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How Can I Return the URLs Associated with My Internet Explorer Favorites?

June 6, 2006 Jun 6, 2006 06/6/06
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I return the URLs associated with my Internet Explorer Favorites?-- DW(image) (image) (image) Hey, DW. It’s time for annual performance reviews here at Microsoft, which means we Scripting Guys are supposed to be looking back and detailing all the many things we’ve done in the past year. Unfortunately...

How Can I Use a Script to Automatically Queue Up Files That I Want to Burn to a CD?

May 2, 2006 May 2, 2006 05/2/06
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! In Windows XP, how can I use a script to automatically queue up files that I want to burn to a CD?-- BD(image) (image) (image) Hey, BD. Well, unfortunately, we have some bad news for you: there’s currently no way to burn a CD using a script. You see, the problem is that - oh, wait a second: you just want to ...

How Can I List All the Files on a User’s Desktop?

April 10, 2006 Apr 10, 2006 04/10/06
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I list all the files on a user’s desktop?-- BT(image) (image) (image) Hey, BT. So you thought you could fool the Scripting Guys, did you? Well, you did, at least for awhile. As is so often the case with the Scripting Guys we took one look at your question and thought, “Let’s answer this one; this ...

How Can I Auto-Delete Specific File Types from the My Pictures Folder?

January 26, 2006 Jan 26, 2006 01/26/06
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I auto-delete specific file types from the My Pictures folder? If an error occurs with my fax machine, .drg and .txt files get added to My Pictures. I then have to delete these files before the fax machine will work again.-- WW(image) (image) (image) Hey, WW. You know, this was a case where the Scripting...