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May 22, 2010
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Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Using Windows PowerShell to Compress Folders

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  Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. It is another beautiful weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina. I enjoy getting up early on the weekend, having a leisurely breakfast, reading for a little while, and then heading up to my office to write some scripts. I have a white board upon which I write down ideas for scripts that I wish to write. ...

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Dec 31, 2009
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create a Disk Space Report in a Word Document?

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    Hey, Scripting Guy! We are having problems with several of our servers at work. Several of them were upgraded from Windows NT 4, and as a result, we are constantly running into disk space issues on the C: drive. I would rather manage the problem than take the servers down and rebuild them because we already have budget to replace th...

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Dec 7, 2009
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Hey, Scripting Guy! Does the Win32_Volume WMI Class Support Filtering on the Name Property?

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  Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem using the Win32_Volume WMI class on my Windows Vista computer. I keep getting an error. I have searched the Internet using Bing and other search engines, but I cannot find the answer to my problem. It should be so simple; all I want to do is filter the results by the drive name in the WMI query. How ha...

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Sep 24, 2009
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Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I “Unlock” a Read-Only File, Edit it, and Make It Read-Only Again?

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Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a number of files that we need to access at work from time to time. To protect these files, we make them read-only. This works great from a file protection standpoint, but it is really annoying when I need to make updates to the file because about half the time I will open a file, make the edits, and forget to clear the ...

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Sep 23, 2009
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Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Sort Files by Creation Date?

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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a number of files that I work with based upon the date the file was created. I need an easy way to sort the listing of the files in a folder by creation date if possible. I am not sure this is even possible. When I look at the files in Windows Explorer, the date the file was created does not even appear. When I use the ...

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