The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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Scripting Blog [archived]

Formerly known as the "Hey, Scripting Guy!" blog

How Can I Tell Whether a Value Exists in the Registry?

October 29, 2004 Oct 29, 2004 10/29/04

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell whether a value exists in the registry on a remote computer?-- AL(image) (image) (image) Hey, AL. Full disclosure time: even though we go by the name The Scripting Guys, we don’t claim to know everything there is to know about scripting. This question is a good example of that. When we first ...

How Can I Create a CSV File?

October 28, 2004 Oct 28, 2004 10/28/04

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a CSV file?-- LF(image) (image) (image) Hey, LF. For those of you who aren’t up on your acronyms, CSV is short for comma-separated-values file, a text file in which individual elements are separated by commas. For example, say you have a CSV file consisting of user first names, last names, and...

How Can I Change the Screensaver Timeout Value?

October 27, 2004 Oct 27, 2004 10/27/04

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I use a script to change the timeout value for the screensaver on a computer?-- JN(image) (image) (image) Hey, JN. For some reason, Microsoft’s scripting technologies come up a little short any time you’re talking about Windows settings and components, things like screensavers, wallpaper, the Taskbar, ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Retrieve Just Failure Events from the Security Event Log?

October 26, 2004 Oct 26, 2004 10/26/04

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there a way to retrieve just Failure Audit events from the Security event log?-- KA(image) (image) (image) Hey, KA. Interesting, isn’t it: any time the subject is failure, people turn to the Scripting Guys. What makes you think we know anything about failure? Ok, you’re right: silly question. As far as ...

How Can I Send Data from One Script to Another?

October 25, 2004 Oct 25, 2004 10/25/04

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! A while back you showed how we could use the InputBox function to prompt a user to enter a value we could then use in our script. What I’d like to know is, is there any way I can take that value and use it in another script?-- JW(image) (image) (image) Hey, JW. We’re guessing here, but apparently you’d ...

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