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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the text for the Marquee screen saver?-- SJ Hey, SJ. Greetings from the frozen wasteland formerly known as Redmond, WA. On Monday night a freak November snowstorm hit the Seattle area. However, instead of leaving behind snow it left behind an inch or so of ice; ice which, in turn, has pretty much left the entir...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a new registry key?-- DL Hey, DL. First of all, for those of you who get all your news from the Hey, Scripting Guy! column (as if there was any other source for news and information?) we are happy to report that the University of Washington men’s basketball team defeated a very good Northern Iowa squad 70-61 to...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get the process ID for a file like MyExecutableFile.exe, but only if a certain user is the owner of that process?-- SC Hey, SC. You know, here at Microsoft ownership is very important; for example, when you sit down to discuss joint projects with people the very first question that comes up is this: who actually own...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use Windows PowerShell to start a service on a remote computer?-- NA Hey, NA. You know, a few years ago a professor named Francis Fukuyama wrote a book called The End of History and the Last of Man, a book which stated (well, sort of) that now that the Cold War was over nothing particularly interesting and exciting w...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I configure the system failure options on a Windows Server 2003 computer? I’d like to configure the machine to do a small memory dump, and disable both the sending of an administrative alert and the automatic reboot.-- JS Hey, JS. You know, the Scripting Guys happen to all be in a good mood today, so we’re going to go...