The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

How Can I Re-Launch Internet Explorer if No Other Instances are Running?

February 28, 2006 Feb 28, 2006 02/28/06

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I re-launch Internet Explorer if no other instances are running?-- MT(image) (image) (image) Hey, MT. Thanks for the question. You know, nowadays everyone picks on poor little Internet Explorer (even though the vast majority of Windows users still use Internet Explorer). But now we have a question from ...

How Can I Determine Which Account a Script is Running Under?

February 16, 2006 Feb 16, 2006 02/16/06

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine which account a script is running under?-- KW(image) (image) (image) Hey, KW. You know, it’s been awhile since we started off a column with a bunch of excuses, and that’s been hard on us: after all, making excuses is what we Scripting Guys do best. With that in mind, then, let’s start ...

How Can I Monitor the Activity Level of a Process?

September 22, 2005 Sep 22, 2005 09/22/05

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I monitor the activity of a process to see if anyone is using it?-- AJ(image) (image) (image) Hey, AJ. You know, this is one time when writing the script is actually the easy part of the answer. Although there are a couple different ways to do this, we opted to periodically check the cumulative amount of...

How Can I Remotely Start an Interactive Process?

September 6, 2005 Sep 6, 2005 09/6/05

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I remotely start an interactive process?-- IS(image) (image) (image) Hey, IS. Well, the short answer is this: you can’t, at least not on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. On those two versions of Windows any processes started remotely run in a hidden window: those processes can’t be interactive ...

How Can I Determine the Date and Time that a Process Started?

July 20, 2005 Jul 20, 2005 07/20/05

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the date and time that a process started?-- BM(image) (image) (image) Hey, BM. We’ve got good news for you: not only do we have an answer to your question, but we’re not going to bore everyone with any more stories regarding our Colt League All-Star team. Nope, we’re no longer haunted ...

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