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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I cause a user’s password to expire?-- GB Hey, GB. You know, one thing people dislike about politicians is that any time you ask them a question many politicians will give you an answer to a different question. Even worse, if you press them on that point they’ll tell you that there’s a good reason why they did that: a...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when a user last changed his or her password?-- MG Hey, MG. A long time ago one of the Scripting Guys worked at a local university. In one of the departments there it was easy to determine when a user last changed his or her password: that’s because the administrative assistant kept a list of all the users...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Here’s what I’d like to do: I want a script that will launch two executable files. After the first application closes I’d like the script to close the second application and then quit. How can I do that?-- MK Hey, MK. You know, this is the kind of question we like. Why? Because it sounds really complicated an...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I add a line to the top of a text file?-- FT Hey, FT. You know, at one point in his career Sir Arthur Conan Doyle actually killed off Sherlock Holmes, figuring he’d written everything anyone could ever write about the master detective. Public outcry soon made him change his mind, and in short order he brought Sherlock...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet I periodically analyze using a script. How can I change the color of a cell to red if the date stored in that cell has passed?-- DM Hey, DM. We were going to start today’s column off with some clever and witty remark about red-letter dates, but we couldn’t actually think of one. Therefore,...