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  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I was sitting in the kitchen waiting for my pot of English Breakfast tea to steep when my mind began to wander back over the week that was nearly completed. One of these days I will write a script to count the number of words in all the documents in a folder. That suggestion is actually up on the whit...

  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is another beautiful weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina. I enjoy getting up early on the weekend, having a leisurely breakfast, reading for a little while, and then heading up to my office to write some scripts. I have a white board upon which I write down ideas for scripts that I wish to write. ...

  Over the next week, the MSDN and TechNet blogs are being migrated to a new version of the blogging platform. During this period commenting will be disabled on the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog. Note that after the blog is migrated, it may have a slightly different appearance. However, we will continue to post every day, just like always! ...

Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Today, I finally had time to do something I have been wanting to do for a long time: I played around with Microsoft Security Essentials (the free downloadable anti-malware program from Microsoft). When I say “played around with,” I mean I began to look at seeing what I could do from a scripting pe...

Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. With the 2010 Scripting Games over, I have a bit of extra time on the weekends. I was catching up on reading some of my favorite blogs, such as the WMI team blog, when I ran across a post that reminded me of a question I used to be asked when I was teaching my WMI class. I was often asked about detecting lapt...