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How Can I Receive Notification Any Time Something is Printed to a Particular Printer?

November 10, 2005 Nov 10, 2005 11/10/05
ScriptingGuy1
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I receive notification any time something is printed to a particular printer?-- IL Hey, IL. You know, one of the Scripting Guys once had a summer job in an organization where the only decent printer in the entire building was kept in the administrative assistant’s office. We can attest, from painful experience...

How Can I Monitor the Event Logs for the Occurrence of a Specific Event?

August 16, 2005 Aug 16, 2005 08/16/05
ScriptingGuy1
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I monitor the event logs for the occurrence of a specific event?-- JP Hey, JP. Why, you use an event log monitoring script, of course. (Yes, it’s hard to believe, but they really do pay us to come up with brilliant answers like that.) OK, maybe we should be a little more specific: you use an event log ...

How Can I Monitor Changes to a Registry Key?

July 11, 2005 Jul 11, 2005 07/11/05
ScriptingGuy1
Hey, Scripting Guy! Is it possible to use a script to monitor changes to a registry key? I’d like to be notified any time someone makes changes to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key.-- SB Hey, SB. And by the way, thanks for wording the question the way you did: it’s actually pretty easy to receive ...

How Can I Launch Two Applications, Wait Until One Program Ends, and Then Close the Other?

July 1, 2005 Jul 1, 2005 07/1/05
ScriptingGuy1
Hey, Scripting Guy! Here’s what I’d like to do: I want a script that will launch two executable files. After the first application closes I’d like the script to close the second application and then quit. How can I do that?-- MK Hey, MK. You know, this is the kind of question we like. Why? Because it sounds really ...

Why Does My Performance Monitoring Script Keep Returning the Same Incorrect Values?

April 21, 2005 Apr 21, 2005 04/21/05
ScriptingGuy1
Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m using a script to monitor process performance, but every time I run the script the percent processor time for all the processes comes out as 0. What am I doing wrong?-- JL Hey, JL. We’ve simplified your script a bit to better illustrate the problem you’re running into. (And don’t feel bad: this is a very ...