Hey, Scripting Guy! In my HTA, how can I determine the ADsPath for the logged-on user?-- AC Hey, AC. You know, when you work at Microsoft people automatically assume that you spend your days in an ivory tower, totally removed from the day-to-day activities and needs of system administrators. To be honest, that isn’t true: our tower is really mor...
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a shortcut to the Quick Launch tray?-- ZR Hey, ZR. Before we answer this question we need to first answer a different question. And here’s the answer: Frank “Home Run” Baker, who led the major league in homers four times, even though he never hit more than a dozen home runs in a single season. Oh, wait; wrong qu...
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the icon for an existing shortcut?-- DF Hey, DF. You know, the Scripting Guys (some of them, at least) are old enough to remember a time when you would never even think about changing an icon; after all, back in those days having any icon at all was considered cool. (And if you had flying toasters on top of t...
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell if the screen saver is active and, if so, how long it has been running?-- MS Hey, MS. Interesting question; we don’t think we’ve ever been asked that before. And at first it had us stumped; after all, there aren’t any WMI classes or COM objects for managing the screen saver, and we didn’t know of any event that...
Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that opens nine different command windows in order to monitor performance. How can I tile those windows horizontally after they’ve all been opened?-- AM Hey, AM. You know, one of the Scripting Guys might not be much when it comes to scripting, but he is a master of one thing: he has a near-monopoly on totally ...
