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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a silly question for you: how can I tell whether a .GIF file is a regular old picture file or an animated picture file?-- WW Hey, WW. To begin with, there’s no such thing as a silly question. We’ve always believed that - well, come to think of it, last summer a neighbor’s smoldering firework caught one of the Scripting...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the Title property of a .WMA file?-- LL Hey, LL. Here’s a piece of trivia for you. Originally, the Beatles’ classic Yesterday was titled Scrambled Eggs. (Start singing the song, but instead of singing “Yesterday” sing “Scrambled eggs.”) Before the group recorded the song, however, Paul wrote some lyrics and, ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I auto-delete specific file types from the My Pictures folder? If an error occurs with my fax machine, .drg and .txt files get added to My Pictures. I then have to delete these files before the fax machine will work again.-- WW Hey, WW. You know, this was a case where the Scripting Guys almost outsmarted themselves. (...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Awhile back you showed us a method to determine the height and width of a picture file. However, that solution required us to import all our picture files into Windows Media Player. Isn’t there another way to get this information, one that doesn’t require Windows Media Player?-- RP Hey, RP. You see, that’s what happens any ti...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the songs (and their artists) in the Windows Media Library?-- KF Hey, KF. Three words: practice, practice, practice. You know, the old joke about how do you get to Carnegie Hall and this is kind of a music-related question and Carnegie Hall is where they play music and we were just trying to be cute...