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Hey, Scripting Guy! I love the Windows Firewall. I think it is really cool. The fact that it is a low-maintenance tool is sweet, but every once in a while, I would like to look over the log files and see what is going on. In particularly, I want to know about what packets are being dropped by the firewall. Can you help me?- DC Hi DC, Did you ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have this tab-delimited file that was produced by a report from an old database application. All it knows how to do is make a tab-delimited file. I hate this format, and our other applications do too. I have been opening the thing in Notepad and trying to find and replace tabs with commas, but Notepad does not seem to do a ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a folder full of text files that have user contact information. I think these files were produced by an old database backup. I have to create a phone directory from these files; I thought about trying to read each file and copy just the fourth line from each of the files. Unfortunately, in some of the files the phone ...

Cold. My nose is cold. My left eye opens slowly to investigate. Everything is dark. Cold and dark. "So why am I awake," I wonder seemingly to myself. No answers are forthcoming. So my right eye slowly opens to bring a modicum of assistance to the ongoing investigation. Still no answers present themselves. Where am I? What country am I in? "Cold. ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I make sure that data entered into an InputBox has the form X:, where X is any alphabetic character? That’s important, because I need to use this string to map logical drives in a script. The script should validate any string such as D:, E:, or F: but flag as incorrect any string such as 9:, !:, 22: etc. I have had ...