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  Hey, Scripting Guy! I would like to be notified when I plug in a USB drive into my computer. I have some cool ideas for using that, but I do not know how to detect when a USB drive is plugged in. I know I can run a script that loops through looking for all drives, and compares them with a previous collection of drives and then looks for dif...

   Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem with a rather annoying program at work. The program starts up and runs with high priority. When it does this, my computer is slow as a snail, and as unresponsive as a bear hibernating in the winter. I would like to use Windows PowerShell to lower the priority of this process. Can this be done?-- CS&...

 Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I love it when it rains. It sings of cleansing, freshness, new birth, and endless possibilities. Especially when it is a gentle spring rain like we are enjoying right now. It reminds me of when the Scripting Wife and I first went to Maui, Hawaii. We were staying near the beach, and every afternoon it wo...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I came across this blog and it has since become a staple of mine. Now, I need to know how to accomplish something more than was originally presented in your article, Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Italicize Specific Words in a Microsoft Word Document? Suppose I wanted to create an array containing 305 words that would fi...

Listen as Ed talks about "the power and useful scenarios of Windows PowerShell for .NET developers, and how every Windows developer should learn to use it."http://bit.ly/codecastep76Ed Wilson and Craig Liebendorfer, Scripting Guys