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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I lower the priority of a process using a script?-- HS Hey, HS. As many of you know, all processes are not created equal; instead processes are assigned priority values. Processes with a high priority are executed more often (and thus appear to run faster) than processes with a lower priority. For example, both the ke...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I make sure that Internet Explorer 6 checks for a new version on each visit to a Web page?-- MD Hey, MD. In baseball lingo we’d call this a can of corn: a lazy fly ball we couldn’t possibly drop. This is a tricky little question but for some strange reason we just happened to know the answer. Thus a can of corn. ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a site to Internet Explorer’s Restricted Sites zone on a remote computer?-- NS Hey, NS. When it comes to scripting, Internet Explorer has a sort of dual personality. If you want to program the application itself, well, you came to the right place: Internet Explorer’s document object model is wide open, and lends...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I create an environment variable using a script?-- OD Hey, OD. WMI is a great technology for scripting, but it has its eccentricities. For example, can you create a process using a script? Of course you can; after all, WMI’s Win32_Process class has a Create method. Can you create a service using a script? Of course you ca...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete a single registry value? I don’t want to delete the entire registry key, just one value.-- BF Hey, BF. Registry terminology can be a bit confusing, thanks in large part to those of us here at Microsoft (we tend to use a different set of terms when we talk about the registry than the rest of the world does). S...