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  Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to monitor a folder for file creations and deletions, all with just one script? -- HA Hey, HA. By the way, thanks for the question: you temporarily saved us from answering a different question, one that was proving a bit difficult thanks to some surprising differences between Windows XP Service Pack 1 a...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there a way I can be notified any time a network cable gets unplugged on a computer?-- DD Hey, DD. A lot of people, when growing up, had a grandmother or an aunt or someone somewhere who had a house with a big attic, an attic overflowing with stuff. Admittedly, most of the time you had no idea what you were looking at when...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Is it possible to have a script automatically run any time a file is added to a specific folder?-- MB Hey, WM. Yes, this is possible, thanks to the magic of WMI events, which allow you to write a script to monitor for something of interest (like a file being added to a folder) and then take some action any time an event like ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I be notified any time a service goes down?-- RN Hey, RN. As usual, there are a couple different ways you can do this, but perhaps the simplest approach is to create a script that monitors WMI events. We don’t have time to do a detailed explanation of WMI events in this column, but the basic idea is that you can ask WMI...