The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

New PowerShell content is being posted to the PowerShell Community blog where members of the community can create posts by submitting content in the GitHub repository.

Showing results for November 2009 - Page 4 of 4 - Scripting Blog [archived]

Nov 4, 2009

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Format a Portable Drive When It Is Inserted Into a Computer?

ScriptingGuy1

Hey, Scripting Guy! I work with portable USB drives all the time. These are used for backup purposes, for temporary storage, for Sneakernet, and as a means to work with extremely large files that I do not want cluttering up the small hard disk drive on my corporate standard desktop. The problem is that I now have more than a dozen porta...

Nov 3, 2009

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Be Informed When a Portable Drive Is Added by My Computer?

ScriptingGuy1

Hey, Scripting Guy! I would love to be able to write a Windows PowerShell script that will inform me when a portable drive is added to my computer. Do you have ideas you could suggest? -- RC Hello RC, Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Well it has already been a rather interesting week. I bought a new computer and loaded Window...

Nov 2, 2009

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Write an Event-Driven Script?

ScriptingGuy1

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem at work. It is not with the pointy-headed boss, but I believe the problem is probably related to him anyway. There is this application that runs on a workstation in our computer room. It is not a client server application, and of course the workstation is not really a server—it is running...