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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tally items in a text file?-- JA Hey, JA. If we understand you correctly you have a text file that consists of a number of lines, each line representing a particular item. Just to keep things simple, let’s say your text file consists of city names:City Seattle Seattle Los Angeles Chicago Seattle Los Angeles Pittsbur...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the user profiles on a computer?-- GN Hey, GN. You want to know a secret? We hate questions about user profiles. It’s not that we have anything against user profiles. The problem is that user profiles represent an important part of a system administrator’s duties, and because of that everyone assumes that t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the user profiles on a computer? -- GN Hey, GN. You want to know a secret? We hate questions about user profiles. It’s not that we have anything against user profiles. The problem is that user profiles represent an important part of a system administrator’s duties, and because of that everyone assum...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to create a custom alert box that has over 1,000 characters in it. The message box used by Wscript.Echo can hold all the characters, but I can’t change the message box title. I can change the title of a message box used by the VBscript MsgBox function, but it won’t hold all my characters. Can you help?-- KB Hey, KB. Ta...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I retrieve the path to the %windir% folder on a computer?-- DS Hey, DS. Interesting that you should ask this question. This same question happened to be asked on an internal Microsoft mailing list just the other day, and the answer given (not by one of the Scripting Guys we hasten to add) was an extremely complicated ...