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Hey, Scripting Guy! I do not know about you, but does it seem that printers are a major pain in the dark side? I mean, they seem to multiply faster than bacteria. They are all just different enough to cause maintenance problems, and forget about trying to keep track of toner cartridges. Do you have any ideas that could help?- HR Hi HR, Don’t giv...

Hey, Scripting Guy! It seems that every single piece of software I install adds a stub application that starts automatically. I know software makers do not do it out of maliciousness, but good grief these people act as if theirs is the most important software on my computer. In the old days, it was pretty easy. I’d go to the Startup folder and de...

I have a problem. The pointy-headed boss (PHB) loves to play with his laptop. The problem is he does not know anything. He routinely hoses his computer, and then expects me to drop everything and come fix it. I am not making this up; we had an Exchange server crash one time, he knew we were trying to get the thing back up, and he comes into the s...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to obtain some basic configuration information from my computers on the network. It would be nice if the script would write the output in an HTML file that we could copy to our internal Web server. This would give us easy access to the information. Whadda ya say?- JE Hi JE, This morning, it is really cold, gray, and yu...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Good morning. I would like to use WMI to get diagnostic information for my server. I would like to be able to do this remotely and to write the results to an Excel spreadsheet. When I am done, I would like the spreadsheet to also create a chart of the results. Is this asking too much? I have seen pieces of all this on the Scri...