these files, we make them read-only. This works great from a file protection standpoint, but it is really annoying when I need to make updates to the file because about half the time I will open a file, make the edits, and...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Sort Files by Creation Date?

September 23, 2009 Sep 23, 2009 09/23/09
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(image) (image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a number of files that I work with based upon the date the file was created. I need an easy way to sort the listing of the files in a folder by creation date if possible. I am not sure this is even possible. When I look at the files in Windows Explorer, the date the file was created does not even ...