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Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to find read-only Microsoft Excel files and to change them to read-write.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem that hopefully you can resolve. We recently restored a bunch of files from tape, and for some reason they all became marked as read-only. Our Help Desk...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to find files modified by month and year. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I will admit it. I am not the best computer user in the world. In fact, when it comes to finding things on the Internet, the Scripting Wife often is faster than I am. In my office, ...

Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to modify file creation and modification, and to access time stamps.  Hey, Scripting Guy! There are times that I would love to be able to manipulate file time stamps. I am talking about when they are created, changed, and accessed. I used to have a utility that did this for me on another operating s...

Summary: Guest blogger, Bill Stewart, discusses a Windows PowerShell function to determine folder size. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Guest blogger today is Bill Stewart. Bill Stewart is a scripting guru and a moderator for the Official Scripting Guys forum. Here’s Bill… You have probably asked this question hundreds of ...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to copy a script collection to a shared network drive. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Well, it is Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States. Today is a cardio day. I spend the day running around going from meeting to meeting. I also spend...