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May 16, 2009May 16, 200905/16/09Troubleshooting a Script Written in VBScript
Hey, Scripting Guy! I am writing a Visual Basic script which runs a command-line installation of Exchange 2007. However as soon as the installation starts in a separate DOS window, the script goes to the next line and does not wait for that one to finish.
May 19, 2006May 19, 200605/19/06Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I hide the command window when executing a command like net localgroup Administrators?— AA
Hey, AA. You know, before we begin we’d like to take a few minutes to recognize all those faithful readers who read the Hey,
June 2, 2005Jun 2, 200506/2/05Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to create a custom alert box that has over 1,000 characters in it. The message box used by Wscript.Echo can hold all the characters, but I can’t change the message box title. I can change the title of a message box used by the VBscript MsgBox function,
April 27, 2005Apr 27, 200504/27/05Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell if a specific Excel workbook is open and, if it isn’t, open it?— RK
Hey, RK. Every now and then we see a question and think, “We should answer this one; it’s so easy it won’t take more than a few minutes to finish the column and then we can all take a nice long lunch.” At some point you’d think we’d learn that every time we say that it turns out that the problem isn’t as easy as it first looked,
