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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I clear the logon script path for all my users?-- TF Hey, TF. You know, during in a momentary bout of insanity one of the Scripting Guys once agreed to play his son in an Xbox college football game. “It’s really easy to play,” noted the Scripting Son, who then proceeded to provide a brief tutorial on how to run, pass,...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I check to see if a user exists in an NT 4 domain?-- PA Hey, PA. You know, if you were to ask us, “How do you back your car out of your driveway?” we’d probably tell you that - after checking all the mirrors - we turn so that we’re facing directly out the back window of the car and then slowly and cautiously begin bac...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I remotely start an interactive process?-- IS 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 because the user will never see them. The pro...

  Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I return a list of all the users whose user account never expires?-- PG Hey, PG. You know, no one - not even his own mother! - has ever claimed that the Scripting Guy who writes this column is a genius. Needless to say, then, the first time he read this question he thought it said, “How can I return a list of al...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a shortcut to the Quick Launch tray?-- ZR Hey, ZR. Before we answer this question we need to first answer a different question. And here’s the answer: Frank “Home Run” Baker, who led the major league in homers four times, even though he never hit more than a dozen home runs in a single season. Oh, wait; wrong qu...