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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the user profiles on a computer?-- GN Hey, GN. You want to know a secret? We hate questions about user profiles. It’s not that we have anything against user profiles. The problem is that user profiles represent an important part of a system administrator’s duties, and because of that everyone assumes that t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the user profiles on a computer? -- GN Hey, GN. You want to know a secret? We hate questions about user profiles. It’s not that we have anything against user profiles. The problem is that user profiles represent an important part of a system administrator’s duties, and because of that everyone assum...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve the path to the %windir% folder on a computer?-- DS Hey, DS. Interesting that you should ask this question. This same question happened to be asked on an internal Microsoft mailing list just the other day, and the answer given (not by one of the Scripting Guys we hasten to add) was an extremely complicated ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the Copy music to this location folder in Windows Media Player?-- BD Hey, BD. You know, a lot of people think that the reason we Scripting Guys don’t do very much work is because we’re just plain lazy. Those people are right. However, what we tell our bosses is this: it’s hard for us to do any work because ev...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! I’m using the Win32_ComputerSystem class to get the name of the logged-on user. The name comes back formatted like this: Domain\Name. How can I extract just the user name?-- KW Hey, KW. As our much-beloved and highly-respected editor reminded us the other day, instead of spending all our time telling people how to extra...