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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use Windows PowerShell to locate and delete all the .tmp files on a drive?-- OR Hey, OR. You know, there’s an old saying: Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day; teach that man to fish and he’ll eat for the rest of his life. Well, unless he’s like the Scripting Guy who writes this column and doesn’t like seafood...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use Windows PowerShell to pull records from a Microsoft Access database?-- SB Hey, SB. You know, you’re lucky to get this question answered; after all, this looks as though it’s going to be the very last Hey, Scripting Guy! column ever. To be honest, that came as a bit of a surprise to us, too: we hadn’t planned on ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I run a Windows PowerShell script from the Run dialog box or from a shortcut? In the Run dialog box I type something like c:\scripts\test.ps1 but my script just opens up in Notepad.-- RS Hey, RS. We have just one thing to say: University of Washington 29, UCLA 19. And this after the Huskies trailed 16-0 late in the fi...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use Windows PowerShell to automate Microsoft Excel?-- MW Hey, MW. Yes, it’s true: the week of November 6-10, 2006 will be Windows PowerShell Week on TechNet, with the Scripting Guys presenting a series of webcasts (one each day, Monday through Friday) designed to introduce you to Windows PowerShell. Those are all th...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I use Windows PowerShell to locate all the .wma files on my computer?-- LC Hey, LC. Harry Potter. Hogwarts. Ron Weasley. Dumbledore. Quiddich. What’s all that about? Oh, nothing: just a few words that idly floated through the head of the Scripting Guy who writes this column. And before you ask, no, those words are not...