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Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I create an environment variable using a script?-- OD Hey, OD. WMI is a great technology for scripting, but it has its eccentricities. For example, can you create a process using a script? Of course you can; after all, WMI’s Win32_Process class has a Create method. Can you create a service using a script? Of course you ca...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine which version of Internet Explorer is installed on a computer?-- MG Hey, MG. Probably the best (and definitely the easiest) way to do this is to use WMI; after all, using WMI makes it as easy to get this information from remote computers as it is to get it from the local machine. Here’s a sample script tha...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to retrieve the system time as configured on a remote computer?-- JJ Hey, JJ. There are at least two ways to do this, both using WMI. If you’re running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, you can use the WMI class Win32_LocalTime. As you can see, that makes it pretty easy to get the system time: you simply con...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the next available drive letter on a computer?-- TW Hey, TW. Interesting question, and one that crops up from time-to-time. In the old days, when users only had drives A, B, and C, this was easy; you could pretty much guess that any drive letter other than those three would be available. Nowadays, though, ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’d like to run a script against all the computers on a subnet. Is there a way to do that without having to hardcode all the IP addresses into the script?-- RB Hey, RB. Based on your email, it sounds like you have a setup similar to this: you have a subnet with IP addresses ranging from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254. You’d lik...