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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine when a USB flash drive gets connected?-- PS Hey, PS. OK, we admit it: the Scripting Guys are lazy. (Especially on a Friday, which is the day when we have to write our Monday column.) There might be a way to monitor specifically for the insertion of a USB flash drive; however, we couldn’t find one, at least...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I find the date of the oldest event in an event log?-- JL Hey, JL. You know, you just had to make a reference to “old” in your question, didn’t you? Just today one of the Scripting Guys received a letter from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). Although the letter acknowledged that this Scripting Guy w...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell which users are connected to a print queue?-- RE Hey, RE. You know, if your printers are anything like the ones the Scripting Guys are used to working with then it’s easy to tell which users are connected to a print queue: all you have to do is walk into the printer room and see who’s in there frantically looki...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I configure the Days to keep pages in history setting in Internet Explorer?-- AK Hey, AK. To tell you the truth, at first we were a little hesitant about answering this question. Why? Well, we’ve all seen enough TV to know that you aren’t supposed to mess around with history. Remember that episode of Futurama where Fr...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I remove all the local printers from a computer?-- JW Hey, JW. You did say that you wanted to do this only on computers running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, didn’t you? You didn’t? Oh. Well, we’re going to pretend that you did, because this is a very easy task to carry out on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. ...