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

(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?

(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?

(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?

(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?

(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 ...