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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Display a Message and the Time a Process Was Terminated?

January 20, 2009 Jan 20, 2009 01/20/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We have this application that is supposed to run all the time. It is constantly giving us headaches and crashing. The applications vendor evidently expects it to crash all the time and has a thread that will restart it three times. After that, it is pretty much down for the count. The problem is that we never know...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Be Notified When a Process Begins?

January 19, 2009 Jan 19, 2009 01/19/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be notified when a process begins. I would like to use Windows PowerShell to do this, but it does not seem to work. While I could do this in VBScript, I prefer to use Windows PowerShell. Can this be done?- NL(image) (image) Hi NL, Because we have access to the .NET Framework in Windows PowerShell, it ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Configure the Cmd Console via the Registry?

January 8, 2009 Jan 8, 2009 01/8/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! You know, it just dawned on me that Windows PowerShell uses the old-fashioned Fred Flintstone cmd console for its host application. Because this thing has been around forever, are there any registry settings I can use to configure this beast? The reason I am asking is that every time I go to a new machine, I need ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Change My Internet Explorer Home Page?

January 7, 2009 Jan 7, 2009 01/7/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I just found out that Internet Explorer 7 and even Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 allows you to have multiple home pages. This is like soooo cool. I would like to be able to write a script that uses Windows PowerShell to change the start page to the Script Center. It would be nice if I could do this remotely, but that...